Flashy science: controlling neural function with light.

Scott M. Thompson,1 Joseph P. Y. Kao,1,2 Richard H. Kramer,3 Kira E. Poskanzer,4 R. Angus Silver,5 David Digregorio,5 and Samuel S.-H. Wang6 1Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 21201, 2Medical Biotechnology Center, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, 3Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, 4Department of Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, 5Department of Physiology, University College, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom, and 6Department of Molecular Biology and Program in Neuroscience, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544