An IBRO Neuroscience School.
Part of the EU Neuro-IT Network of Excellence
July 30 - August 24, 2001
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste Portugal
Selected Students
Alvado, Ludovic (French, male)
CNRS Bordeaux
Project : Synaptic plasticity in a conductance-based neural network
Alvarez, Fabian (Uruguayan, male)
CNRS Gif-sūr-Yvette
Project : Emergence of self-oscillations in networks of conductance-based neurons
Arleo, Angelo (Italian, male)
Institute of Technology Lausanne
Project : Neurophysiology and ethology of rodent spatial learning
Bibitchkov, Dmitri (Russian, male)
Weizmann Institute Rehovot
Project : Analysis of the ongoing activity in the visual cortex
Capurro, Alberto (Uruguayan, male)
Instituto de Investigaciones Biologicas Montevideo
Project : Electromotor system in electric fish
Conradt, Jorg (German, male)
ETH Zurich
Project : Learning to combine visual attention stimuli
De Pisapia, Nicola (Italian, male)
University of Edinburgh
Project : Neural subgoaling
Graf, Arnulf (American, male)
Max-Planck-Institute Tuebingen
Project : Biologically-motivated Model of Object Identification and Categorization
Hamilton, Antonia (British, female)
University College London
Project : The origin of signal-dependent noise in the motor system
James, Matthew (British, male)
University of Loughborough
Project : Irregular Travelling Waves in Synaptically Coupled Integrate-and-Fire Systems
Joue, Gina (American, female)
University College Dublin
Project : How seemingly complex "high-level" cognitive behaviour can be simply explained by basic
neurophysics
Lee, Kangwoo (Korean, male)
University of Sussex
Project : Neural network modeling of visual selective attention
Lengyel, Matt (Hungarian, male)
KFKI Budapest
Project : Phase precession and place field development in the rat hippocampus
Linkenkaer-Hansen, Klaus (Danish, male)
BioMag Laboratory Helsinki
Project : Spatio-temporal Fluctuations of Spontaneous Oscillations
Marchetti, Cristina (Italian, female)
S.I.S.S.A. Trieste
Project : Modeling locomotor network activity
Mavritsaki, Eirini (Greek, female)
University of Sheffield
Project : Modeling a DCN neuron
Melie, Lester (Cuban, male)
Cuban Neuroscience Center Havana
Project : Neural Activation (NA) modeling for the EEG/MEG and fMRI fusion
Montaser Kouhsari, Leila (Iranian, female)
Institute of Theoretical Physics Tehran
Project : Computational Modeling of Visual Attention
Mourao-Miranda, Janaina (Brazilian, female)
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Project : Interactions between emotion and visual systems using fMRI
Nevado, Angel (Spanish, male)
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Project : Information transmission in a network with short-term synaptic plasticity
Nielsen, Thomas (British, male)
University College London
Project : Spatio-temporal properties of signal processing at the cerebellar glomerulus
Niessing, Michael (German, male)
MPI for Brain Research Frankfurt
Project : Spacio-temporal Activity Properties of a columnar structured network
Niv, Yael (Israeli, female)
Tel Aviv University
Project : Simulation of a Reinforcement Learning NN with Spiking Neurons
Poirazi-Tsakalidou, Panayiota (Cypriot, female)
University of Southern California
Project : Ways of synaptic integration via a detailed model of a CA1 cell
Samejima, Kazuyuki (Japanese, male)
ERATO Kyoto
Project : Models of TANs activation during goal directed movement
Simoes, Cristina (Portuguese, female)
Helsinki University of Technology
Project : Neuronal generators of the mu-rhythm in the somatosensory cortex
Szwed, Marcin (Polish, male)
Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot
Project : Tactile signal processing in thalamocortical loop
Theofilou, Dionyssios (Greek, male)
University of Patras
Project : Coincidence detection in single dendritic spines
Tobin, Anne-Elise (American, female)
Emory University
Project : Reduced-Morphology Leech Oscillator Interneurons
Wenning, Gregor (German, male)
Technical University Berlin
Project : Adjusting SR in neurons to sub-threshold stimulus distributions
Yeung, LukChong (British, female)
Brown University Providence
Project : Statistical properties of spike time dependent plasticity
Zhigulin, Valentin (Ukrainian, male)
Caltech Pasadena
Project : Model of spatio-temporal odor encoding and learning in the locust antennal lobe