TIMETABLE
2026 dates are 11-23 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.
Preliminay programme
MONDAY – May 11th
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 Light sources – Martin Thomas
TUESDAY – May 12th
09:00 Lasers for one and two photon excitation – Gail McConnell
11:00 Setting up DIC, resolution in the optical microscope – Brad Amos
14:00 Light detectors – Klaus Suhling
16:00 Viral expression strategies – Jonathan Bradley
18:00 Open Ephys – Josh Siegle (virtual)
WEDNESDAY – May 13th
09:00 Fluorescence excitation – Marie Erard
11:00 Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) – Klaus Suhling
14:00 Optics and electronics benches
18:00 Introduction to optogenetics – Guillaume Dugué
THURSDAY – May 14th
09:00 Whole-cell patch-clamp in slices – Boris Barbour
11:00 Fluorescent calcium indicators – Igor Delvendahl
14:00 Optics and electronics benches
18:00 Extracellular recording – Vincenzo Marra
FRYDAY – May 15th
09:00 Super-resolution microscopy– Lydia Danglot
11:00 EMCCD and sCMOS cameras – Jeremy Graham
14:00 Optics and electronics benches
18:00 Photolysis– Federico Trigo (virtual)
SATURDAY – May 16th
09:00 Voltage and sodium imaging – Marco Canepari
11:00 Electronics of patch-clamp amplifiers – Marco Beato / Boris Barbour
14:00 Optics and electronics benches
18:00 Free evening
MONDAY – May 18st
09:00 Welcome @ ICM – Brian Lau
09:10 Tissue Clearing and Image Analysis @ ICM – Nicolas Renier
14:00 Hands-on workshop
18:00 Neuropixels – high-density extracellular recordings – Tim Harris
TUESDAY – May 19th
09:00 Fast two-photon imaging in vivo – Laurent Bourdieu
11:00 Genetically encoded voltage indicators (GEVIs) – Vincent Villette
14:00 Hands-on workshop
18:00 Miniscopes / OEPS – Ceci Herbert
WEDNESDAY – May 20th
09:00 Deep two-photon imaging in vivo– Laurent Bourdieu
11:00 Light sheet imaging in vivo – Georges Debregeas
14:00 Hands-on workshop
18:00 Imaging analysis – Brandon Stell
THURSDAY – May 21st
09:00 Demonstrations@ IBENS
14:00 Hands-on workshop
18:00 Fluorescence functional imaging in freely moving rodents – Cathie Ventalon
FRIDAY – May 22nd
09:00 Transgenic approaches to label neurons @ IdV – Jean Livet
10:00 Wavefront modulation for single and two-photon patterned activation @ IdV – Emiliano Ronzitti
11:00 Cutting-edge microscopes visit @Idv
14:00 Hands-on workshop
18:00 Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy TIRF – Martin Oheim
SATURDAY – May 23rd
09:00 Glutamate sensors – Katalin Török
11:00 Spike-sorting – Aurélien Wyngaard
14:00 Hands-on workshop
18:00 Closing words
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
