Equipment for the Student Neurobiology Laboratory

神经生物学实验课程将分为两个学期。新的设备，包括倒置显微镜、专用放大器和带有接口板的个人电脑，这些接口板可以接受来自神经细胞的信号，这将使学生们能够做四种他们目前无法做的新实验：利用酶来追踪解剖通路；2. 研究培养的神经细胞；3. 神经膜内单离子通道的分析和4。使用神经细胞和神经网络的计算机模型。这些新仪器将比旧技术更直接地显示神经细胞和神经系统是如何工作的，并将使学生们参与到目前在令人兴奋的神经科学领域正在进行的那种活动中。学院将提供50%的配套资金。

The Neurobiology laboratory course will be divided into two semesters. New equipment, including inverted microscopes, specialized amplifiers, and personal computers with interface boards that can accept signals from nerve cells will permit students to do four new kinds of experiments that they are not able to do at the present time: 1. using enzymes to trace anatomical pathways; 2. studying nerve cells in culture; 3. analyzing single ion channels in nerve membrances; and 4. working with computer models of nerve cells and neural networks. These new instruments will show more directly than older techniques how nerve cells and nervous systems work, and will allow the students to be engaged in the kind of activity that is going on now in the exciting field of neuroscience. The college will provide 50% matching funds.