COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF NEURONS, FROM CELLULAR TO SUBCELLULAR


Professor: Kim “Avrama” Blackwell, Molecular Neuroscience Department, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax Virginia, USA

University Visiting Professor at Hebrew University Jerusalem

Date/Time: Wed, 3-5 pm from Apr 10, 2013 - May 22, 2013

 

Syllabus

1 Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity

Lecture
2 Reaction Diffusion Mechanisms, XPPAUT tutorial Lecture
Installing Unix
Tutorial Code
3Tutorial on modeling reaction diffusion systems Installing Genesis and Chemesis
4Calcium Dynamics, begin tutorial Lecture
Tutorial Code
5Continue tutorial on calcium dynamics using genesis/chemesis
6Stochastic reaction-diffusion simulations using NeuroRD Lecture, Download NeuroRD, README and first example (Purkmodel.tar) from here
7Modeling molecular mechanisms of striatal and hippocampal synaptic plasticity Lecture