Main areas of research:

Computational neuroscience

Interests/keywords:

phase resetting, dopaminergic neurons, interval timing

Current title/position:

Assistant Professor

Current affiliation/employer:

College of Charleston

Collaborators:

Carmen C. Canavier
Astrid A. Prinz
Vatsala Thirumalai

PhD Advisor and University:

M. Ignat, "Al.I.Cuza" University, Iasi, Romania

Postdoc Advisor and University:

C.C. Canavier, LSUHSC New Orleans, LA

Personal or laboratory homepage:

http://oprisans.people.cofc.edu/

Publications:

S.A. Oprisan,Existence and stability criteria for phase-locked modes in ring neural networks based on the spike time resetting curve method, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 262:232-244, 2010.

S.A. Oprisan, Stability of Synchronous Oscillations in a Periodic Network, International Journal of Neuroscience, 119:4:482-491, 2009.

Klein B.M., J.B. Andrews, B.A. Bannan, A.E. Nazario-Toole, T.C. Jenkins, K.D. Christensen, S.A. Oprisan, and E. Meyer-Bernstein, Phospholipase C beta 4 in mouse hepatocytes: Rhythmic expression and cellular distribution, Comparative Hepatology, 7:8:1-9, 2008.

Oprisan S.A., Boutan C., Prediction of Entrainmnet and 1:1 Phase-Locked Modes in Two-Neuron Networks Based on the Phase Resetting Curve Method, International Journal of Neuroscience, 118:867-890, 2008.

Canavier C.C., Oprisan S.A., Callaway J.C., Ji H., and Shepard P.D., Computational Model Predicts a Role for ERG Current in Repolarizing Plateau Potentials in Dopamine Neurons: Implications for Modulation of Neuronal Activity, J. Neurophysiology, 98:3006-3022, 2007.

Oprisan S.A. and Canavier C.C., Technique for eliminating nonessential components in the refinement of a model of dopamine neurons, Neurocomputing, 69:1030-1034, February 2006.

Oprisan S.A. and C.C. Canavier, Stability criterion for a two-neuron reciprocally coupled network based on the phase and burst resetting curves Neurocomputing, 65:733-739, 2005.

Oprisan S.A. , A.A. Prinz, and C.C. Canavier, Phase resetting and phase locking in hybrid circuits of one model and one biological neuron, Biophysical Journal 87(4):2283-2298, 2004.

Oprisan S.A. , V. Thirumalai, and C.C. Canavier, Dynamics from a time series: Can we extract the phase resetting curve from a time series?, Biophysical Journal 84(5):2919-2928, 2003.