Newsletter #43

NES: a free software to manage data from neuroscience experiments

Neuroscientists perform complex experiments aiming to reach a more effective understanding about the functioning of the brain and the treatment of its pathologies. Each research laboratory uses different techniques and methodologies to produce and to analyze its findings. These experiments generate large volumes of data in diverse formats. Furthermore, with the increasing of the scale of research projects, many research laboratories are confronted with new technical (e.g. data size, quality control, analysis complexity, guaranteed reproducibility) and social (e.g. employee turnover, data sharing requirements) challenges. In addition, there is a lack of computational tools to document the experiments, to facilitate the electronic data capture, and to support reproducibility.

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Last NeuroMat scientific publications

• Koike, B. D. V., Farias, K. S., Billwiller, F., Almeida-Filho, D., Libourel, P. A., Tiran-Cappello, A., ... & Queiroz, C. M. (2017). Electrophysiological evidence that the retrosplenial cortex displays a strong and specific activation phased with hippocampal theta during paradoxical (REM) sleep. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(33), 8003-8013.

• Hodara, Pierre, and Eva Löcherbach. "Hawkes processes with variable length memory and an infinite number of components." Advances in Applied Probability 49.1 (2017): 84-107.

• Kohayakawa, Yoshiharu, et al. "Counting results for sparse pseudorandom hypergraphs II." European Journal of Combinatorics (2017).

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NeuroMat in the media

• Uso da matemática no estudo do cérebro no “USP Analisa”, Jornal da USP, 7/12/2017.

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• Opening for Architecture and Software Development Scholarship

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On NeuroMat

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 #42

• “Inside the Brain,” a NeuroMat-supported exhibition at the University of São Paulo Museum of Veterinary Anatomy

Newsletter #41

• NeuroMat's report of activities: research, technology transfer and dissemination

Newsletter #40

• An overview of mathematical literacy in Brazil: an interview with PISA analyst Esther Carvalhaes