Chris Schaffer named OSA/SPIE Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellow

Chris will spend his sabbatical next year in Washington, DC working as a Congressional Science Policy Fellow. This program is organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the fellowship Chris received is jointly funded by the Optical Society of America and SPIE. Chris will be placed in the office of a representative or senator and will provide advice, from the perspective of a professional scientist, on science policy issues, education, health care, climate change, energy, and other pressing policy problems.

In vivo two-photon excited fluorescence microscopy reveals cardiac- and respiration-dependent pulsatile blood flow in cortical blood vessels in mice

Thom P. Santisakultarm, Nathan R. Cornelius, Nozomi Nishimura, Andrew I. Schafer, Richard T. Silver, Peter C. Doerschuk, William L. Olbricht and Chris B. Schaffer

American Journal of Physiology Heart and Circulatory Physiology 302, H1367 (2012)

Two-photon microscopy as a tool to study blood flow and neurovascular coupling in the rodent brain

Andy Y Shih, Jonathan D Driscoll, Patrick J Drew, Nozomi Nishimura, Chris B Schaffer, and David Kleinfeld

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism (2012), advanced online publication

Chronic in vivo imaging in the mouse spinal cord using an implanted chamber

Matthew J Farrar, Ida M Bernstein, Donald H Schlafer, Thomas A Cleland, Joseph R Fetcho, and Chris B Schaffer

Nature Methods 9, 297 (2012)