Scanning Near-Field Microscopy for Imaging Ion Channel Dynamics

9870760Van der Weide通过使电子工程师能够在分子生物学家的实验室工作几个月，这项探索性研究的小额资助将有助于探索用多功能扫描探针显微镜成像离子通道分布和动力学的基础。 这项探索性工作的结果将是一项建议，将从探测亚微米集成电路中借用的新技术与更好地了解神经元膜中离子通道的性质和功能的迫切需要相结合，并将使这两个学科的科学和学生受益。

9870760Van der WeideBy enabling an electrical engineer to work for a few months in the laboratory of a molecular biologist, this small grant for exploratory research will help to explore the groundwork for imaging ion-channel distribution and dynamics with multifunctional scanned probe microscopy. The outcome of this exploratory work will be a proposal to combine new techniques borrowed from probing sub-micrometer integrated circuits with the pressing need to better understand the nature and function of ion channels in neuronal membrane, and will result in benefits to science and students in both disciplines.***