Katharina A. Wilmes – Curriculum Vitæ

Katharina A. Wilmes
Curriculum Vitæ
*13 January 1987 in Meppen, Germany
Education
2011–present Ph.D. studies, Computational Neurophysiology Lab, Advisor: Susanne Schreiber, Co-advisor:
Henning Sprekeler, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin /
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Germany.
2009–2011 Master of Science, Brain and Cognitive Sciences: Cognitive Neuroscience, University of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
with distinction (Cum Laude)
Literature thesis
title Neuroelectrophysiological responses to performance feedback: Past, present and future
supervisor Mike X Cohen
winter term Study Abroad, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
2008
2006–2009 Bachelor of Science, Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany.
Grade: 1.0 (A+ ), with distinction
Bachelor Thesis
title Focus Marking By Speech Accompanying Gestures
supervisors Cornelia Ebert, Hannes Rieser (Bielefeld University)
1997–2006 Allgemeine Hochschulreife, Gymnasium Marianum, Meppen, Germany.
Scholarships
2011–2014 DFG Scholarship, Graduiertenkolleg 1589, Research Training Group “Sensory Computation
in Neural Systems”, Technische Universität Berlin.
Research Interests
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synaptic plasticity, STDP, inhibitory plasticity
neural circuit computations, neural network dynamics
reinforcement/reward learning, neuromodulation
dendritic information processing and computation
Peer-reviewed Publications
Katharina A. Wilmes, Jan-Hendrik Schleimer and Susanne Schreiber (2016). Spike-timing
dependent inhibitory plasticity to learn a selective gating of backpropagating action
potentials. European Journal of Neuroscience. doi: 10.1111/ejn.13326.
Katharina A. Wilmes, Henning Sprekeler and Susanne Schreiber (2016) Inhibition as a
Binary Switch for Excitatory Plasticity in Pyramidal Neurons. PLoS Computational
Biology. 12(3): e1004768. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004768.
Mike X Cohen; Katharina A. Wilmes and Irene van de Vijver (2011). Cortical
electrophysiological network dynamics of feedback learning. Trends in Cognitive
Sciences. 15(12):558–566.
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Cornelia Ebert, Stefan Evert and Katharina Wilmes (2011). Focus Marking via Gestures.
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 15, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken.
Conference Abstracts
(Dis)inhibition as a binary switch of excitatory synaptic plasticity. Cosyne 2016. Salt Lake
City, Utah, USA.
Compartmentalized inhibition: a means to control dendritic spikes and neuronal firing modes.
BCCN Conference 2014. Goettingen, Germany.
Differential gating of dendritic spikes by compartmentalized inhibition. Dendrites 2014. 4th
Namasen Training Workshop. Crete, Greece.
Inhibition differentially regulates dendritic spikes - the substrates for plasticity - in distinct
compartments of a pyramidal neuron. Sfn Annual Meeting 2013. San Diego, California, USA.
Talks
06/2015 Local dendritic inhibition as a simple pathway-specific switch for Hebbian synaptic plasticity.
3rd workshop on Dendrite function and wiring: experiments and theory. CNS 2015. Prague,
Czechia.
02/2014 Effects of inhibition on dendritic signal propagation. Meeting for the Research Training Group
’Sensory computation in neural systems’. Berlin, Germany.
11/2013 Shunting inhibition can differentially regulate dendritic spikes. Berlin Brain Days. Berlin,
Germany.
10/2013 How synaptic plasticity could be regulated in a compartment-specific manner. 5th BMBF
symposium. Functional communication in the brain. UKE Hamburg, Germany.
Teaching
winter term Models of Neural Systems, Analytic Tutorial.
2012 Lecture by Richard Kempter - Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
summer term Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, Teaching Assistant.
2009 Lecture by Sven Walter - University of Osnabrück
summer term Introduction to Computational Linguistics, Teaching Assistant.
2008 Lecture by Stefan Evert - University of Osnabrück
winter term Introduction to Linguistics, Teaching Assistant.
2007 Lecture by Peter Bosch - University of Osnabrück
Programming and language skills
Programming Python, Matlab, R, Neuron, Brian
Other LATEX, Inkscape, Git
Languages German (native), English (fluent), Dutch (intermediate), French (basic)
Summer Schools
Advanced statistical modelling of neuronal data 2012, Osnabrück, Germany
Emotion and Aesthetics, Interdisciplinary College 2012, Günne, Germany
Advanced scientific programming in Python 2011, St. Andrews, Scotland
Neuroeconomics, CSCA summer school 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Consciousness and the Brain, CSCA summer school 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Extracurricular Activities
2011-2013 Elected spokesperson for the GRK1589/1 and member of the GRK Steering Committee
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