Moore, Fletcher

Undergraduate physics major from the College of Charleston. He joined my lab during Spring semester of 2009, and worked on modeling single-compartment pyramidal cell for his Phys 420 project.

Marvin, Chris

Undergraduate chemistry major from the College of Charleston. He joined my lab during Summer semester of 2008, and worked on modeling coupled nonlinear orcilators for the purpose of predicting phase locked modes and their stability. Chris's results:

  1. "Existence and stability of 1:1 phase-lacked modes in small neural networks of bursting neurons", Oprisan S.A., M. Baer, and C. Marvin, 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.A., November 14 - 19, 2008.
  2. "Predicting Neuron Oscillations", talk, Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, The College of Charleston, September 4, 2008.
  3. "Predicting Neuron Oscillations", Department of Physics and Astronomy summer research grant, College of Charleston, 2008, Marvin Chris and Dr. Sorinel Adrian Oprisan (PIs).

Baer, Matthew David

Undergraduate computer science major from the College of Charleston. He joined my lab during Summer semester of 2008, and he worked on a simplified computational model of pyramidal neurons. Matthew's results:

  1. "Existence and stability of 1:1 phase-lacked modes in small neural networks of bursting neurons", Oprisan S.A., M. Baer, and C. Marvin, 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.A., November 14 - 19, 2008.
  2. "Simplified Model of Pyramidal Neuron", talk, Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, The College of Charleston, September 4, 2008.
  3. "Calibration of computational model based on experimental data", Department of Physics and Astronomy summer research grant, College of Charleston, 2008, Baer Matthew David and Dr. Sorinel Adrian Oprisan (PIs).

New, Natasha

Undergraduate physics major from the College of Charleston. She joined my lab during Fall semester of 2007, and she will be working on modeling in vitro data for pyramidal neurons in a joint project with Dr. A. Lavin from MUSC. Natasha's results:

  1. "Computational Model of CA1 Hippocampal Neuron", Natasha New, S.A. Oprisan, Antonietta Lavin, and Bailey Glen, School of sciences and Mathematics, 20th Scientific Research Poster Session, College of Charleston, April 11, 2008.
  2. "Computational Model of CA1 Hippocampal Neurons from In Vitro Electrophysiological Recordings of Mus Musculus", College of Charleston MAYS grant, spring 2008, Natasha New and Dr. Sorinel Adrian Oprisan (PIs).
  3. "Computational Model of CA1 Pyramidal Neurons in the Hippocampus of Mice", poster presentation for the Symposium for Young Neuroscientists and Professors of the Southeast (SYNAPSE 2008), College of Charleston, March 2008.
  4. "Computational Model of Pyramidal Neurons in Hippocampus of Mice", poster pressentation for the South Carolina Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Clemson University, March, 2008.
  5. "Computational Model of CA1 Hippocampal Neuron", poster pressentation for the 20th Annual Scientific Research Poster Session, The College of Charleston, Friday, 11 April 2008.
  6. "Computational Model of pyramidal cell", talk, Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, The College of Charleston, April 2008.

Romero, Katalina

Undergraduate biology major from the College of Charleston. She joined my lab during Fall semester of 2007, and she will be working on in vivo recordings from prefrontal cortex in a joint project with Dr. A. Lavin from MUSC. Katalina's results:

  1. "Neuroscience Research at MUSC", poster presentation for the Symposium for Young Neuroscientists and Professors of the Southeast (SYNAPSE 2008), College of Charleston, March 2008.
  2. "Neuroscience Research at MUSC", poster pressentation for the 20th Annual Scientific Research Poster Session, The College of Charleston, Friday, 11 April 2008.

Pellicoro, Luca

Undergraduate discovery informatics major from the College of Charleston. He joined my lab during Spring semester of 2007, and worked neural code classification. Luca's results:

  1. "Exhaustive parameter space search for physiologically relevant neural firing patterns", Department of Physics and Astronomy summer research grant, College of Charleston, 2007, Dr. Sorinel Adrian Oprisan (PI) and Luca Pellicoro (undergraduate student - CoPI).
  2. "Python implementation of a neural code classifier" talk presented at the Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquia, College of Charleston, September 06, 2007.
  3. "Automatic firing pattern detection and visualization for physiologically relevant neural models" poster for SFN 2007, San Diego, CA, 03 November 2007.

Holthaus, Katy

Undergraduate biology major from the College of Charleston. She joined my lab during Spring semester of 2007, and worked on phase resetting curve for bursting neurons. Katy's results:

  1. "Computational modeling of burst duration variability in neurons and its effect on 1:1 phase-locked modes", College of Charleston SURF grant 2007, Dr. Sorinel Adrian Oprisan (PI) and Katy Holthaus (undergraduate student - CoPI).
  2. "Burst duration variability in neurons and its effect on 1:1 phase-locked modes" poster for SURF 2007, Addlestone Library, Charleston, 21 August 2007.
  3. "Existence and stability of 1:1 phase-lacked modes in small neural networks of bursting neurons" poster for SFN 2007, San Diego, CA, 07 November 2007.

Boutan, Christian

Undergraduate physics major student from the College of Charleston. He joined my lab during Fall semester of 2005, and worked on phase resetting curve for spiking neurons. Christian's results:

  1. "Bifurcation Mapping to find Transitions Between Entrainment Modes in Small Neural Networks Using Approximated Phase Resetting Curves", Christian Boutan, Sorinel Oprisan and Laney Mills, The 18th Annual Scientific Research Poster Session Sponsored by The College of Charleston School of Sciences and Mathematics, Friday, 14 April 2006, Hollings Science Center, College of Charleston.
  2. "Phase resetting method for neural network design", College of Charleston SURF grant 2006, Dr. Sorinel Adrian Oprisan (PI) and Christian Boutan (undergraduate student - CoPI).
  3. "Scaling of the Phase Resetting Curve and Phase Locked Oscillatory Modes of Neurons" poster for SURF 2006, Addlestone Library, Charleston, 21 August 2006.
  4. "Existence and Stability Criteria for Ring Neural Networks of Spiking Neurons" poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Atlanta, GA, October 14, 2006.
  5. "Scaling of the Phase Resetting Curve" talk presented at the Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquia, College of Charleston, November 30, 2006.
  6. "Prediction of Entrainment And 1:1 Phase-Locked Modes in Two-Neuron Networks Based on the Phase Resetting Curve Method", International Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 118, Issue 6, pages 867 - 890, June 2008.

Claudiu Vasile Giuraniuc

Undergraduate physics major student from "Alexandru Ioan Cuza University" of Iasi, Romania. He joined my lab during Fall semester of 1998, and worked on functional self-organization of distributed agents. You may see Claudiu's results below:

  1. "Short range and long range coupling in stochastic functional self organization", Giuraniuc C.V. and Oprisan S.A., Physics Letters A 259(5): 334-338, 1999.

Dragos Amarie

Graduate physics major student from "Alexandru Ioan Cuza University" of Iasi, Romania. He joined my lab during Fall semester of 1997, and worked on functional self-organization of distributed agents. You may see Dragos's results below:

  1. "Random walk systems behavior based on record function", Amarie D., Oprisan S.A., and Margareta Ignat, Physics Letters A 254(1-2), 112-118, 1999.