@inbook{0e89da2fc136474a805a8837c86a87dc,
title = "Optogenetics: Tools for Controlling and Monitoring Neuronal Activity: Preface",
abstract = "This chapter provides an overview of a book that discusses several papers presented at the symposium Towards the Second Generation of Optogenetic Tools held in California. The book describes the recent inventions in the field of optogenetic tools. Tools for observing and controlling specific molecular or physiological pathways in intact cells and tissues are opening up new frontiers in the understanding and engineering of complex biological systems and even pointing the way toward novel kinds of therapy and prosthetic for treating human disease. One of the most popular strategies is to utilize an “optogenetic” strategy—namely, to create a genetically encoded optical reporter of biological activity, or a light-driven actuator of biological signaling, and then to express the gene that encodes for this molecule in a specific cell or set of cells, often within an intact tissue or organism.",
author = "Thomas Knopfel and Boyden, {Edward S.}",
year = "2012",
month = feb,
day = "16",
doi = "10.1016/B978-0-444-59426-6.00019-7",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780444594266",
series = "Progress in Brain Research",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
pages = "vii--viii",
editor = "Thomas Kn{\"o}pfel and Boyden, {Edward S.}",
booktitle = "Optogenetics",
address = "Netherlands",
edition = "1st",
}