Rapid cortical adaptation and the role of thalamic synchrony during wakefulness

…, PY Borden, YJ Liew, MF Bolus, WM Stoy… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Rapid sensory adaptation is observed across all sensory systems, and strongly shapes
sensory percepts in complex sensory environments. Yet despite its ubiquity and likely necessity …

Compensation of physiological motion enables high-yield whole-cell recording in vivo

WM Stoy, B Yang, A Kight, NC Wright… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Whole-cell patch-clamp recording in vivo is the gold-standard method for
measuring subthreshold electrophysiology from single cells during behavioural tasks, sensory …

Patch-walking: Coordinated multi-pipette patch clamp for efficiently finding synaptic connections

…, CR Landry, I Kolb, B Yang, WM Stoy, M Fong… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Significant technical challenges exist when measuring synaptic connections between
neurons in living brain tissue. The patch clamping technique, when used to probe for synaptic …

Integration of autopatching with automated pipette and cell detection in vitro

…, I Kolb, BM Callahan, Z Su, W Stoy… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
Patch clamp is the main technique for measuring electrical properties of individual cells.
Since its discovery in 1976 by Neher and Sakmann, patch clamp has been instrumental in …

Functional neuroanatomy of emotion processing in major depressive disorder is altered after successful antidepressant therapy

G Rosenblau, P Sterzer, M Stoy… - Journal of …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is associated with impaired processing and regulation of
emotions. A vast body of research has elucidated the altered neural processes that occur in …

Thermal optimality of net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and underlying mechanisms

…, M Litvak, D Loustau, M Lund, M Marek… - New …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
• It is well established that individual organisms can acclimate and adapt to temperature to
optimize their functioning. However, thermal optimization of ecosystems, as an assemblage of …

Modeling and validation of autoinducer-mediated bacterial gene expression in microfluidic environments

CM Austin, W Stoy, P Su, MC Harber, JP Bardill… - …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Biosensors exploiting communication within genetically engineered bacteria are becoming
increasingly important for monitoring environmental changes. Currently, there are a variety of …

Autonomous patch-clamp robot for functional characterization of neurons in vivo: development and application to mouse visual cortex

GL Holst, W Stoy, B Yang, I Kolb… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
Patch clamping is the gold standard measurement technique for cell-type characterization in
vivo, but it has low throughput, is difficult to scale, and requires highly skilled operation. We …

PatcherBot: a single-cell electrophysiology robot for adherent cells and brain slices

…, MC Yip, CF Lewallen, WA Stoy… - Journal of neural …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Intracellular patch-clamp electrophysiology, one of the most ubiquitous, high-fidelity
techniques in biophysics, remains laborious and low-throughput. While previous efforts …

Robotic navigation to subcortical neural tissue for intracellular electrophysiology in vivo

WA Stoy, I Kolb, GL Holst, Y Liew… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
In vivo studies of neurophysiology using the whole cell patch-clamp technique enable
exquisite access to both intracellular dynamics and cytosol of cells in the living brain but are …