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Overview NYMU has been devoted to neuroscience research and education for more than 3 decades. The Institute of Neuroscience founded in 1980 was the first graduate institute for neuroscience research in Taiwan. Later on, the Institute of Brain Science was founded in 2005 to further broaden the scope and to build the research strength in systems and clinical neuroscience. In parallel, Taipei Veteran General Hospital established the Neurosurgery and Neurology Institute to conduct clinical neuroscience research and medical practice. Therefore, I am doing research in a rich intellectual environment for neuroscience research. Information of institutional environment and resources are listed below. The PI’s laboratory is located in the Library and Information building. The laboratory consists of several rooms including a large room for biochemistry/molecular biology, a room for tissue culture and three small rooms for electrophysiology suite. The total space is 173 square meters. Major instrumentation includes:
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(1) Full access to central facilities including the P2 lab (lentivirus and rAAV generation), genomics/proteomics core, imaging core facilities, animal behavioral core laboratory. |
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(2) All aliquots of live virus and MTA information: |
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(3) Optogenetic setups: We have two LED sources (one LED4D162 consisting of 420/470/505/590 nm, controlled by DC4104 driver, Thorlabs, NJ, USA; and one Doric 470 nm LED, controlled by Doric LED Driver-1000, Doric lenses Inc., Canada), and one laser light source (DPSS blue 473nm laser, OEM Laser Systems, USA) for activation of light-sensitive channels. |
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(4) Six brain slice patch-clamp recording setups (upright IR-DIC or IR-DGC microscopes; four Olympus BX51WI, Olympus, Tokyo, Japan; one Leica DM6000 CFS, Leica, Wetzlar, Germany; one Zeiss Axioskop 2 F5, Carl Zeiss, Göttingen, Germany); each setup consists of at least two motorized micromanipulators (twelve Mini-25 Units and two Junior Units, controlled by five SM5, two SM6 and one SM7 Control boxes; Luigs & Neumann, Ratingen, Germany) or manual manipulators (LBM-7; Scientifica, UK), a CCD camera (two Hamamatsu C7500-50, one Hamamatsu C3077-79, one Hamamatsu C2400-79H, Hamamatsu Photonics, Japan; and one IR-1000, Dage-MTI, USA) and a LCD or a CRT monitor. |
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(5) An extracellular field potential recording rig; the setup consists of an interface recording chamber (BSC2 Brain Slice Heated Chamber, Scientific Systems Design Inc., Digitimer, UK), one proportional temperature controller (PTC03, Scientific Systems Design Inc., Digitimer, UK), one extracellular amplifier (EXT-02F, NPI Electronic Instruments, Tamm, Germany), three manual manipulators (LBM-7; Scientifica, UK), one motorized micromanipulator (MicroStar; Scientifica, UK) |
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(6) Five Multiclamp 700B amplifiers, six pClamp software and four Axon patch 200B amplifiers (Molecular Devices, CA, USA) |
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(7) Seven digitizers (six 1440A Digidata; one 1332A Digidata; Molecular Devices, CA, USA) |
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(8) Five oscilloscopes (two Tektronix TDS 1002, USA; one Tektronix, GDS 620, USA; one Iwatsu SS-7810 1002, Iwatsu Test Instrument Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; and one GW Instek GOS-620, Good Will Instrument, Taiwan) |
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(9) Eight stimulation isolators (ISO-flex, A.M.P.I, Israel), one Master 8 programmed stimulator (A.M.P.I, Israel), and one isolated pulse stimulator (model 2100, A-M Systems, USA) |
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(10) Three heating systems (two Temperatur controller TC05, Luigs & Neumann, Ratingen, Germany; and one single channel heater controller, TC-324B equipped with a SH-27B solution on-line heater, Warner Instrument Corp., USA) |
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(11) A Metamorph software (v.7.5.2.0; Molecular Devices, CA, USA) and a Neurolucida reconstruction software (10.40 64-bit; MicroBrightField, Williston, VT, USA) |
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(12) Six stereoscopic microscopes (three Olympus SZ61, Olympus, Tokyo, Japan; one Leica EZ4D, Leica Microsystems, Germany; one Labophot 2, Nikon, Tokyo, Japan; one Olympus BH2 microscope, Olympus, Tokyo, Japan ) |
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(13) One confocal/two-photon laser excitation microscope (Leica SP5 module, Leica Microsystems, Germany) |
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(14) Three tissue microslicers (DTK-1000, Dosaka, Kyoto, Japan) |
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(15) One osmometer (Osmomate 030, Gonotec, Berlin, Germany) |
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(16) One pH meter(Seven Easy S20, Metter Toledo, Greifensee, Switzerland) |
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(17) One Millipore pure water system(Direct-Q 3UV water purification system, Millipore, Molsheim, France) |
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(18) Two sets of immunoblot devices (Mini Trans-blot cell, Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA ) |
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(19) One PCR thermal cycler (Labcycler; SensoQuest GmbH, Göttingen, Germany) |
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(20) Three glass pipette pullers (one Sutter P-97, Sutter Instruments, Novato, CA, USA; two PC-10, Narishige, Tokyo, Japan) |
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(21) Four PicoSpritzer III (Parker Instrumentation, Pine Brook, NJ, USA), and one pneumatic picopump (PV830, World Precision Instruments, Sarasota, FL, USA) |
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(22) Three microforges (two MF-830, Narishige, Tokyo, Japan; one MF-200, World Precision Instruments, Sarasota, FL, USA ) |
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(23) For ultra-fast solution exchange: We have two piezoelectric actuators (one Burleigh LSS-3000, EXFO, Ontario, Canada; and one MXPZT-300, Siskiyou, USA) |
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(24) One microperfusion system (SmartSquirt Micro-Perfusion System, AutoMate Scientific, Berkeley, CA ) |
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(25) Nine peristaltic pumps (three Perista pump SJ-1211, ATTO, Tokyo, Japan; two ISM 834C, Ismatec, SA, Switzerland; two Miniplus Evolution, Gilson, USA; one BT100-2J, Longer Pump, China, one Alitea SC, Watson–Marlow, Alitea AB, Sweden) |
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(26) Two infusion pumps (KD-230, KD Scientific, Boston, MA, USA; Fusion 100, Chemyx, Stafford, TX, USA) |
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(27) One culture hood (1300 Series A2 Class II, Thermo Scientific, Asheville, NC, USA) |
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(28) One CO2 incubator (Forma 310 Series Direct Heat CO2 Incubator, Thermo Scientific, Asheville, NC, USA) |
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(29) One chemical hood |
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(30) Two ovens/two ultrasound sonicator |
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(31) Three freezers (-70 ˚C,-40 ˚C, and -20 ˚C) and one fridge (4˚C) |
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(32) Ten Vacuum pumps (Tecnomara AG, Wallisellen, Switzerland) |
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(33) One centrifuge (Microcentrifuge 5415R, Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany) (34) One Research High-Class Stereo Microscope System (SZX16, Olympus, Tokyo, Japan) with Reflected Flurescence System. |
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(35) Ca2+ imaging setup system in Lien’s lab Light source: Polychrome V (150 W Xenon lamp, 320-694 nm, bandwidth ~15 nm, TILL Photonics GmbH, Germany) Optical fiber: Quartz light guide (NA 0.22) with an epi-fluorescence condenser (TILL Photonics GmbH, Germany) Coupler to microscope (light source): BX-RFA (Olympus, Japan) Neutral density filter: ND-25 (Olympus, Japan)
Filter sets:
*Filter sets for Fura-2 were purchased from Chroma Technology Corp., USA; others from Olympus, Japan. Camera: EM-CCD camera (QuantEM 512SC, Photometrics, USA) Coupler to microscope (camera): Dual Photo Port (U-DPT, Olympus, Japan), C-mount (U-CMAD3, Olympus, Japan) Controlling software: MetaFluor (Molecular Devices, USA)
Interface: Breakout box (for light source), RJ-45 (attached to Polychrome V), RS-232/BNC (attached to PC) (TILL Photonics GmbH, Germany), IEEE-1394a (for EM-CCD), (Turbo-1394™ interface, Photometrics, USA), LTP port controlled box (custom made, for digitizer), BNC (attached to digitizer), LTP port (attached to PC)
PC platform:CPU, 2.4 GHz, Intel® Core™2 Quad (Intel, USA), RAM 2 GB, Graphics card Geforce 8500 GT (NVIDIA, USA) Operating System, Windows XP sp3 (Microsoft, USA), Mother board with RS-232, IEEE-1394a and LTP sockets |
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(36) Voltage imaging equipment Upright microscope: BX51W1; Olympus Light source: 532 nm diode-pumped solid-state laser; 500 mW; OEM Laser System CCD camera: NeuroCCD-SMQ; RedShirtImaging Shutter: VCM-D1; Uniblitz Objective: 60X/1.0; Nikon Objective: 10X/0.12; Zeiss Home-made adaptor Optical fiber: 500-2100 nm; F-MFC-C-1FC; Newport Collimator: F-H10-VIS-APC; Newport Software: Neuroplex 10.2; RedShirtImaging Filters: Dichroic: 532 nm; Z532RDC (for laser). Long pass: 610 nm; Q610LP (for voltage-sensitive dye, JPW3028); Chroma Rectangular field stop: U-RFSS; Olympus Camera port tube: C-mount; 0.25X; U-TV0.25XC; Olympus Multi-band glass dongle: 532 nm; YAMAMOTO Precision spatial filter: ES01A; Onset Post and holder: EP03N; 75 mm; Onset Platform carrier: ECR01S; 77X42 mm; Onset Optical bench: EOB01X; 25 cm; Onset Base Clamps: EBC05S; Onset
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