Neuro Area	Method
Molecular	Adenoviral Expression-systems, manufacturing of recombinant Antibodies
Molecular	Biomolecular Chip-Technologies
Molecular	Development of Bioassays for the analysis of the growth of Neurites
Molecular	Electron microscopy, Immune-EM
Molecular	Expression of recombinant proteins in bacteria and Mammal cells, Yeast-2-Hybrid-System
Molecular	In situ Hybridisidation, Immunohistochemistry, Tract-tracing
Molecular	Laser-Microdissection of distinct brain regions
Molecular	molecular Cloning, Expression-cloning, cDNA Banks, MB-techniques
Molecular	PCR, RT-PCR, Single-Cell-RT-PCR, PCR-Mutagenesis
Molecular	Primary cultures and cell lines, Dissociated primary cultures, Organotypic Brain slice cultures of postnatal CNS structures, Co-cultures, Transfection techniques
Molecular	Protein biochemistry, Western Blots, Proteomics-Analysis in purified parts of the nervous system and Neuroblastoma-cell-lines
Molecular	Protein-Protein-Interactions: Phage Display, Blot-Overlay, Ko-Immuno precipitation, Pulldown, Biacore
Molecular	Transgenic Drosophila, Rodents
Systems	Brain slice electrophysiology
Systems	Brain lesioning (by Laser, Drugs, Photothrombosis)
Systems	Calcium-Imaging
Systems	Confocal Microscopy, Videomicroscopy, Scanning electrochemical microscopy, carbon fibre microelectrodes, microbiosensors
Systems	Electrophysiology and Biochemistry in Frog-Oocytes
Systems	Intracellular measurements with sharp electrodes
Systems	Micro-Injection techniques
Systems	Multicolor-Tract-tracing
Systems	Optical Recording of intrinsic signals
Systems	PC-based reconstrution of neurons, Morphometry
Systems	Single Cell Labelling with Biocytin
Systems	Stereotactic Tracer injections, sterotactic brain implantation of chronic electrodes
Systems	Whole-Cell- electrophysiological measurements in vitro, DIC Microscopy
Systems	Patch-Clamp ("blind" patch, Infrared-Videomicroscopy)
Systems	Registration of synaptic currents after fast application of transmitters
Cognitive	Behavioral Studies with PCD-controlled Skinner boxes, Lesion-studies, Pharmacology of behavior
Cognitive	In vivo electrophysiology and learning analysis in freely moving rodents
Cognitive	In-vivo Microdialysis
Cognitive	Optical Recording of intrinsic signals
Cognitive	Single-cell-electrophysiology in awake, learning and anesthetized pigeons
Cognitive	Visual half-field studies in humans
Cognitive	Visual Psychophysics, Psychophysics of finger-hand-motorics, Tactile psychophysics
Cognitive	ultrastructural and electrophysiological studies in animals with focus on microcircuitry and synapses in the neocortex
Cognitive	Brain asymmetry in dolphin, pigeon, rodent and human brain
Clinical	MRI (including sequence development and hardware construction), fMRI, SPECT, PET
Clinical	in vivo transmitter receptor imaging using PET in healthy subjects and patients and in vitro receptor autoradiography in surgically removed human brain tissue and postmortem brains
Clinical	electrophysiology using MEG in humans
Clinical	brain pacemaker project for patients with deep brain stimulation
Clinical	biophysical and electrophysiological analysis of synaptic plasticity in humans
Clinical	Genetic analysis of human neurological neurodegenerative disorders (Alzheimer?s, Parkinsons, Multiple Sclerosis, Huntington's Chorea, Epilepsy)
Clinical	Coactivated-induced perceptual learning (TMS, r TMS)
Clinical	PC-based studies of attention, learning and memory in humans
Clinical	fMRI combined with TMS
Clinical	Cortical plasticity in chronic pain syndromes
Clinical	SEP mapping, EEG, evoked potential mapping
Computational	Vision-based robot calibration
Computational	Autonomous learning of object representations for recognition/grasping in robots
Computational	Analysis of the four-dimensional phase space of natural images
Computational	Attractor dynamics and dynamic field theory
Computational	Temporal binding hypothesis
Computational	Dynamic link hypothesis/ Dynamic link architecture
Computational	In silico realisation of functional processes (vision and motor control)
Computational	Modelling of hippocampal networks
Computational	Neural networks/ Neural adaptation in silico
Computational	autonomous robotics and bioinformatics
Computational	Learning and memory systems in silico

 

In the first semester of training students participate in an intensive lecture course hosted by the IGSN, that covers all areas of neuroscience.