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This is the provisional home page of Rolf Kötter and the Computational | Systems | Neuroscience Group at the C. &. O. Vogt Brain Research Institute in Düsseldorf, Germany (www.hirn.uni-duesseldorf.de/rk)

 Announcements | Address | Short CV | Research | Teaching | Useful web sites

Announcements

• In 2006 my research group moved to Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, where I am appointed as a professor to the chair of physiology and neuroinformatics. For further information see www.neuropi.org.

• "The Human Connectome: A structural description of the human brain" published by Olaf Sporns, Giulio Tononi and Rolf Kötter in PLoS Computational Biology 2005

• Brain Network Recovery Group funded by the J.S. McDonnell Foundation and coordinated by Randy McIntosh

• Theme Issue on "Multimodal Neuroimaging of Brain Connectivity" edited by Pedro-Valdés-Sosa, Karl Friston and Rolf Kötter published 2005 in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biological Sciences

• PLoS Biology 2004 paper on "Motifs in Brain Networks" by Olaf Sporns & Rolf Kötter. Read the Synopsis here.

• "Brain Connectivity Workshop 2004" in Havana, Cuba, 26-29 April 2004, organized by Pedro Valdés-Sosa and Rolf Kötter

• "Structural Connectivity and Diffusion Tensor Imaging" and "The Brain as a Complex System":
  Educational workshops at the Human Brain Mapping 2003 conference, New York, 18-22 June 2003

• Special Issue "Neuroinformatics" of the journal Neural Networks in 2003 edited by Shun-ichi Amari, Michael Arbib, and Rolf Kötter

• Nature Rev. Neurosci. 2002 paper on  The anatomical basis of functional localization in the cortex

• Book on "Neuroscience Databases - A Practical Guide"
  published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in October 2002

• "Functional Brain Connectivity" Workshop, organised by Rolf Kötter & Karl Friston, Düsseldorf, 4-6 April 2002

• IST2001 event "Towards Neuronal Computers", Düsseldorf, 5 December 2001.

• Theme Issue "Neuroscience databases - tools for exploring brain structure-function relationships"
  of the journal Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B. in 2001

• Nature 2000 news feature on "Databasing the brain"

• 1998 Forum of European Neuroscience
  Special Workshop: "Spectrum of Computational Neuroscience in Europe" at the Hotel Intercontinental in Berlin, 29 June 1998.
  See also Special Issue "Computational Neuroscience" in the journal Reviews in the Neurosciences 1999.

• IPCAT'96
  One day workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues in Düsseldorf, 26 October 1996.

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Address

Prof. Dr. med. Rolf Kötter

C. & O. Vogt Brain Research Institute and Institute of Anatomy II

Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Universitätsstr. 1, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany

Bldg. 22.03, Level 05, Room 43

Phone + Fax: +49 211 81-12095

E-mail: rkhirn.uni-duesseldorf.de

 [Campus Map | Specific Building | Specific Building Satellite Map | Surrounds | University Clinics Orientation (pdf)]

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Short CV

Studied medicine and computer science in Germany, England and France. Doctoral thesis in the laboratory of "O.-E." Brodde with a combined pharmacological, biochemical, and physiological characterization of alpha adrenoceptors. Advanced studies in Neurology at the National Hospital Queen Square, London. Joined the group of Günther Palm to specialise in Neuroinformatics. Research fellow at the Dept. of Anatomy & Structural Biology, University of Otago working with Jeff Wickens and Robert Miller on computer models of striatal mechanisms. Helmholtz scholarship at the C. & O. Vogt Brain Research Institute headed by Karl Zilles to start a Computational Systems Neuroscience group. Habilitation on "Structural determinants of cortical information processing" using a combination of morphological, electrophysiological and computational approaches to investigate activity propagation and information processing in the cerebral cortex. Specialist in anatomy and professor with a joint appointment at the Vogt Brain Research Institute and the Institute of Anatomy II. Guest professor at the East China Univ. of Science and Technology, Shanghai.

Supported by: Wellcome Trust collaboration grant (with Malcolm Young, University of Newcastle), EU Thematic network "Computational Neuroscience" (coordinated by Erik De Schutter), DFG ("Algorithmic analysis of neural connectivity" with Egon Wanke; Graduate School 320 AG Kötter/Zilles), Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation ("Brain connectivity" workshops with Karl Friston and Pedro Valdes-Sosa), NRW Research Exchange for Sweden (with Per Roland), J.S McDonnell Foundation (Brain Network Recovery Group led by Randy McIntosh).

Editorial boards: Cognitive Neurodynamics, International Journal of Neural Systems, Neurocomputing, Neuroinformatics, PLoS Computational Biology

Member of the Neuroinformatics Committee of the Society for Neuroscience
External Advisory Board of the Neuroinformatics Doctoral Training Centre, Univ. of Edinburgh

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Research

Link to some of our publications via PubMed

• Structural and Functional Connectivity of the Cerebral Cortex
• Computational Neuroscience: The Nigrostriatal System
• Theory of Neuroscience: The Limbic System

Group members: Gleb Bezgin, Alejandra Dippel, Andreas Geißler, Ina Gerken, Peter Kruskal, Jürgen Maier, Konrad Rybacki
Former students: Ahmet Bozkurt, Jonas Dyhrfjeld-Johnsen, Lars Kamper, Margareta Krickl (Feizelmeier), Pernille Nielsen, Dirk Schirok, Klaas Enno Stephan

• CoCoMac and CoCoDat Databases
• List of Important Problems in Neuroscience

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Teaching

• Kursinformationen, Skripte, HistoWebAtlas, Diskussionforen und Links zur Anatomie (www.anatomie.net)
• Wieder im SS 2006: Seminar "Computational Neuroscience / Neuroinformatics"
• Lectures at the Düsseldorf Neuroscience Graduate School
• Previous lectures in Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics
• Aktuell: Doktorarbeiten im Bereich der Hirnforschung an engagierte Medizinstudenten zu vergeben. Aktuelle Themen: 1) Organisation der Basalganglienschleifen, 2) Modulatorische Transmittersysteme (z.B. Dopamin, Serotonin), 3) Analyse der Konnektivität des Gehirns aus struktureller und funktioneller Bildgebung.
  Beginn ist jederzeit möglich, ein Freisemester wird vorausgesetzt. Ein Praktikum zum Kennenlernen wird im Rahmen des "Curriculum zur Strukturierten Promotion" angeboten.
• Sprechstunde für Studierende: nach Vereinbarung (Tel.: 0211/81-12095).

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Useful web sites

Links to Anatomy

Links to Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics

Links to the Brain Connectivity Workshop series

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Finis

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