Sacha van Albada
Professor
Sacha van Albada leads the group “Theoretical Neuroanatomy” at the Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) at Forschungszentrum Jülich and is Professor for Computational Neuroanatomy at the University of Cologne. Her group combines anatomical and physiological data from a wide range of sources to build neural network models of mammalian cerebral cortex. The aim is to understand relationships between cortical structure and dynamics, and to provide models that serve as platforms for further refinement and for incorporating cortical function.
Publications
2024
Pronold, Jari; Meegen, Alexander; Shimoura, Renan O; Vollenbröker, Hannah; Senden, Mario; Hilgetag, Claus C; Bakker, Rembrandt; Albada, Sacha J.
Multi-scale spiking network model of human cerebral cortex Journal Article
In: Cereb Cortex, vol. 34, no. 10, pp. bhae409, 2024, ISSN: 1460-2199.
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Jiang, Han-Jia; Qi, Guanxiao; Duarte, Renato; Feldmeyer, Dirk; Albada, Sacha J.
A layered microcircuit model of somatosensory cortex with three interneuron types and cell-type-specific short-term plasticity Journal Article
In: Cereb Cortex, vol. 34, no. 9, pp. bhae378, 2024, ISSN: 1460-2199.
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2023
Morales-Gregorio, Aitor; Meegen, Alexander; Albada, Sacha J.
Ubiquitous lognormal distribution of neuron densities in mammalian cerebral cortex Journal Article
In: Cereb Cortex, vol. 33, no. 16, pp. 9439–9449, 2023.
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author = {Aitor Morales-Gregorio and Alexander Meegen and Sacha J. Albada},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
urldate = {2023-01-01},
journal = {Cereb Cortex},
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2022
Senk, Johanna; Kriener, Birgit; Djurfeldt, Mikael; Voges, Nicole; Jiang, Han-Jia; Schüttler, Lisa; Gramelsberger, Gabriele; Diesmann, Markus; Plesser, Hans E.; Albada, Sacha J.
Connectivity Concepts in Neuronal Network Modeling Journal Article
In: PLOS Comput Biol, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. e1010086, 2022.
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author = {Johanna Senk and Birgit Kriener and Mikael Djurfeldt and Nicole Voges and Han-Jia Jiang and Lisa Schüttler and Gabriele Gramelsberger and Markus Diesmann and Hans E. Plesser and Sacha J. Albada},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010086},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
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Albada, Sacha J.; Morales-Gregorio, A.; Dickscheid, T.; Goulas, A.; Bakker, R.; Bludau, S.; Palm, G.; Hilgetag, C. -C.; Diesmann, M.
Bringing Anatomical Information into Neuronal Network Models Book Section
In: Giugliano, Michele; Negrello, Mario; Linaro, Daniele (Ed.): Computational Modelling of the Brain: Modelling Approaches to Cells, Circuits and Networks, pp. 201–234, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2022, ISBN: 978-3-030-89439-9.
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2018
Schmidt, Maximilian; Bakker, Rembrandt; Hilgetag, Claus C.; Diesmann, Markus; Albada, Sacha J.
Multi-scale account of the network structure of macaque visual cortex Journal Article
In: Brain Struct Func, vol. 223, no. 3, pp. 1409–1435, 2018, ISSN: 1863-2661.
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url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-017-1554-4},
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Schmidt, Maximilian; Bakker, Rembrandt; Shen, Kelly; Bezgin, Gleb; Diesmann, Markus; Albada, Sacha J.
A multi-scale layer-resolved spiking network model of resting-state dynamics in macaque visual cortical areas Journal Article
In: PLOS Comput Biol, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. e1006359, 2018.
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url = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006359},
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2015
Albada, Sacha J.; Helias, Moritz; Diesmann, Markus
Scalability of Asynchronous Networks Is Limited by One-to-One Mapping between Effective Connectivity and Correlations Journal Article
In: PLOS Comput Biol, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. e1004490, 2015.
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