or, How to MATLAB your way through grad school when you really don’t want to
All right, maybe MATLAB is not that easy. But its certainly doable. MATLAB is a de facto standard of scientific computing. Lots of people use it. And with patience and lots of practice, you too can use MATLAB to capture and analyze your data. And the good news is that since there are a lot of people out there using MATLAB, there are lot of already developed tools that you can use, without too much effort on your part.
Programming is a critical skill to have in this age of data-heavy science. With a programming language like MATLAB in your tool kit, you can generate a unified computational environment across the entire cycle of experimental science: from stimulus generation, data collection, data analysis, and data modeling. Learning MATLAB can accelerate your grasp of data analysis.
The imporant thing is to just get started. The content presented on this site is designed to leave you with a basic understanding of fundamental programming concepts and withthe ability to use MATLAB for data import, analysis, and visualization. What you do with that information is up to you (and / or your thesis committee).
Raw data from a taste bud segmentation project 
a MATLAB live script 
3D model of a Taste bud generated in MATLAB
Topics
Programming Fundamentals
Fundamental Data Classes
Basic Scripting
- control flow
- live scripts
Plotting
- figures
- axes
- basic plots
Digital images
- loading
- viewing
- processing
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Senior Instructor, University of Colorado School of Medicine Anschutz Medical Campus
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My skills and specialities include Digital Image Processing and 3D modeling using MATLAB, 3D Slicer, and Blender, along with whatever else strikes my fancy
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About Me
Greetings, my name is Ernesto Salcedo. I received my PhD in Molecular Medicine at the Univeristy of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio. As a graduate student I investigated the eyes of fruit flies using transgenic, biophysical, and electrophysiological techniques. Specifically, we probed the amino acid sequences of Rhodopsin to identify bases critical for tuning the spectral properties of the photopigment. From San Antonio, I moved to Denver to the University of Colorado School of Medicine for my postdoctoral training where I studied the noses of mice. My research focused on the anatomical and functional organization of the olfactory system, for whiche we developed a segmentation and data analysis tool to process the olfactory tissue. This is how I learned to program in MATLAB and I have been programming in MATLAB ever since.
I am currently a Senior Instructor in the Cell and Developmental Biology and the Course Director for several courses , including an Imaging and Modeling course for masters students in Modern Human Anatomy and a MATLAB bootcamp for graduate neuroscience students. The pages contained on this site were initially developed for these courses.
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University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Mail Stop 8108
12801 E.17th Ave
Aurora CO 80045
Ernesto Salcedo, PhD 