Check out our recent review article on the role of dendrites in brain efficiency!
We are excited to share our latest review, Dendrites and Efficiency: Optimizing Performance and Resource Utilization, which has been published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology. In this review, PhD candidates Roman Makarov and Michalis Pagkalos, together with Dr. Panayiota Poirazi, explore the growing body of recent experimental and theoretical works that highlight the crucial role […]
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidates Ioanna Pandi and Roman Makarov for receiving travel grants for the 30th Meeting of the HSfN!
We are overjoyed to congratulate two of the Ph.D. candidates in our lab for receiving travel grants for the 30th Meeting of the Hellenic Society for Neuroscience at the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” in Athens. Both of them have been accepted to present their work in two different posters. Learn more about this […]
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Ioanna Pandi for receiving a travel grant to attend The Brain Conference: Structuring Knowledge for Flexible Behaviour!
We are excited and proud to announce that Ioanna Pandi a very talented Ph.D. candidate in our lab, recently received one of the 11 travel grants for international students for The Brain Conference: Structuring Knowledge for Flexible Behaviour organized by FENS in Rungsted Kyst, Denmark. She was also selected to give a talk and present […]
Congratulations to Dr. Panayiota Poirazi for her election as an honorary member of the Biological Society of Cyprus (B. S. C.)!
The Biological Society of Cyprus organized a special event in June 2023 entitled: Awards of Excellence in Biology 2023. We congratulate Dr. Poirazi for being declared an honorary member of the Biological Society of Cyprus, alongside Dr. Patrikios, Dr. Koumenis, Dr. Drosatos, and Dr. Trifilli.
Dendrify: a new framework for adding dendrites to spiking neural networks
Deciphering the secrets of the brain is considered to be one of the most important scientific endeavours of the 21st century. A better understanding of the mechanisms underlying brain function will contribute both to research into the treatment of neurological diseases and to the field of Artificial Intelligence, which has become an integral part of […]
Long-range cortical inputs drive local dendritic spikes in hippocampal pyramidal neurons
We are excited to share our latest study in collaboration with the lab of Jayeeta Basu at NYU. In this work we joined forces to study how the brain conveys important environmental cues like novelty and reward. Using dendritic electrophysiology, optogenetics and computational modeling we uncovered a disinhibitory microcircuit that gates dendritic spikes in CA1 pyramidal neurons […]
Supporting Mediterranean women in science
With the aim of giving a current image of Mediterranean science, the Seneca Foundation – Science and Technology Agency of the Region of Murcia offers the public its third exhibition on women scientists, this time as part of the European project MEDNIGHT – Mediterranean Researchers’ Night. It is a collection of short biographies with new, […]
Congratulations to Dr. Poirazi for her election as Secretary General of the Federation for European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)!
The recent FENS forum of 2022 saw a “passing of the torch” for FENS leadership. It is our great pleasure to congratulate Dr. Poirazi, now elected as Secretary General, alongside Prof. Ole Kiehl (president elect) and Assoc. Prof. Aniko Korosi (treasurer elect)! See the press releases from FENS and FORTH for more details.
Uncovering the role of neuromodulation in memory linking
We are excited to share our latest study in collaboration with the lab of Alcino Silva at UCLA. This work, published in NEURON, explores the role of neuromodulation by dopamine to the linking of memories. Memories are often linked, meaning that recall of one memory triggers the recall of another. In this study, UCLA scientists A. Chowdhury, A. […]
FENS 2022 plenary lecture: Learning with dendrites in brain and machines
Dr Poirazi recently represented Greece and IMBB-FORTH as a plenary speaker in FENS Forum 2022, the largest European Neuroscience meeting that took place this year in Paris . In her presentation, she discussed how computational modelling has helped us illuminate dendritic functions and their role in cognitive processes. She also presented the main findings of […]