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The program below is for the 2022 course; the 2023 course will have similar content and will run from the 3rd to the 16th of 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).
All the things with an @ or in red are only open to Paris Neuro Course students and specific guests.
WEDNESDAY – May 11th
09:30 Welcome and introductory information – Boris Barbour
11:00 Basic Optics
14:00 Overview of methods in optical microscopy – Brad Amos
16:00 Electronics primer – Marin Manuel
18:00 Electronics of patch-clamp amplifiers – Boris Barbour/Hubert Affolter
THURSDAY – May 12th
09:00 Setting up DIC, resolution in the optical microscope – Brad Amos
11:00 Light sources – Martin Thomas
14:00 Optics and electronics benches
18:00 Lasers for one and two photon excitation – Gail McConnell
FRIDAY – May 13th
09:00 Viral expression strategies – Jonathan Bradley
11:00 Extracellular recording – Clément Léna
14:00 Optics and electronics benches
18:00 Introduction to optogenetics – Guillaume Dugué
SATURDAY – May 14th
09:00 EMCCD and sCMOS cameras – Jeremy Graham
11:00 Miniscopes – Alex Leighton, Federico Sangiuliano Jimka (virtual)
14:00 Optics and electronics benches
18:00 Fluorescence excitation – Laurent Moreaux
MONDAY – May 16th
09:00 Welcome @ ICM – Bassem Hassan
09:10 Tissue Clearing and Image Analysis @ ICM – Nicolas Renier
11:00 Microscopy core facility visits @ ICM
14:00 Optics and electronics benches
18:00 Whole-cell patch-clamp – Alain Marty
TUESDAY – May 17th
09:00 Fluorescent calcium indicators – Igor Delvendahl
11:00 Genetically encoded calcium indicators (GECIs) – David DiGregorio
14:00 Hands-on workshop
18:00 Light detectors – Klaus Suhling
WEDNESDAY – May 18th
09:00 Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) – Klaus Suhling
11:00 Optical measurement of membrane potential – Marco Canepari
14:00 Hands-on workshop
18:00 Imaging single molecules in live cells – Marianne Renner
THURSDAY – May 19th
09:00 Transgenic approaches to label neurons @ IdV – Jean Livet
10:00 Wavefront modulation for single and two-photon patterned activation @ IdV – Valentina Emiliani
14:00 Hands-on workshop
18:00 Open Ephys – Josh Siegle (virtual)
FRIDAY – May 20th
09:00 Light sheet imaging in vivo – Georges Debregeas
11:00 Fluorescence functional imaging in freely moving rodents – Cathie Ventalon
14:00 Hands-on workshop
18:00 Deep two-photon imaging in vivo – Laurent Bourdieu
SATURDAY – May 21th
09:00 AOD-based two-photon microscopes – Stéphane Dieudonné
11:00 Neuropixels – high-density extracellular recordings – Tim Harris
14:00 Hands-on workshop
18:00 Photolysis– Federico Trigo
MONDAY – May 23st
09:00 Demonstrations@ IBENS
14:00 Hands-on workshop
18:00 Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy TIRF – Martin Oheim (virtual)
TUESDAY – May 24st
09:00 Super-resolution microscopy – Marc Guillon
11:00 Glutamate sensors – Katalin Török
14:00 Spike sorting workshop – Samuel Garcia + Pierre Yger
16:30 Imaging analysis – Sébastien Wolf
LECTURERS
Brad Amos
LMB Cambrige, UK
Jonathan Bradley
IBENS
Guillaume Dugué
IBENS
Marc Guillon
Paris Descartes
Alain Marty
Paris Descartes
Klaus Suhling
Kings College London
Nicolas Renier
ICM
Igor Delvendahl
Univ. Zurich
Georges Debregeas
Lab. Jean Perrin
Hubert Affolter
Sutter Instruments
Valentina Emiliani
Institut de la Vision
Clément Léna
IBENS
Gail McConnell
Inst. Biophotonics Strathclyde, UK
Martin Thomas
Cairn Research
Laurent Moreaux
Caltech, USA
Federico Trigo
IIBCE, Uruguay
Martin Oheim
Paris Descartes
Boris Barbour
IBENS
Marco Canepari
Inserm Grenoble
Jean Livet
Institut de la Vision
David Ogden
Paris Descartes
Marianne Renner
IFM
Cathie Ventalon
IBENS
Marin Manuel
Univ. Rhode Island, USA
Federico Sangiuliano Jimka
OEPS
Laurent Bourdieu
IBENS
Stéphane Dieudonné
IBENS
Jeremy Graham
Cairn Research
Brandon Stell
Paris Descartes
Tim Harris
HHMI - Janelia, USA
David DiGregorio
Institut Pasteur
Josh Siegle
Allen Inst., USA
Alex Leighton
OEPS