Happy Anniversary Plexon!

 

	January 30, 2013
Plexon is thrilled to be celebrating its 30th year completely dedicated to research labs. We are honored to call scientists in thousands of labs throughout forty countries our friends and customers. It brings us great joy to have pioneered and led the market for decades . . . but that was only the beginning! We have many exciting innovations to share this year. As 30 years is an incredible milestone – and being the first company in neural data acquisition to achieve it – we are throwing a year-long celebration! Join the festivities by taking part in our special product promotions and the JoVE Publication Grant Contest. We have also begun featuring recent publications from our customers in the new Research Spotlight section of this newsletter – all of whom can get free stuff from Plexon (see below). Thank you to all of our customers, our distributors in the far corners of the globe, our government collaborators, and our industry partners for making it happen. We are looking forward to being your most reliable, innovative and dedicated research partner for the next 30 years and beyond! Our New Website is Live!

We have listened to your feedback and have completely redesigned our site. It offers a wealth of content, more equipment, improved navigation, and a more comprehensive approach to meeting your broader research needs.

Click through to learn about our broad Research Solutions for In Vivo Research, Behavioral Research, or Optogenetics. Explore our primary Systems , or check out specific Software . Maybe you are a savvy Plexon regular. If so, Products by Name might suit you best.

We are pleased to now offer the most informative site in our space!

Exceptional Offline Sorter™ Promotions

Don’t miss this very rare deal on the industry’s most popular offline spike sorting program cited by more than 800 scientific publications! Plexon is offering two limited-time, 30th Anniversary specials for Offline Sorter (OFS) version 3:

• Receive one free additional license key (3 keys instead of 2) with the purchase of an OFS v3 package saving $2,000+, or
• Purchase the standard OFS v3 package with 2 license keys for a special price representing a savings of almost $1,000.

The OFS v3 30th Anniversary promotions are for a limited time only, effective January 30, 2013 through December 20, 2013. Email to info@plexon.com to request a quote.

 

Win a JoVE Publication Grant !

In partnership with the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), Plexon is proud to offer neuroscience researchers the opportunity to publish their research utilizing the OmniPlex® Neural Data Acquisition System in a peer reviewed format with text and video – a $4,200 value!

The contest opens today and you will have six weeks to submit your application and abstract. Click for more information. Good luck!!

Optogenetics at SPIE Photonics West 2013

Plexon announces its sponsorship of the Optogenetics and Hybrid-Optical Control of Cells program next month at SPIE Photonics West. Senior Research Engineer, Isaac Clements, serves on the program committee and will presenting his latest poster “Miniaturized LED sources for in vivo optogenetic experimentation.” Stop by February 3 at 3:00 p.m., Hall A, BiOS Expo to learn more about the latest in Plexon’s PlexBright™ Optogenetic Stimulation line of products from the lead engineer himself!

Harvey Speaks at the National University of Singapore

Harvey Wiggins, Plexon’s President, started the 30th year off with a bang – spending a couple weeks on the road in Asia. While there, he was honored to be a guest speaker at the National University of Singapore. His lecture entitled “Architecture and Design of High Channel Count Neural Data Acquisition Systems” was hosted by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and enjoyed by an eager crowd.

Research Spotlight

Welcome to the inaugural Research Spotlight. Plexon is thrilled to highlight the innovative and insightful discoveries of our amazing customers. Not only will we recognize your good work in this newsletter but when you mention Plexon equipment used in your article and let us know about it at publications@plexon.com, we will send you a thank you award – a mug and a T-shirt.

You may recall that Plexon’s primary color is blue. We have now added a green accent to represent the energy of life. This years’ T-shirts and mugs will be available in limited-edition, 30th Anniversary commemorative green. . . then back to blue forevermore.

All articles are alphabetically listed based on first author.
Here are recent articles in electronic-only journals and published online ahead of print:

• Bomash, Illya, Yasser Roudi, and Sheila Nirenberg. “A Virtual Retina for Studying Population Coding.” PLOS ONE 8, no. 1 (2013): e53363.
• Brown, Timothy M., Annette E. Allen, Jazi al-Enezi, Jonathan Wynne, Luc Schlangen, Vanja Hommes, and Robert J. Lucas. “The Melanopic Sensitivity Function Accounts for Melanopsin-Driven Responses in Mice under Diverse Lighting Conditions.” PloS one 8, no. 1 (2013): e53583.
• Carruthers, Isaac M., Ryan G. Natan, and Maria Neimark Geffen. “Encoding of Ultra-Sonic Vocalizations in the Auditory Cortex”. Journal of Neurophysiology (2013).
• Cha, Myeounghoon, Yadong Ji, and Radi Masri. “Myeounghoon Cha, Yadong Ji, Radi Masri.” The Journal of Pain (2013).
• Chhatbar, Pratik Y., and Joseph T. Francis. “Towards a Naturalistic Brain-Machine Interface: Hybrid Torque and Position Control Allows Generalization to Novel Dynamics.” PLOS ONE 8, no. 1 (2013): e52286.
• Feng, Liang, Yan Zhao, Miho Yoshida, Hui Chen, Jessica F. Yang, Ted S. Kim, Jianhua Cang, John B. Troy, and Xiaorong Liu. “Sustained Ocular Hypertension Induces Dendritic Degeneration of Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cells that Depends on Cell-type and Location.” Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (2013).
• Fenton, Georgina E., Clare H. Spicer, David M. Halliday, Rob Mason, and Carl W. Stevenson. “Basolateral amygdala activity during retrieval of associative learning under anesthesia.” Neuroscience (2013).
• Johnston, Kevin, Michael J. Koval, Stephen G. Lomber, and Stefan Everling. “Macaque Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Does not Suppress Saccade-Related Activity in the Superior Colliculus.” Cerebral Cortex (2013).
• Knudsen, Daniel P., and Timothy Q. Gentner. “Active recognition enhances the representation of behaviorally relevant information in single auditory forebrain neurons.” Journal of Neurophysiology (2013).
• Robitsek, R. Jonathan, John White, and Howard Eichenbaum. “R. Jonathan Robitsek, John White, Howard Eichenbaum.” Behavioural Brain Research (2013).
• Rubehn, Birthe, Steffen BE Wolff, Philip Tovote, Andreas Lüthi, and Thomas Stieglitz. “A polymer-based neural microimplant for optogenetic applications: design and first in vivo study.” Lab on a Chip (2013).
• Scangos, Katherine Wilson, Ryan Aronberg, and Veit Stuphorn. “Performance Monitoring by Pre-Supplementary and Supplementary Motor Area during an Arm Movement Countermanding Task.” Journal of Neurophysiology (2013).
• Shaikhouni, Ammar, John P. Donoghue, and Leigh R. Hochberg. “Somatosensory Responses in a Human Motor Cortex.” Journal of Neurophysiology (2013).
• Shi, Ying, Gregory Apker, and Christopher Alan Buneo. “Multimodal Representation of Limb Endpoint Position in the Posterior Parietal Cortex.” Journal of Neurophysiology (2013).

Here are recent articles published in print:

• Asaad, Wael F., Navaneethan Santhanam, Steven McClellan, and David J. Freedman. “High-performance execution of psychophysical tasks with complex visual stimuli in MATLAB.” Journal of Neurophysiology 109, no. 1 (2013): 249-260.
• Calu, Donna J., Alex B. Kawa, Nathan J. Marchant, Brittany M. Navarre, Mark J. Henderson, Billy Chen, Hau-Jie Yau et al. “Optogenetic Inhibition of Dorsal Medial Prefrontal Cortex Attenuates Stress-Induced Reinstatement of Palatable Food Seeking in Female Rats.” The Journal of Neuroscience 33, no. 1 (2013): 214-226.
• Carroll, Michael S., Jean-Charles Viemari, and Jan-Marino Ramirez. “Patterns of inspiratory phase-dependent activity in the in vitro respiratory network.” Journal of Neurophysiology 109, no. 2 (2013): 285-295.
• Hawking, Thomas G., and Todor V. Gerdjikov. “Populations of striatal medium spiny neurons encode vibrotactile frequency in rats: modulation by slow wave oscillations.” Journal of Neurophysiology 109, no. 2 (2013): 315-320.
• Hussar, Cory R., and Tatiana Pasternak. “Common Rules Guide Comparisons of Speed and Direction of Motion in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex.” The Journal of Neuroscience 33, no. 3 (2013): 972-986.
• Jia, Xiaoxuan, Dajun Xing, and Adam Kohn. “No Consistent Relationship between Gamma Power and Peak Frequency in Macaque Primary Visual Cortex.” The Journal of Neuroscience 33, no. 1 (2013): 17-25.
• Kumar, Sunil, Sherilynn J. Black, Rainbo Hultman, Steven T. Szabo, Kristine D. DeMaio, Jeanette Du, Brittany M. Katz, Guoping Feng, Herbert E. Covington, and Kafui Dzirasa. “Cortical Control of Affective Networks.” The Journal of Neuroscience 33, no. 3 (2013): 1116-1129.
• McCairn, Kevin W., Atsushi Iriki, and Masaki Isoda. “Global Dysrhythmia of Cerebro-Basal Ganglia–Cerebellar Networks Underlies Motor Tics following Striatal Disinhibition.” The Journal of Neuroscience 33, no. 2 (2013): 697-708.
• Navawongse, Rapeechai, and Howard Eichenbaum. “Distinct Pathways for Rule-Based Retrieval and Spatial Mapping of Memory Representations in Hippocampal Neurons.” The Journal of Neuroscience 33, no. 3 (2013): 1002-1013.
• Ogawa, Masaaki, Matthijs AA van der Meer, Guillem R. Esber, Domenic H. Cerri, Thomas A. Stalnaker, and Geoffrey Schoenbaum. “Risk-Responsive Orbitofrontal Neurons Track Acquired Salience.” Neuron 77, no. 2 (2013): 251-258.
• Patterson, Carlyn A., Stephanie C. Wissig, and Adam Kohn. “Distinct Effects of Brief and Prolonged Adaptation on Orientation Tuning in Primary Visual Cortex.” The Journal of Neuroscience 33, no. 2 (2013): 532-543.
• Purcell, Braden A., Jeffrey D. Schall, and Geoffrey F. Woodman. “On the origin of event-related potentials indexing covert attentional selection during visual search: timing of selection by macaque frontal eye field and event-related potentials during pop-out search.” Journal of Neurophysiology 109, no. 2 (2013): 557-569.
• Scheffer-Teixeira, Robson, Hindiael Belchior, Richardson N. Leão, Sidarta Ribeiro, and Adriano BL Tort. “On High-Frequency Field Oscillations (> 100 Hz) and the Spectral Leakage of Spiking Activity.” The Journal of Neuroscience 33, no. 4 (2013): 1535-1539.
• Sutton, Alexander C., Wilson Yu, Megan E. Calos, Autumn B. Smith, Adolfo Ramirez-Zamora, Eric S. Molho, Julie G. Pilitsis, Jonathan M. Brotchie, and Damian S. Shin. “Deep brain stimulation of the substantia nigra pars reticulata improves forelimb akinesia in the hemiparkinsonian rat.” Journal of Neurophysiology 109, no. 2 (2013): 363-374.
• Yamin, Hagar G., Edward A. Stern, and Dana Cohen. “Parallel Processing of Environmental Recognition and Locomotion in the Mouse Striatum.” The Journal of Neuroscience 33, no. 2 (2013): 473-484.
• Zhang, Wujie, David M. Schneider, Marina A. Belova, Sara E. Morrison, Joseph J. Paton, and C. Daniel Salzman. “Functional Circuits and Anatomical Distribution of Response Properties in the Primate Amygdala.” The Journal of Neuroscience 33, no. 2 (2013): 722-733.

 

4th Annual Plexon Neurophysiology Workshop Make plans to join us April 29-May 2 for the annual workshop . Registration is limited to 40 people to ensure an extensive, hands-on experience. An agenda featuring national and international speakers will be available in the coming weeks. Email workshop@plexon.com with any questions. Enhanced Technical Support Customer support is one of our highest priorities. Although we are thankful for the rapid growth over the recent years –customers and new products, we recognize that it has impacted the performance of our support team. Accordingly, we have recently expanded the team, and now announce extended hours starting earlier at 8:30 a.m. central time. We hope you find the enhancements to be effective, and encourage comments about your experience to be sent to me at stacie@plexon.com. Plexon is Hiring Again Plexon grew its team more than 25% last year, and we are still going strong. We have two additional positions now posted and are looking for a global technical sales candidate for the behavioral research market, and a neuroscience writer. Send resumes to jobs@plexon.com. Upcoming Events   • SPIE’s Photonics West 2013, Feb 2-7, 2013, San Francisco, CA, USA • 33rd Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society (ANS), Feb 3- 6, 2013, Melbourne, Australia • 2013 International Workshop on Clinical BMI Systems, Feb 24-27, 2013, Houston, TX, USA • Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), Feb 28 – Mar 2, 2013, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

 

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