Plexon Technical Workshop and Training - 2010
03-23-2010
The 2010 Plexon Technical Workshop was held on March 23-25 in Dallas, Texas.
43 neuroscientists from the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia attended the 3-day technical workshop. The meeting resulted in many detailed, practical discussions and hands-on training sessions with the Plexon staff.
The power point presentations and other materials from the meeting are available for download below.
Pictures from the meeting are also available below.
The workshop covered a variety of topics related to extracellular neural recording, including
- OmniPlex data acquisition tutorial and training - Dr. Sherman Wiebe, Plexon
- MAP and Recorder system tutorial and training - Damon Gee and Chris Heydrick, Plexon
- Spike sorting methods and approaches in Offline Sorter including automatic and batch-mode processing - Dr. Sherman Wiebe and Dr. Dave Schmid
- CinePlex video capture, position tracking, and behavioral analysis - Dr. Rebecca Burwell, Brown University; Dr. Tanya Mukhina, Plexon
- U-Probe electrode implantation procedures and recording - Dr. Bruce Cumming, NIH
- Floating microeletrode array (FMA) implantation and recording - Dr. Adam Davidson, Laboratory of Dr. Marc Schieber, University of Rochester
- Filters, phase transforms, and FPAlign - Dr. Craig Patten, Plexon
- Spike-FP and FP-FP Coherence Analysis - Dr. Hemant Bokil, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Medametrics LLC
- Chronic microwire array implantation procedure in rat - Andrew Klein, Plexon
- Neurophysiological data analysis in Neuroexplorer - Alex Kirilov, Plexon and Nex Technologies
- Introduction and demonstration of new 4-ch and 8-ch disposable microdrive for rodent - Robert Rennaker, University of Texas at Dallas
Below are the Power Point slides of the presentations given at the meeting, along with the accompanying audio for each slide. The .pptx file must reside in the same directory as the .mp3 files for the audio to automatically play when the .pptx file is run.
Note that (i) the version of the UProbe presentation by Dr. Bruce Cumming below is the 'short' version, and (ii) the FMA presentation by Dr. Adam Davidson and the microwire array implantation procedure presentation by Andrew Klein is not listed below. Please contact Plexon for the 'long', original version of the UProbe presentation, the FMA presentation, and the microwire array implantation presentation.
Pictures from the meeting
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