Fleur Zeldenrust - Research

Research

For an overview of my work, please watch this recent Donders Inclusion Seminar

For current open internship projects, see this page, for a postdoc vacancy, see here. Since we do mostly modelling, computer simulations and advanced data analysis (that means, bluntly said, computer programming and mathematics), some affinity and experience with math and programming would really help. For some resources, you can take a look here. If you’re motivated and willing to learn, you don’t have to be an expert of course, but especially for short internships it is better to be able to focus on the science than on learning how to program.

SmartNets

Think of the the murmuration of starlings, the schooling of fish, or even hypes on social media or the spreading of powerouts: the behaviour of a network is critically determined by its structure. The relation between network structure and information processing capacity is essential, but still not well understood. In this Marie Skłodowska Curie Innovative Training Network “SmartNets”, 7 PIs from 5 universities work together with 6 partner organisations to understand this relation between network structure and information processing.

Network computation

1) Structural network changes underlying sensory map reorganisation after whisker deprivation 2) Biologically realistic end-to-end models of the rodent somatosensory system to allow the integration of and cross-validation between structural and functional aspects of sensory phenomena. 3) Balanced network models based on these realistic reconstructions

Research

Matching encoding and decoding with spiking neurons

SmartNets

Network computation

Information processing in single (barrel cortex) neurons

Methods and techniques

Burst coding

Inhibition in CA3 of hippocampus