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Beccy Owen - The Trials and Tribulations of Electrophysiology
Beccy Owen narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.
Electrophysiology has taken up roughly 80% of Beccy's thoughts this past year, so she has written about it. Beccy is a PhD student at the University of Warwick studying how tau drives ion channel dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease, and she uses whole-cell patch-clamp and extracellular field recordings to do it. In this blog she walks through what these techniques actually involve.
She writes about crying the first time she got a stable recording, dreaming about pipette tips, and the friend who genuinely wondered if she would have…
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