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Andrew Phillips Davison

Yale University School of Medicine
Section of Neurobiology
P.O. Box 208001
New Haven CT 06520-8001
U.S.A.

Telephone: +1 203 7855843
Fax: +1 203 7856990
E-mail: andrew.davison@yale.edu

Date of birth: 10.10.73
Nationality: British
Marital status: Married

EDUCATION

1997-2000 University of Cambridge.

Ph.D. Computational Neuroscience
Thesis title: "Mathematical modelling of information processing in the olfactory bulb"

1995-1996 University of Sheffield

M.Sc. Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering – Distinction.
Thesis title: "Assessment of multi-modality medical image registration: phantom and patient studies".

1992-1995 University of Cambridge

B.A. Hons Physics – 2.1.

1988-1992 Heathfield Senior High School, Gateshead

1992 A-levels: Physics (A), Maths (A), Chemistry (A), Further Maths (B).
           S-levels: Physics (grade 1), Chemistry (grade 2).
1991 A-level: French (A)
1990 10 GCSEs. 9 grade A, 1 grade B

EMPLOYMENT/STUDENTSHIPS

Oct. 2000 - present. Postdoctoral Associate

Yale University School of Medicine, Section of Neurobiology, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06510, U.S.A.
Research into information processing in the mammalian olfactory bulb using computational models.

Oct. 1997 - Oct 2000. Graduate student, funded by the BBSRC

Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience, The Babraham Institute, Babraham, Cambridge, CB2 4AT, U.K.
Research into information processing in the mammalian olfactory bulb using computational models.

Sept. 1995 – Oct. 1997. Trainee Medical Physicist (Grade A)

Department of Medical Physics, Leicester Royal Infirmary NHS Trust, Infirmary Square, Leicester, LE1 5WW, U.K.
Completed basic professional training in Medical Physics. Awarded Post-Graduate Diploma of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, with Merit.
Training included radiation and imaging physics, physiological measurement, biomedical signal processing.

PUBLICATIONS

Davison A., Feng J. & Brown D. (2001) Spike synchronization in a biophysically-detailed model of the olfactory bulb. Neurocomputing, 38-40: 515-521.

Davison A. (2001) Mathematical modelling of information processing in the olfactory bulb. Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge.

Davison A., Feng J. & Brown D. (2000) A reduced compartmental model of the mitral cell for use in network models of the olfactory bulb. Brain Research Bulletin 51(5): 393-399.

Davison A., Feng J. & Brown D. (1999) Structure of inhibition in an olfactory bulb model. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1606:189-196.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Davison A.P., Zhou Z., Hines M.L. and Shepherd G.M. (2001) Simulating sodium and potassium currents in an olfactory mitral cell model. Slide presentation at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, November 2001.

Davison A.P. & Feng J. (2001) A model of network interactions in the olfactory bulb. Poster presentation at AChemS XXIII, Sarasota, Florida, April 2001.

Davison A.P., Feng J. & Brown D. (2000) Spike synchronization in a biophysically-detailed model of the olfactory bulb. Poster presentation at CNS*00,Brugge, Belgium, July 2000.

Davison A., Feng J. & Brown D. (1999) Structure of lateral inhibition in an olfactory bulb model. Slide presentation at the 5^th International Work-Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks (IWANN'99), Alicante, Spain. Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1606:189-196

Davison A., Miller T., Belton I., Bolton S. & Bonnett D.E. (1997) An assessment of image registration in the treatment planning of tumours of the brain. Slide presentation at Radiology 1997 - Imaging, Science and Oncology, Birmingham, U.K., May 1997

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Oct. 1998 - May 2000. Supervisor (teaching assistant).

Queens' College, Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Girton College, Cambridge
Courses: Natural Sciences Tripos Part 1A: Quantitative Biology; Elementary Mathematics for Biologists.
Responsibilities included preparation and instruction of three one-hour tutorials per week, preparation of exam questions, marking written assignments and exams.

March 1999

Prepared and ran one-day project in Neural Modelling for 10 school children, as part of the Babraham Institute Schools' Day for "SET99"

COMPUTING SKILLS

• Single-cell and neuronal network simulation in a Unix environment with NEURON (and to a lesser extent XPP and GENESIS), plus development of own programs with C and Fortran, and post-processing of simulation results using tools such as awk and perl.
• Parallel processing on small workstation clusters using PVM.
• Linux system administration for a small workstation cluster.
• Medical signal and image processing using Matlab and Analyze.
• HTML (former Web editor for King's College Graduate Society)
• General word-processing, spreadsheet skills in Unix, Windows, Mac environments.

OTHER SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Student on the 1998 Crete Course in Computational Neuroscience.
Languages: Good French; tourist German.
Clean driving licence.

INTERESTS AND HOBBIES

REFERENCES

Available on request