August 2025
EMBO SHORT TERM FELLOW Keren Zahlenchuck joins the SPPIN to work on advanced beam shaping strategies for mesoscale light-sheet microscopy
Keren Zahlenchuck is going to rejoin SPPIN’s team “Biophysics of the brain” (Oheim, https://www.sppin.fr/) from 1 September onwards. Keren is the recipient of an EMBO short term fellowship and will be working with Brieuc Chauvin, Hugo Touja and Martin Oheim on new strategies to keep light-sheets thin and well-defined over large propagation distances (fields of view). Her work will further strengthen SPPIN’s traversal axis “Multi-scale neuroanatomy” (see https://www.sppin.fr/multiscale/). Keren is a physics PhD student from Alon Bahabad’s lab at TAU and she is a specialist in advanced beam shaping strategies.
Contact : Martin Oheim
Selected publications:
Optical archimedes screw along arbitrary trajectories, K Zhalenchuck, B Hadad, A Bahabad, Laser & Photonics Reviews 16 (4), 2100621 (2022)
Simple algorithm for the design of accelerating Bessel-like beams with adjustable features along their propagation, K Zhalenchuck, A Bahabad, Optics Express 31 (14), 23430-23443 (2023)
Optical archimedes screw with acceleration of both trajectories and orbital angular momentum, K Zhalenchuck, D Marima, B Hadad, A Bahabad, Journal of Optics 24 (11), 115607 (2022)
Bessel beams with an adjustable focal position, K Zhalenchuck, A Bahabad, Applied Optics 64 (10), 2403-2407
June 2023
A compact light-sheet module for micro-, meso- and macro-scale volume imaging of cleared neural tissue (M-Cube) » received a 90K€ support from the greater Paris region Île-de-France Domaine d’Intérêt majeur (DIM) “C-brains”.