Jane Wang

Jane Wang has been with the Zochowski lab since the summer of 2006.  Her work has been supported through an Applied Physics Regents' Fellowship as well as the NIH's Molecular Biophysics Training Grant.

Her primary focus is on hierarchical memory formation and storage in model neural networks.  Spatiotemporal dynamics and patterning are highly affected by underlying topology; therefore when the topology of the network displays deliberate structure, as a result of learning, network dynamics should reflect these features.  Jane's projects involve using synchrony and other network measures to examine how and to what degree this causality is present in both computational models as well as dissociated cell cultures.  She is particularly interested in how plasticity and self-regulation of connections within a network manifests on the global scale.  The neuronal models she works with range from the highly simplistic to the moderately complex, including spin glasses, integrate-and-fire, Morris-Lecar, and Hindmarsh-Rose.