Curriculum Vitæ
Erik Fransén
KTH Computer Science and Communication
Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
phone: +46-8-7906902, email: erikf@csc.kth.se
1. Ph. D. in Computer science, Stockholm University, Sweden 1996.
Thesis: "Biophysical Simulation of Cortical Associative Memory" under the supervision of prof. Jan-Olof Eklundh and prof. Anders Lansner. Thesis opponent prof William Levy, U. Virginia, USA.
2. Post doctoral fellow at Dept Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA 1997-1998.
3. Associate professor (docent) in Computer science, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden 2002.
4. Appointed associate professor (lektor) in Computer science 020701. School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology.
5. Previous appointments
970601-020630 Assistant professor (forskarassistent), Dept. of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology.
970801-980931 Post doctoral fellow at Dept Psychol, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, USA. Funding STINT.
961016-961231 Assistant professor (univ. adjunkt), Dept. of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology.
911101-961015 Ph. D. student position (doktorand), Dept. of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology.
880118-881231 Research assistant (amanuens) at the Dept. of Medical Physics, Göteborg University.
6. Parental leave
991004-991205, 98118-981201, 970418-970429
8. Supervision, Assignments
2008-present Principal supervisor of one doctoral student.
2007-present Principal supervisor of one doctoral student.
2005-present Principal supervisor of one doctoral student.
2005-2007 Assistant supervisor of one doctoral student.
2003-2006 Assistant supervisor of one doctoral student at Karolinska Institutet.
2002-2004 Principal supervisor of one doctoral student.
1998-2003 Assistant supervisor of 2 doctoral students.
1999, 2000 Supervision of science projects for students from Norra Real gymnasium.
09012 of the thesis comittee for Misha Zilberter, Karolinska Institutet.
2008 Head of successful application to host the conference CNS*2011.
080829 Thesis opponent for Isaac Schemer, Karolinska Institutet.
2008-present Member of the board of Organization of Computational Neuroscience Inc.
2008-present Memeber of the strategy group in platform Computer Science at CSC.
2008-present Director of masters programme Computational and systems biology, KTH.
2008-present Deputy director of department of Computational Biology, KTH
2007-2008 Deputy director of masters programme Computational and systems biology, KTH.
071112 Member of the thesis committee for Geir Halnes, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
070904-2008 Mentor in KTH Technologia of a KTH graduate student.
070522 Opponent on lic. thesis by Jacob Kowalewski, KTH Physics dept.
070223 Grant reviewer for STINT.
060929 Member and chairman of the thesis comittee for Julian Macoveanu, KI.
060914-070125 participant as 1 out of 9 in KTH Future faculty 2006 ERFA course.
051018-2008 Member of school equal opportunities committee
050930 Licensiate thesis opponent for Julian Macoveanu, LiTH.
041103 Member and chairman of the thesis comittee for Carl Holmgren, KI.
041102-present Member of the KTH faculty board (Fakultetskollegiet).
030331-040826 Member of programme comittee of workshop at ICBP2004 conference.
020901-present Coordinator (kompetensinriktningsansvarig) of the engineering school major subject Biomedical engineering. Royal Institute of Technology.
2001-2005 Member of the department board. (Board was ended 2005.)
020110 Thesis opponent for Björn Nielsen, DTU, Denmark.
000915 Member of the thesis comittee for Jakob Svensson, KTH.
000313 Grant reviewer for U. Arizona.
1993-1996 Graduate student representative and member of the department board.
9. Honors and awards
1997 Swedish foundation for international cooperation in research and higher education (STINT) post doctoral fellowship
1997 Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (KVA) stipend from P.E. Lindahls fund
1991 Swedish Natural Research Council (NFR) graduate student fellowship
10. Collaborations
2006-present Johan Storm, Oslo U, Norway.
1998-2005 Angel Alonso, Montreal Neurological Institute and McGill U., Canada.
1997-present, Michael Hasselmo, Boston University, USA.
11. Post doc collaborations
2007-present Motoharu Yoshida, Boston University, USA.
2006-2007 Babak Tahvildari, Yale University, USA.
2005 Alexander Kozlov, KTH, Sweden.
2002-2004 Alexei Egorov, U. Heidelberg, Germany.
1998-1999 Jacopo Magistretti, U. degli Studi di Pavia, Italy.
1997-1998 Gene Wallenstein, Harvard University, USA.
12. Information to the public
2008 Supervisor of 2 PRAO school pupils from Sollentuna.
071127 Interview in public radio, Radio västernorrland.
071127 Popular science talk in conjunction to the museum exhibition ”Se hjärnan”, Härnösand.
2007 lecture to high school pupils about artificial intelligence
060831 Popular science article submitted to Forskning och Framsteg.
2006 Information to high-school students about research at CSC, KTH.
2001 Young researchers Östergötland annual meeting, lecturer.
1999-2001 Information to high-school students about research at NADA, KTH.
1996 Swedish television: Hjärnvågor: Del 6, Medvetandet, intellektet och känslorna. Together with profs Bo Dahlbom, Martin Ingvar, Helge Malmgren and Lennart Widén.
1993 Swedish television: UR Data: Datorer och deras användning.
List of Publications for Erik Fransén
1 Original papers in refereed journals
S. Cervenka, E. Fransén, A. Varrone, C. Halldin, L. Farde: Regional analysis of D2-receptor binding in striatal and extrastriatal brain regions: correlations and individual patterns. J. Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 2008 (submitted).
E. Fransén, J. Tigerholm: Role of A-type potassium currents in dynamic excitability, network synchronicity and epilepsy. 2008 (submitted).
M. Yoshida, E. Fransén, M. Hasselmo: Persistent firing in entorhinal cortex layer III neurons modulated by mGluR. Eur. J. Neurosci. 28: 1116-26, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06409.x
L. Giocomo, E. Zilli, E. Fransén, M. Hasselmo: Temporal frequency of subthreshold oscillations scales with entorhinal grid cell spatial frequency. Science 315: 1719-22, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1139207
B. Tahvildari, E. Fransén, A. Alonso, M. Hasselmo: Switching between "On" and "Off" States of Persistent Activity in Lateral Entorhinal Layer III Neurons. Hippocampus 17: 257-263, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hipo.20270
E. Fransén. Neural response profile design: Reducing epileptogenic activity by modifying neuron responses to synchronized input using novel potassium channels obtained by parameter search optimization. Neurocomputing 70: 1630-1634, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2006.10.046
E. Fransén, B. Tahvildari, A. Egorov, M. Hasselmo, A. Alonso: Mechanism of graded persistent cellular activity of entorhinal cortex layer V neurons. Neuron 49: 735-746, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2006.01.036
E. Fransén: Functional Role of Entorhinal Cortex in Working Memory Processing. Neural Networks 18: 1141-1149, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2005.08.004
E. Fransén: A synapse which can switch from inhibitory to excitatory and back. Neurocomputing 65-66: 39-45, 2005.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2004.10.085
A. Sandberg, E. Fransén: An autocatalytic model of STDP timing from slow calcium. Neurocomputing 65-66: 603-608, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2004.10.051
E. Fransén, A. Alonso, C. Dickson, J. Magistretti, M. Hasselmo: Ionic mechanisms in the generation of subthreshold oscillations and action potential clustering in entorhinal layer II stellate neurons. Hippocampus 14: 368-84, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hipo.10198
V. Charcos Lloréns, E. Fransén: Intrinsic desynchronization properties of neurons containing dendritic rapidly activating potassium currents. Neurocomputing 58-60: 137-143, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2004.01.034
E. Fransén: Coexistence of synchronized "oscillatory" and desynchronized "rate" activity in cortical networks. Neurocomputing 52-54: 763-769, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0925-2312(02)00764-6
D. Eriksson, E. Fransén, Y. Zilberter, A. Lansner: Effects of short-term synaptic plasticity in a local microcircuit on cell firing. Neurocomputing 52-54: 7-12, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0925-2312(02)00757-9
A. Lansner, E. Fransén, A. Sandberg: Cell assembly dynamics in detailed and abstract attractor models of cortical associative meory. Theory in Biosciences 122: 19-36, 2003.
A. Egorov, B. Hamam, E. Fransén, M. Hasselmo, A. Alonso: Graded persistent activity in entorhinal cortex neurons. Nature 420: 173-178, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature01171
E. Fransén, A. Alonso, M. Hasselmo: Simulations of the role of the muscarinic-activated calcium-sensitive non-specific cation current INCM in entorhinal neuronal activity during delayed matching tasks. J. Neurosci. 22: 1081-1097, 2002. http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/22/3/1081
E. Fransén, A. Alonso, M. Hasselmo: Entorhinal Neuronal Activity During Delayed Matching Tasks May Depend Upon Muscarinic Induced Non-specific Cation Current I(CANM). Neurocomputing 38-40: 601-606 , 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0925-2312(01)00443-X
C. Dickson, J. Magistretti, M. Shalinsky, E. Fransén, M. Hasselmo, A. Alonso: Properties and Role of Ih in the Pacing of Subthreshold Oscillations in Entorhinal Cortex Layer II Neurons. J. Neurophysiol. 83: 2562-2579, 2000. http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/83/5/2562
Article list terminated 2000
2a Conference contributions subject to review
M. Petersson, E. Fransén: TRPC channels activated by group I mGluR in Entorhinal pyramidal neurons support integration of low frequency (<10 Hz) synaptic inputs. CNS*2009 (submitted).
J. Tigerholm , E. Fransén: KA channels suppress cellular responses to fast ripple activity. Implications for epilepsy. CNS*2009 (submitted).
E. A. Fransén, M. E. Hasselmo: Grid cell activity in rat medial entorhinal cortex may arise from persistent firing in layer V neurons interacting with layer II neurons. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 34: 94.18, 2008.
J. Tigerholm, E. Fransén: KA channels reduce dendritic depolarization from synchronized synaptic input- Implication for neural processing and epilepsy. CNS*2008, 2008.
E. Fransén, M. Yoshida, M. Hasselmo: Mechanisms of mGluR mediated plateau potentials in entorhinal cortex neurons. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 33: 935.10, 2007.
M. Yoshida, E.Fransén, M. Hasselmo: Muscarinic-independent persistent firing in entorhinal layers III and V neurons. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 33: 935.9, 2007.
B. Tahvildari, E. Fransén, A. Alonso, M. Hasselmo: Switching between "On" and "Off" states of persistent activity in lateral entorhinal layer III neurons. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 32: 636.2, 2006.
E. Fransén, B. Tahvildari, M. Hasselmo, A. Alonso: Mechanisms of persistent plateaus in entorhinal cortex layer III pyramidal neurons. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 32: 636.1, 2006.
E. Fransén, B. Tahvildari, M. Hasselmo, A. Alonso: Mechanisms of plateau termination in entorhinal cortex layer III pyramidal neurons. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 31: 737.6, 2005.
E. Fransén, C. Christensen, A. Kozlov, Y. Xie, M. Djurfeldt, Ö. Ekeberg, A. Lansner: Evaluation of model scalability in parallel neural simulators. Wam-Bamm05, 2005
E. Fransén: Ionic mechanisms in working memory and information processing in the entorhinal cortex of the medial temporal lobe. NNIW2004, 2004.
E. Fransén: Model of neuron in entorhinal cortex displaying line attractor dynamics of spiking activity. ICBP-2004, 2004
C. Eriksson, A. Alonso, M. Hasselmo, E. Fransén: Amplification of subthreshold oscillations in entorhinal cortex layer II stellate neurons by interdendritic synchronization and amplification. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 30: 931.1, 2004. (oral pres.)
E. Fransén, M. Hasselmo, A. Alonso: Mechanisms behind stable graded persistent spiking activity in entorhinal cortex neurons. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 30: 931.2, 2004. (oral pres.)
E. Fransén: Functional role of entorhinal cortex in working memory and information processing of the medial temporal lobe. (invited contribution to IJCNN2004).
E. Fransén, A. Egorov, M. Hasselmo, A. Alonso: Model of graded persistent activity in entorhinal cortex neurons. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 29: 557.6, 2003. (oral present.)
E. Fransén, A. Alonso, M. Hasselmo: Turning off spiking activity in delayed matching tasks involving entorhinal cortex working memory. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 28: 584.1, 2002.
A. Egorov, E. Fransén, M. Hasselmo, A. Alonso: Intrinsic graded persistent activity in entorhinal cortex layer V neurons. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 28: 445.9, 2002.
E. Fransén, A. Alonso, M. Hasselmo: Network mechanisms of non-match enhancement, suppression and repetition in delayed matching tasks involving entorhinal cortex working memory function. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 27: 852.10, 2001.
E. Fransén, A. Alonso, M. Hasselmo: Cellular and Synaptic Mechanisms of Match Enhancment and Supression in DMS Working Memory Tasks Involving Entorhinal Cortex. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 26: 596.6, 2000. (oral present.)
Conference list terminated 2000