Speaker
Lízia Maria Gonçalves Branco
Description
This project aims on fully understanding the ion channels' role in the transmission of electric signals along axons and on developing a physically and mathematically consistent model that describes the evolution of the neurones' membrane potential - the key mechanism for signal propagation. Being the Hodgkin-Huxley’s theory our starting point, we will look at the limitations and inconsistencies of this purely empirical model and present possible gateways for its reformulation and correction.
