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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Clinical Neurology; Neurosurgery and Neuroradiology,Molecular Biology and Physiology of Nerve and Glia Cells,Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology |
| Keywords | gap junction, intrinsic membrane properties, synaptic cennectivity, epilepsy, very fast oscillations |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Yorktown Heights |
| Institution | IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
| Institute | Department of Physics, Fairchild Laboratory |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Gabriel Wittum | Lehrstuhl Technische Simulation, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg |
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| Prof. Dr. Hannah Monyer | Abteilung Klinische Neurobiologie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg |
| Prof. Dr. Andreas Draguhn | Institut für Physiologie und Pathophysiologie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/10/2007 |
Program(s)
| 2007 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Modern brain research aims at an understanding of the mechanisms underlying information processing, combining research at the molecular, cellular, network and behavioural level. This cannot be achieved without computer models of neuronal activity. Professor Traub is a leading expert in modelling of neurons and neuronal networks. Amongst his outstanding achievements are studies concerning the generation of epilepsy and, more recently, the finding that electrical synapses play a major role in synchronizing neurons within neuronal networks. Professor Traub has always been closely cooperating with renowned experimentalists. In Germany, he plans to create and refine models of neuronal network oscillations in interconnected thalamorcortical columns. |