About
We are a computational neuroscience research group at Ulster University in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Research
We work on three main areas: Learning & Memory, Autism, and Statistical methods for neural data.
Learning and Memory
- How does neural network structure affect its function? Work by James Mc.
- How do synapses remain stable in the face of stochastic gene expression? Work by Oleg.
- What are the mechanisms and rules of synaptic plasticity? Work by Cian.
Autism
What is different in the brains of autistic people? We collaborate with researchers who work on animal models of autism to ask what is different at the level of neural circuits. Currently we are asking how computational modelling can inform neural circuit-level understanding of autism mechanisms.
Work by Lily, Hugh and Cian.
Statistical methods for neural data
How should we analyse data from large numbers of neurons? We work on statistical methods for analysing large-scale neural datasets, including: deep neural networks, probabilistic models of neural population activity distributions, and bayesian hierarchal modelling.