News
›› 01/01/2018
Open sourcing of BluePyMM, Blue Brain Python Cell Model Management.
›› 01/01/2018
Started working at ASML, Veldhoven, the Netherlands.
›› 05/12/2017 at 17:00
OSPF Concert, Eglise de Puplinge, Puplinge, Switzerland.
›› 05/11/2017 at 17:00
OSPF Concert, Eglise Notre Dame des Grâces, Lancy, Switzerland.
›› 03/11/2017 at 20:00
OSPF Concert, Salle Frank Martin, Geneva, Switzerland.
›› 11/2017
Release of the Simulation Neuroscience MOOC on the edX platform; I contributed to the development of the exercises.
›› 12-13/09/2017
HBP Young Researchers Event, Campus Biotech, Geneva, Switzerland.
›› 23/06/2017 at 19:00
OSPF concert, Fête de la Musique, Salle de spectacle de l'Institut International de Lancy, Grand-Lancy, Switzerland.
›› 06-09/06/2017
Human Brain Project Brain Simulation Platform Hackathon, Campus Biotech, Geneva, Switzerland.
›› 26/04/2017
Member of the 9th edition of the Réseau romand de mentoring pour femmes.
›› 09/04/2017 at 17:00
OSPF Concert, Eglise Notre Dame des Grâces, Lancy, Switzerland.
›› 07/04/2017 at 20:00
OSPF Concert, Temple de Coppet, Coppet, Switzerland.
›› 06-10/03/2017
Workshop on Big Data Management Systems in Business and Industrial Applications, Stuttgart, Germany; I'm a member of the program committee.
E-mail
›› See Liesbeth Vanherpe @ EPFL.
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›› The header image of this page is made with Brayns, a visualiser for ray-traced rendering of neuronal morphologies, mainly developed by Cyrille Favreau at the Blue Brain Project.
From November 2013 to December 2017, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) for the Blue Brain Project on mesoscale brain synthesis.
I was involved in the development of scientific software for synthesis and modelling of neuronal morphologies in a virtual brain.
The Blue Brain Project takes part in the Human Brain Project.
Synthesis of spatially-embedded neuronal morphologies
Brain functionality depends on connectivity between neurons, which in turn depends on neuronal morphology. Therefore, to reproduce brain function through simulation of large-scale neuronal networks, it is important to use realistic neuronal morphologies. The classic approach, where morphologies are reconstructed experimentally, provides invaluable information but is expensive. In order to increase morphological variability, we propose to synthesize neuronal morphologies in situ. We are developing a framework for synthesis of virtual neurons based on spatially-embedded stochastic models.
Blue Brain Project
- École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- Brain Mind Institute
- Blue Brain Project
- Human Brain Project
- Campus Biotech, Geneva, Switzerland
Selected publications
Open source software
- W. Van Geit, L. Vanherpe, C. Roessert, M. Gevaert, J.-D. Courcol, J. King, BluePyMM, Blue Brain Python Cell Model Management, https://github.com/BlueBrain/BluePyMM, 2018
Articles in internationally reviewed journals
- L. Vanherpe, L. Kanari, G. Atenekeng, J. Palacios, J. Shillcock, Framework for efficient synthesis of spatially embedded morphologies, Physical Review E, 49:023315, 2016