Today was a good day (despite it being Monday, hehe ). First, the dissection went really well (see pics). Using this preparation, we found out that the ganglia are still capable of producing buccal motor programs after the staining procedure for the imaging (see post 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 on the matter). This, in turn, means that I can do all the more sophisticated imaging experiments, because the ganglion is still alive and healthy. So now I just need to get the imaging itself to work and I need to write the software to run the experiments and to evaluate the data. Looks like I got the work cut out for me in the next couple of days... good!


Pictures courtesy of Krista Todd.