Luba Benuskova: Research

Research Groups and Themes

I am a member of the Brain Health Research Center and the AI Research Group. I am also associated with the University of Otago Research Theme on Memory: Mechanisms Processes and Applications and Bioinformatics and Computational Molecular Biology.

Research Projects of Lubica Benuskova

2011-: research on Gene Regulatory Networks in LTP together with Dr. Joanna Williams. PhD student: Gonzalo S. Nido, start date 1 March 2011.

2009-: research on Computational models of Synaptic Plasticity with Prof. Cliff Abraham from the Department of Psychology of University of Otago and Dr. Peter Jedlicka from J.W.Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

2008-: research on Dynamic Networks of the Brain, with Dr. Liz Franz from the Department of Psychology of University of Otago to analyse the brain fMRI data by means of the graph theory.

PhD student: Paul D. McCarthy, start date 1 April 2010. His programs and utilities for graph theoretical analysis are available for free here .

2009-2011: Co-PI with Dr. Alistair Knott, we have been awarded a BuildIT Postdoctoral Fellowship to appoint a postdoctoral fellow Martin Takac for the research project entitled The Sensorimotor Grounding of Language: a Computational Model .