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Research Highlights: MEMS microscope images brains. Nature Photonics, Volume 3. Oct. 2009. Electrophysiology in the age of light. Nature, Volume 461, Number 7266. Oct. 2009. Massively Parallel Brain Imaging. Neuroscience Methods, Science, Volume 326, Number 5951. Oct 16, 2009. Getting inside their minds, Nature Methods Technology Feature. Volume 6, Number 10, Oct, 2009. Automated ROI analysis for calcium imaging, Brain Windows blog: brainwindows.wordpress.com, Oct 2, 2009. Tiniest two-photon MEMS microscope performs brain imaging, Laser Focus World, Aug 1, 2009. Optical Technologies Expand Vistas Into the Brain, NIDA Notes. Volume 22, Number 1, Innovations. 2009 News and Views, Nature Methods 5, 925-926, 2008. A New Way to Study How Muscles Work, The New York Times, July 15, 2008. First view inside muscle fibers, The Boston Globe , July 7, 2008. Mark Schnitzer named Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. May 2008. Keck grant funds brain-imaging effort, Stanford Report Feb. 2008. Brilliant minds think alike - for good of mankind, USA Today, Oct. 2007. ABC News Interview, Oct. 2007. Popular Science's Sixth Annual 'Brilliant Ten' , Oct. 2007. NIH Director's Pioneer Award, Sept. 2007. Two professors win $2.5 million Pioneer Awards. Sept. 2007. Life Science Technologies: Cell Signaling - In Vivo Veritas. Science 22 June 2007. MEMS-based scanning device facilitates microendoscopy. in Biophotonics International 2006. Two-photon microendoscopy aids brain imaging. Laser Focus World 2005. Tiny microscope offers view deep into living tissue. Stanford Report, September 14, 2005. Miniature microscope allows biomedical researchers to observe tissue deep inside live subjects. Physorg.com September 13, 2005. Looking Deeper: New technique allows for deep brain imaging. RT Image Vol. 18, no. 44 - October 31, 2005. Tiny microscope peers into mice brains. New Scientist 15:32 20 September 2005. Microscopic brain imaging in the palm of your hand. American Institute of Physics EurekAlert. GRIN Lenses used in microendoscope. Biophotonics International 2004. A Wish List for Learning About Learning. Science Vol. 300 April 2003. Single Neuron Spied. Scientific American 2003. The 100 Bold Young Innovators You Need to Know. Technology Review Oct 2003. Recent Awards to Lab Members: Georg Dietzl awarded Austrian Academy of Science Fellowship, 2009. Dan-Anders Jirenhed awarded Swedish Research Council Fellowship, 2009. Zuzanna Piwkowska awarded Marie Curie Fellowship, 2009. Yaniv Ziv awarded Machiah Fellowship, 2008. Yaniv Ziv awarded Rothschild Fellowship, 2008. Brian Wilt awarded Stanford Bio-X Graduate Fellowship, 2008. James Fitzgerald awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2008. Laurie Burns awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2008. Robert Barretto, Co-Author, Best Methods Paper, American Society of Biomechanics, 2007. Michael Molineux awarded Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Fellowship, 2007. Laurie Burns awarded Stanford Graduate Fellowship, 2006. Axel Nimmerjahn awarded Feodor Lynen research fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2006. Axel Nimmerjahn awarded International Human Frontier Science Program fellowship, 2006. Axel Nimmerjahn awarded Otto Hahn-Medal, Max Planck Society, 2006. Axel Nimmerjahn awarded Du Bois-Reymond Prize of the German Physiological Society, 2006. Robert Barretto awarded NSF Graduate Fellow Honorable Mention, 2005. Eunice Cheung awarded Dean's Fellowship, Stanford University School of Medicine, 2005. Ed Boyden named Helen Hay Whitney Fellow, 2005. Daniel Wetmore awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2004. Benjamin Flusberg awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2004. Amit Mehta named Life Sciences Research Fellow, 2003. Recent Awards to Mark Schnitzer: Michael & Kate Bárány Young Investigator Award, Biophysical Society, 2010. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2008. Best Techniques Paper, Co-Author, American Society of Biomechanics, 2007 (for imaging human sarcomeres). W.M. Keck Foundation, Medical Research Program grant, 2007. The Brilliant 10, Top ten brilliant scientists under age 40, Nov. 2007. NIH Director's Pioneer Award, 2007. Terman Fellow, Stanford University, 2006. Beckman Interdisciplinary Translational Research Program Award, 2005. Fellowship in Science & Engineering, David & Lucille Packard Foundation, 2005. Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE), awarded June 13, 2005 at the White House. Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2005. Klingenstein Fellowship in the Neurosciences, 2004. Young Investigator Award, Beckman Foundation, 2004. Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research, Cognitive & Neural Division, 2004. Member of TR100, World's Top 100 Innovators under age 35, Technology Review Magazine, Oct. 2003. Cutting Edge Basic Research Award (CEBRA), National Institutes of Health, 2003. Young Investigator Award (with #1 world ranking), Human Frontiers in Science Program, 2002. McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award, 2000.