Neuroscience Teaching Lab

The Neuroscience Teaching Lab is located in 7 Leidy and is used for neuroscience lab courses.

The room contains 12 wireless iMac G4s and a laser printer, as well as AD Instruments PowerLab 2/20 USB data acquisition units and Chart 5 software at each station.

Students can access course materials through Penn Blackboard, as well as a special web site created by the course instructor. Materials are generally based upon the Neurons in Action tutorials published by Sinauer Associates.

Technical specifications

Our general setup includes the following items:

• 12 Airport-equipped iMac G4 workstations
• HP LaserJet 4600 series printer
• Apple Airport Extreme Base Station wireless access point
• Dr Bott ExtendAir omnidirectional antenna

Specific technology for the neuroscience lab includes:

• AD Instruments Powerlab 2/20 data acquisition hardware
• AD Instruments Chart 5 data acquisition software
• V-CLAMP and C-CLAMP patch modeling software (via Classic)

Contact support for more technical information.