Chapter 1 Photoinduced damage resulting from fluorescence imaging of live cells.

Chapter 2 Modification of purified proteins with photochemical protection compounds for high-resolution photoactivation of protein function in vitro and in vivo.

Chapter 3 Optochemical activation of kinase function in live cells.

Chapter 4 Photoswitching of cell surface receptors using tethered ligands.

Chapter 5 Photocontrol of AMPA receptors with a photochromic ligand.

Chapter 6 Photoconversion of CFP to Study Neuronal Tissue with Electron Microscopy.

Chapter 7 Light-inducible gene regulation with engineered zinc finger proteins.

Chapter 8 Manipulation of plasma membrane phosphoinositides using photoinduced protein-protein interactions.

Chapter 9 A roadmap to applying optogenetics in neuroscience.

Chapter 10 Salvaging ruins: reverting blind retinas into functional visual sensors.

Chapter 11 Photoactivated adenylyl cyclases as optogenetic modulators of neuronal activity.

Chapter 13 Using Photoactivatable GFP to Track Axonal Transport Kinetics.

Chapter 14 In Vivo Cell Tracking Using PhOTO Zebrafish.

Chapter 15 In Vivo Optogenetics for Light-Induced Oxidative Stress in Transgenic Zebrafish Expressing the KillerRed Photosensitizer Protein.

Chapter 16 Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins for Super-resolution Microscopy.

Chapter 17 pcSOFI as a Smart Label-Based Superresolution Microscopy Technique.