This five week graduate course (also for advanced undergrads) will focus on learning techniques in neuroethological research such as behavioral recording and analysis, electrophysiology of intact and reduced preparations, voltage clamp and pharmacology, immunohistochemistry, and confocal microscopy of neural structures. Each pair of students will explore a project that helps them to learn the techniques that they need in their own research. Research here will focus on the nudibranch sea slug Tritonia diomedea because it is amenable to neuroethological analysis. Lectures will focus on background necessary to understand fundamental techniques in neurophysiology. Deadline 1 February 2010. Apply at: http://depts.washington.edu/fhl
Faculty: Dr. James A. Murray (email: james.murray@csueastbay.edu), Dr. Shaun D. Cain
Dates: 19 July 2010 – 20 August 2010
Location: Friday Harbor Laboratories, WA
620 University Road
Friday Harbor, WA