Publications
Journals
- [2010] Diwakar S, Achuthan K, Nedungadi P, Nair B. Enhanced Facilitation of Biotechnology Education in Developing Nations via Virtual Labs: Analysis, Implementation and Case-studies. Intl Journal of Computer Technology and Engineering, 2010 in press.
- [2009] Diwakar S, Magistretti J, Goldfarb M, Naldi G, D'Angelo E. Axonal na+ channels ensure fast spike activation and back-propagation in cerebellar granule cells. J Neurophysiol. 2009 Feb;101(2):519-32. Epub 2008 Dec 10.
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[2008] Prestori F, Rossi P, Bearzatto B, Lainé J, Necchi D, Diwakar S, Schiffmann SN, Axelrad H, D'Angelo E. Altered neuron excitability and synaptic plasticity in the cerebellar granular layer of juvenile prion protein knock-out mice with impaired motor control. J Neurosci. 2008 Jul 9;28(28):7091-103. (suppl)
- [2007] Goldfarb M, Schoorlemmer J, Williams A, Diwakar S, Wang Q, Huang X, Giza J, Tchetchik D, Kelley K, Vega A, Matthews G, Rossi P, Ornitz DM, D'Angelo E. Fibroblast growth factor homologous factors control neuronal excitability through modulation of voltage-gated sodium channels. Neuron. 2007 Aug 2;55(3):449-63. (suppl)
Computational Models (Senselab and others)
- Multicompartmental cerebellar granule cell model (Diwakar et al. 2009), Modeldb, 2009.
Books
Recent Talks
- Neurotalk 2010, Track 2-3: Neuromathematics, Neurophysics, Neuroinformatics and Computation Neurobiology, Singapore EXPO, Singapore, June 25, 2010, Title: Neuronal Models and Exploration of Network Properties: A Case Study into Cerebellar Granular Layer Models and Local Field Potential Modeling.
- India4EU forum, Oct 5, 2009, Department of Electronics, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Helsinki, Finalnd.
- LFP workshop: Modeling and interpretation of extracellular field potentials, January 15-16, 2009 at Oslo, Norway organized by INCF-Norway.
Recent Conferences
- H. Parasuram, N. Abdulmanaph, B. Nair, S. Diwakar. Modeling granular layer local field potential using single neuron and network based approaches to predict ltp/ltd in extracellular recordings. Proceedings of Neurocomp, 2010 (in press), Oct 6-8, 2010.
- S. Subramaniyam, C. Medini, B. Nair, S. Diwakar. Modeling spatio-temporal processing in cerebellar granular layer and effects of controlled inhibition on plasticity. Proceedings of Neurocomp, 2010 (in press), Oct 6-8, 2010.
- P. James, N. Abdulmanaph, B. Nair, S. Diwakar. Exploring input-output characteristics of the cerebellar granule neuron: role of synaptic inhibition, spike timing and plasticity. Proceedings of Neurocomp, 2010 (in press), Oct 6-8, 2010.
- H. Parasuram, N. Abdulmanaph, B. Nair, S. Diwakar.Reconstructing extracellular local field potential in cerebellar granular layer networks. Proceedings of BIC-TA, 2010 (in press), Sept 8-10, 2010.
- C. Medini, S. Subramaniyam, B. Nair, S. Diwakar.Modeling cerebellar granular layer excitability and combinatorial computation with spikes. Proceedings of BIC-TA, 2010 (in press), Sept 8-10, 2010.
- N. Abdulmanaph, P. James, B. Nair, S. Diwakar. Characterizing information transmission in cerebellar granule neuron. Proceedings of BIC-TA, 2010 (in press), Sept 8-10, 2010.
- S. Diwakar, K. Achuthan, P. Nedungadi. Biotechnology Virtual Labs – Integrating Wet-lab Techniques and Theoretical Learning for Enhanced Learning at Universities. Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Storage and Data Engineering (DSDE 2010), Bangalore, Feb 10, 2010.
- S. Diwakar, G. Naldi, E. D'Angelo. Computational modeling of LFP and predictions on granular layer plasticity. Neuroinformatics 2008, Aug 7-9, Stockholm, Sweden.
- S. Diwakar, G. Naldi, E. D'Angelo. Computational modeling of extracellular local field potentials predicts activation patterns and plasticity in the cerebellar circuit-at the GRC Sensory coding and Natural environment conference at Barga, Italy on July 31-August 2, 2008.
- S. Diwakar, G. Naldi, E. D'Angelo. Computational modeling predicts activation patterns and plasticity in the cerebellar circuit-at the FENS 2008 meeting at Geneva, Switzerland on July 10-16, 2008.
- S. Diwakar, G. Naldi, E. D'Angelo. Computational modeling predicts activation patterns and plasticity in the cerebellar circuit-at the SINS 2007 meeting organized by Society of Italian Neuroscience at Verona, Italy on Sept 27-30, 2007.
- S. Diwakar, G. Naldi, E. D'Angelo. Reconstructing Extracellular field potentials with a multi-compartmental cerebellar granule cell model. at the Node and Network meeting organized by University of Pavia and others commemorating the Golgi Nobel Prize centennial 1906-2006 at Pavia, Italy on Oct 2-4, 2006.
- S. Diwakar, Does the glomerulus function as a multiclass support vector machine? –Modeling the olfactory system from a machine learning perspective at the joint international conference on Neuroscience organized by IAN SNCI 2004 at Hyderabad, India on May 6-8, 2004.