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Modeling Cortical Networks Dynamics
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Maurizio De Pitta
Maurizio De Pitta
Maurizio De Pitt'a, PhD, is the principal investigator of the Neuron-Glial Interactions Lab (NGILab) at the Krembil Research Institute (Toronto, Canada), and an external scientific member at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) in Bilbao (Spain). His expertise is on neuron-glial interactions in the healthy and diseased brain. He uses multi-disciplinary approaches at the cross-roads of Physics and Computer Science, and collaborate with biologists, engineers and medical doctors, to harness the complexity of neuron-glial signaling, from the subcellular realm to Systems' levels. He is also principal investigator of the ASTROTECH Consortium, member of the CliSyNe Network, and of the Board of Directors of the Organization of Computational Neurosciences.
Pamela Illescas-Maldonado
Pamela Illescas-Maldonado
PhD (c) Pamela Illescas-Maldonado studies in the PhD program in Sciences mention in Biophysics and Computational Biology, Faculty of Science, at the Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile, and participates in the "Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia de Valparaíso", and in the Advanced Center of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, at Universidad Federico Santa María, Chile. She completed her doctoral internship at the Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada. Her doctoral research explores neuron-astrocyte interactions in a network model to understand how glial cells modulate brain activity and oscillations, especially in epilepsy.
Pamela holds a Bachelor's degree with highest honors in Medical Technology with metion in Imaging and Medical Physics, from Universidad de Valparaíso, and a Master's degree in Social Innovation for Inclusion, from Universidad Viña del Mar. Her research interests is developing computational models that contribute to developing new therapies focused on glial cells, to improve the treatment of patients with neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory diseases.
Scott Rich
Scott Rich
Dr. Scott Rich is an Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut’s Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, with affiliate appointments in the Departments of Mathematics and Biomedical Engineering as well as the Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences. The Rich Lab uses computational neuroscience in research focused on deciphering how the brain benefits from biophysical diversity at the level of neurons and their microcircuits.
The lab’s current research foci include delineating how such diversity might promote physiological as opposed to pathological microcircuit oscillations and using this computational perspective to better understand the mechanism of action by which Vagus Nerve Stimulation improves motor rehabilitation in post-stroke patients. Dr. Rich received his Ph.D. in Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics from the University of Michigan before completing postdoctoral training at the Krembil Brain Institute and SickKids Research Institute in Toronto, Canada.
Alessandro Sanzeni
Alessandro Sanzeni
Alessandro Sanzeni, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing Sciences at Bocconi University. His research is focused on tackling problems in neurobiology, by means of physical and mathematical modeling, with close relation to experimental data. Before joining Bocconi, He was a researcher at Columbia University, Duke University, and the National Institutes of Health. He was also a visiting researcher at the University of Chicago, the University of California San Diego, and the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Before doing research abroad, He studied theoretical physics at the University of Milan in Italy.
Patricio Orio
Patricio Orio
Patricio Orio, PhD, is Full Professor at the Neuroscience Institute in the Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile, where he leads the Valparaíso Neural Dynamics Laboratory 'VaNDaL'. He is a Biochemist and during his PhD degree in Science from the Universidad de Chile he was trained in electrphysiology and ion channel biophysics. During his postdoctoral training in the Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, he studied the neurophysiology of cold-sensitive neurons. Then, he started an independent research career doing numerical simulation and mathematical analysis of models of neuronal excitability, ranging from detailed single neuron models to whole brain dynamics. Within this variety of models, his main research interest is to understand how complex behaviors can emerge in the brain at different levels, and specially trying to bridge the gap between different scales. At VaNDaL, students with very different backgrounds converge in an interdisciplinary environment where neuroscience meets mathematics.
Patricio is in the organisation committee of LACONEU, the Latin American Summer School in Computational Neuroscience, than every odd year attracts students from Latin America and abroad. He is and has been principal investigator in several grants from the chilean Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID), and participates in collaborative grants such as the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronical Engineering (AC3E). From 2017 to 2023, he was Director of the PhD Progran in Biophysics and Computational Biology at Universidad de Valparaíso.
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