“…The hippocampus (HPC) has been studied with cellular resolution using in vivo electrophysiology, but this technique does not allow the same cells to be definitively followed over days, nor does it allow the visualization of cellular organization within the structure (O’Keefe, 1976; Wilson and McNaughton, 1993; McEchron and Disterhoft, 1999; Leutgeb et al, 2004; Schimanski et al, 2013). In vivo calcium imaging is particularly well suited for imaging the rodent HPC, as the orientation of the horizontal cell layer permits imaging of large numbers of neurons with insertion of a 1mm diameter or smaller lens (Guo et al, 2020; Kinsky et al, 2020; Sheintuch et al, 2020; Stefanini et al, 2020). Because the hippocampus is essential for many tasks involving memory (Scoville and Milner, 1957; Squire, 1992; Eichenbaum et al, 1999; Hasselmo and McClelland, 1999; Ferbinteanu and Shapiro, 2003; Ferbinteanu et al, 2006; Smith and Mizumori, 2006; Vann, 2013; Cai et al, 2016; Josselyn and Tonegawa, 2020), spatial navigation (Foster et al, 2000; Rosenzweig et al, 2003; McNaughton et al, 2006; Foster and Knierim, 2012; Moser et al, 2017; Avigan et al, 2020), and learning (Moyer et al, 1990; Chan et al, 2001; Ito et al, 2005; Andrzejewski and Ryals, 2016), Ca2+ imaging of large populations of HPC neurons can shed new insight on cell changes and organization over time during these tasks.…”