Olga Davydenko , PhD
Olga Davydenko holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, PA, USA, where she specialized in cell division and embryology. She has been working at Leica Microsystems in various roles since 2016.
Central Nervous System (CNS) Development and Activity in Organisms
This article shows how studying central nervous system (CNS) development in Drosophila-melanogaster embryos expressing a GCaMP calcium indicator in the neurons can be improved with a THUNDER Imager.
Studying Human Brain Development and Disease
Neural spheroids created from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) provide effective and novel tools for studying brain development, as well as the underlying pathological mechanisms of…
Alzheimer Plaques: fast Visualization in Thick Sections
More than 60% of all diagnosed cases of dementia are attributed to Alzheimer’s disease. Typical of this disease are histological alterations in the brain tissue. So far, there is no cure for this…