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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>Dear researchers, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>We are less than two weeks away from the </span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:red'><a href="https://sciencebeam.com/online-course-modeling-electrophysiological-activities-from-single-neuron-to-nervous-tissue/">"Modeling Electrophysiological Activities: From Single Neuron to Nervous Tissue"</a></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'> Online Course, which will be held by <b>Dr. Damien Depannemaecker</b>, Post-Doc researcher at Department of Integrative and Computational Neuroscience, Paris Saclay Institute of Neuroscience, France (Click <a href="https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=lHKsQtoAAAAJ&hl=fr">HERE</a> for more information about his researches and background). This course is coming after an introductory webinar, which you can watch now using the link below: <a href="https://sciencebeam.com/modeling-electrophysiological-activities/">https://sciencebeam.com/modeling-electrophysiological-activities/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:.25in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>This course aims to discuss <u>models in neuroscience</u> and particularly <u>models of electrophysiological activities</u>. During the course, we will discuss the field of application of such models. We will introduce the <u>concepts of dynamical systems</u>. Then we will implement these models during <u>lab sessions</u>. Finally, we will discuss the results of simulations in relation to the data obtained experimentally. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Prospective Overview of Sessions:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-bottom:.25in;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Session 1 (<u>May 25<sup>th</sup></u>):<o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>• Systems and complex system in neurosciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>• Origines of electrophysiological signals and measurements<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>• Electrophysiology and relevant features for computational modeling (Membrane potential, Raster plot, Local field potential)<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>Session 2:<o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>• Understanding the time evolution of the electrophysiological signals from a dynamical systems point of view.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>• Introduction to dynamical systems for neurosciences (Differential equations, Phase space representation, Stability and domain of attraction)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>• Unidimensional and bi-dimensional models (Dynamics of integrate-and-fire models, Repertoire of 2 D models, Reduction of Hodgkin-Huxley model)<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>Session 3:<o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>• 2D and Higher dimensions models (Particular role of the reset, Possibility of chaos)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>• Models of synapses<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>• Limits of models (Biophysical and mechanistic description, Phenomenology)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>• Introduction to the first lab session (with Brian2 simulator)<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>Session 4:<o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>• First Lab Session:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>- Repertoire of electrophysiological patterns<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>- Models of networks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>- Global measure on simulations<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>Session 5:<o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>• Second lab session:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>- analysis of the results<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>- relations to the data<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>• Conclusive discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-bottom:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:115%'><span 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