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<font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">The <a href="https://cni.upenn.edu/" class="" style="color: blue;">Computational Neuroscience Initiative</a> at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce a new program for <a href="https://cni.upenn.edu/education" class="" style="color: blue;">Interdisciplinary
Training in Computational Neuroscience (ITCN)</a> at the doctoral level. The goal of the ITCN is to train a new generation of scientists to make quantitative links between properties of the brain and properties of the mind. ITCN trainees will learn to use
computational methodology to interpret experimental results; build predictive models of brain function that inform the design of the experiments; and support an ever-growing list of neuroscience-related applications, from brain-machine interfaces in the clinic
to cutting-edge forms of artificial intelligence.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
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<font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">The ITCN brings together students and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.cni.upenn.edu/people" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">faculty</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from
Penn’s PhD programs in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.med.upenn.edu/ngg/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Neuroscience</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(<a href="https://www.med.upenn.edu/bgs/" class="" style="color: blue;">Biomedical
Graduate Studies</a>, Perelman School of Medicine),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://be.seas.upenn.edu/doctoral/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Bioengineering</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(School
of Engineering and Applied Sciences),<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.physics.upenn.edu/graduate/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Physics</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(School
of Arts and Sciences), and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://psychology.sas.upenn.edu/graduate" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Psychology</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(School
of Arts and Sciences). To join the ITCN, students first apply to one of those “home” PhD programs. Once admitted, students then typically apply to the ITCN before starting classes in their first year. Those selected meet with the ITCN Advisory Committee, both
individually and as a group, to develop individualized training plans that meet the goals and requirements of the ITCN and each student’s home program. These plans include coursework, research, and other activities, that aim to build both expertise in computational
neuroscience and a sense of community in the ITCN.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
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<font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Details are found <a href="https://cni.upenn.edu/education" class="" style="color: blue;">here</a>.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
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<font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">CNI/ITCN Leadership:<o:p class=""></o:p></font></div>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~vbalasub/public-html/Home.html" class="" style="color: blue;">Vijay Balasubramanian</a> Director (Physics): Theoretical
and computational neuroscience<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://hosting.med.upenn.edu/hearing/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Maria Geffen</span></a>,
Co-director (Otorhinolaryngology, Neuroscience, Neurology): Neuronal circuits for auditory perception and learning: how our brain makes sense of sounds<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.med.upenn.edu/goldlab/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Joshua Gold</span></a>, Co-director
(Neuroscience): Mechanisms of decision-making and learning the primate brain<br class="">
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://psychology.sas.upenn.edu/people/michael-arcaro" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Michael
Arcaro</span></a> (Psychology): Mammalian vision, development of sensory systems<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://cfn.upenn.edu/aguirre/wiki/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Geoffrey Aguirre</span></a> (Neurology):
Cortical organization for visual perception and recovery of visual function<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/vbarran1/index.html" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Victor Barranca</span></a> (Mathematics
and Statistics, Swarthmore): Mathematical neuroscience and neuronal dynamics<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.danisbassett.com/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Danielle Bassett</span></a> (Bioengineering,
CIS, Neurology): Complex Systems, Network Science, Computational Neuroscience, Systems Biology, Dynamical Systems, Soft Materials, Behavioral Network Science<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.med.upenn.edu/beauchamplab/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Michael Beauchamp</span></a> (Neurosurgery):
Neural mechanisms for multisensory integration and visual perception in human subjects<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://drexel.edu/biomed/research-and-design/labs-research-groups/bhandawat-lab/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Vikas
Bhandawat</span></a> (Biomedical Engineering, Drexel): How animal behavior emerges from the complex interaction amongst the animal's nervous systems, their muscle-body dynamics and their environment<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://color.psych.upenn.edu/brainard/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">David Brainard</span></a> (Psychology):
Human vision, machine vision, and computational modeling of visual processing<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://psychology.sas.upenn.edu/people/johannes-burge" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Johannes
Burge</span></a> (Psychology): Computational modeling, perceptual systems, vision<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://auditoryresearchlaboratory.weebly.com/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Yale Cohen</span></a> (Otorhinolaryngology,
Bioengineering, Neuroscience): Understanding the representation of auditory information in the cortex, how auditory information is integrated with cognitive processes, and how auditory and visual information is combined to form unified sensory percepts<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.med.upenn.edu/dinglab/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Long Ding</span></a> (Neuroscience):
Electrophysiology; psychophysics; basal ganglia; frontal cortex; perceptual decisions<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.psych.upenn.edu/epsteinlab/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Russell Epstein</span></a> (Psychology):
Visual recognition and spatial cognition in humans<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.med.upenn.edu/fuccillolab/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Marc Fucillo</span></a> (Neuroscience):
The synaptic and circuit mechanisms of behavioral control<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://goldbergneurolab.com/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Ethan Goldberg</span></a> (Neurology,
CHOP): Ion channel, cellular, and synaptic neurophysiology; Neurogenetics; Neurodevelopmental disorders; Neurobiology of disease <o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.swarthmore.edu/joshua-goldwyn" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Joshua Goldwyn</span></a> (Mathematics
& Statistics, Swarthmore): Auditory neuroscience and the perception of sound<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://hosting.med.upenn.edu/gottfriedlab/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Jay Gottfried</span></a> (Neurology,
Psychology): Using multidisciplinary techniques to elucidate perception, learning, and memory through the lens of the olfactory system<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p2009396/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Casey
Halpern</span></a> (Neuroscience): Preclinical studies and developing clinical trials to expand indications for deep brain stimulation and other novel brain surgical therapies<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.psych.upenn.edu/kable_lab/Joes_Homepage/Home.html" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Joseph
Kable</span></a> (Psychology): Psychological and neural mechanisms of human decision-making<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://memory.psych.upenn.edu/Main_Page" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Michael Kahana</span></a> (Psychology):
Human episodic memory for verbal, visual and spatial information<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://web.sas.upenn.edu/katifori/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Eleni Katifori</span></a> (Physics):
Topology, function and development of biological distribution networks, elasticity and mechanics of thin cells, pattern formation<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://koerding.com/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Konrad Kording</span></a> (Bioengineering,
Neuroscience): Data that matters<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://drexel.edu/biomed/faculty/core/LiangHualou/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Hualou Liang</span></a> (Biomedical
Engineering, Drexel): Analysis of complex, high-dimensional neuroscience data<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g309/p42685" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Minghong
Ma</span></a> (Neuroscience): Neurobiology of the sense of smell<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://lab.timmachado.com/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Tim Machado</span></a> (Neuroscience):
How do motor command pathways interact to generate specific movements?<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g20000342/p8508331" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Joel
Mainland</span></a> (Monell Center): Developing a predictive model relating molecular structure and olfactory perception<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~y1mori/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Yoichiro Mori</span></a> (Mathematics,
Biology): Mathematical Biology, Physiology and Biophysics, Applied and Numerical Analysis<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.physics.upenn.edu/~pcn/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Philip Nelson</span></a> (Physics):
stochastic modeling; computational neuroscience; multielectrode recording<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://pesaranlab.org/people/bijan-pesaran/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Bijan Pesaran</span></a> (Neurosurgery,
bioengineering): Understanding large-scale circuits in the brain and how to engineer novel brain-based therapies<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p8841436" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Alexander
Proekt</span></a> (Anesthesiology): Neuronal dynamics and neuronal mechanisms of anesthesia<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.sas.upenn.edu/psych/rust-lab/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Nicole Rust</span></a> (Psychology):
The neural correlates of visual memory<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.schapirolab.org/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Anna Schapiro</span></a> (Psychology):
Memory, learning, neural network modeling, sleep, consolidation, hippocampal-cortical interactions<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.bio.upenn.edu/people/marc-schmidt" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Marc Schmidt</span></a> (Biology):
Avian brain dynamics in complex naturalistic social environments; computational neuroethology of courtship interactions in groups of songbirds; social context as a computationally constructed variable<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~astocker" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Alan Stocker</span></a> (Psychology):
Computational perception and cognition<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://vitalelab.med.upenn.edu/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Flavia Vitale</span></a> (Neurology,
Bioengineering, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation): To study, monitor and treat neurological and neuromuscular disorders such as epilepsy, Parkinson's, nerve injury, and chronic pain<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in;"><font face="Helvetica" class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.med.upenn.edu/weberlab/" class="" style="color: blue;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 136, 204);">Franz Weber</span></a> (Neuroscience):
The neural and homeostatic mechanisms controlling REM sleep, and the functional role of this brain state in emotional memories and behaviors</font></li></ul>
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Maria N. Geffen, Ph.D. (she/her)<br class="">
Professor<br class="">
Department of Otorhinolaryngology<br class="">
Department of Neuroscience<br class="">
Department of Neurology<br class="">
Co-Director, Computational Neuroscience Initiative<br class="">
Stemmler Hall G14<br class="">
3450 Hamilton Walk<br class="">
Philadelphia PA 19104<br class="">
(215)898-0782<br class="">
<a href="mailto:mgeffen@pennmedicine.upenn.edu" class="">mgeffen@pennmedicine.upenn.edu</a><br class="">
<a href="https://pennmedicine.zoom.us/my/mgeffen?pwd=eWVFbUJFUGRJZ3g1eU9YZEZic2VwZz09" class="">My zoom room</a><br class="">
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