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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Career

  • 1997-2000 Wellcome Trust Fellow in Mathematical Biology, Edinburgh
  • 2000-2001 Lecturer, School of Informatics, Edinburgh
  • 2001-2004 Wellcome Trust Travelling Fellowship, St Louis and Edinburgh
  • 2004-2006 Lecturer, DAMTP
  • 2006-2015 Senior Lecturer, DAMTP
  • 2015- Reader. DAMTP

Research

Stephen Eglen is a computational neuroscientist: he uses computational methods to study the development of the nervous system, using mostly the retina and other parts of the visual pathway as a model system. He is particularly interested in questions of structural and functional development:

Structural development: how do retinal neurons acquire their positional information within a circuit?

Functional development: what are the mechanisms by which neurons make contact with each other, to perform functioning circuits?

Selected Publications

Please see my publications page

Publications

Modeling developmental patterns of spontaneous activity
J Gjorgjieva, SJ Eglen
– Current Opinion in Neurobiology
(2011)
21,
679
Analysis of simultaneous multielectrode recordings with 4,096 channels: changing dynamics of spontaneous activity in the developing retina
MH Hennig, A Maccione, M Gandolfo, M Down, SJ Eglen, L Berdondini, E Sernagor
– BMC Neuroscience
(2011)
12,
P296
Modeling developmental patterns of spontaneous activity
J Gjorgjieva, SJ Eglen
– Curr Opin Neurobiol
(2011)
21,
679
Burst-Time-Dependent Plasticity Robustly Guides ON/OFF Segregation in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus.
J Gjorgjieva, T Toyoizumi, SJ Eglen
– PLoS Comput. Biol.
(2009)
5,
e1000618
A multi-component model of the developing retinocollicular pathway incorporating axonal and synaptic growth
KB Godfrey, SJ Eglen, NV Swindale
– PLoS Computational Biology
(2009)
5,
e1000600
Theoretical models of spontaneous activity generation and propagation in the developing retina.
KB Godfrey, SJ Eglen
– Molecular BioSystems
(2009)
5,
1527
A Quick Guide to Teaching R Programming to Computational Biology Students
SJ Eglen
– PLoS Comput. Biol.
(2009)
5,
e1000482
Analysis of spontaneous activity patterns in developing retina: algorithms and results
JD Simonotto, SJ Eglen, M Kaiser, C Adams, E Sernagor
– BMC Neuroscience
(2009)
10,
p66
Lateral cell movement driven by dendritic interactions is sufficient to form retinal mosaics.
SJ Eglen, A van Ooyen, DJ Willshaw
– Network
(2009)
11,
103
Lateral cell movement driven by dendritic interactions is sufficient to form retinal mosaics
SJ Eglen, A Van Ooyen, DJ Willshaw
– Network: Computation in Neural Systems
(2009)
11,
103
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Research Group

Computational Biology

Room

G0.11