Nancy Kopell
Encyclopedia
Nancy Jane Kopell is an American mathematician
, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University
, and Co-Director, Center for BioDynamics.
She grew up in the Bronx.
She graduated from Cornell University
with an A.B., and from the University of California, Berkeley
, with an M.A. and a Ph.D. Her research interest is the dynamics of the nervous system.
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
, and Co-Director, Center for BioDynamics.
She grew up in the Bronx.
She graduated from Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
with an A.B., and from the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, with an M.A. and a Ph.D. Her research interest is the dynamics of the nervous system.
Works
- Gloveli T., Dugladze T., Rotstein H., Traub R., Heinemann U., Monyer H., Whittington M. and Kopell N., "Orthogonal arrangement of rhythm generating microcircuits in the hippocampus", PNAS 102:13295-300 (2005)
- Steve Kunec, Michael E. HasselmoMichael HasselmoMichael Hasselmo is a neuroscientist at Boston University.He is known for his work on neuromodulators, particularly acetylcholine, and for his computational modelling work on the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, especially regarding the functional role of theta rhythm.He is on the editorial board...
and Nancy Kopell "Encoding and Retrieval in the CA3 Region of the Hippocampus: A Model of Theta-Phase Separation", J Neurophysiol 94:70-82 (2005) - Horacio G. Rotstein, Dmitri D. Pervouchine, Corey D. Acker, Martin J. Gillies, John A. White, Eberhardt H. Buhl, Miles A. Whittington, and Nancy Kopell "Slow and fast inhibition and an h-current interact to create a theta rhythm in a model of CA1 interneuron network ", J Neurophysiol 94:1509-1518 (2005)
- Christoph Börgers and Steven Epstein and Nancy J. Kopell "Background gamma rhythmicity and attention in cortical local circuits: A computational study ", PNAS 102(19):7002-7007 (2005)
- Mette S. Olufsen, Miles A. Whittington, Marcelo Camperi, Nancy Kopell "New Roles for the Gamma Rhythm: Population Tuning and Preprocessing", J. Comput. Neurosci 14:35-54 (2003)
- N. Kopell and G.B. Ermentrout "Mechanisms of phase-locking and frequency control in pairs of coupled neural oscillators", Handbook on Dynamical Systems: Toward applications. Ed. B. Fiedler, Elsevier 2:3-54 (2002)
External links
- "Nancy Jane Kopell", Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "Nancy Kopell", Scientific Commons