![]() ![]() Less widely practiced than computer programming, patch clamping is one of the most transformative techniques in neuroscience. It’s a delicate process in which you, the experimenter, first bring the tip of a microscopic glass pipette down to a cell membrane ever-so-gently under a microscope. One particular technique deserves the utmost reverence: patch clamping. And that particular problem was solved.Īs a grad student I’ve come to know the pains of experimental work with actual living things. But I eventually figured out how to massage the computer into doing what I wanted. ![]() There were many times as an undergrad that I was so frustrated troubleshooting code in Matlab I actually yelled at whatever living thing was inside the computer and obviously out to get me. Perhaps I should’ve directly mentioned this in my application, though at times computational work is all one does to complete a PhD in bioengineering (the field is diverse). I had never actually gathered my own data. When I entered graduate school my lab experience had been limited to computer work: mostly data analysis in Matlab. I’ve only known how to pipette for four of them. I’ve been a graduate student in bioengineering for quite a while now-let’s call it “more than five years”-but I harbor a far more embarrassing secret (for a bio-centric program) than that. ![]()
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