Abigail Morrison
From CNPSN
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Address: Room: Main Building N208 |
Research Interests
I am interested in the interaction of cortical dynamics and synaptic plasticity to generate structure in the brain, and in the interaction of structure, dynamics and plasticity to realize cortical functions. As these interests mean I spend a lot of time simulating spiking neuronal networks, I am also interested in simulation technology, particularly in efficient integration techniques and parallelisation strategies.
See Projects and also the NEST Initiative for detailed descriptions.
Publications
- Plesser H E, Eppler J M, Morrison A, Diesmann M, Gewaltig M-O (2007) Efficient Parallel Simulation of Large-Scale Neuronal Networks on Clusters of Multiprocessor Computers Euro-Par 2007, Proceedings of the 13th International Euro-Par Conference, Springer LNCS
- Morrison A, Aertsen A, Diesmann M (2007) Spike-time dependent plasticity in balanced recurrent networks Neural Computation 19: 1437–1467
- Morrison A, Straube S, Plesser H E, Diesmann M (2007) Exact subthreshold integration with continuous spike times in discrete time neural network simulations Neural Computation 19: 47--79
- Brette R et al. incl. MD Simulation of networks of spiking neurons: A review of tools and strategies (2006) Journal of Computational Neuroscience DOI 10.1007/s10827-007-0038-6
- Guerrero R, Morrison A, Diesmann M, Pearce, T C (2006) Programmable Logic Construction Kits for Hyper Real-time Neuronal Modeling Neural Computation 18:2651--2679
- Morrison A, Mehring C, Geisel T, Aertsen A, Diesmann M (2005) Advancing the boundaries of high connectivity network simulation with distributed computing Neural Computation 17(8):1776--1801
- Tetzlaff T, Morrison A, Geisel, T, and Diesmann M (2004) Consequences of Realistic Network Size on the Stability of Embedded Synfire Chains Neurocomputing 58--60:117--121
Books
- Gewaltig M-O, Diesmann M, Morrison A, Plesser H E The Computer Science of Neural Systems Simulation Springer, Lecture notes in computer science (in preparation)
CV
Research Positions
| 1/2007 - present | Research Scientist, Computational Neuroscience Group, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan | |
| 1/2006 - 12/2006 | Postdoc, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany | |
| 1/2004 - 1/2006 | Research Assistant, Dept. Neurobiology & Biophysics and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany | |
| 12/2001 - 12/2003 | Research Assistant, Dept. Nonlinear Dynamics, Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen, Germany |
Academic Background
| 1/2006 | PhD in Biology (Freiburg, Germany), Thesis: Spike-timing dependent plasticity in balanced random networks (Reviewers: A. Aertsen, S. Rotter, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany) | |
| 1/2004 - 1/2006 | PhD studies, Dept. Neurobiology & Biophysics and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (M. Diesmann, A. Aertsen), Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany | |
| 12/2001 - 12/2003 | PhD studies, Dept. Nonlinear Dynamics (M.Diesmann, T.Geisel), Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen, Germany | |
| 9/2001 | MSc in Artificial Intelligence (Edinburgh, UK) Thesis: How the Basal Ganglia learn to select actions (Supervisor: D. Willshaw) | |
| 10/2000 - 9/2001 | Studies in Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom | |
| 9/1997 - 6/2000 | Studies in Physics and Computer Science, Georg-August-University, Goettingen, Germany | |
| 9/1995 - 6/1997 | Studies in Physics and Philosophy, King's College London, United Kingdom |
Other Scientific Activities
| 2003 - 2006 | Development of new teaching material in Computational Neuroscience: course "Simulation of Biological Neural Networks", course "Scientific Programming" | |
| 2001 - present | Coordination of the "NEST Initiative" a collaborative project on the development of technology for the simulation of neural systems including the Honda Research Institute as a key partner | |
| 2004 | Tutor at EU "Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience" (Obidos, Portugal) | |
| 2004 - present | Supervision of MSc and PhD students |
