Team
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
– Richard Feynman
Maurizio De Pittà
Principal Investigator
Neuron-glial interactions. Calcium signaling. Spiking network models. Synaptic plasticity. Memory. Computational psychiatry. Biochemical modeling.
Zhenyang Sun
Ph.D. candidate
Astrocytic calcium signaling. Anatomical modelling. Machine Learning.
Previous Team Members
(*denote member who graduated from the lab).
Giulio Bonifazi*, Ph.D. student, Program in Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (2019--2023). Modeling of astrocyte markers in the early onset of Alzheimer's disease.
Anais Lupu*, Master's Student, Program in Biomedical Science Communication, University of Toronto at Mississauga (Mississauga, ON, Canada) (co-supervised with Nicholas Woolridge) (2022--2023).
Evan Cresswell-Clay, Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (Bilbao, Spain) (2021).
Carlos Vivar-Rios, Ph.D. student, University of Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland) (co-supervised with Andrea Volterra) (2018--2022).
Alice Tondre*, Master's student, University of Paris (Paris, France) (2021). Multi-omics approach for the multistage progression of Alzheimer's Disease.
José Ángel Ornella Rodriguez*, Master's student, University of Cantabria (Santander, Spain) (co-supervised with Alicia Nieto Reyes) (2020). Dimension reduction and parameters' estimation in a continuous/discontinuous nonlinear model of cerebellar neurons.