Tsai-Wen Chen
Biomedical Technologies
Name Tsai-Wen Chen
Email chentw@ym.edu.tw
Office Tel No. +886-2-2826-7102
Research Neuroscience, Two-photon calcium imaging, Microscopes and protein sensor engineering
Year Paper Title
2017 Chen T-W, Li N, Daie K, Svoboda K (2017) A map of anticipatory activity in mouse motor cortex. Neuron, 94, 866-879
2015 Li N, Chen T-W, Guo Z, Gerfen C, Svoboda K (2015) A motor cortex circuit for motor planning and movement. Nature, 519 (7541) 51-56.
2014 Dana H, Chen T-W, Hu A, Shields B, Guo C, Looger L, Kim D, Svoboda K (2014) Thy1-GCaMP6 transgenic mice for neuronal population imaging in vivo PloS One, 9 (9)
2013 Chen T-W, Wardill T, Sun Y, Pulver S, Renninger S, Baohan A, Schreiter E, Kerr R, Orger M, Jayaraman V, Looger LL, Svoboda K, Kim D (2013) Ultrasensitive fluorescent proteins for imaging neuronal activity. Nature, 499 (7458) 295-300
2012 Akerboom J*, Chen T-W*, Wardill T, Tian L, Marvin J, Mutlu S, Calderón N, Esposti F, Borghuis B, Sun X, Gordus A, Orger M, Portugues R, Engert F, Macklin J, Filosa A, Aggarwal A, Kerr R, Takagi R, Kracun S, Shigetomi E, Khakh B, Baier H, Lagnado L, Wang S, Bargmann C, Kimmel B, Jayaraman V, Svoboda K, Kim D, Schreiter E, and Looger L (2012) Optimization of a GCaMP calcium indicator for neural activity imaging. J. Neurosci. 32(40) 13819-40 (*equal contribution)
2012 Zariwala H, Borghuis B, Hoogland T, Madisen L, Tian L, DeZeeuw C, Zeng H, Looger L, Svoboda K, andChen T-W* (2012) A Cre-dependent GCaMP3 reporter mouse for neuronal imaging in vivo. J. Neurosci. 32(9):3131-41 (*corresponding author)
2009 Junek S*, Chen T-W*, Alevra M, and Schild D (2009) Activity correlation imaging: visualizing function and structure of neuronal populations. Biophys. J. 96, 3801-3809 (*equal contribution)
2009 Chen T-W*, Lin B-J*, and Schild D (2009) Odor coding by modules of coherent mitral/tufted cells in the vertebrate olfactory bulb. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A. 106, 2401-2406 (*equal contribution)
2006 Chen, T-W, Lin B-J, Brunner E, and Schild D (2006). In situ background estimation in quantitative fluorescence imaging. Biophys. J. 90, 2534-2547
Country School Name Department Degree Duration
U.S.A. Janelia Research Campus Postdoc 2010.09 ~ 2015.06
Germany University of Göttingen Postdoc 2008.09 ~ 2010.06
Germany University of Göttingen Neuroscience PhD 2003.09 ~ 2008.06
Taiwan National Taiwan University Electrical Engineering B.S. 1997.09 ~ 2001.06