Mind Brain Center @ Amrita

My sincere thanks to INCF for supporting my travel expenses for the NCBS CAMP'14. We had a wonderful course. We were 30 participants including national and international students and 20-25 wait-listed students were selected for lecture only sessions. The components in the course were well structured, which includes Remedial, Lectures, Tutorials, Discussions and Individual Projects. We got highly qualified faculty around the world to teach us the basis of memory and plasticity, various levels of modeling in computational neuroscience, sub-cellular electrical and chemical signaling in single neurons. And at network level we studied correlation and ion channel dynamics. How the spiking neuron network learns and memorizes the given patterns of information was one of the highlight of this course.  Tutorial session was very helpful for me, it gave us detailed understanding of variety of simulation platform, which includes NEURON, MOOSE, NEST and BRIAN. Why we want to use ...

Visiting historic sites has been a wonderful pastime.  Northern Italy is famous for many such places. Not too far from Milan is Varese, a city with a lot of history, which is now a buzz place for many who prefer to live close to the Switzerland. A few kilometers from Varese is a small village called Marchirolo. Driving 30km from Varese city one is welcomed by meandering roads taking us to small and ancient villages occupied by hermitages of the past. Welcoming sight at Marchirolo is the Church of San Martino. Church of San Martino History reads that The parish church of San Martino di Marchirolo was created August 19, 1633 by the bishop of Como, Lazarus Carafino. San Martino church from the side as one takes the "Mulotteria" to San Paolo hermitage Bell tower of San Martino church It is a walk of 55min on a mulatteria (an old expression of saying a route meant for weight-bearing mules in the past). The walk is not treacherous but climbs rapidly and the ...