Graduate lectures and workshops 2012/13

 

Workshops and lecture in cell and molecular neurobiology

Lectures every other Wednesday in the John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair (1400-1600 hr)
Workshops take place in the John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair  0930-1700hrs. Contact Dr Ruma Raha-Chowdhury (rr224@cam.ac.uk) for further details

 

Michaelmas term 2012

 

 

Date	Subject	Speaker	Title
17 Oct 2-4 p.m.	Introduction to laboratory techniques.	Dr. Ruma Raha-Chowdhury	Basic rules and good laboratory practice.
24 Oct 2-4 p.m.	Introduction to cellular neuroscience	Drs. Ruma Raha-Chowdhury &  Barbara Lorber	Introduction to neurobiology, cell culture and histology.
31 Oct-1 Nov 9.30 a.m.- 5 p.m.	Cell biology workshop	Drs. Ruma Raha-Chowdhury  & Barbara Lorber	Astrocytes and neuronal culture.Cell viability assay
7 Nov 2-4 p.m.	Rodent brain histology	Dr.Ruma Raha-Chowdhury	Anatomy and histology of rodent brain. Histochemical and fluorescence staining.
14-15 Nov 9.30 – 5 p.m.	Immunohistochemistry Workshop	Dr. Ruma Raha-Chowdhury	Immunohistochemistry (brain tissues)
2 Nov 2-4 p.m.	Immunocytochemistry	Drs. Ruma Raha-Chowdhury & Aviva Tolkovsky	Immunocytochemistry transfection and transduction
28 Nov 9.30-11.30 a.m.	Microscopy Workshop	Prof. James Fawcett	Use of light and fluorescence microscopes.
5 Dec 9.30 -1 p.m.	Microscopy Workshop	Drs. Ruma Raha-Chowdhury, Simona Foscarin , Richard Eva	Fluorescence and Confocal microscopy.

For the course on molecular neurobiology (Lent term 2013), click here.

Crash course in neuroscience: for those with no previous training in this subject (Jan 2013).

Details here