The Ben-Gurion University is one of the seven research universities in Israel. The Department of Physiology at BGU has nine faculty members that belong to the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience. The Zlotowski Center has neuroscience activities ranging from subcellular, over cellular, network and system levels up to cognitive neuroscience. Centre members use research methods from biology, physics, engineering and psychology.
Main tasks
BGU will be responsible for computational neuroscience modelling, at the biophysical and network levels, of whisking pattern generation and sensorimotor loops.
Research experience
The Laboratory of Neurophysics has been studying the dynamics of neurons, networks and systems for the last 12 years. The main research goal has been to define the relationship between the components of the neuronal systems and the dynamical behaviour of their firing patterns. Specifically, the Laboratory has investigated propagation of pulses and waves in cortical neurons, synchrony in large cortical networks with chemical and electrical synaptic coupling, and firing patterns of single neurons. Recently, the focus of the laboratory has switched to the investigation of information processing in the rodent vibrissal system. Projects have been carried out using analytical methods taken from the theory of dynamical systems and statistical physics, together with extensive numerical simulations.
