September 5, 2017: Introduction
Location: MH-2103
11:00am-11:15am: New Student Introductions
11:15am-12:00pm: Program Introduction
Instructors: Anatol Kreitzer, Pat Veitch
12:00pm-1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm-3:00pm: Student Orientation
Instructors: Jiggy Athilingam, Faten Sayed, and Ally Girasole
3:00pm-3:35pm: Intro Neuro Small Groups
Instructors: Jiggy Athilingam, Faten Sayed, and Ally Girasole
3:35pm-4:30pm: Student Presentations
Instructors: Jiggy, Faten and Ally
4:30pm-6:00pm: Student Social Hour
Resources: Google Drive Link
September 6, 2017: Coding Day 1
Location: MH-2110
Instructors: Kate Derosier, Nerissa Hoglen
9:00am-11:00am: Lecture& problems
11:00am-1:00pm: Lunch with NeuWrite (Food provided)
1:00pm-5:00pm: Lecture & problems
Resources: Google Drive Link
Students MUST bring a laptop, but otherwise should do no prep work
September 7, 2017: Genetics and Molecular Biology
Location: MH-2110
Instructors: Ben Mansky, Marc Turner
9:00am-12:00pm: Genetics Lecture and Plasmid Building Activity
12:00pm-1:00pm: Lunch (choose your own adventure)
1:00pm-3:00pm: Molecular Bio/Biochemistry Lecture
3:00pm-4:00pm: Problem Set
4:00pm-5:00pm: Graduate Division BBQ @ the Koret Quad
Resources: Day 3 - Genetics and MoBio - Google Drive
September 11, 2017: Behavior and Statistics
Location: MH-2110
Instructors: Michael Ryan, Matthew McGregor, Lisa Gunaydin
9:00am-12:00pm: Behavior Lecture (Dr. Lisa Gunaydin)
11:00am-12:00pm: Experimental Design/Statistics lecture (Match McGregor/Michael Ryan)
12:00pm-1:00pm: Faculty Lunch
1:30pm-4:00pm: Lab Demos (Berke, Feinberg, Gunaydin, and Nelson Labs) Meet in RH Lobby
Resources: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bxdy-DHfCllYSXJhaUZ1ckNwVnM?usp=sharing
Reviews:
Chadman et al. 2008 (behavior review)
Deisseroth 2014 (circuits behavior review)
Seltman 2015 - chapter 1 (stats review)
Paper:
Gomez et al. 2017 “Chemogenetics revealed: DREADD occupancy and activation via converted clozapine” Science
Lecture:
Behavior bootcamp lecture 2017
September 12, 2017: In vitro Electrophysiology
Location: MH-2110
Instructors: Ken Burke, Ally Girasole, Alexandra Nelson
8:30am-11:00am: Introduction to Electrophysiology
Instructor: Alexandra Nelson
Topics:
- Electronics Review
- Basic Hardware used in electrophysiological recordings
- Mechanics of in vitro ephys recordings
11:00am-1:00pm: Lunch
1:00pm-4:00pm: Cutting and Patching Demo
Sandler 4th Floor (Bender and Nelson Labs)
Instructors: Ken Burke and Ally Girasole
Topics:
- Cutting Demo
- Dissection and preparation of live brain tissue for in vitro experimentation
- Patching Fundamentals
- Overview of equipment of an electrophysiology rig, in person
- Practice Patching
- Explore how you can manipulate a patched cell
- Collect data for problem sets
4:00pm-5:00pm: Problem Sets
Resources:
September 13, 2017: In vivo Electrophysiology
Location: Sandler 538
10:00am-10:50am: In vivo Recording Techniques
Instructor: Jon Schor
11:00am-11:50am: Analysis of single-unit recordings
Instructor: Ryan Morrill
12:00pm-1:00pm: Lunch
1:00pm-1:40pm: Demo 1
1:40pm-2:20pm: Demo 2
2:20pm-3:00pm: Demo 3
3:00pm-3:50pm: Analysis of LFP
Instructor: Daniel Silversmith
4:00pm-4:50pm: Modeling and Computation
Instructor: Stefan Lemke
Resources:
September 14, 2017: Imaging
Location: MH-2110
9:00am-10:00am: The Imaging Toolkit
Instructors: Trisha Vaidyanathan and Michael Reitman
10:00am-12:00pm: Microscopy Principles
Instructor: Evan Feinberg
12:00pm-1:00pm: Lunch
1:00pm-3:00pm: Nikon Center Demo @ the Nikon Imaging Center
3:00pm-4:00pm: Problem Sets
Resources:
September 15, 2017: Coding Day 2, Wrap-up and Feeback
Location: MH-2110
Instructors: Kate Derosier and Nerissa Hoglen
9:00am-10:00am: Lecture
10:00am-12:00pm: Problem Set Implementation
12:00pm-1:00pm: Lunch (Food provided)
1:00pm-3:00pm: Problem Set Implementation
3:00pm-4:00pm: Course Evaluation & Feedback
Resources: Google Drive Link
Students should bring a laptop and completed problem sets from other days