Dora Karvouniari
PhD Candidate, Biovision team, Inria, Université Côte d’Azur
I am a PhD student at Biovision team, Inria Sophia Antipolis, supervised by Dr. Bruno Cessac on “Retinal waves: theory, numerics and experiments” in collaboration with Vision Institute in Paris with Dr. Olivier Marre and Dr. Serge Picaud and INPHYNI with Dr. Lionel Gil. My research combines biophysical modelling and nonlinear dynamical systems theory to help the understanding of the cellular mechanisms generating retinal waves during development. My main goal is to work at the interface of modelling and experiments in order to work towards new principles governing neural networks. My dream is to use my theoretical work in order to contribute to therapeutic solutions potentially helping patients!
Email: theodora.karvouniari at inria.fr
Publications
Under preparation
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Dora Karvouniari, Lionel Gil, Olivier Marre, Serge Picaud, Bruno Cessac, Understanding the mechanisms of retinal waves
Journals
Conferences
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Dora Karvouniari, Lionel Gil, Olivier Marre, Serge Picaud, Bruno Cessac, Following retinal waves during development with a biophysical model Poster Communication, Bernstein Conference, Gottingen, Germany, September 2017
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Dora Karvouniari, Lionel Gil, Olivier Marre, Serge Picaud, Bruno Cessac, Classifying the spatiotemporal patterns within stage II retinal waves through dynamical systems analysis, Poster Communication, Bernstein Conference, Berlin, Germany, September 2016
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Dora Karvouniari, Lionel Gil, Olivier Marre, Serge Picaud, Bruno Cessac, Modeling the emergence of stage II retinal waves in immature retina, Poster Communication, Areadne Conference, Santorini, Greece, June 2016
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Dora Karvouniari, Lionel Gil, Olivier Marre, Serge Picaud, Bruno Cessac, Mathematical and experiental studies of retinal waves, Selected talk, 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience, Juan-les-Pins, France, May 2016
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Dora Karvouniari, Lionel Gil, Olivier Marre, Serge Picaud, Bruno Cessac, Biophysical modeling of the intrinsic mechanisms of the autonomous starburst cells during stage II retinal waves, Poster communication, Modeling the early visual system workshop, EITN, Paris, January 2016
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Dora Karvouniari, Lionel Gil, Olivier Marre, Serge Picaud, Bruno Cessac, Biophysical reaction-diffusion model for stage II retinal waves and bifurcations analysis, Invited talk, MathStatNeuro workshop, Nice, September 2015
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Rapsomanikis, M. Zioga, D. Karvouniari, M. Mikeli, D. Thanasas, E. Stiliaris, Sensitivity and Resolution Study of a Small Field γ-Camera System on a Tomographic Level, 20th Conference of the Hellenic Neuclear Physics Society, Athens, Greece, 2011
Organisation of Conferences and Seminars
- PhD Seminars every two weeks at Inria Sophia Antipolis
- MOMI2017 (Le MOnde des Mathematiques Industrielles)
Fellowships
- Summer Training Program NAND – Scholarship, Princeton University, USA ( Burroughs Wellcome Fund and National Institute of Mental Health) (June-July 2016)
- 3 years PhD scholarship of excellence attributed by Ecole Doctorale STIC (2014-2017)
- VRika! Master scholarship of excellence attributed by the French government (2013-2014)
Background
- PhD in Computational Neuroscience “Retinal waves: theory, numerics, experiements” , Biovision team, Inria in collaboration with Vision Institute, Paris
- MSc in Computational Biology and Biomedicine, (Biology-Informatics-Mathematics), Université Côte d’Azur, France
- Diplome in Physics, National University of Athens, Greece
Teaching
- Digital transmissions (M2108), Department of Networks and Telecommunications, Université Côte d’Azur (since 2014)
Students
- Evgenia Kartsaki, Master student in Computational Biology and Biomedicine, semester project co-supervision (2016-2017)
- Jelena Mladenovic, Master student in Computational Biology and Biomedicine, semester project co-supervision (2015-2016)
Communication of science to young students (Useful links)
- Stages Maths C2+ at Inria Sophia Antipolis, 20-23 June 2017
- Fete de la Science, Nice, coming up October 2017
