09/24/2026
๐ซ Big news! ๐ซ
UVM will lead a new $19 million National Science Foundation (NSF) project to help scientists examine biology in extraordinary new detail.
Major congratulations to neuroscientist Davi Bock, of The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at The University of Vermont, co-principal investigators Doug Taatjes, director of UVMโs Microscopy Imaging Center, and Mark Ellisman at UC San Diego, the National Connectomics and Ultrastructure Volume Observatory (NCUVO) and to all involved in this transformative research!
Learn more here: https://www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/uvm-launches-19-million-national-observatory-unlock-secrets-neurobiology
UVM will lead a new $19 million National Science Foundation (NSF) project to help scientists examine biology in extraordinary new detail.
Led by neuroscientist Davi Bock, of The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at The University of Vermont, with co-principal investigators Doug Taatjes, director of UVMโs Microscopy Imaging Center, and Mark Ellisman at UC San Diego, the National Connectomics and Ultrastructure Volume Observatory (NCUVO) will combine advanced microscopy, AI, and powerful computing to give researchers across the country access to cutting-edge tools for exploring some of lifeโs smallest structures in 3D.
Just as an astronomical observatory gives many scientists a shared way to investigate the universe, the NCUVO observatory will help researchers explore biological structures too small to see with ordinary light microscopes.
"There is so much about the natural world that we don't fully understand, but to unlock those secrets, research efforts must occur at a much greater scale. That's what the new observatory will do." โ Davi Bock, Ph.D., associate professor of neurological sciences at UVMโs Larner College of Medicine.
Learn more about this transformative research: https://www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/uvm-launches-19-million-national-research-center-unlock-secrets-neurobiology