Neuroscience foundations for engineers

Here is a preliminary overview of the topics we will cover in each week: 

17.02.2025 Lecture Welcome and Introduction to cellular biology (Martin & Fides)

18.02.2025 Lecture Gene expression and cellular signalling (Fides)

24.02.2025 Exercise Tutorial - question and answer using the knowledge of lecture

25.02.2025 Lecture Introduction to Neuroscience (Fides)

03.03.2025 Exercise Tutorial - question and answer using the knowledge of lecture

04.03.2025 Lecture Neural Communication (Fides)

10.03.2025 Exercise Jupyter notebook - Modelling basics

11.03.2025 Lecture Computational Models of individual neurons and small neural populations (Martin)

17.03.2025 Exercise Data visualization and linear readouts/probing (V1)

18.03.2025 Lecture Sensory Systems and Perception I - Vision (Martin)

24.03.2025 Exercise Basic model development for V1 (Gabor model, alignment to brain data)

25.03.2025 Lecture Sensory Systems and Perception II - Audition, Somatosensation (Martin)

31.03.2025 Exercise Data analysis, model-brain-alignment [graded, hand in by end of week]

01.04.2025 Lecture Learning: Neuroplasticity and Molecular Mechanisms of Learning (Martin)

07.04.2025 Exercise Computational models of motor learning

08.04.2025 Lecture Motor Control (Martin)

14.04.2025 Exercise Preparing methods to record and measure neural activity

15.04.2025 Lecture Motor Control at the Molecular Level (Fides)

28.04.2025 Exercise Presentation of methods to record and measure neural activity

29.04.2025 Lecture Cognitive Neuroscience I - Systems (Martin)

05.05.2025 Exercise Excursion HNP

06.05.2025 Lecture Cognitive Neuroscience II - Molecular (Fides)

12.05.2025 Exercise Tutorial - question and answer using the knowledge of lecture 

13.05.2025 Lecture Molecular Genetics in Neuroscience (Fides)

19.05.2025 Exercise Excursion HCNP

20.05.2025 Lecture Neuropharmacology and Drug Design (Fides)

26.05.2025 Exercise Review

27.05.2025 Lecture Review (Fides)