infocus #37 March 2015 Adapting conventional fluorescence

In this report, a system of imaging granule neuron precursor (GNP) migration in an organotypic slice culture from early postnatal mouse cerebellum is described.

DOI: 10.22443/rms.inf.1.117

This report adds to our current understanding of cerebellar development and details a reproducible and cost effective method of visualising and imaging neuronal migration.

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Denis Barry

Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Trinity College, Dublin

Dr. Barry was awarded a PhD in neuroscience from the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University College Cork, Ireland in 2005. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, where the research outlined here was initiated. Denis undertook postdoctoral research fellowship positions at the Centre for Research into Infectious Diseases and the Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin. In 2013, Dr Barry was appointed to the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College, Dublin. Here his research is based on furthering our knowledge of developmental neuroscience and spinal cord injury.

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