Imaging Brain Chemistry in Brain Health and Disease: From Neurotransmitters to Neuropeptides

This Presidential Special Lecture was recorded Oct. 8, 2024, at Neuroscience 2024 in Chicago.  

Neurons communicate through chemical neurotransmitter signals to modulate the activity of larger neuronal networks. Owing to the central role of brain chemistry over a range of behaviors and psychiatric disorders, real-time imaging of the brain’s chemical signal spatial propagation constitutes a valuable contribution to the understanding of brain health and disease. Here, Markita del Carpio Landry, PhD, discusses advances in — and the importance of — imaging brain chemistry at the spatial and temporal scales used by neurons to establish neurochemical communication in the brain. 

Speaker

Markita del Carpio Landry, PhD

Markita del Carpio Landry, PhD, is an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Berkeley; faculty scientist of molecular biophysics and integrated bioimaging at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; associate professor at the Hellen Wills Neuroscience Institute; investigator at Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub; and co-founder of Biophilia Genetics. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.