Newsletter #27

Towards a collaborative network in brain science

The workshop “High-Performance Computing, Stochastic Modeling and Databases in Neuroscience,” that FAPESP's Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (RIDC NeuroMat) held in the last week of April, was an occasion for strengthening ties among brain-science international consortia. Specifically, this event contributed to engaging NeuroMat’s technology-transfer team within the network that is facilitated by the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) with the forthcoming creation of creation of an INCF Special Interest Group on “stochastic modeling and statistical analysis of neural systems” and a formal collaboration with the INCF Program on Standards for Data Sharing, particularly with a task force on electrophysiology and on neuroimaging. INCF’s scientific director Sean Hill attended NeuroMat’s workshop and gave a talk on computational challenges of understanding the brain.

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Last NeuroMat scientific publications

• Antonio Galves and Eva Löcherbach. Modeling networks of spiking neurons as interacting processes with memory of variable length. arXiv:1502.06446 (2015).

• Gabriela Antunes, Antonio C. Roque and Fabio M. Simoes de Souza. Modelling intracellular competition for calcium: kinetic and thermodynamic control of different molecular modes of signal decoding. Scientific Reports, v. 6, 2016.

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NeuroMat is a research center established in 2013 at the University of São Paulo that is dedicated to integrating mathematical modeling and theoretical neuroscience. Among the core missions of NeuroMat are the creation of a new mathematical system to understanding neural data and the development of neuroscientific open-source computational tools. The research center is headed by Prof. Antonio Galves, from USP's Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, and is funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). To receive monthly updates on NeuroMat's work or pertaining news, please subscribe to NeuroMat's newsletter.

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Previous issues of the NeuroMat Newsletter (features)

Newsletter #26

• A mathematical framework for neuroscience: NeuroMat hosts event of large international brain initiatives

Newsletter #25

• Of gaming, multidisciplinary science, and the functioning of the brain

Newsletter #24

• NeuroMat’s strategic directions for the next two years