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Lab Members

Ilya A. Rybak, Ph.D.
Professor

Natalia A. Shevtsova, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor

Sergey N. Markin, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor

Khaldoun Hamade
Ph.D. Student

Patrick Jasinski
Ph.D. Student

Collaborators, Co-authors and Friends

Neurogenesis of the respiratory rhythm and neural control of breathing:

   Julian. F. R. Paton (University of Bristol, United Kingdom); Jeffrey. C. Smith (NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, MD);
   Bruce G. Lindsey, Kendall Morris, Roger Shannon et al. (University of South Florida, Tampa, FL);
   Donald R. McCrimmon (Northwestern Univ., Chicago, IL); Walter M. St.-John (Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH);
   Olivier Pierrefiche (University of Amiens, France), Mathias Dutschmann (University of Göttingen, Germany);
   Thomas E. Dick (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH); Tito Pantalelo (University of Florence, Italy);
   Jeffrey T. Potts (University of Missouri, Columbia, MO); Robert R. Rogers (University of Delaware, Wilmington, DE);
   Leszek Kubin (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA).

Neurogenesis of the locomotor rhythm and neural control of locomotion:

David A. McCrea (Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada); Boris I. Prilutsky (Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA);
Michel Lemay (Drexel Univ. College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA); John K. Chapin (State Univ. of New York, NY),
Keir G. Pearson (Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada); Charles J. Heckman (Northwestern University, Chicago, IL)
Trevor Drew (Univ. of Montreal, Montreal, Canada); .Simon Giszter (Drexel Univ. College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA).

Vision:

Lubov N. Podladchikova, Anatoly I. Samarin, Valentina I. Gusakova, Alexander V. Golovan, and Yury K. Gavriley
(all from A. B. Kogan Research Institute of Neurocybernetics (KRINC), Rostov State University, Russia);
Alain Faure and Olga Cachard (both from Le Havre University, France).

Other friends and collaborators:

Robert Hecht-Nielsen (UCSD, San Diego, CA); John J. Hopfield ( Princeton University, Princeton, NJ);
Avis H. Cohen (Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD); Itzhak Fisher (Drexel Univ. College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA);
J. Yasha Kresh (Drexel Univ. College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA); Witali L. Dunin-Barkowski (IITP, Moscow, Russia);
Roman M. Borisyuk (University of Plymouth, UK); Boris M. Vladimirsky (KRINC, Rostov State University, Russia);
Gennady S. Cymbalyuk (Georgia State Univ., Atlanta, GA); Eugene M. Izhikevich (NSI, San Diego, CA);
Maxim Bazhenov (Salk Institute, San Diego, CA); Jonathan E. Rubin (Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA);
M. Anthony Lewis (Iguana Robotics, Inc.)...

Drexel links:

Drexel University; Drexel University College of Medicine; Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy;
Systems Neurobiology; Spinal Cord Research; NeuroEngineering Program; School of Biomedical Engineering

Selected projects:

Modeling the locomotor CPG Neural control of locomotion Motor control

Network model of respiratory CPG Modeling neural control of breathing

Behavioral model of visual perception Modeling orientation selectivity

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Postdoctoral researcher / research associate position is available.Requirements: PhD degree, experience in modeling of single neurons (Hodgkin-Huxley style) and biological neural networks, and strong C++ programming skills. Experience in the analysis of nonlinear systems is an advantage.
Contact: ilya.rybak@drexelmed.edu