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Winfried Denk was born on 12 November, 1957 in Munich, Germany, is a 20th- and 21st-century German physicist and neurobiologist. Discover Winfried Denk's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

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Occupation Physicist
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 12 November 1957
Birthday 12 November
Birthplace Munich, Germany
Nationality Germany

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1957

Winfried Denk (born November 12, 1957, in Munich) is a German physicist.

1981

In 1981 he moved to Zurich to study at the ETH.

During this time, he also worked in the lab of Dieter Pohl, at the IBM laboratory.

There he built one of the first super-resolution microscopes and developed a passion for scanning microscopy.

He did his master's thesis in the lab of Kurt Wüthrich, under the direct guidance of Gerhard Wagner.

But he felt that NMR spectroscopy was not for him because it did not involve enough opportunities to create new experimental gadgets.

1984

In 1984 Denk joined the lab of Watt W. Webb at Cornell.

While Webb himself was extremely interested in methods – both fluorescence-correlation and photo bleaching-recovery spectroscopy had been invented in his lab – he gave students and postdocs a lot of freedom.

Denk enjoyed his time at Cornell but was almost fired after he went to Greece for six weeks to study monk seals.

Given a second chance, he started a project aimed at measuring the motion of sensory hair-bundles in the inner ear.

One of the attractions of this endeavor was that it required a stay in San Francisco, in order to learn from Jim Hudspeth and his group about hair-cells in general and specifically how to prepare them for the planned measurements.

Denk returned to Cornell and invented a method sensitive enough to measure the thermal movement of hair-bundles.

He went on to show that hair cells can sense their own Brownian motion.

Central to Denk's early career was his intuition that two-photon (2p) imaging might damage the sample less than one-photon confocal imaging.

He predicted this in spite of the fact that peak light intensity for 2p is almost one million times higher than for the confocal microscope.

Equally important was his insight that infrared 2p excitation would allow scattered fluorescence to contribute to images even deep in turbid samples, improving the optical access and resolution of 2p imaging over what was possible using confocal imaging.

Nowhere has this proven more valuable than when imaging neurons in living brain tissue.

Two-photon microscopy remains the only technique that allows the recording of activity in living brains with high spatial resolution.

2p excitation can also be used to map cells' receptor distributions by releasing substances from their chemical "cages".

Denk later demonstrated that 2p can be utilized to record activity in the visually stimulated retina.

He also showed that it can be combined with adaptive optics to improve resolution, and with amplified pulses to push the depth limit to 1mm in brain tissue.

Today, two-photon excitation microscopy is also used in the fields of physiology, embryology and tissue engineering, as well as in cancer research.

The sparsity of data on connectivity between neurons had been a major limitation in circuit neuroscience.

1989

He built the first two-photon microscope while he was a graduate student (and briefly a postdoc) in Watt W. Webb's lab at Cornell University, in 1989.

Denk was born in Munich, Germany.

As a child he spent most of his playtime learning to use the tools and building materials in his father's workshop.

In school it became apparent that Denk’s ‘talents were unevenly spread across subjects, math and physics being favored’.

Fixing and constructing electronic devices was his main hobby throughout high school.

After high school, Denk completed the mandatory 15-month stint in the German army and spent the next 3 years at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

1990

Denk, Stricker & Webb1990, Science.

Two-photon laser scanning fluorescence microscopy

1994

Denk 1994, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA.

Two-photon scanning photochemical microscopy: mapping ligand-gated ion channel distribution

1995

Yuste & Denk 1995, Nature.

Dendritic spines as basic functional units of neuronal integration

1996

Svoboda, Tank & Denk 1996, Science.

Direct measurement of coupling between dendritic spines and shafts.

2004

Denk’s 2004 paper describing automated serial blockface microscopy rekindled the dormant science of comprehensive neural circuit mapping (connectomics), pioneered by Sydney Brenner.

Denk, now Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (formerly Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology ), continues working to improve techniques for circuit-mapping in the rodent brain.

His most recent work involves precisely determining the positions, orientations, and identities of proteins and bound ligands in cryo-preserved cells.