Country Collaborations
| The Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and Instituto Cajal (IC) from Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) are involved in the Blue Brain Project (BBP) with an initiative named Cajal Blue Brain. Different research groups and laboratories from Spanish institutions take part in this initiative, grouping together a large number of scientist, engineers and practitioners. |
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Laboratory Collaborations
A team of computational neuroscientists at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem headed by Idan Segev is working on aspects of modeling electrical properties and synaptic integration.
A collaboration with Phil Goodman of the University of Reno, Nevada (now deceased) has resulted in a general purpose simulation framework and research into characterizing and modeling electrical properties of neurons with ion channels.
Michael Hines of Yale University is the author of the NEURON simulator and is collaborating on a variety of enhancements and optimizations for the BlueGene supercomputer.
A collaboration with Alex Thomson , head of the Department of Pharmacology of The School of Pharmacy at the University of London, on experimental techniques and experimental data on Neocortical electrophysiology and anatomy is in place.
LIST OF PARTNERSHIPS
Aside from the many people involved at the EPFL itself, numerous partnerships have been forged with other institutions in the context of the Blue Brain project.
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Idan Segev and his team at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences helped conceive neuronal models, in particular by developing a multi-objective optimization taking into account the diversity of electrical phenomena at the neuronal level.
IBM, Yorktown Heights (NY)
IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center made its researchers available to help install the BlueGene supercomputer and set up circuits that would be adequate for simulating a neuronal network.
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Boston (MA)
Yun Wang helped improve understanding of modeling the interneuronal system for neocortical inhibition, which made it possible to explain how the brain can adapt despite the use of a simple web.
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid
The Cajal Institute, where Javier de Felipe Oroquieta works, lent its expertise especially in the field of cortical microorganization in pathological cases.
University of London, London
Through Alex Thomson and her group, the School of Pharmacy’s pharmacology department contributed to a better understanding of how neurons connect to each other within the layers in which they are found.
University of Nevada, Reno (NV)
Through Phil Goodman’s Brain Computation Lab, it was possible to develop some of the neuroinformatics tools the project required, especially for developing dynamic models of neuronal electrical activity, for example, in the rat.
Yale University, New Haven (CT)
Michael Hines of the Computer Science department helped solve problems related to the performance of large networks during the simulations, in particular using the mechanism of parallel networks.
