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Na Ji is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in Molecular and Cell Biology and Physics. After receiving her B.S. in Chemical Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2000, she completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry at Berkeley in 2005. Na then became a postdoctoral fellow at the Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, where she progressed to Group Leader by 2011. In 2016, she returned to Berkeley to join the Departments of Physics and Molecular & Cell Biology, becoming a full-time faculty member in the summer of 2017. Her research focuses on developing and applying advanced imaging methods to explore the brain, particularly through next-generation optical microscopy techniques that leverage concepts from astronomy. These innovative methods aim to provide insights into neural circuit computation within visual pathways, specifically using mouse models like the primary visual cortex and superior colliculus.
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