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You will probably ask me what the hell that is and it is a fair question. I will probably move this to scraps soon, but I wanted to share some schemes I did for my poster last year.

This is a two-electrode voltage clamp setup that allows to record ion channel activity in real time. The brown and white ball is actually a frog oocyte that you can make express any protein you want and it is much simpler than to record channels in their native environment (like in the neurons) as Xenopus oocytes are just huge (over 1 mm in diameter)! Since the 1980s many ion channels have been characterized by expression in Xenopus oocytes, including many that, when mutated, cause serious human disease.

I tried to make this scheme aesthetically appealing, but it is one of my first tries with vector graphics, so let me know what you think of it!

Description
You will probably ask me what the hell that is and it is a fair question. I will probably move this to scraps soon, but I wanted to share some schemes I did for my poster last year.

This is a two-electrode voltage clamp setup that allows to record ion channel activity in real time. The brown and white ball is actually a frog oocyte that you can make express any protein you want and it is much simpler than to record channels in their native environment (like in the neurons) as Xenopus oocytes are just huge (over 1 mm in diameter)! Since the 1980s many ion channels have been characterized by expression in Xenopus oocytes, including many that, when mutated, cause serious human disease.

I tried to make this scheme aesthetically appealing, but it is one of my first tries with vector graphics, so let me know what you think of it!