Results Summary

Journal Publications

• Nowotny T., Levi R., Selverston A.I. (2008) Probing the dynamics of identified neurons with a data-driven modeling approach. PLoS One 3(7): e2627.
• Martinez D., Montejo N. (2008) A model of stimulus-specific neural assemblies in the insect antennal lobe. PLoS Computational Biology 4(8):e1000139
• Sandström M., Lansner A., Hellgren-Kotaleski J., Rospars J.-P. (2009) Modeling the response of a population of olfactory receptor neurons to an odorant. J. Comput. Neurosci. 27(3):337-355.
• Jarriault D., Gadenne C., Rospars J.-P., Anton S. (2009) Quantitative analysis of projection neuron responses to sex pheromone in the moth Agrotis ipsilon: a tool to study network plasticity. J. Exp. Biol. 212(8):1191-201.
• Gu Y., Lucas P., Rospars J.-P. (2009) Model of the transduction cascade in the moth olfactory receptor neuron sensitive to the sexual pheromone. PLoS Comput. Biol. 5(3): e1000321.
• Couton L., Minoli S., Kiêu K., Anton S., Rospars J.-P. (2009) Constancy and variability of identified glomeruli in the antennal lobes: Computational approach in Spodoptera littoralis. Cell Tissue Res. 337:491–511.
• Huerta R. and Nowotny T. (2009) Fast and robust learning by reinforcement signals: Explorations in the insect brain. Neural Comput. 21(8):2123-2152.
• Rospars J.-P., Gu Y., Grémiaux A. and Lucas P. (2010) Odour transduction in olfactory receptor neurons. Chin J Physiol. 53(6): 364-72.
• Pézier A., Grauso M., Acquistapace A., Monsempès C., Rospars J.-P., and Lucas P. (2010) Calcium activates a chloride conductance likely involved in olfactory receptor neuron repolarisation in the moth Spodoptera littoralis. J. Neurosci. 30: 6323-6333.
•  Jarriault D., Gadenne C., Lucas P., Rospars J.-P., Anton S. (2010) Transformation of the sex pheromone signal in the noctuid moth Agrotis ipsilon: from peripheral input to antennal lobe output. Chem. Senses 35(8):705-715. doi:10.1093/chemse/bjq069.
• Gu Y., Rospars J.-P. (2011) Dynamical modeling of the moth pheromone-sensitive olfactory receptor neuron within its sensillar environment. PLoS ONE 6(3): e17422. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017422.
• Nowotny T. (2010) Parallel Implementation of a Spiking Neuronal Network Model of Unsupervised Olfactory Learning on NVidia® CUDATM. Proceedings of the IEEE WCCI 2010, 3238-3245.
• Zavada A., Buckley C. L., Martinez D., Rospars J.-P., Nowotny T. (2011) Competition-based model of pheromone component ratio detection in the moth. PLoS ONE 6 (2): e16308. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016308.
• Papadopoulou M., Cassenaer S., Nowotny T. and Laurent G. (2011) Normalization for Sparse Encoding of Odors by a Wide-Field Interneuron, Science, 332(6030): 721-725.
• Barnett L., Buckley C. L. and Bullock S. (2011) Neural Complexity: A Graph Theoretic Interpretation. Phys. Rev. E 83:041906.
• Buckley C. L. and Nowotny T. (2011) Multi-scale model of an inhibitory network shows optimal properties near bifurcation, Phys. Rev. Lett., 106: 238109.
• C. L. Buckley and T. Nowotny (2012) Transient Dynamics between Displaced Fixed Points: An Alternate Nonlinear Dynamical Framework for Olfaction. Brain Res. 1434:62-72. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2011.07.032.
• A. Grémiaux, T. Nowotny, D. Martinez, P. Lucas and J.-P. Rospars (2012) Modelling the Signal Delivered by a Population of First-Order Neurons in a Moth Olfactory System. Brain Res. 1434: 123-135. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2011.09.035
• H. Belmabrouk, T. Nowotny , J.-P. Rospars and D. Martinez (2012) Interaction of cellular and network mechanisms for efficient pheromone coding in moths, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 108: 19790-19795. doi:10.1073/pnas.1112367108

Conference Contributions

2008

• Gu Y., Lucas P., Rospars J.-P. (2008) Modelling the moth pheromone transduction cascade from molecular level to sensillar level. ECRO (European Chemoreception Research Organization), Portoroz, Slovenia, 3-7 September 2008. Abstract N° 109 (poster).
• Bel Mabrouk H., Rospars J.-P., Ezzine J., Martinez D. (2008) Rôle de l’inhibition intra et inter glomérulaire dans la synchronisation neuronal et le codage phéromonal chez Manduca Sexta. Second French Conference in Computational Neurosciences (Neurocomp2008), Marseille, 8-11 October 2008. Paper #59 (poster). archives ouvertes: neurocomp08
• Zavada A., Martinez D., Rospars J.-P., Nowotny T. (2008) A neuronal network model for the detection of binary odour mixtures, poster. ISB grant holder conference, Nottingham 2008.
• Rospars J.-P., Nowotny T., Martinez D. (2008) Olfactory Coding in the Insect Pheromone Pathway. ISB grant holder conference, Nottingham 2008.

2009

• Jarriault D., Chaffiol A., Couton L., Elbanna S., Rospars J.P. & Anton S. (2009) Peripheral and central olfactory processing of sex pheromone in an insect model. 8th Göttingen Meeting German Neuroscience Society, Göttingen, 25-29 March 2009. (Poster)
• Rospars J.-P., Gu Y., Lucas P. (2009) An integrative model of olfactory transduction in the moth pheromone receptor neuron. Neural Coding 2009, Taïnan, Taïwan, 9-12 May. (Oral)
•  Gremiaux A., Martinez D., Rospars J.-P. (2009) Characteristics of olfactory receptor neurons population responses to sexual pheromone in the moth. Club Neurobiologie des Invertébrés, Dijon, 14-15 May. (Poster)
•  Rospars J.-P. (2009) Transduction in olfactory receptor neurons: from experiments to models. Workshop on Insect Olfaction. Eighteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2009), Berlin, Allemagne, 18-23 July. (Oral)
• Zavada A., Martinez D., Rospars J.-P. and Nowotny T. (2009) A neuronal network model for the detection of binary odor mixtures. Cosyne 2009, Salt Lake City, USA. (Poster)
• Nowotny T. and Huerta R. (2009) Can divergent connectivity generate reliable sparse activity patterns? Cosyne 2009, Salt Lake City, USA. (Poster)
• Nowotny T., Muezzinoglu K. and Huerta R. (2009) Feasibility of biomimetic classification on NVidia® CUDA™. ISOEN 2009, Brescia, Italy. (Talk)
• Buckley C. L., Martinez D., Rospars J.-P., Nowotny T. (2009) Transient 'winner takes all' dynamics in the pheromone system of the moth. SfN Annual Meeting, Chicago, 16-21 October (Poster), Abstract on Oasis
• Buckley C. L., Nowotny T. (2009) Extending the Critical Brain Hypothesis to Rate Dynamics: A Case Study of the Antennal Lobe of the Moth, European Conference of Artificial Life (ECAL), Budapest, 13-16 September (Poster)
• Nowotny T., Muezzinoglu, M. K., Huerta R. (2009) Feasibility of biomimetic classification on NVidia® CUDA™, European Conference of Artificial Life (ECAL), Budapest, 13-16 September (Poster)
•  Nowotny T. (2009) The different roles of sparse activity and sparse connectivity for pattern recognition in the olfactory system of insects (2009) Computational Neuroscience Conference (CNS*2009) workshop on insect olfaction, Berlin, 18-23 July (Oral)
• Buckley C. L., Nowotny T. (2009) Moving beyond convergence in the pheromone system of the moth, Computational Neuroscience Conference (CNS*2009), Berlin, 18-23 July (Poster), BMC Neuroscience 2009, 10(Suppl 1):P187
• Nowotny T., and Huerta R. (2009) Can divergent connectivity generate reliable sparse activity patterns? Computational Neuroscience Conference (CNS*2009), Berlin, 18-23 July (Poster), BMC Neuroscience 2009, 10(Suppl 1):P188

2010

PheroSys Workshop, Brighton

• Anton S., R. Barrozo, A. Chaffiol, N. Deisig, C. Gadenne, C. Gemeno, D. Jarriault, J. Kropf, P. Lucas, J.-P. Rospars, S. Vitecek (2010) Plasticity of central odour coding in a moth. (Oral)
• Buckley C.L., D. Martinez, J.-P. Rospars, A. Chaffiol, T. Nowotny (2010) Critical rate dynamics explain the dynamic range of the moth pheromone system. (Oral)
• Lucas P., M. Grauso, A. Pézier, J.-P. Rospars (2010) Properties of the Ca2+-dependent chloride current in moth olfactory receptor neurons and role in the dynamic of their response. (Oral)
• Martinez D., A. Chaffiol, H. Belmabrouk, Y. Gu, S. Anton, P. Lucas and J.-P. Rospars (2010) Stereotyped firing response patterns in moth antennal lobe neurons: experiments and models. (Oral)
• Martin Moraud E., D. Martinez (2010) Scent-tracking by autonomous robots: Infotaxis and beyond. (Oral)
• Rospars J.-P., A. Grémiaux, Y. Gu, D. Jarriault, L. Kostal, P. Lansky, S. Anton, T. Nowotny, P. Lucas, D. Martinez (2010) Olfactory receptor neurons: a comparative analysis of their response properties with diverse stimuli in different species. (Oral)
• Zavada A., C.L. Buckley, D. Martinez, J.-P. Rospars, Nowotny T. (2010) Minimal model of blend recognition in the moth pheromone system. (Oral)
• Grémiaux A., D. Jarriault, A. Chaffiol, S. Anton, D. Martinez, J.P. Rospars (2010) Signal transformation from olfactory receptor neurons to central neurons (Poster)
• Gu Y., H. Belmabrouk, J.-P. Rospars, A. Chaffiol, D. Martinez (2010) A biophysical model reproduces the multiphasic firing patterns observed in moth antennal lobe neurons. (Poster)
• Belmabrouk H., Y. Gu, T. Nowotny, J.-P. Rospars and D. Martinez (2010) A model of the moth macroglomerular complex: interplay between interglomerular inhibition and neuronal intrinsic properties. (Poster)

Other Conferences

• Buckley C. L. and Nowotny T. (2010) A new notion of criticality: Studies in the pheromone system of the moth, COSYNE Conference 2010, Salt Lake City.
• Nowotny T., Buckley C. L. and Zavada A. (2011) Ratio Coding and Dynamic Range in the Pheromone System of the Moth, Göttingen meeting of the German Neuroscience Society.
• Nowotny T. (2011) Ratio coding and Dynamic Range in the Moth Pheromone System, Workshop on Bioinspired Computation for Chemical Sensing, Barcelona (invited).
• Nowotny T. (2010) Spiking neuronal network model of unsupervised olfactory learning on modern parallel hardware (GPU), Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, San Diego.
• Buckley C. L., Nowotny T (2010) Transient and critical “Winner takes all” dynamics in the macroglomerular complex of the moth. Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, San Diego.
• Zavada A., Buckley C. L., Nowotny T. (2010) Neural coding in the olfactory system of insects, 9th International Workshop Neural Coding, Limassol, Cyprus (invited)
• Buckley C. L. and Nowotny T. (2010) Extending the critical brain hypothesis to the rate domain: A case study of the pheromone system of the moth. 9th International Workshop Neural Coding 2010. Limassol, Cyprus, 29 oct.-3 nov.
• Buckley C. L. and Nowotny T. (2010) Dynamic Range in Invertebrate Sensory Systems: A Multiscale Modelling Approach. OCCAM Computational Neuroscience Workshop, Oxford.
• Buckley C. L. and Nowotny T. (2010) Critical Rate Dynamics Explain the Sensitivity of the Moth Pheromone System. FENS, Amsterdam.
• Martinez D., Chaffiol A., Gu Y., Anton S., Rospars J.-P. (2010) Stereotyped firing response patterns in moth antennal lobe neurons: from experiments to models. XXth Congress of the European Chemoreception Research Organization (ECRO), p. 82. Avignon, France, 14-19 sept.
• Gu Y., Belmabrouk H., Chaffiol A., Rospars J.-P., Martinez D. (2010) Modelling the cellular mechanisms underlying the multiphasic response of moth pheromone-sensitive projection neurons. XXth Congress of the European Chemoreception Research Organization (ECRO), p. 139. Avignon, France, 14-19 sept.
• Grémiaux A., Jarriault D., Chaffiol A., Anton S., Martinez D., Rospars J.-P. (2010) Analysis of the signal transformation from first- to second-order neurons in the moth sex-pheromone olfactory system. 9th International Workshop Neural Coding 2010 (NC 2010). Limassol, Cyprus, 29 oct.-3 nov.
• Rospars J.-P., Lansky P., Sanda P., Duchamp-Viret P. (2010) stimulus coding by populations of first- and second-order olfactory neurons. 9th International Workshop Neural Coding 2010 (NC 2010). Limassol, Cyprus, 29 oct.-3 nov. (invited).

2011

• Buckley C. L. and Nowotny T. (2011) Maximal Dynamic Range in Inhibitory Neuronal Networks Close to Bifurcation. ICMS Mathematical Neuroscience Workshop, Edinburgh.
•  Belmabrouk H., Gu Y., Nowotny T., Rospars J.-P., Martinez M. (2011) Role of local inhibition and neuronal properties in a model of the moth macroglomerular complex. Workshop on Bioinspired computation for chemical sensing, p. 40. Barcelona, Spain, 9-11 march.
•  Rospars J.-P. (2011) From first- to second-order neurons in olfactory systems. Workshop on Bioinspired computation for chemical sensing, p. 31. Barcelona, Spain, 9-11 march.
• Buckley C.L., Nowotny T. (2011) Transient Dynamics between Displaced Fixed Points: An Alter- nate Nonlinear Dynamical Framework for Olfaction. CNS*2011, July 2011, BMC Neuroscience 2011, 12(Suppl 1):P237. doi:10.1186/1471-2202-12-S1-P237