Pandemic Teaching: Using the Allen Cell Types Database for Final Semester Projects in an Undergraduate Neurophysiology Lab Course.

ABSTRACT: We designed a final semester research project that allowed students to apply the electrophysiological concepts they learned in a lab course to propose and answer experimental questions without access to laboratory equipment. We created the activity based on lesson plans from Ashley Juavinett and the Allen Institute for Brain Science (AIBS) Allen SDK online examples. An interactive graphic interface was added for students to explore and easily quantify subtle neuronal voltage changes. Before starting the final project, students had experience with conventional extracellular and intracellular recording techniques to record and analyze extracellular action potential firing patterns and intracellular resting, action, and synaptic potentials. They demonstrated their understanding of neural sign

SUBMITTER: Ho YY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9053425 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature