The mathematical Neuroscience Team
Department of Mathematics - Brandeis University
Hi there visitor!
The mathematical neuroscience team at Brandeis University Department of Mathematics and Volen National Center for Complex Systems, is an interdisciplinary research group studying mathematical models of biological systems and neurosciences (PI: Jonathan Touboul).
We study dynamical and stochastic models arising in biology, although you may find us sometimes distracted by other more theoretical or more applied questions that we find interesting. This led us to work on models of brain activity, from single-cell activity up to large neuronal areas, but also on how embryos develop, and how climate change can affect vegetation coverage. In all these endeavors, we enthusiastically collaborate with experimentalists, sometimes analyze their data, and always develop mathematical models that we study analytically.
You can find us in the Goldsmith building at Brandeis – office 303 (Jonathan) and 118 (Postdocs and Grad students).
News
Funding News We are thankful to NIH for supporting our project 1R01GM152811 "Dynamical maintenance of left-right symmetry during vertebrate development" (co-PIs O. Pourquié and L. Mahadevan, Harvard.) 09/2023 - 09/2026.
Alum news: Congratulations to our former postdoc Jonathan Jaquette for his Assistant Professor position at NJIT Department of Mathematical Sciences (06/2023).
Alum news: Congratulations to our former postdoc Denis Patterson for his Assistant Professor position at Durham University Department of Mathematical Sciences!!! (06/2022)
Funding News Our ANR Research Project Plume (with PI Marie Manceau – Collège de France and co-PI Pierre-François Lenne – Aix-Marseille University) was approved. Excited to explore further the mechanisms of development of skin patterns in birds! 12/2021-12/2025
Funding News We are thankful to NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences for funding our project "Consequences of Environmental Stochasticity for the Spatial Dynamics of Savanna-Forest Transitions" NSF DMS-1951369, 2020-2023. With co-PIs S. Levin (Princeton), C. Staver (Yale) and J. Wang (SUNY)
Research news! With Samuel Dahan (Queen’s U.) and Maxime Cohen (McGill U.), we launched MyOpenCourt.org, an AI-powered platform using the predictive algorithms we developed in the team to help workers in Canada with employment law! – May 2020.
Funding News We’ve been awarded the New Frontiers in Research Fund – Exploration Grant by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council! With Queen’s Conflict Analytics Lab – April 2019
Alum news: Congratulations to Dr. Richard Bailleul for remarkable defense on the development of avian skin – July 2019!
Alum news: Congratulations to Dr. Yi Cui for impressive PhD work and defense on the development of brain – January 2019!
Alum news: Congratulations to our former PhD Cristobal Quiñinao for his faculty position at O’Higgins University!
Alum news: Congratulations to our former postdoc Justyna Signerska for her faculty position at Politechnika Gdańska!
Event News 24/01/17 – Workshop Models of Life @ College de France, 9:15 am – 4pm, room D2 – Program and Flyer
Funding News 12/16 – Our project Altering Fear Memories with Sidney Wiener and Karim Benchenane was funded!
Alum news: 12/16 – Congratulations to Dr. Tanguy Cabana for his superb PhD defense! Good luck for the future!
Funding News 06/16 – Our project Big Data for the Brain with Laurent Venance was funded!
Event News 03/16 – We’re starting our Machine Learning for Biology Seminar!
Alessandro Sarti joins the team as an associate member!
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Alum news: 10/15 – Congratulations to Dr Garcia del Molino for outstanding PhD defense. Good luck @ NYU!
Event News 07/15 – CNS 2015, Prague. Workshop on Stochastic Neural Dynamics
Alum news: 06/15 – Congratulations to Dr Quiñinao for impressive PhD defense! Good luck in Chile!