Yuri Elias Rodrigues

University of Strathclyde e-mail: yuri.elias-rodrigues@strath.ac.uk

Research interests :
Synaptic plasticity
Memory and learning
Computational neuroscience
Alzheimer's disease (and neuropathologies)
Machine learning
Stochasticity

Getting into:
Open neuroscience (https://open-neuroscience.com/)
Calcium imaging in neurons and astrocytes

Positions

Current position:

Research associate, Shuzo Sakata Lab at University of Strathclyde, 2023

Previous positions:

Research fellow in Neuroscience, Miguel Maravall Lab at University of Sussex, 2021-2023
PhD student at Inria/UCA/IPMC, 2018-2021
Research assistant, Zimmer Lab at UFRGS, 2017-2018

Education

Université Côte d’Azur (UCA) Nice, France
PhD in Molecular and Cellular Interactions
• Thesis: Unifying experimental heterogeneity in a geometrical synaptic plasticity model
Unification de l’hétérogénéité expérimentale par un modèle géométrique de la plasticité synaptique
• Advisor: Hélène Marie, PhD
• Co-advisor: Romain Veltz, PhD

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) Porto Alegre, Brazil
MSc in Applied Mathematics
• Thesis: Alzheimer’s disease classification using distance-based algorithms
• Advisor: Carolina Manica, PhD
• Co-advisor: Evandro Manica, PhD

Universidade de Coimbra (UC) Coimbra, Portugal
Bachelor’s degree in mathematics
• Conclusion project: A dynamical system based on Voronoi tessellations
• Advisor: Carlota Simões, PhD

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) Porto Alegre, Brazil
Licentiate’s degree in mathematics
• Conclusion project: Formation in mathematics for first cycle teachers
• Advisor: Monica Bertoni dos Santos, MSc

Publications

A stochastic model of hippocampal synaptic plasticity with geometrical readout of enzyme dynamics

Yuri Elias Rodrigues, Cezar M. Tigaret, Hélène Marie, Cian O'Donnell, Romain Veltz
Elife (2023)

Stable brain PET metabolic networks using a multiple sampling scheme

Guilherme Schu, Wagner Scheeren Brum, Yuri Elias Rodrigues, Julio Cesar de Azeredo, Tharick A. Pascoal, Andrea Lessa Benedet, Sulantha Mathotaarachchi, Pedro Rosa-Neto, Jorge Almeida, Eduardo R. Zimmer, for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
BioRxiv (2021)

Wrappers feature selection in Alzheimer’s biomarkers using kNN and SMOTE oversampling

Rodrigues YE, Manica E, Zimmer ER, Pascoal TA, Mathotaarachchi SS, Rosa-Neto P.
TEMA (São Carlos). 2017 Apr;18(1):15-34.

CA1 and CA3 pyramidal cell morphologies under Alzheimer’s disease Amyloid beta interaction

Yuri Elias Rodrigues, Josiane da Silva Freitas
BioRxiv (2017)
"project developed during LACONEU 2017"

Participation in Workshops and Summer Schools

Computational Neuroscience, Neurotechnology and Neuro-inspired AI Autumn School 2023 [best project]
• Ulster University, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK

Workshop on Synaptic Plasticity 2020
• European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience (EITN), Paris, France

Summer School on Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity (CAMP) 2019
• National Center For Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru, India

Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience (LASCON VII) 2018
• NeuroMat, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil

Latin American School in Computational Neuroscience (LACONEU VII) 2017
• Instituto de Sistema Complejos de Valparaíso (ISCV), Chile

Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience (LASCON VI) 2016 [best project]
• NeuroMat, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil

Summer School on Linear Algebra 2014
• Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Brazil