Program | Paris NeuroCourse

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2024 Dates are 15-28 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 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

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