Received26 October 2011. Accepted18 January 2011.

Transfection via whole-cell recording in vivo: bridging single-cell physiology, genetics and connectomics

Ede A Rancz1,2,6 Kevin M Franks1,3,6 Martin K Schwarz4 Bruno Pichler2 Andreas T Schaefer1,5 & Troy W Margrie1,2

1 Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London, UK.

2 Division of Neurophysiology, The National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, UK.

3 Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.

4 Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany.

5 SNWG Behavioural Neurophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany.

6 These authors contributed equally to this work.