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Electrophysiology Summer School in Strasbourg

Campus Esplanade
Strasbourg, France
21 au 26 Septembre 2009

Pascal Darbon
21 rue René Descartes
67084 Strasbourg Cedex
- téléphone : 03 90 24 14 43
- télécopie : 03 88 61 33 47
darbon.pascal@neurochem.u-strasbg.fr

The course is offered to master and PhD students as well as young researcher willing to improve their background in the field of electrophysiology with emphasis on acquisition and analysis of electrophysiological signals. The course consists of a series of lectures completed with tutorial and hands-on sessions. A total of 20 trainees will be accepted. The school is free of charge.
The lectures cover the following areas:
• Introduction to electrophysiology, Jane Hinton (MDS-Analytical Technologies UK)
• Electronics in electrophysiology , Matilde Cordero-Erausquin (Strasbourg)
• Patch clamp amplifier, Jane Hinton (MDS-Analytical Technologies UK)
• Sharp electrode recording, Hans Reiner Polder (NPI Electronic, Germany)
• Amperometry, Hans Reiner Polder (NPI Electronic, Germany)
• Introduction du pClamp, Jane Hinton (MDS-Analytical Technologies UK)
• MultiElectrode Array, Multi-channel Systems (Germany)
• Patch clamp in retina, Michel Roux (Strasbourg)
• Ion-sensitive electrodes, Jean-Luc Rodeau (Strasbourg)
• Ground and Filter, Fabrice Dubois (DIPSI, France)
• Patch clamp on cardiac cell, Christophe Pignier (Pierre Fabre Medicament, France)
• EEG and MEG, Antoine Chaanine/Laurent Soufflet (FORNAP Pharma, France)
The tutorial and practical sessions proposed are:
• pClamp tutorial: analysis, MDS-Analytical Technologies, USA
• In vivo juxta- and intracellular recording
• In vivo sharp electrode recording
• Synaptic currents recording in culture and in slice
• Blind patch clamp and neuronal firing
• Paired-patch recording
• MultiElectrode Array
• Electroporation and single cell recording

Deadline for inscription is 18th July 2009
Please submit your application with a covering letter by email to:
Darbon.Pascal@neurochem.u-strasbg.fr
The school is supported by MDS-Analytical Technologies (Axon Instruments), Ecole Doctorale des Sciences de la Vie et de la Santé de l’Université de Strasbourg, Neurex (Neuroscience upper Rhine network)