Neural Code of the fly's optical system

• Grant number: 12/13840-4
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Effective date (Start): September 01, 2012
• Effective date (End): September 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Classical Areas of Phenomenology and Applications
• Principal Investigator: Roland Koberle
• Grantee: Fernando dos Santos Beserra
• Home Institution: Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The aim of this study is the acquisistion of experimental and theoretical tools to work in {\em Neuroscience}.To acomplish this, the student shall:1- Study: Information Theory, Stochastic Processes, Matlab/Scilab programming.2- Learn the experimental techniques used in our lab {\em DipteraLab} to record extracellularly from Lobula Plate neurons.3- Join his adviser in the project aiming at a real time reconstruction of the stimulus seen by the fly fromthe H1-spike-train. 4- Perform and analise his own experiments.