Wilson Lab Wiki#

Welcome to the internal wiki of the Wilson Lab at Harvard Medical School. These pages are the lab’s shared, practical knowledge base — how we do fly work, electrophysiology, two-photon imaging, computational neuroanatomy, and how we run the lab day to day.

Use the sidebar to browse by category, or the search box to jump straight to a topic.

Categories#

  • Behavior, stimuli, and VR — behavioural rigs, visual arenas, FicTrac, stimulus delivery.
  • Effectors and perturbations — activating and silencing neurons.
  • Computational neuroanatomy — connectomes, FlyWire, light-level anatomy, searches.
  • Fly stocks and crosses — driver lines, crosses, stock maintenance, transgenics.
  • Electrophysiology — patching, saline and internal recipes, signal processing.
  • Equipment — shared instruments and how to use and maintain them.
  • Information technology — servers, data back-up, software, coding resources.
  • Institutional and facilities — HMS logistics, rooms, parking, submissions.
  • Lab citizenship and safety — onboarding, safety, wellbeing, staying connected.
  • Purchasing, billing, shipping — how to order, vendors, funding.
  • Supplies and reagents — consumables, databases, reagent logs.
  • Two-photon imaging — microscopes, lasers, alignment, analysis pipeline.

About this wiki#

This wiki was migrated from Tettra in July 2026, preserving each page’s content, original author, and history. All pages are human-authored — see CLAUDE.md for the conventions we follow.

To edit a page from your browser, visit /admin/ and sign in with GitHub, or click Edit this page on any page to edit it on GitHub directly.

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