Serafim Rodrigues

Ikerbasque Research Professor, BCAM - Basque Center of Applied Mathematics

Group leader of the "Mathematical, Computational and Experimental Neuroscience" research group at BCAM.

Research line:

Mathematical and Computational Neuroscience.

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Previous research experience as Lecturer and Researcher (Plymouth University, UK), Postdoctoral Fellow (Bristol University, UK), Research Associate (CNRS/Gif-sur-Yvette and INRIA, France), Research Associate (Bristol University, UK), Research Associate (INESC-ID, Lisbon).

Doctor in Applied Mathematics, (2006) Loughborough University, School of Mathematics, (United Kingdom).

2024

Article / Monitoring Alzheimer's disease via ultraweak photon emission

iScience

Sefati, N.; Esmaeilpour, T.; Salari, V.; Zarifkar, A.; Dehghani, F.; Ghaffari, M.K.; Zadeh-Haghighi, H.; Császár, N.; Bókkon, I.; Rodrigues, S.; Oblak, D.

2023

Article / Synchronization in STDP‐driven memristive neural networks with time‐varying topology

Journal of Biological Physics

Marius Yamakou, Mathieu Desroches and Serafim Rodrigues

Article / Viruses - a major cause of amyloid deposition in the brain

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Tamas Fülöp, Charles Ramassamy, Simon Lévesque, Eric H Frost, Benoit Laurent, Guy Lacombe, Abdelouahed Khalil, Anis Larbi, Katsuiku Hirokawa, Mathieu Desroches, Serafim Rodrigues, Karine Bourgade, Alan A Cohen and Jacek M Witkowski

Article / Monitoring Alzheimer’s Disease via Ultraweak Photon Emission

iScience

Niloofar Sefati, Tahereh Esmaeilpour, Vahid Salari, Asadollah Zarifkar, Farzaneh Dehghani, Mahdi Khorsand Ghaffari, Hadi Zadeh-Haghighi, Noémi Császár, István Bókkon, Serafim Rodrigues, Daniel Oblak

Article / Slow–fast dynamics in a neurotransmitter release model: Delayed response to a time-dependent input signal

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Sensi, M.; Desroches, M.; Rodrigues, S.

Article / From integrator to resonator neurons: a multiple-timescale scenario

Nonlinear Dynamics

Girier, G.; Desroches, M.; Rodrigues, S.

Article / Synchronization in STDP-driven memristive neural networks with time-varying topology

Journal of Biological Physics

Yamakou, M.E.; Desroches, M.; Rodrigues, S.

Note / Viruses - a major cause of amyloid deposition in the brain

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Fulop, T.; Ramassamy, C.; Lévesque, S.; Frost, E.H.; Laurent, B.; Lacombe, G.; Khalil, A.; Larbi, A.; Hirokawa, K.; Desroches, M.; Rodrigues, S.; Bourgade, K.; Cohen, A.A.; Witkowski, J.M.

2022

Article / Are Brain–Computer Interfaces Feasible With Integrated Photonic Chips?

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Vahid Salari, Serafim Rodrigues, Erhan Saglamyurek, Christoph Simon and Daniel Oblak

Article / A phenomenological model for interfacial water near hydrophilic polymers

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Earls, A.; Calderer, M.C.; Desroches, M.; Zarnescu, A.; Rodrigues, S.

Article / Geometry of spiking patterns in early visual cortex: A topological data analytic approach

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Guidolin, A.; Desroches, M.; Victor, J.D.; Purpura, K.P.; Rodrigues, S.

Article / Interaction Mechanism Between the HSV-1 Glycoprotein B and the Antimicrobial Peptide Amyloid-β

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports

Bourgade, K.; Frost, E.H.; Dupuis, G.; Witkowski, J.M.; Laurent, B.; Calmettes, C.; Ramassamy, C.; Desroches, M.; Rodrigues, S.; Fülöp, T.

Review / Classification of bursting patterns: A tale of two ducks

PLoS Computational Biology

Mathieu Desroches, John Rinzel and Serafim Rodrigues

Review / Immunosenescence and Altered Vaccine Efficiency in Older Subjects: A Myth Difficult to Change

Vaccines

Fulop, T.; Larbi, A.; Pawelec, G.; Cohen, A.A.; Provost, G.; Khalil, A.; Lacombe, G.; Rodrigues, S.; Desroches, M.; Hirokawa, K.; Franceschi, C.; Witkowski, J.M.

Review / Classification of bursting patterns: A tale of two ducks

PLoS Computational Biology

Desroches, M.; Rinzel, J.; Rodrigues, S.

2021

Article / Hyperactivation of monocytes and macrophages in MCI patients contributes to the progression of Alzheimer's disease

Immunity and Ageing

Munawara, U.; Catanzaro, M.; Xu, W.; Tan, C.; Hirokawa, K.; Bosco, N.; Dumoulin, D.; Khalil, A.; Larbi, A.; Lévesque, S.; Ramassamy, C.; Barron, A.E.; Cunnane, S.; Beauregard, P.B.; Bellenger, J.P.; Rodrigues, S.; Desroches, M.; Witkowski, J.M.; Laurent, B.; Frost, E.H.; Fulop, T.

Article / Stochastic facilitation in heteroclinic communication channels

Chaos

Sirio Carmantini, G.; Schittler Neves, F.; Timme, M.; Rodrigues, S.

Article / Spike-adding and reset-induced canard cycles in adaptive integrate and fire models

Nonlinear Dynamics

Desroches, M.; Kowalczyk, P.; Rodrigues, S.

Review / Targeting impaired antimicrobial immunity in the brain for the treatment of alzheimer’s disease

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Fulop, T.; Tripathi, S.; Rodrigues, S.; Desroches, M.; Bunt, T.; Eiser, A.; Bernier, F.; Beauregard, P.B.; Barron, A.E.; Khalil, A.; Plotka, A.; Hirokawa, K.; Larbi, A.; Bocti, C.; Laurent, B.; Frost, E.H.; Witkowski, J.M.

2020

Article / Why we should use topological data analysis in ageing: Towards defining the “topological shape of ageing”

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Fülöp, T.; Desroches, M.; A Cohen, A.; Santos, F.A.N.; Rodrigues, S.

Article / Inflection, Canards and Folded Singularities in Excitable Systems: Application to a 3D FitzHugh–Nagumo Model

Journal of Nonlinear Science

Albizuri, J.U.; Desroches, M.; Krupa, M.; Rodrigues, S.

Article / Targeting Infectious Agents as a Therapeutic Strategy in Alzheimer’s Disease

CNS Drugs

Fülöp, T.; Munawara, U.; Larbi, A.; Desroches, M.; Rodrigues, S.; Catanzaro, M.; Guidolin, A.; Khalil, A.; Bernier, F.; Barron, A.E.; Hirokawa, K.; Beauregard, P.B.; Dumoulin, D.; Bellenger, J.P.; Witkowski, J.M.; Frost, E.

2019

Article / Metastable Resting State Brain Dynamics

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

beim Graben, P.; Jimenez-Marin, A.; Diez, I.; Cortes, J.M.; Desroches, M.; Rodrigues, S.

Article / Conductance-Based Refractory Density Approach for a Population of Bursting Neurons

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Chizhov, A.; Campillo, F.; Desroches, M.; Guillamon, A.; Rodrigues, S.

Article / Anticipation via canards in excitable systems

Chaos

Köksal Ersöz, E.; Desroches, M.; Mirasso, C.R.; Rodrigues, S.

2014

Chapter / Neural Fields: Theory and Applications

Peter Beim Graben and Serafim Rodrigues

2011

Article / Numerical continuation of isolas of equilibria

Proceedings of the 7th European Nonlinear Oscillations Conference (ENOC)

Daniele Avitabile, Mathieu Desroches and Serafim Rodrigues

2009

Article / Modeling the coupling of single neuron activity to local field potentials

BMC Neuroscience

Serafim Rodrigues and Peter Beim Graben

Article / Theoretical descriptions of EEG activity: application to absence seizures

BMC Neuroscience

Frank Marten, Serafim Rodrigues, Piotr Suffczynski, Mark Richardson and John R Terry

A mathematical, computational and experimental study of neuronal excitability

University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) and Université Côte d'Azur (Nice, France)

Guillaume Girier - In preparation

Representing Turing machines and memory on a dynamical system

Plymouth University

Giovanni Carmantini - Finished

2023

Member of the AESEMI working group on Neuromorphic Technologies and AI (https://planescomplementariossalud.es/).

Member of the BCAM courses management committee.

Reviewer and jury member of the PhD of Jules Bouté, NeuroPSI, CNRS, Paris-Saclay, France.

Reviewer and jury member of the PhD of Sahil Imtiyaz, University of Camerino, Italy.

2022

Member of BCAM Management Committee (BMC).

Committee member of the 32M Euros Spanish initiative "Plan Complementario de Biotecnología en la Salud" (https://planescomplementariossalud.es/).

2020

Organizer of the Bilbao Neuroscience and Computational Biology (BioNCB'20) workshop at BCAM , 27-29th May 2020

Scientific committee member of the 40th Dynamics Days Europe Conference, 24-28 August 2020, Nice (France).

2018

Scientific committee member of the 2nd International Workshop on Neurodynamics (Ndy'18), 26-28 September 2018, Castro-Urdiales

2017

Member of BCAM's Ikerbasque evaluation committee.

Member of BCAM's PhD selection committee.

2023

Invited talk | Classification of Bursting Patterns: Mind the Slow Variables

SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS23) - Invited talk

Mathieu Desroches, John Rinzel and Serafim Rodrigues

Invited talk | Recurrence structure analysis of neurophysiological data

Nonlinear Data Analysis and Modeling: Advances, Applications, Perspectives - Invited talk

Peter beim Graben, Axel Hutt and Serafim Rodrigues

2022

Invited talk | Understanding Synaptic Mechanisms: Why a Multi-disciplinary Approach is Important

Workshop on Mathematical Modeling and Statistical Analysis in Neuroscience - Invited talk

Afia B Ali, Mathieu Desroches and Serafim Rodrigues

2019

Conference organization | Mathematical Neuroscience

The International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) - Conference organization

Serafim Rodrigues and Maurizio de Pitta

Invited talk | Can the topology-structure-function relationship help understand ageing?

International Symposium Biology of Aging: Understanding aging to better intervene - Invited talk

Serafim Rodrigues

2018

Conference organization | 2nd International workshop in Neurodynamics (Ndy'18)

2nd International workshop in Neurodynamics (Ndy’18) - Conference organization

Serafim Rodrigues

Invited talk | Time-coded neurotransmitter release at excitatory and inhibitory synapses, a slow- fast modelling approach

New Trends in Mathematical Biology - Invited talk

Serafim Rodrigues

Invited talk | Time-coded neurotransmitter release at excitatory and inhibitory synapses, a slow- fast modelling approach

Quantitative Biomedicine in Health and Disease - Invited talk

Serafim Rodrigues

2017

Invited talk | Time-coded neurotransmitter release at excitatory and inhibitory synapses, a slow- fast modelling approach

Barcelona Computational and Systems Neuroscience (BARCSYN) - Invited talk

Serafim Rodrigues

Invited talk | Mathematical modelling, Bridging the gap between Mathematicians and Experimentalists

Research Seminar - Invited talk

Serafim Rodrigues

Invited talk | Mathematical modelling, Neuronal Control and Learning

Neurokafe - Invited talk

Serafim Rodrigues

2015

Invited talk | The Mechanisms of Hippocampal CCK Interneuron Circuits in Health and in an Epileptic Model

Gordon Research Conference - Invited talk

Afia B Ali and Serafim Rodrigues

2013

Conference organization | Slow-Fast Dynamics: with application to Life and Earth Sciences

Slow-Fast Dynamics: with application to Life and Earth Sciences - Conference organization

Serafim Rodrigues

2012

Invited talk | Regulation of synaptic inhibition via endocannabinoids at local circuit interneurons in the rat hippocampus

Research Seminar - Invited talk

Afia B Ali and Serafim Rodrigues

2011

Conference organization | Multiple Time Scale Dynamics: from Theory to Biological Applications

SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS11) - Conference organization

Mathieu Desroches and Serafim Rodrigues

Invited talk | Numerical bifurcation analysis of slow-fast neuron models

CITIC Research Seminar - Invited talk

Serafim Rodrigues

Invited talk | Control-based continuation for excitable circuits

Modemic Research Seminar - Invited talk

Serafim Rodrigues

Invited talk | A novel mathematical and computational paradigm to compute stability bound- aries and bifurcations directly from data in closed-loop experiments.

Research Seminar - Invited talk

Serafim Rodrigues

2010

Conference organization | Recent Advances on Isolas and Invariant Manifolds : Numerics and Applications

SIAM Conference on Emerging Topics in Dynamical Systems and Partial Differential Equations (DSPDE) - Conference organization

Daniele Avitabile, Mathieu Desroches and Serafim Rodrigues

Invited talk | Inverse problems from dynamic-clamp experiments

Research Seminar - Invited talk

Serafim Rodrigues

Invited talk | Theoretical considerations of control-based path continuation in an experimental setting for electronic systems

Research Seminar - Invited talk

Serafim Rodrigues

2009

Invited talk | Multi-time scale EEG models and effects of electrical fields

Research Seminar - Invited talk

Serafim Rodrigues

Oral presentation | Modelling the coupling of single neuron activity to local field potentials

Eighteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS 2009 - Oral presentation

Serafim Rodrigues