Hi I am Surbhit. I am a PhD student in the research group of Prof. Tatjana Tchumatchenko at the University Clinic in Bonn, Germany.
Brief academic history: Before starting my PhD in 2020, I worked as a junior research fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Upinder Singh Bhalla at the National Centre for Biological Science in Bangalore, India. In his lab, I worked on developing a web-interface for the FindSim tool. I also managed to set-up the heavy simulations on the supercomputers at Neuroscience gateway at UCSD using REST framework. In addition to these software development projects, I also worked on optimizing a biochemical signaling model of autism. I obtained my M.Tech from Biological Sciences and BioEngineering department at the Indian Institute for Technology Kanpur, India. I wrote my master's theis on a novel smarthphone/android-based suite of games that for autistic children (paper). Before that, I did my bachelor's in computer engineering.
Research Interests: My research intersts include an amalgam of theory of and experimental neuroscience. I am excited to work on projects involving differential equations, mRNA/protein dynamics, data anlysis and tool development. For my Phd project I am developing a theoretical model of protein and mRNA trafficking dynamics to understand how synaptic plasticity emerges from the underlying protein and mRNA dynamics.
Scientific Activity:
presented my results as aoster at SfN 2023 Conference in Washington DC, USA
Visited Donder's institute for one week to learn experimental lab work, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Presented my results as a poster at the Bernstein Conference 2023 in Berlin, Germany
Attended the EMBL course on Deep Learning for Image Analysis at EMBL Heidelberg from 5th to 9th June 2023 [Certificate]
Presented a poster "Development of a novel semi-automated tool for analyzing neuronal imaging data" at SfN 2022 in San Diego, CA, USA
Attended the Bernstein Conference 2023 in Berlin, Germany
Attended the First Italian Summer School on Geometric Deep Learning in Pescara, Italy. [25 July - 28 July 2022]
Presented a poster "Describing the trafficking dynamics of the AMPA receptors in hippocampal neurons using a quantitative model framework" at FENS forum 2022 in Paris, France
Received the CRC 1080 student cooperation program grant for the collaborative project with Acker-Palmer lab [link]
Organized a satallite workshop at Bernstein Conference 2021
Presented a poster on topic "Using a model for a quantitative description of trafficking dynamics of the AMPA receptors in hippocampal neurons" at the Symposium on Interdisciplinary Research in Mathematics and Life Science in Bonn, Germany, 2021.