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 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
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
