Organization:	Prof. Andreas Draguhn (BCCN Heidelberg-Mannheim)
	Hans Reiner Polder (npi electronic GmbH, industry partner of BCCN Munich)
	Dr. Simone Cardoso de Oliveira (Bernstein Coordination Site)
Date:	March 9 (about 10 a.m.) - 10 (around noon),  2012
Venue:	"Theoretikum" Campus Neuenheimer Feld Building 306, Lecture Hall 2 69120 Heidelberg

Deadline for registration: January 2nd, 2012  Deadline extended until: January 19th, 2012!

The workshop addresses young scientists (typically PhD students and postdocs, both theoreticians and experimentalists) and is meant to give answers to the following questions:

• Which electrophysiological techniques can and should I use for which experimental question?
• What do primary electrophysiological data look like?
• How can I interpret my data?

The workshop includes talks by experienced researchers and experts from companies that manufacture and develop relevant technological methodology and hardware.
In discussion rounds, the participants have the opportunity to pose their individual methodological problems and get advice from expert users and companies.

Program:

Friday, March 9, 2012:

10:00 - 10:45: Hans Reiner Polder (npi electronic GmbH, industry partner of Bernstein Center Munich):
"Recording techniques and data acquisition at the cellular level"

10:45 - 11:30: Dr. Christian Rössert (Lab of PD Dr. Stefan Glasauer, Bernstein Center Munich):
"Intracellular recordings with high-resistant electrodes using novel compensation techniques"

11:30 - 12:15: Dr. Jakob Neef (Lab of Prof. Tobias Moser, Bernstein Center Göttingen):
"Monitoring exocytosis and endocytosis with whole-cell capacitance measurements"

12:15 - 13:30: Lunch

13:30 - 14:15: Dr. Clemens Boucsein (Bernstein Center Freiburg):
"Validation of theoretical predictions about spike dynamics with whole cell in vitro recordings"

14:15 - 15:00: Dr. Jan Benda (Bernstein Center Munich / Tübingen):
"Deriving experimental tests of spike formation from dynamical systems theory" (preliminary title)

 15:00 - 15:45: Dr. Martin Both (Lab of Prof. Andreas Draguhn, Bernstein Center Heidelberg/Mannheim):
"Single Neurons within Oscillating Networks: Different Approaches of Recording and Analysis"

15:45 - 16:00: Coffee break

16:00 - 16:45: Prof. Thomas Schanze (Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen and collaborator of Thomas Recording GmbH, Bernstein Collaboration memory network and industry partner of Bernstein Focus Neurotechnology Göttingen):
"Recording and Stimulation with fibre microelectrodes"

16:45 - 17:45: Several parallel discussion groups

17:45 - 18:45: Special Guest: Prof. Didier Pinault (Université de Strasbourg):
"Use of sharp glass micropipettes in the living brain: Intra- and juxtacellular recording-stimulating-labeling"

19:00: Dinner

Saturday, March 10, 2012:

09:15 - 10:15: Keynote Speaker: Prof. Uwe Heinemann (Bernstein Center Berlin):
"From transient negativities to local field potentials and more"

10:15 - 11:00: Dr. Dominik Brugger (Lab of Prof. Cornelius Schwarz,  Bernstein Center Tübingen):
"Current source density analysis of laminar LFP recordings"

11:00 - 11:15: Coffee break

11:15 - 12:00: Dr. Simon Jacob (Lab of Prof. Andreas Nieder, Bernstein Center Tübingen):
"Simultaneous single unit recording and iontophoretic drug application in awake behaving rhesus monkeys"

12:00 - 12:45: Dr. Andrea Burgalossi (Lab of Prof. Michael Brecht, Bernstein Center Berlin):
"Juxtacellular Recordings from Identified Neurons in Freely-Moving Rats"

Individuals that are interested in participation should send an e-mail, stating the name of their lab head and the methodology(s) they are interested in, to:

Simone Cardoso de Oliveira (Bernstein Coordination Site).

Registrations will be considered on a first-come-first-served basis. Members of the Bernstein Network or its research groups, respectively, will be given preference. Participation is free of charge, but participants are expected to cover the travel expenses themselves (or by their respective institution).