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.
This is the 2024 schedule. The next edition should have a simmilar content
WEDNESDAY – May 15th
09:30 Welcome and introductory information – Boris Barbour
11:00 Basic Optics – Guillaume 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/Hubert Affolter
THURSDAY – May 16th
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 17th
09:00 Fluorescence excitation – Marie Erard
11:00 Extracellular recording – Clément Léna
14:00 Optics and electronics benches
18:00 Whole-cell patch-clamp in slices – Boris Barbour
SATURDAY – May 18th
09:00 Light detectors – Klaus Suhling
11:00 EMCCD and sCMOS cameras – Jeremy Graham
14:00 Optics and electronics benches
18:00 Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) – Klaus Suhling
MONDAY – May 20th
09:00 Voltage and sodium imaging – Marco Canepari
11:00 AOD-based two-photon microscopes – Stéphane Dieudonné
14:00 Optics and electronics benches
18:00 Miniscopes / OEPS – Ceci Herbert
TUESDAY – May 21st
09:00 Genetically encoded voltage indicators (GEVIs) – Vincent Villette
11:00 Deep two-photon imaging in vivo – Laurent Bourdieu
14:00 Hands-on workshop
18:00 Fluorescent calcium indicators – Brandon Stell
WEDNESDAY – May 22nd
09:00 Introduction to optogenetics – Guillaume Dugué
11:00 Glutamate sensors – Katalin Török
14:00 Hands-on workshop
18:00 Neuropixels – high-density extracellular recordings – Tim Harris
THURSDAY – May 23rd
09:00 Welcome @ ICM – Brian Lau
09:10 Tissue Clearing and Image Analysis @ ICM – Nicolas Renier (Elisa De Launoit & Charly Rousseau)
14:00 Hands-on workshop
18:00 Light sheet imaging in vivo – Georges Debregeas
FRIDAY – May 24th
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 Open Ephys – Josh Siegle (virtual)
SATURDAY – May 25th
09:00 Spike-sorting – Aurélien Wyngaard
11:00 Viral expression strategies – Jonathan Bradley
14:00 Hands-on workshop
18:00 Photolysis– Federico Trigo (virtual)
MONDAY – May 27th
09:00 Demonstrations@ IBENS
14:00 Hands-on workshop
18:00 Imaging single molecules in live cells – Marianne Renner
TUESDAY – May 28th
09:00 Imaging analysis – Sébastien Wolf
11:00 Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy TIRF – Martin Oheim
14:00 Fluorescence functional imaging in freely moving rodents – Cathie Ventalon
16:00 Super-resolution microscopy – Marc Guillon
LECTURERS
Brad Amos
LMB Cambrige, UK
Jonathan Bradley
IBENS
Guillaume Dugué
IBENS
Marc Guillon
Université de Paris Cité
Alain Marty
Université de Paris Cité
Klaus Suhling
Kings College London
Nicolas Renier
ICM
Igor Delvendahl
Univ. Zurich
Georges Debregeas
Lab. Jean Perrin
Hubert Affolter
Sutter Instruments
Emiliano Ronzitti
Institut de la Vision
Clément Léna
IBENS
Gail McConnell
Inst. Biophot. Strathclyde, UK
Martin Thomas
Cairn Research
Laurent Moreaux
Caltech, USA
Federico Trigo
IIBCE, Uruguay
Martin Oheim
Université de Paris Cité
Guillaume Dupuis
Université Paris Saclay
Boris Barbour
IBENS
Marco Canepari
Inserm Grenoble
Jean Livet
Institut de la Vision
David Ogden
Université de Paris Cité
Marianne Renner
IFM
Cathie Ventalon
IBENS
Marin Manuel
Univ. Rhode Island, USA
Ceci Herbert
OEPS
Marie Erard
Université Paris Saclay
Laurent Bourdieu
IBENS
Stéphane Dieudonné
IBENS
Jeremy Graham
Cairn Research
Brandon Stell
Université de Paris Cité
Tim Harris
HHMI - Janelia, USA
David DiGregorio
Institut Pasteur
Josh Siegle
Allen Inst., USA
Alex Leighton
OEPS
Aurélien Wyngaard
IBENS