Neurophysiology II - Electrophysiology in Living Brain Slices
Course: | Neurophysiology II - Electrophysiology in Living Brain Slices | |
Instructors: | Clemens Boucsein, Ulrich Egert, Jochen Staiger | |
Location: | Research Lab | |
Time / Duration: | 2,5 weeks full time after the end of summer semester | |
Start: | July 27 to August 14, 2009 | |
Preparatory meeting : | April 21, 2009, 17:30h, R 05.013, BioII/III, 5th floor | |
Max: | 9 students | |
Credits: | WP | |
Topics, Schedule, Scripts: | click here | |
This lab course is intended for Master's students ("Hauptstudium") in the Natural Sciences with a special interest in the structure and function of the Mammalian Brain. On the basis of selected experiments, the course provides a practical introduction (2.5 weeks full time in the semester break) to modern electrophysiological techniques (intra-cellular recording, whole cell patch-clamping, extra-cellular recording with multi-electrode-arrays), immunostaining of brain slices, synaptic plasticity and advanced data analysis methods. Experiments are performed in in vitro brain slice preparations of the rat brain: neo-cortex, hippocampus. We strongly recommend prior participation in the compact course Neurophysiology I: Measurement and Analysis of Neuronal Activities - a Technical Introduction during the winter semester! Participants of this course will be granted prefered admission to the slice course. Form of assessment: Course Protocols plus Oral Presentation |