A postdoctoral position is available for a highly motivated candidate to join the Ikuko Smith Lab in the Neuroscience Research Institute at UC Santa Barbara (https://www.mcdb.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/ikuko-smith). A strong background in Systems Neuroscience with skills in electrophysiology and/or…
LabMaker sells parts, kits, and assemblies for open source neuroscience tools, including the UCLA MiniScope and Crystal Skull “coverslips”.
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Multiple people have asked for a discussion of Intan CLAMP patch clamp amplifiers. For those who are unfamiliar with them, they’re miniaturized patch clamp amplifiers. What looks like a headstage, is…
For teaching electrophysiology, there’s still a lack of comprehensive references. In particular, it can be difficult to impart to students an intuitive feel for the quality or fidelity of electrophysiological recordings. How close to the…
SpikeGadgets makes hardware and software for extracellular array recording.
They make nice looking hardware, both for recording from arrays, and for controlling experiments.
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A world-class in vivo patch clamp electrophysiologist, Ian Duguid, is recruiting to his lab. Ian provides excellent training, and his lab is in a tremendous setting: Edinburgh. Ian’s also one…
Peter Weir has a nice write up and directions on how to make the fly holder from his recent paper. He has some other useful notes that are worth checking out too: github,…
We covered Open Ephys back in 2013. They have well-developed devices for extracellular electrophysiology, and have some work on intracellular electrophysiology as well. Check out the Cyclops LED driver too. It continues…
Adam Packer wrote some LabVIEW software for acquiring and generating data from National Instruments cards called PackIO. It is meant to trigger and synchronize equipment as well as record any data, with a…
The Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience course is Jun 9-19 in Paris. Application deadline is March 30. Lots of great people will be teaching, including Valentina Emiliani, Isabel Llano, Brad…
Andrew Giessel wrote some analysis code in Python when he worked in the Datta lab. He has since moved on to another venture, but he open-sourced the code. There are import routines for data from…
See that metal box the pipette holder is attached to? That’s not a headstage, that’s the whole patch clamp amplifier. Reid Harrison is the lead author (co-senior authors are Craig Forest and Ed Boyden)…
Brain slice methodology is a mix of rational approaches, post hoc rationalized approaches,…
How to measure the liquid junction potential
This is an old blog post, but the comments section is still somewhat active. Handy reference/training material.
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Up on arXiv just recently, is Shlyonsky, Dupuis, and Gall’s OpenPicoAmp. They pitch it as an educational tool, and that’s probably what it’s best suited for, but the recordings look nice. It’s a fun…
