My great honour to present Norway and citizen of China in the 2026 FKNE cohort! Looking forward to the part of the diversity, passion and excellence of neuroscience in Europe:)

Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience@kavlintnu.bsky.social · 4w ago

Congratulations to @weijianzong.bsky.social, our Neurophotonics group leader and a new 2026 #FENSKavliScholar. He builds the #Mini2P microscopes that let us watch the living brain at work. @fens.org @kavlifoundation.org @alleninstitute.org @ntnudiscovery.bsky.social @fkne-scholars.bsky.social

At #FENS2026 next week? Welcome to Zong Lab presentations to hear how we are developing and applying new generations of #mini2P to understand the neuronal algorithms in the brain. We will give 1 oral talk and three poster presentations! Come and check out😊

Back from #TENSS! Thank @dinanthos.bsky.social for the invitation and @trose-neuro.bsky.social for the recommendation. Definitely the most relaxing, creative, and passional summer school I ever joined. All speaker, students and TAs are just great, as scientisits and person. Hope to be back!!!

Made possible by • coppaFISH 3D, a new, inexpensive, open-source method for 3d spatial transcriptomics • CASTalign: a tool for human-supervised nonlinear 3d registration www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty1A...

Demonstration of in vivo to ex vivo registration using CASTalign

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Fantastic PI and excellent science!

Angelo Forli@aforli89.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Postdoc and Research Assistant positions (fully funded at IIT, Italy) Two exciting directions: 🧭🐭 Spatial navigation 🧠🦎 Neurobiology of regeneration (axolotl, hydra and snail) Get in touch: angelo.forli@iit.it Please share!! 🙏

I am so proud to coordinate this ambitious and exciting project in the next 4 years, collabrating with the top nanoscientist Christopher Dirdal at SINTEF to push the frontier of neurotechnology!

Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience@kavlintnu.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🧠🔬 NOK 12M to #META2P from Kavli & SINTEF! Neurophotonics PI @weijianzong.bsky.social at @kavlintnu.bsky.social is together with NorFab #MiNaLab PI Christopher Dirdal at SINTEF awarded NOK 12 million by the Research Council of Norway to develop the next generation of two-photon microscopes (1:2)

👏 Dr.Zong received the NTVA (Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences) Honorary Award for Breakthrough Technology 2025 (www.ntva.no/aktuelt/nyhe...). This is a huge encouragement for the team to continue pushing our research forward

Exploring the Brain - One Spine at a Time 🔬 Just chatted with @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social about our latest work, miniaturising two-photon microscopy for neuroscience at @kavlintnu.bsky.social www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/qa/mini-... A few highlights:

It is my great honor to host the visit of Prof. Liqun Luo at the @kavlintnu.bsky.social. The talk was so inspiring with amazingly beautiful discoveries! Thank @m-bmoser.bsky.social and @edvardmoser.bsky.social for joing the host, and Emre and Nathalie for showing the visitor the beauty of Norway:)

Glad to read the news that the Norwegian government has dropped the requirement that international PhD fellows must learn Norwegian www.khrono.no/regjeringen-...

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Regjeringen vil fjerne omstridt krav om norskkurs for utenlandske forskere og vurderer å myke opp reglene for studieavgift for internasjonale studenter, varsler den i stortingsmeldingen om forskningss...

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Exciting news! 👏 Our lab got another grant from the Norwegian Research Council to enhance the miniature 2-photon microscope! 🎉. A huge thank-you to the #TTO in NTNU for supporting the funding application! Check below for more details of the project: www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/1...

JOIN US LIVE TODAY for a unique art/science experience! Nobel Laureate @m-bmoser.bsky.social & the musical ensemble @trondheimsolistene.bsky.social play on our neural networks in the @embl.org #KafatosLecture "The Power of Science: Uncovering the Algorithms of the Brain" at @isfit.bsky.social

This problem has became toxic to the researches in the country, and thanks Edvard to make it exposed to the world. Let us hopes things will change!

Edvard I Moser@edvardmoser.bsky.social · last yr.

I was interviewed by @nature.com about the risk of talent exodus following Norway’s new language law. I hope the new government and science minister will change the internationalisation policy ASAP. @stortinget.no, @uhrno.bsky.social, @forskningspolitikk.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Beautiful story and amazing discovery! Congratulations to @azvollan.bsky.social @Richard Gardner, @edvardmoser.bsky.social @m-bmoser.bsky.social and all others involved!

Edvard I Moser@edvardmoser.bsky.social · 2y ago

Grid cells have a geometry in time. Thanks to @azvollan.bsky.social l & @rjgardner.bsky.social for this heroic discovery. @ercresearch.bsky.social #KiloNeurons @m-bmoser.bsky.social @kavlintnu.bsky.social @nature.com @kavlifoundation.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to @portugueslab.bsky.social ! Dr. Portugues and his lab is really pushing forward this exciting direction!

David Schoppik@schoppik.com · 2y ago

Another banger from @portugueslab.bsky.social taking lessons about the structure and organization of navigation circuits from the fly and mapping them in a vertebrate as only they can. Absolutely the lab to watch. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Attention! Zong lab is recruiting!! Two Ph.D and postdoc positions in neuroscience 🧠 are available!! Apply if you are strongly interested in applying cutting-edge @TheMini2P 🔬 for frontier systems neuroscience studies!!!! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience@kavlintnu.bsky.social · 2y ago

The opportunity: Spend 3-4 years in the @weijianzong.bsky.social working side by side with Nobel Laureates & other brilliant professionals in the international research environment at Kavli, located in the heart of beautiful Trondheim.

Thank every one of Zong lab member for your fantastic contributions that make our lab so well established in only 1 year. Marry Christmas and keep moving on in 2025!!!

Shocking news! I got a FRIPRO grant by the Research Council of Norway. Lots of thanks to my institute @kavlintnu.bsky.social, my mentors and my lab members for the support! Contact me if you want to join us developing cool miniature microscopes #Mini2P for studying exciting neuroscience questions!

Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience@kavlintnu.bsky.social · 2y ago

Congratulations to the brilliant Weijian Zong, who today received a FRIPRO grant by The Research Council of Norway for the miniature microscope #Mini2P, that allows researchers to see 👀 cognitive functions emerge from thousands of collaborating neurons in the brain 🧠 of a freely behaving mouse!