Our confocal is up and running, and producing some quality images. Have a look at our new gallery page where some of the best are up for public viewing.
We also had a little paper out this month, describing an optogenetic tool Matt made during his post-doc in the Burrone lab. ‘Channelrhodopsin-2 localised to the axon initial segment’ describes a targeting strategy that successfully got ChR2 to the AIS, but unfortunately never allowed us to control neuronal activity in the way we’d hoped. Still, we’ve described the construct in the Open Access journal PLoS ONE, and made it freely available from Addgene, so with a bit of luck someone might just find a use for it…
