Université de Bourgogne

3 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Engineering

Evaluating Plasmonic Transport in Current-carrying Silver Nanowires

Mingxia Song¹, Arnaud Stolz¹, Douguo Zhang², Juan Arocas¹, Laurent Markey¹, Gérard Colas des Francs¹, Erik Dujardin³, Alexandre Bouhelier¹

¹Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne CNRS-UMR 6303, Université de Bourgogne, ²Department of Optics and Optical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, ³CEMES, CNRS-UPR 8011

Silver nanowires can simultaneously transport electrons and optical information in the form of surface plasmons. A procedure is described here to realize such a shared circuitry and the limitations at propagating both information carriers are evaluated.

Neuroscience

Testing Drosophila Olfaction with a Y-maze Assay

Mégane M. Simonnet^1,2,3, Martine Berthelot-Grosjean^1,2,3, Yael Grosjean^1,2,3

¹Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, UMR-6265 CNRS, ²Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, UMR-1324 INRA, ³Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, Université de Bourgogne

We present a choice test to reveal the influence of odorants on Drosophila behavior using a Y-maze assay.

Neuroscience

Perforated Patch-clamp Recording of Mouse Olfactory Sensory Neurons in Intact Neuroepithelium: Functional Analysis of Neurons Expressing an Identified Odorant Receptor

David Jarriault¹, Xavier Grosmaitre¹

¹UMR Centre des Sciences du Goŭt et de l'Alimentation, CNRS, INRA, Université de Bourgogne

Analyzing the physiological properties of olfactory sensory neurons still faces technical limitations. Here we record them through perforated patch-clamp in an intact preparation of the olfactory epithelium in gene-targeted mice. This technique allows the characterization of membrane properties and responses to specific ligands of neurons expressing defined olfactory receptors.