Welcome to Pine lab at Caltech, led by Prof Jerry Pine We are
interested in learning, memory, and synaptic plasticity in
cultured neural networks. Professor Jerry Pine and his
collaborators have developed a number of new technologies for
studying neural systems. Examples include an x-ray microscope
for living cells, multi-electrode cell culture chambers, fiber-
optic photodiode arrays and high-speed CCD cameras for imaging
of neural activity, and silicon probes for long-term interfacing
of neural tissue with external electronics. Currently, in
collaboration with Prof. Yu-Chong Tai of Caltech's Electrical
Engineering department, we are developing a "neurochip." The
neurochip is a MEMS device that will support long-term growth of
cultured neural networks (embryonic rat hippocampal cells),
enabling simultaneous recording and selective stimulation of
networked neurons . It will provide an unprecedented ability to
monitor and influence the synaptic activity of a small network
of neurons, and to discover the effects