Skip navigation
Sayles Laboratory

Lab and Facilities

The Brainstem Neurophysiology Laboratory has facilities in Lyles-Porter Hall (LYLE) and Martin-Jischke Hall (MJIS).

 

Facilities in LYLE include:

  • Two double-walled acoustically and electrically shielded booths
  • State-of-the-art A/D D/A multi-DSP system for signal presentation and data acquisition from Tucker-Davis Technologies
  • Micropipette fabrication facilities (Sutter Instruments P-1000 pipette puller)
  • Intra-cellular amplifiers for patch and sharp-electrode techniques.
  • High-end operating microscope (Zeiss OPMI PICO equipped with HD video recording capabilities)
  • Access to Zeiss fluorescence microscopy facilities with Neurolucida software for 3D reconstruction and axonal tracing

Facilities in MJIS include:

  • Patch-clamp experimental rig
  • Micropipette fabrication facilities (Sutter Instruments P-1000 pipette puller)