The study of electrophysiology began in the 18 th century with Luigi Aloisio Galvani’s pioneering experimental discovery. The legs of a dead frog could be induced to twitch when a small electric shock ...

Manual patch clamping requires considerable skill and experience due to the technically challenging setup requirements, and as such, only allows recording of a small sample of cells (approximately ...

A contemporary patch clamp setup consists of a number of components assembled around a microscope and an amplifier system. The first speaker, Telly Galiatsatos from Sutter Instrument, will introduce ...