User:BarnackBeth/Rhonda Dzakpasu

= Rhonda Dzakpasu = Rhonda Dzakpasu is a scientist and educator whose research focuses on the collective, emergent activity that arises from small constellations of in vitro neurons. She began teaching in the Department of Physics as well as the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at Georgetown University in 2008.

Education
Dzakpasu received a B.S. in Computer Science from The City College of New York. She earned her PhD in experimental optical physics from the University of Michigan in 2003.

Awards
National Science Foundation, Award Abstract # 1755033Collaborative Research: Molecular Mechanisms of Astrocyte Neuron Interactions in the Development of Synchronous Activity in Neuronal Networks

Selected Publications

 * 1) Teneggi, J, Chen, X, Balu, A, Barrett, C, Grisolia G, Lucia, U, Dzakpasu, R. Entropy estimation within in vitro neural-astrocyte networks as a measure of development instability, Phys Rev E, 103, 042412 (2021)
 * 2) Djemil, S, Chen, X, Zhang, Z, Rauf, M, Pak, DTS, Dzakpasu, R. Activation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors induces potentiation and synchronization within in vitro hippocampal networks, J Neurochem, 00:e14938 (2019)
 * 3) Dzakpasu R, Johnson BR, Olopade JO. The University of Ibadan/Grass Foundation Workshop in Neuroscience Teaching. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 16(1):E13-E17 (2017)
 * 4) Li Y, Chen X, Dzakpasu R, Conant K. Dopamine dependent effects on basal and glutamate stimulated network dynamics in cultured hippocampal neurons, J Neurochem, 140(4):550-560 (2017).
 * 5) M. Niedringhaus, X. Chen, Dzakpasu R. Long-Term Dynamical Constraints on Pharmacologically Evoked Potentiation Imply Activity Conservation within In Vitro Hippocampal Networks, PLoS One, 10(6): e0129324 (2015).
 * 6) Akin M, Onderdonk A, Dzakpasu R. Functional Reconstruction of Dyadic and Triadic Subgraphs in Spiking Neural Networks Complex Networks & Their Applications V, 693:697-708 (2017).