Assistant Professor Jerry Chen is participating in a NSF-supported Neurotechnology hub named the Next generation multiphoton neuroimaging consortium (Nemonic). The goal of the Nemonic project, funded at $9M, is to develop and widely disseminate state-of-the-art technology for multiphoton imaging and associated techniques to the neuroscience community, and to advance emerging technology for future innovation in multiphoton neuroimaging. Nemonic is one of 17 Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) awards to aid the research community as it pursues one of its grandest challenges: understanding the brain. The overall goal of this activity is to establish a coherent national infrastructure to enhance our understanding of brain function across organizational levels and a diversity of species. The University of North Carolina is the lead institution with 5 partner institutions including 9 labs, of which the Chen lab is one. With $0.8M in funding for the next four years, Chen will be working to develop novel imaging systems capable of monitoring activity over large populations of neurons across the mammalian brain.