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BioPhysics of Biological Circuits

Gabriel Gonzalez — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:24:48 +0000

This September I will attend to a interesting summer school organized by the Nicolas Cabrera Institute (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid). I know I will enjoy it for sure since I love this field but I think it is not going to be easy, a lot of advanced mathematics are going to be used to explain these engines of life.

I paste the program below with the links to the abstracts:
Biophysics of genetic networks

Bela Novak. ‘Mathematical modeling of molecular regulatory networks’

Mark Goulian. ‘Two-component signaling in bacteria’

Pablo Iglesias. ‘Feedback control in biological signaling pathways’

Biophysics of neuronal circuits

BjÃ¶rn Brembs. ‘Brains as output/input devices’

Fabrizio Gabbiani. ‘An introduction to neural information processing and coding’

Dmitri Chklovskii. ‘Statistical theory of brain design’

Biophysics of single molecules and cell organization

Patricia Bassereau. ‘Molecular motors and intracellular traffic’

Project Updated: CPGs

Gabriel Gonzalez — Sat, 20 May 2006 19:30:29 +0000

After some suggestion from Gonzalo G. de Polavieja, the director of the NeuroLab, I have updated my CPG to be more biologically plausible.

I have kept the Izhikevich’s model but now the two neurons exhibits fast rebound spiking. The Action Potentials plots looks absolutely better.

Project Updated: CPGs

Gabriel Gonzalez — Tue, 16 May 2006 00:03:18 +0000

Finally I have managed to finished two half-center oscillators. I have used the model developed by Izhikevich which needs few floating point operations but still shows the desired biological properties.

Please refer to the Central Pattern Generatos section to a more detailed explanation I have included the Matlab files used to generate the graphics. It will be growing up in the next days.

Central Pattern Generators

Gabriel Gonzalez — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:38:52 +0000

This is the first post in the category of Computational Neuroscience and shouldn’t be the last. When I have read this papers I will post a summary of them, highlighting the main ideas.

These two papers are needed for the most astonishing project I have ever worked, hold on for a half a year and you will see

Central Pattern Generators

CPG for swimming

The papers below have been found trying to find projects which use any models of CPGs or whatever information that could help to understand the behavior and interconnection of these amazing bunch of neurons.
CPG to control a pyloric-based system

Rethinking CPGs

CPG for artificial locomotion

Distributed CPG for a serpentine Robot

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