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According to our matching algorithm, Rhonda Dzakpasu is the likely recipient of the following grants.
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2007 — 2017 |
Dzakpasu, Rhonda (co-PI) [⬀] Graf, Werner (co-PI) [⬀] Rauschecker, Josef [⬀] |
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Pire: International Research Program in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
Rauschecker 0730255
PIRE: International Research Program in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
In this Partnership for International Research and Education award, Georgetown University and Howard University will develop a multi-lateral international neuroscience collaboration involving several German and French institutions. The U.S. researchers and students involved will work with teams at the Technical University of Munich led by Arthur Konnerth, at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich led by Benedikt Grothe, at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen led by Nikos Logothetis, at the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tubingen led by Peter Thier, at the Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology in Gif-sur-Yvette led by Gabriella Ugolini, and at the Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse led by Simon Thorpe. They will form a focused, integrated, and complementary collaboration to lead neuroscience research and education on the international stage. Research topics include the neuronal functions of the cerebral cortex associated with auditory object processing, motion processing and contextual motor behavior, and the interaction of stimulus processing and category processing to produce object recognition.
This award will help to train the next generation of globally engaged scientists and engineers, as approximately twenty undergraduate students, fourteen graduate students, and five postdoctoral researchers will be funded to conduct research abroad with the German and French partners over the five-year course of the award. In addition, this award will allow Georgetown and Howard Universities to pursue their plans of developing a joint doctoral program with the Technical University of Munich and will leverage funds already received by the Technical University of Munich from the German Research Foundation, which encourage U.S. / German collaboration by allowing German doctoral students to conduct research at Georgetown via the International Research Training Group program. This award will enhance an already-existing neuroscience collaboration between Howard University and Georgetown University and will broaden participation by taking advantage of Howard University's ability to recruit under-represented minority students. The project overall is designed to broaden students' perspectives through an active international collaboration and participation in jointly organized international summer academies. The award includes funding for an outside evaluator to determine how well the project reaches its goals.
This award receives support from NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering and Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences.
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2012 — 2016 |
Dzakpasu, Rhonda [⬀] |
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How Network Constituents Influence Temporal Pattern Formation Within in Vitro Neural Networks
In this project, the PI will study how the diversity of the constituents influence the principles of self-organization that underlie network phenomena. As the fraction of inhibitory neurons within a network of excitatory and inhibitory Neurons changes, the PI hypothesizes that one can elucidate the underlying functional rules that are present despite the absence of native anatomy. Using multi-electrode arrays the PI will characterize network dynamical function to generate new testable hypotheses. This project will address a fundamental question: How does modulating the excitatory/inhibitory (E/I) ratio influence synaptic tuning to adapt while maintaining a stable state? In this project the PI will vary this ratio by adding striatal cells (inhibitory) to single cell suspensions of hippocampal (excitatory) neurons and record spontaneous electrical network activity. The excitability will be increased by using a pharmacological paradigm for long-term potentiation, a mechanism believed to be the cellular basis of learning and memory. Immunostaining and confocal microscopy imaging studies will assess the distribution of synapses for these ratios. The proposed study will not only increase our understanding from an experimental perspective of how robustness and adaptability can coexist in networks of neurons, but results will provide a framework that can be used to develop realistic computational models. These techniques and concepts will be disseminated to a broader audience to students from Howard University as well as underrepresented minority students at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, MA. Undergraduate and graduate education will be impacted through the teaching of the Research Modules for the Cognitive Science undergraduate program and the Neurons in Action 2 summer workshop that encompasses graduate students from Howard University and incoming Georgetown University graduate students in the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience.
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