Roxana Zeraati

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University of Tübingen
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Email-address: roxana.zeraatispam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de
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Brain dynamics and self-organized criticality
Relationship between local and global neural dynamics by investigating multi-modal signals (e.g. spikes, LFP, and BOLD)
Relationship between network structure and temporal correlations

Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen

Funded by Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience and the Volkswagen Foundation

Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen

Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)

Zeraati, R., Engel, TA., Levina, A. (2022) A flexible Bayesian framework for unbiased estimation of timescales,
Nature Computational Science 2 (3), 193-204 (link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-022-00214-3)
Zeraati, R., Priesemann, V., Levina, A. (2021). Self-organization toward criticality by synaptic plasticity. Front. Phys. (https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.619661)
Diamantaki, M., Coletta, S., Nasr, K., Zeraati, R., Laturnus, S., Berens, P., Preston-Ferrer, P. and Burgalossi, A. (2018). Manipulating hippocampal place cell activity by single-cell stimulation in freely moving mice. Cell reports, 23(1), pp.32-38. DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.03.031 (link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124718303735)
Coletta, S., Zeraati, R., Nasr, K., Preston-Ferrer, P. and Burgalossi, A. (2018). Interspike interval analysis and spikelets in presubicular head-direction cells. Journal of neurophysiology, 120(2), pp.564-575. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00019.2018 (link: https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jn.00019.2018)
Bakouie, F., Pishnamazi, M., Zeraati, R. and Gharibzadeh, S. (2017). Scale-freeness of dominant and piecemeal perceptions during binocular rivalry. Cognitive neurodynamics, 11(4), pp.319-326. DOI: 10.1007/s11571-017-9434-4 (link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11571-017-9434-4)

Zeraati, R., Steinmetz, N., Moore, T., Engel, T., Levina, A. (2019). Signatures of network structure in timescales of spontaneous activity [Featured talk at Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS), Barcelona, Spain].
Zeraati, R., Engel, T., & Levina, A. (2018). Critical avalanches in a spatially structured model of cortical On-Off dynamics [Talk at German Physical Society Meeting (DPG), Regensburg, Germany].

Zeraati, R., Shi, Y., Gieselmann, M., Steinmetz, N., Moore, T., Thiele, A., Engel, T., & Levina, A. (2020) Timescales of ongoing activity reflect local connectivity and are modulated during attention [Poster presented at Cosyne, Denver, USA].
Shi, Y., Zeraati, R, Levina, A. (2020) Spatiotemporal neural correlations and network dynamics [Poster presented at Cosyne, Denver, USA].
Zeraati, R., Steinmetz, N., Moore, T., Engel, T., & Levina, A. (2019). Timescales of spontaneous cortical dynamics reflect the underlying spatial network structure [Poster presented at Bernstein Conference, Berlin, Germany].
Zeraati, R., Steinmetz, N., Moore, T., Engel, T., & Levina, A. (2019). Impact of local connectivity on spatiotemporal patterns of spontaneous neural dynamics [Poster presented at Camillo Golgi Summer School, Erice, Italy].
Zeraati, R., Engel, T., & Levina, A. (2018). Critical avalanches in a spatially structured model of cortical On-Off dynamics [Poster presented at Bernstein Conference, Berlin, Germany].

Teaching assistant for Neural Coding course (Summer Semester 2020, Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen)
Teaching assistant for Neural Coding course (Summer Semester 2019, Graduate Training Center of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen)
Teaching assistant for Introduction to Biomedical Engineering course (Winter Semester 2015-2016, Amirkabir University of Technology)
Teaching assistant for Electronics I course (Winter Semester 2015-2016, Amirkabir University of Technology)