A rare “peek behind the curtain” for the members of the scientific community, inviting them to tour its Janelia Farms campus in Sterling, Virginia. Produced by Feats Inc. for HHMI to showcase the caliber and quality of Janelia’s research.

The unique open house was followed by an intimate evening event designed to foster personal interaction among some of the greatest minds in science, including a number of Nobel laureates. Nearly 2,500 people attended the event demonstrating the science community’s interest in HHMI and its work.

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Uploaded Sept. 27, 2009

Summary

Manager, EM Connectome Annotation Team, Janelia Farm Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Dr. Parekh’s professional background is in neuroscience, epilepsy research, and neuroinformatics with a strong publication record.

Her professional aspirations are to facilitate open science collaborative efforts towards the common goal of understanding the brain.

Information

Janelia Farm page   LinkekIn page

Email: parekhr@janelia.hhmi.org Address: 19700 Helix Drive Ashburn, Va. 201247

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From LinkedIn page

I have a professional background in neuroscience, epilepsy research, and neuroinformatics with a strong publication record. I am a result-oriented leader and strategic thinker with a multifaceted skill set. My strength lies in interdisciplinary collaboration, communication, and management.

My professional aspirations are to facilitate open science collaborative efforts towards the common goal of understanding the brain.

Honors & Awards

OSCAR Mentoring Excellence Award Nominee George Mason University February 2014 The purpose of this award is to recognize and reward outstanding Mason community members who have mentored undergraduate students on research and creative activities and who foster a culture of student scholarship in support of Mason’s Students as Scholars initiative. Co-Principal Investigator National Academies Keck Futures Initiatives May 2013

Crowdsourcing Extraction of Knowledge From Data: Pilot Designs in Neuroscience — $100,000 The ongoing/forthcoming deluge of digital scientific data poses the “interpretation challenge” of digesting raw data into information accessible to people and machines alike. ...

Gerry Rubin, the executive director of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus discusses why the leading edge research institution chose Loudoun Virginia for their $500 million + project. Blue sky thinking, creativity and highly educated workforce.

Produced by Loudoun County Virginia Government. Published July 28, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpE9hFJWA8k

“The fruit fly has a very long and distinguished career in science. At a facility considered a Nirvana for scientists, researchers pursue greater understanding of biomedical processes, using test subjects like dragonflies and zebrafish.

PBS News Hour Science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports on how the Janelia Farm Research Campus supports groundbreaking basic research.”

Article on PBS website art

Published July 23, 2014 by PBS Newshour

Transcript

GWEN IFILL: Next: trying to better understand what’s happening in the brain of a fruit fly, a dragonfly, or a zebra fish, all part of a larger puzzle to learn more about how our own brains work.

NewsHour science correspondent Miles O’Brien has the first in our three-part series on the science of the brain.

MILES O’BRIEN: Oh, to be a fly on the wall at the Basic Research Facility scientist consider nirvana. You might see a Nobel Prize in the making or you might be subjected to this, the fruit fly version of a scary movie, the rapidly growing shadow of a predator homing in for the kill.

GWYNETH CARD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Janelia Farm Research Campus: My lab is really interested in how flies make decisions.

MILES O’BRIEN: Neuroscientist Gwyneth Card runs a laboratory at the Howard Hughes Medical ...

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“New computer software to unravel embryonic development cell by cell”

Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research campus are using a new type of computer software to track and image how a nervous system develops in unprecedented detail. The new system is able to track individual cells during embryonic development, giving scientists a powerful to tool to create a blueprint of how brains form. Ben Gruber reports, Reuters.

Published Aug. 6, 2014 by Reuters

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2014: Eric Betzig, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA.

From: The Nobel Lectures 2014, 2014-12-08.

Published on Jan. 8, 2015 by Vetenskapsakademien

In this lecture, held on 3/9/15 at UC Berkeley, Nobel Laureate Eric Betzig, describes three areas focused on addressing the challenges of high resolution imaging: super-resolution microscopy; plane illumination microscopy using non-diffracting beams; and adaptive optics to recover optimal images from within optically heterogeneous specimens.

Published on March 15, 2015 by UC Berkeley Events

“An Exploration of Brain Dynamics”

Get a behind-the-scenes look at a day in the lab of neuroscientist Karel Svoboda as his group at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus pushes to build a new type of microscope and uses a virtual reality system to learn how mice explore the world.

Published on July 28, 2014 by zincfinger23

The Janelia Research Campus is a research campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute focusing on neuroscience and imaging.

Chemists, physicists, computational scientists, and engineers work in close collaboration with biologists to tackle problems in neuroscience and imaging. At the interface of these two research areas are approaches to map the structure of neural circuits and monitor their function during animal behavior.

Gerry Rubin video on Janelia Research uploaded by Loudoun County Va. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvgq0LOyNT8

Web Information

Website:   janelia.org/ Facebook: acebook.com/HHMIJRC Wikipedia Entry:  wiki/Janelia_Farm_Research_Campus

Contact Information

Email: janelia.org/content/feedback Phone: (571) 209-4000 Address: 19700 Helix Drive | Ashburn, VA 20147

Organization

Executive Director: Gerry Rubin People

The Campus

At the Janelia Research Campus scientists from many disciplines gather to collaborate closely, in small teams, on some of science’s most challenging problems. The architectural design of the buildings and the laboratories helps achieve Janelia’s central objectives—collaboration and flexibility. Every element, from the sweeping laboratory building—organized around curving glass corridors punctuated by soaring glass-enclosed staircases—to the 96-room guest house and adjacent housing village, is intended to foster collaboration. Janelia website

The Janelia Research Campus is located in Loudoun County, Virginia, near the town of Ashburn.The 689 acres campus  features a 900-foot long, arc-shaped laboratory known as the Landscape Building. Designed by Rafael Viñoly, the ...

“The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 was awarded jointly to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”.

Source: Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 was awarded jointly to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner”. Credits left to right: Photo- Matt Stanley/HHMI, (c) Bernd Schuller, Max Planck-Institut, Photo: K. Lowder via Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY SA 3.0

Eric Betzig    website   google search  wikipedia entry

Stefan W. Hell   website   google search  wikipedia entry

William E. Moerner   website   google search  wikipedia entry

From the Nobel Assembly

Press release

Surpassing the limitations of the light microscope

For a long time optical microscopy was held back by a presumed limitation: that it would never obtain a better resolution than half the wavelength of light. Helped by fluorescent molecules the Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 2014 ingeniously circumvented this limitation. Their ground-breaking work has brought optical microscopy into the nanodimension.

In what has become known as nanoscopy, ...