External seminar: Claudia Clopath (Imperial College, London)

[Centre for Mathematical Medicine and Biology]

Emergence of functional microcircuits in plastic networks

Chair: Wilhelm Braun

Animals have the fascinating ability to learn to adapt to their environment, as well as memorize experiences. My core research interest lies in synaptic plasticity, that is, how the strength of synapses between neurons changes, which is believed to be the key neural mechanism involved in learning and memory. More precisely, I design models of plasticity across different time scales, synapse types and brain regions, in order to explain the phenomenology, and built plastic artificial neuronal networks in order to study the role and function of plasticity. In this talk, I will focus on the development of functional subnetworks of excitatory and inhibitory neurons.