Electronics for Biologists

by Timothy J. Gawne

This book provides an overview of the fundamental principles of electronics that are of particular relevance to biologists. This primer is aimed at non-engineers looking for background in the electric circuit concepts needed for studying ion channels, electrophysiology and MRI imaging, the basics of the proper use of amplifiers and filters, and the use of computers to acquire data and control experiments. Why so cheap? because this was written to help out students by an experienced professor who knows what they to learn to be good researchers, so he wants it made as available as possible.

118 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 8, 2012

About the author

I grew up in Boston, MA, and got an electrical engineering degree from M.I.T. I then worked at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for a time, then got my PhD in Physiology, and did a post-doctoral fellowship at the Laboratory of Neuropsychology at the NIH. Since 1996 I have been on the faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in the Department of Vision Sciences. My primary research interest is in the nature of the neural code, and the physical basis of human thought. I live with my wife Adrienne and an Australian Shepherd named "Ginger" and a strange mutt named "Proton." I have a son who works as an engineer in Vandenberg Air Force base in CA, and a daughter who teaches English in Japan. My hobbies are carpentry, tinkering with electronics, and making plants die.