Gabriele Scheler Email & Phone Number

Mountain View

Neural Plasticity, Lognormal Networks, Mathematical Oncology, Memory and Autism, Symbolic Abstraction,

Mountain View Ca

Started to research possibilities for doing a non-profit startup, outlining a vision, collecting initial funding pledges, and getting informed about support for non-profit organizations, strategic development, legal structure and other questions. Found colleagues which share the vision. Developed a website and a mission statement.

- Computational Neuroscience: Worked on the concept of general neural plasticity, based on ion channel and GPCR modulation. Applied the concept of intrinsic plasticity by parametrization of model neurons to show effects on large-scale neural networks. Investigated topological connectivity and synchronization. - Bioinformatics: Working with Yuan Yao, I also published on statistical graph analysis for metabolic and protein interaction networks. - Systems Biology: Developed a model for protein signal transduction collaborative with an experimental approach for the cAMP/PKA/PDE pathway (with Dill and Richter, Conti, UCSF).Contributed to collaborative grant proposal on dopamine receptor plasticity in addiction research in striatal medium spiny neurons with the Gallo Center at USCF (Bonci/Hopf).- BioClub: Organized a long-running seminar series on mathematical biology, the biological modeling club.

San Francisco Bay Area

Bioinformatics, Sequence Alignment, Perl/Python script access to databases, Running bioinformatics projects

Greater Boston Area

Investigated graph analysis tools with applications to biological databases (protein interaction) and neuronal networks.

Berkeley Ca

- Neural Networks: Developed the concept of fast synaptic switching, i.e. neural networks with alternate weight sets, with applications in technical domains (with J Schumann). - Neuroscience: Outlined and published a model and review of GPCR plasticity.

La Jolla Ca

- Computational neuroscience: Learned to apply computational modeling to electrophysiological recordings from rat brain slices, and developed a modified integrate-and-fire neuron model capable of representing variation in afterhyperpolarization. This model was applied to represent dopamine modulation of prefrontal cortex working memory by altered reverberation in the network and perceptual attention by adjusting tuning curves (with JM Fellous).- Extensive background research on neurons, brain areas, and biophysics.

Munich Area, Germany

- Neural Networks: Obtained a scholarship from the State of Bavaria for my work on computational linguistics. - Worked on grammar correction, text summarization, and lexical analysis (with Fischer, Aretoulaki, Brauer). Received a personal DFG grant for neural networks research (1996). Developed an event-based spiking neuron simulator (SPIKENET) (with Florian Wagner).

Martinsried Near Munich

- Bioinformatics: Worked on a protein sequence database, MIPS (later Biomax Informatics AG) and developed one of the first dedicated techniques for protein sequence comparison based on a novel algorithm for pattern classification, adaptive distance metrics.- Published an applications of ADM to phonology (=string comparison).

Heidelberg Area, Germany

- Computational Linguistics: Worked on problems in statistical lexical analysis, corpus linguistics and machine translation. Started a group on Neural Networks in computational linguistics. - Taught introductory classes in logic and linguistics. - Co-edited (with Wermter and Riloff) a book on Statistical Approaches in NLP (which appears in Webster's Timeline History of NLP 1929 - 2007.)

Tokyo, Japan

I thought about things to do.

Munich Area, Germany

I learned to program in LISP and PROLOG and worked on my dissertation research in Natural Language Processing /Machine Translation/Q&A systems using a PROLOG-based knowledge engine.

Ph.D., Logic, Statistics And The Theory Of Science

Thesis: A PROLOG-based natural language interpretation program focusing on lexical semantic analysis

Ma, Theoretical Linguistics

Fields of Interest: Language Typology, Montague Grammar, Logic, Psychology of Mind, Phonology

Russian Language And Literature

3 month stay. In the winter.

Linguistics, Philosophy, Mathematics

Abitur, Abitur, 843/900 (1.0)