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This lecture provides an introduction to optogenetics, a biological technique to control the activity of neurons or other cell types with light.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 39:34
Speaker: : Adam Packer

This primer on optogenetics primer discusses how to manipulate neuronal populations with light at millisecond resolution and offers possible applications such as curing the blind and "playing the piano" with cortical neurons.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 59:06
Speaker: : Clay Reid

This lecture covers the IBI Data Standards and Sharing Working Group, including its history, aims, and projects.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 3:58
Speaker: : Kenji Doya

This session covers the framework of the International Brain Lab (IBL) and the data architecture used for this project.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 23:37
Speaker: : Kenneth Harris

This lecture gives an introduction to the types of glial cells, homeostasis (influence of cerebral blood flow and influence on neurons), insulation and protection of axons (myelin sheath; nodes of Ranvier), microglia and reactions of the CNS to injury.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 40:32