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Education
B.S., Physics,
Georgia Instutite of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 1997
Ph.D., Physics, Georgia Instutite of Technology, Atlanta, GA,
2003
FIRST Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, Emory University
School of Medicine, 2004-2006. |
Research
Statement
I enter the
FIRST program with a PhD in physics and a graduate minor in neuroscience.
I have done some computer modeling of biological systems, but
I am eager to learn more biology. My first goal is to gain electrophysiology
lab skills so that I can better understand the systems I want
to model, and my second goal is to develop computer models that
are viable for undergraduate research projects.
My primary
research project is the investigation of rhythmogenesis in the
mammalian spinal cord. Using a neonatal rat model, I seek to identify
the role of specific neurotransmitters and neuromodulators in
different types of rhythmogenesis, and to identify if possible
the networks that underlie different types of rhythmic behavior.
Experimental protocols include application of neurochemicals to
an in vitro spinal cord while recording from both ventral roots
with suction electrodes and interneurons via blind patch clamp.
I should have sufficient data this year to begin a modeling project. |
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Publications
Breen, B.J., Weidert, C.E., Lindner, J.F.,
Walker, L.M., Kelly,
K., and Heidtmann, E. (2008) Invitation to embarrassingly parallel
computing. Am. J. Phys. 76:347-352.
Breen, B.J.,
Gerken, W.C., Butera, R.J. Jr. (2003) Hybrid integrate-and-fire
model of a bursting neuron. Neural Comput.15(12):2843-62.
Lindner, J.F., Breen,
B.J., Wills, M.E., Bulsara, A.R., Ditto, W.L. (2001)
Monostable array-enhanced stochastic resonance. Phys Rev E
Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 63(5 Pt 1):051107.
Lindner, J.F., Mason, J., Neff, J., Breen, B.J.,
Ditto, W.L, Bulsara, A.R. (2001) Noninvasive control of stochastic
resonance. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 63(4
Pt 1):041107. |
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