The “2012 International Symposium on Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity” (ISSTP 2012) was held on April 27-28 at The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China. The event was honoured by the participation by a lots of outstanding scientists in the field such as Prof. Graham Collinridge (Fellow of The Royal Society), Prof. John MacDonald (Fellow of The Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada), Prof. Min Zhuo (Fellow of The Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada), Prof. Bong-Kiun Kaang (Fellow member of the Korean Academy of Sciences) as well as many other distinguish scientists from all over the world.

      Bio-Gene Technology Limited was a sponsor of the event and has shown the Alpha MED Scientific’s MED-64 multi-electrode array system to the participants. The MED64 is a user-friendly multi-electrode array (MEA) system for stimulation and recording of field potentials (extracellular signals) from different areas within a biological sample over hours, days, weeks and even months. Acute or cultured biological preparations are placed or grown directly on a grid of 64 planar microelectrodes, which serve a dual purpose of stimulus-delivery and signal recording. The unique construction of the system eliminates the need for many cumbersome and expensive equipment used in conventional electrophysiology, including a faraday cage, anti-vibration table, micromanipulators, and even the puller and glass microelectrodes. The MED64 features the industry’s lowest-impedance planar microelectrode, which enables data acquisition with low-noise and superior signal-to-noise ratios. The MED64 system can be used for diverse research applications involving the central nervous system (CNS), the heart, or any other excitable tissue. The system is ideal for studying extracellular potential from excitable cells/ tissue such as brain slice, neuronal cells, muscle cells, iPS differentiated cardiomyoctes, etc. Besides MED64, Bio-Gene also distributes a range of other instruments and devices used in physiological research such as Automate Scientific’s infusion systems, SSD’s Brain Slice Chambers, Inter-medical’s neurotransmitter detector, Okolab’s microscopic incubator, manipulators, etc.

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