Neurophysiology I
Vorlesung / Übung
Number of participants
Max. 12 students
Preparatory meeting
Mo, 07.11.2011, 17.30 - 18.30 h, Biol.II/III, R. 05.070
Block
27.02. - 09.03.2012, 9.00 - 18 h
Instructors
Clemens Boucsein
Ulrich Egert
Hyperlinks
http://material.brainworks.uni-freiburg.de/teaching/Neurophysiology_I/students/
Zielgruppe
Students of Biology or Medicine with an interest in neuroscience.
Please note that students with a BSc or MSc background in Microsystems Engineering generally already know most of what is taught in this course. If you are interested in neuroscience and have this background we prefer that you enroll in the course Neurophysiology II in the summer semester, in which you will apply this knowledge in electrophysiological experiments on brain tissue. For these students the course "Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory" offered at the IMTEK by Prof. Stieglitz is more adequate.
Form of assessment
Course Protocols for each day of the course.
Kurzkommentar
The course is intended to give a thorough introduction to the use of typical, electronic laboratory equipment and analysis techniques in neurobiological research, typical problems encountered and their solutions. These include oscilloscope, amplifier, computer, high pass-, low pass- and band pass filters, analog to digital, and digital to analog converters, storage and handling of digitized data, problems related to digital data aquisition (sampling rate and information loss), data analysis on the computer (what is possible, what are the limits). Although no 'real' biological experiments will be performed, the data analyzed are representative for those.
Participation in this or an equivalent course is required before participating in either of the following courses:
• Neurophysiology II - Electrophysiology in Living Brain Slices (SS) - Participants will be granted prefered admission to this course.
• Lab Course (WS/SS) in form of a electrophysiological project.
These projects generally rely on the knowledge taught in the two courses mentioned above