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Congratulations to Dr. Yong Qian!
Dr. Yong Qian was awarded a Faculty of Science Doctoral Dissertation Award for his outstanding thesis on “Expanding the palette of genetically-encoded calcium ion indicators for monitoring neural activity”!
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New tool enables imaging of neural activity with near-infrared light | Faculty of Science
New tool enables imaging of neural activity with near-infrared light | Faculty of Science. Congratulations to Yong for this breakthrough achievement!
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Auto Sequencer
Undergraduate Abhi Aggarwal has uploaded an elegant little program (.exe) that automagically translates and aligns forward and reverse sequence files! Auto Sequencer | The Campbell Lab at the University of Alberta.
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Congratulations to Sally!
PhD student Sally Wu has been awarded an NSERC CGSD3 scholarship!
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Biochemists develop new way to control cell biology with light
Nice write up on PhoCl work from Katie Willis: Biochemists develop new way to control cell biology with light.
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Optogenetic control with a photocleavable protein, PhoCl : Nature Methods
Wei’s paper is online at Nature Methods! Optogenetic control with a photocleavable protein, PhoCl : Nature Methods.
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FlicR1 voltage indicator now available at Addgene
Addgene: A Bright and Fast Red Fluorescent Protein Voltage Indicator That Reports Neuronal Activity in Organotypic Brain Slices..
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University of Alberta press release for our new voltage indicator
Fluorescent Neuroscience – Faculty of Science – University of Alberta.
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Alberta chemists build glowing red tool for brain mapping | Edmonton Journal
Edmonton Journal article about Ahmed’s FlicR voltage indicator! Alberta chemists build glowing red tool for brain mapping | Edmonton Journal.
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Postdoctoral opportunity in the Campbell lab
.A postdoctoral researcher position focussed on the development of a new generation of genetically encoded neural activity indicators is available in the lab of Dr. Robert E. Campbell at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This position is funded by an NIH grant awarded as part of the United States Brain Research through Advancing…