TIMETABLE

2025 Dates are 14-27 May

All lectures at the Centre Universitaire des Saints Pères are open to parisian academic students/researchers. You don’t have to let us know in advance, just show up (see the contact page for direction information).

 

Everything with an @ or in red are only open to Paris Neuro Course students and specific guests.

WEDNESDAY – May 14th

09:30  Welcome and introductory information

11:00  Basic OpticsGuillaume Dupuis

14:00  Electronics primer – Marin Manuel

16:00  Overview of methods in optical microscopy – Brad Amos

18:00  Electronics of patch-clamp amplifiers – Boris Barbour

THURSDAY – May 15th

09:00  Light sources – Martin Thomas

11:00  Setting up DIC, resolution in the optical microscope – Brad Amos

14:00  Optics and electronics benches

18:00  Lasers for one and two photon excitation – Gail McConnell

 

FRIDAY – May 16th

09:00  Fluorescence excitation – Marie Erard

11:00  Extracellular recording – Vincenzo Marra

14:00  Optics and electronics benches

18:00  Whole-cell patch-clamp in slices – Boris Barbour

SATURDAY – May 17th

09:00  EMCCD and sCMOS cameras – Jeremy Graham

11:00  Light detectors – Klaus Suhling

14:00  Optics and electronics benches

18:00  Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) – Klaus Suhling

MONDAY – May 19th

09:00  Fast two-photon imaging in vivo – Laurent Bourdieu

11:00  Genetically encoded voltage indicators (GEVIs) – Vincent Villette

14:00  Optics and electronics benches

18:00  Miniscopes / OEPS – Ceci Herbert

TUESDAY – May 20th

09:00  Welcome @ ICM – Brian Lau

09:10  Tissue Clearing and Image Analysis @ ICM – Nicolas Renier

14:00  Hands-on workshop

18:00  Open Ephys – Josh Siegle (virtual)

 

WEDNESDAY – May 21st

09:00  Voltage and sodium imaging – Marco Canepari

11:00  Deep two-photon imaging in vivo– Laurent Bourdieu

14:00  Hands-on workshop

18:00  Neuropixels – high-density extracellular recordings – Tim Harris

THURSDAY – May 22nd

09:00  Demonstrations@ IBENS

14:00  Hands-on workshop

18:00  Fluorescent calcium indicators – Brandon Stell

FRIDAY – May 23rd

09:00  Transgenic approaches to label neurons @ IdV – Jean Livet

10:00  Wavefront modulation for single and two-photon patterned activation @ IdV – Emiliano Ronzitti

14:00  Hands-on workshop

18:00  Photolysis– Federico Trigo (virtual)

SATURDAY – May 24th

09:00  Spike-sorting – Aurélien Wyngaard

11:00  Glutamate sensors – Katalin Török

14:00  Hands-on workshop

18:00  Free evening

MONDAY – May 26th

09:00  Light sheet imaging in vivo – Georges Debregeas

11:00  Viral expression strategies – Jonathan Bradley

14:00  Hands-on workshop

18:00  Introduction to optogenetics – Guillaume Dugué

TUESDAY – May 27th

09:00  Imaging analysis – Sébastien Wolf 

11:00   Super-resolution microscopy– Lydia Danglot

14:00  Fluorescence functional imaging in freely moving rodents – Cathie Ventalon

16:00   Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy TIRF – Martin Oheim 

LECTURERS

Brad Amos

LMB Cambrige, UK

Boris Barbour

IBENS

Jonathan Bradley

IBENS

Laurent Bourdieu

IBENS

Marco Canepari

Inserm Grenoble

Lydia Danglot

IPNP

Georges Debregeas

Lab. Jean Perrin

Guillaume Dugué

IBENS

Guillaume Dupuis

Université Paris Saclay

Marie Erard

Université Paris Saclay

Jeremy Graham

Cairn Research

Tim Harris

HHMI - Janelia, USA

Ceci Herbert

OEPS

Jean Livet

Institut de la Vision

Marin Manuel

Univ. Rhode Island, USA

Vincenzo Marra

Univ. of Leicester, UK

Gail McConnell

Inst. Biophot. Strathclyde, UK

Martin Oheim

Université de Paris Cité

Nicolas Renier

ICM

Marianne Renner

IFM

Emiliano Ronzitti

Institut de la Vision

Klaus Suhling

Kings College London

Josh Siegle

Allen Inst., USA

Brandon Stell

Université de Paris Cité

Martin Thomas

Cairn Research

Federico Trigo

IIBCE, Uruguay

Katalin Tôrôk

Univ. of London, UK

Cathie Ventalon

IBENS

Vincent Vilette

IBENS

Sébastien Wolf

IBENS

Aurélien Wyngaard

IBENS