Connectionists: Summer Course: Neurotechnologies for Analysis of Neural Dynamics

[Carlos Brody]

New intensive summer course: Neurotechnologies for Analysis of Neural Dynamics

Directors: David W. Tank and Michael Berry, Princeton University, Dates: June 15 – July 12, 2014. 
Online Application Form and Course Schedule: NAND.princeton.edu <http://nand.princeton.edu/>
Application Deadline: February 1, 2015.

This course is designed to emphasize the major ways that scientists trained in the physical and information sciences contribute to the advance of neuroscience. It will introduce students with quantitative training in the physical sciences, mathematics or engineering to the concepts and research methodologies of modern neuroscience. Topics covered will range from cellular biophysics to systems neuroscience, including particularly imaging methods for the study of single neurons, networks of neurons and human brain dynamics during execution of behavioral computations. The course will be unique in its focus on neural dynamics at several scales of complexity – cells, circuits, intact brains – and the combination of didactic lectures and laboratory exercises, including cellular biophysics, synaptic interactions and plasticity in neuronal networks, and fMRI imaging of targeted brain regions in human subjects. The course includes substantive instruction in neurotechnologies, ranging from large-scale multi-electrode and optical recording, optogenetic stimulation and mathematical analysis of neural dynamics within the datasets produced by these methods. The capstone of this course will be one-week student-designed research projects integrating concepts and methodologies encountered during the initial formal lectures and laboratory exercises. 


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