EuroSPIN students

Here information regarding the already enrolled EuroSPIN students is presented. The PhD projects and mobility plans are summarized. The first students arrived in August/September 2010, another cohort came in 2011.

2010 students

Ekaterina Brocke. Tool development for multi-scale simulations (Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski and Mikael Djurfeldt, KTH; Upinder Bhalla, NCBS Bangalore).  Project details (pdf 33 kB) Contact the author

Maria Shippi. Schemas and systems memory consolidation: Using both biological experiments and mathematical models to identify the dialogue between cortical regions and hippocampus during encoding and consolidation of memories (Mark van Rossum, Univ. Edinburgh; Anders Lansner, KTH).  Project details (pdf 39 kB)   Contact the author

Jyotika Bahuguna. Dynamics of large-scale models of basal ganglia (Arvind Kumar, Univ. Freiburg; Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski, KTH). Project details.  Related research. Contact the author

Miha Pelko. Synaptic integration of neuronal input in realistic neurons in in-vivo environments (Mark van Rossum, Univ. Edinburgh; Clements Boucsein, Univ. Freiburg). Project details. Related research. Contact the author

Philip Tully. Dynamic phenomena in large networks (Anders Lansner, KTH; Matthias Henning, Univ. Edinburgh).  Project details (pdf 29 kB) Related research: presentation (pdf 4.3 MB) and a poster (pdf 2.0 MB) Contact the author

Carlos Toledo-Suárez. Interaction of learning strategies in the basal ganglia (Abigail Morrison, Univ. Freiburg; Örjan Ekeberg, KTH).  Project details (pdf 18 kB)   Related research. Contact the author

Jens-Oliver Muthmann. Multiscale modelling of homeostatic processes (Upinder Bhalla, NCBS Bangalore; Matthias Henning, Univ. Edinburgh).  Project details (pdf 18 kB) Project details. Contact the author

2011 students

Jovana Belic. Investigating avalanche-like activity in cortico-striatal networks (Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski, KTH; Abigail Morrison, Univ. Freiburg). Contact the author

Jan Pieczkowski. [Project title to be confirmed] (Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski, KTH; Mark van Rossum, Univ. Edinburgh). Contact the author

Yann Sweeney. Homeostatic mechanisms--Investigations using modeling (Matthias Hennig, Univ. Edinburgh; Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski, KTH). Contact the author

Frances Vega. The role of miRNA and RNA editing in neural development (Yamuna Krishnan, NCBS Bangalore; Jens Lagergren, KTH). Contact the author

Simachew Mengiste. Mathematical analysis of activity in subcortical systems (Arvind Kumar, Univ. Freiburg; Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski, KTH). Contact the author

Renato Farinha Duarte. On the neuronal implementation of structured sequence processing (Abigail Morrison, Univ. Freiburg; Peggy Series, Univ. Edinburgh). Contact the author

Sayyed Auwn Muhammad. Protein and domain evolution important to key brain cell types and complexes (Jens Lagergren, KTH/Univ. Freiburg; Ramanthan Sowdhamini, NCBS Bangalore). Contact the author

2012 students

Stojan Jovanovic. Higher-order correlations among spiking neurons induced by network structure (Univ. Freiburg; KTH) Contact the author

Marko Filipovic. The role of dichotomous properties of D1 and D2 medium spiny neurons for the dynamics and function of the striatum (Univ. Freiburg; KTH) Contact the author

Anu G. Nair. [Project to be confirmed] (KTH; NCBS Bangalore; Univ. Edinburgh)

Dinesh Natesan. Characterization and Modeling of neural circuits that integrate visual and mechanosensory information in the antennal motor system in hawk moths (NCBS Bangalore; KTH) Contact the author

Guan Wang. [Project to be confirmed] (NCBS Bangalore; Univ. Edinburgh; KTH)

Sander Keemink. The underlying mechanisms and functional role of center-surround interactions in the visual cortex (Univ. Edinburgh; Univ. Freiburg) Project details. Contact the author