Lectures
The ability to theorize is highly personal; it involves art, imagination, logic, and something more.
– Edwin Hubble
Neuron-glial circuits for plasticity and working memory
July 23, 2024. Workshop on "The structure-function binomial of cortical circuits across multiple scales," CNS*2024, Natal, Brazil.
March 4, 2024. Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society. Frankfurt, Germany.
Neuron-Glial molecular switches across the cognitive spectrum
May 14, 2024. Allen Brain Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.
May 9, 2024. Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
May 8, 2024. State University of New York Downtown, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
February 27, 2024. Nanyang Technical University. Singapore (virtual).
November 29, 2023. Institute of Basic Sciences. Daejeon, South Korea (virtual).
Astroglia cuts through the Alzheimer's manifold
November 24, 2023. Division of Neuroscience, Disorders and Behavior, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
October 6, 2023. Tanz Center for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases. Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Neuron-glial networks for working memory
November 8, 2023. Center for Life Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore.
October 2, 2023. Krembil Computational Neuroscience Symposium on "Mathematical Bridges for the brain: Theory and practice in neural health and disease." Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Computational genomics of astrocyte mosaics in Alzheimer's progression
July 8, 2023. Workshop on "Glial engineering and gliotechnologies: Advanced materials, tools, and approaches to unveil the role of glia in brain physiology, diseases and in social behavior," XVI European Meeting of Glial Cells in Health and Disease (EUROGLIA). Berlin, Germany.
Neuron-Glial Switches
March 21, 2023. Academic Seminar, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
Neuron-glial theory of working memory
July 20, 2022. Annual Meeting of the Organization of Computational Neurosciences. Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
October 27, 2020. Computational Neuroscience Seminars. The Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.
The Tripartite Synapse and models of neuron-glial networks
July 16, 2022. Annual Meeting of the Organization of Computational Neurosciences. Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Computational Glioscience: Computational methods and modeling of astrocyte physiology and neuron-glia interactions for biomedical applications
April 30, 2021. Institute for Research and Innovation in Biomedicine (IRIB), National Research Council (CNR). Messina, Italy.
Reverse engineering neuron-glial interactions: An overarching approach from cellular biophysics to medicine
July 11, 2020. Symposium on "Glia Interfaces: Technology and methods to uncover the 4D glia role in brain function and dysfunction," XII FENS Forum on Neuroscience, Glasgow, UK.
Mean-field analysis of history-dependent, stochastic activity in neuron-glial networks
Jan 13 2020, Workshop on PDEs: Modelling, Analysis and Numerical Simulation. University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Synapse-glial interactions in regulation of network dysfunction underpinning cognitive impairment
September 5, 2019, Workshop on "New horizons on brain disorders: from clinical diagnosis to cell therapy and the impact on neuro-glial circuits structure and dynamics" -- 18th National Meeting of the Spanish Society for Neurosciences (SENC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Multistable neuron-glial networks in health and disease
July 19, 2019. Workshop on "Recent Advances in Modelling Complex Oscillations in the Brain's Physiopathology," International Congress on Applied and Industrial Mathematics, Valencia, Spain.
February, 13, 2019, 5th QBio Meeting on Quantitative Biomedicine in Health and Disease, Bilbao, Spain.
Bistability of synaptic release in the presence of gliotransmission
June 19, 2019, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
June 17, 2019, Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Could we make something out of glia?
June 13, 2019, Computational Neuroscience Seminars, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Theory of Gliotransmission: Controversies vs. Consequences on Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity
April 25, 2019, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA.
Emergence of multistability by neuron-glial interactions
April 22, 2019, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, NJ, USA.
March 11, 2019, Dynamics Seminars, University of Exeter, UK.
Beyond trophism: Information processing emerging from astrocyte-synapse coupling
February 27, 2018, Neurocafe, Biocruces Health Research Institute, Bilbao, Spain.
February 25, 2016, Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Functional implications of gliotransmission
September 18, 2017, Achucarro -- Basque Center for Neuroscience, Bilbao, Spain.
February 27, 2017. Workshop on "Advances in Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Astrocyte-Neuron Interactions", COSYNE, Snowbird, UT, USA.
Conditions for the observation of regulation of synaptic transmission by gliotransmitters
September 7, 2017, Symposium on "Neuron-glia cross-talk in synaptic physiology and its implications in synaptic pathology", Annual Meeting of the Italian Society of Physiology, Pavia, Italy.
July 9, 2017. ICAM-I2CAM Symposum on "Mathematical and Computational Approaches to the 'Big Data' Challenge in Neuron-Glia Interactions", XIII European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease, Edinburgh, UK.
Mean-field theory of neuron-glia networks
April 28, 2017. INRIA, Nancy, France.
The Genius in the Brain*
August 19, 2016. Montgomery Place Retirement Community, Chicago, IL, USA.
June 16, 2016, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
June 30, 2014. Italian Institute of Culture, Tel Aviv, Israel [in Italian]
June 26, 2014. Italian Institute of Culture, Haifa, Israel [in Italian]
An astrocyte hypothesis for persistent activity
July 31, 2014, OCNS 2014 Workshop on Computational Methods and Modelling of Astrocyte Physiology and Neuron-Glia Interactions, Quebec City, Canada
June 23, 2014. Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Do astrocytes compute? Making the point on neuron-glia interactions
June 24th, 2014. Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel.
March 25th, 2014. Bernstein Center, Freiburg, Germany.
Astrocyte modulation of synaptic transmission
October 26, 2012. MIT, Mrigranka Sur's Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA.
October 24, 2012. Rose F. Kennedy Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
October 23, 2012. Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
October 22, 2012. Princeton University, Samuel Wang's Lab, Princeton NJ, USA.
A modelling approach for the study of astrocyte regulation of short-term synaptic plasticity
May 9, 2012. Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
May 7, 2012. Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience, UNIC, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
May 4, 2012. INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbane, France.
The challenge of the astrocyte signaling network
May 11, 2012. Collège de France, Paris, France.
April 23, 2012. University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Theory and modelling of astrocyte regulation of synaptic plasticity
February 8, 2012. Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Science. Nizhni Novgorod, Russia.
February 7, 2012. State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia
Propagation of calcium pulses in astrocyte networks by nonlinear gap junctions
January 12, 2011. Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Biology and Medicine, Berlin-Buch, Germany.
January 11, 2011. Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany.
Propagation of calcium pulses in glia networks and disrupting factors: Hints from experiments and theoretical investigations and reflections on neurodegenerative disorders
July 5, 2010. Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Pisa, Italy.
Brain coding*
November 16, 2008. Faculty of Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
A bifurcation approach to information encoding in intracellular Ca2+ signals.
April 17th, 2008. Workshop on Modelling Complex Biological Systems. University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.
Coexistence of amplitude and frequency modulated intracellular calcium dynamics.
October 15th, 2007. International workshop on neuron-glia interactions: information processing and engineering perspectives. University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Astrocytes: Stars in the memory game
January 13, 2024. Neuroscience Association of Undergraduate Students. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.