Learn from the latest webinars about newly released neuroscience research and advances in experimental techniques. Topics include research news in neuroscience, neurology, psychology, brain science and cognitive sciences.
DATE: July 21, 2020 TIME: 8:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT The adult brain is composed of densely interwoven neuronal and vascular networks that are essential for proper function. Understanding the s...
DATE: July 15, 2020 TIME: 8:00am PT Everyone working with cultured cells experiences contamination at some point. Contamination by microorganisms, other mammalian cells, and volatile organic...
DATE: July 9, 2020 TIME: 11:00am PT Maladaptive aggression is an immutable force that contributes to the suffering and death of millions of people around the world annually, as well as prese...
DATE: June 23, 2020 TIME: 10:00am PT Human mesenchymal stromal or stem cells (MSCs)-based immunomodulation treatment has been proposed as a suitable therapeutic approach for many diseases, s...
DATE: June 9, 2020 TIME: 6am PT, 9am ET, 3pm CEST The importance of disposable plastic consumables and their overall impact on the experimental workflow of qPCR has been taken into considera...
Novel neurotechnologies are generating exciting opportunities for groups in The BRAIN Initiative and the broader biomedical community to re-imagine the boundaries of recording and modulating...
The BRAIN Initiative has enabled the development of novel neural recording tools that can benefit many labs, but are difficult to transition to industry for a variety of reasons. Here we ass...
DATE: May 13, 2020 TIME: 7am PT, 10am ET, 4pm CEST Stem cells represent an important tool in a wide range of applications, including basic research, disease modeling, drug discovery, and reg...
DATE: May 7, 2020 TIME: 8:00AM PDT, 11:00AM EDT With the recent explosion of cell therapy, we know more about conditions affecting cell growth than ever before. Your CO2 incubator should not...
Date: April 29, 2020 Time: 8:00AM PDT, 11:00AM EDT Single cell genomics and other next generation sequencing applications depend strongly on adequate upstream sample preparation. Results can...
DATE: April 15, 2020 TIME: 4:00pm CEST, 07:00am PT, 010:00am ET The assessment of cell health and cellular responses after experimental manipulation continue to be a very important aspect of...
DATE: April 7, 2020 TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET This webinar sets out to establish why quality control is key to robust, reliable, reproducible science. We will look at best practice criteri...
DATE: March 24, 2020 TIME: 11:00am PT, 2:00pm ET While in vitro cell culture has long been used to study neurological diseases, researchers have come to the realization that 2-D systems do n...
DATE: March 24, 2020 TIME: 10:00 am PDT, 1:00pm EDT The Clampfit software module is a useful tool to manipulate and analyze electrophysiological data acquired by pCLAMP™ software. Rece...
Identifying the diversity of neuronal cell types of the nervous system is one of the main objectives of the BRAIN Initiative, with the vision that distinct neuronal identities will allow for...
Working memory (the ability to hold some information in mind for a few seconds, and to manipulate that information) and decision-making (committing to one out of multiple possible choices) a...
Neurodegenerative disease research can be considerably accelerated by using fibrillar or oligomeric constructs of prion-like proteins in in vitro or in vivo studies. These exist in a variety...
Episodic memories are essential for human cognition, but the underlying neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. We utilize the opportunity to record in-vivo from human single neurons sim...
Learning is often an emotional process. Emotional stimuli with different valences, such as threat and reward, can transform an otherwise neutral sensory input into one that can trigger disti...
Approximately 300,000 people in the United States have a spinal cord injury with many of these individuals experiencing permanent motor and sensory deficits. For individuals with cervical sp...
Brain machine interfaces (BMIs) aim to help patients with paralysis to use their recorded brain activity to control assistive devices. BMI research requires the collaboration of neuroscienti...
Mechanistic understanding of neural systems is daunting to achieve in large part due to the heterogeneity of the neuronal elements in both form and function and the complexity of the circuit...
The public health burden of Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD) has prompted clinical trials of deep brain stimulation (DBS) that have, unfortunately, produced inconsistent outcomes. Potent...