Roman Makarov
ROMAN
MAKAROV
  • Neurobiologist
  • PhD candidate at Poirazi Lab
  • Heraklion, Greece

Education

PhD in Biology

SmartNets ITN (smartnets-etn.eu)
University of Crete
Heraklion, Greece

MSc in Biology

Specialization in neurobiology, Honors
Kazan Federal University
Kazan, Russia

Specialist Degree in Civil Engineering

Ufa State Petroleum Technological University
Ufa, Russia

Positions

Researcher

Poirazi Lab (dendrites.gr)
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas
Heraklion, Greece

Junior Researcher

IAL Developmental Neurobiology (ial-developmental-neurobiology.com)
Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology
Kazan Federal University
Kazan, Russia

Research Assistant

IAL Developmental Neurobiology (ial-developmental-neurobiology.com)
Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology
Kazan Federal University
Kazan, Russia

Skills

Computational skills

  • Programming Languages (Python, MATLAB)
  • Modeling and simulation (NEURON, BRIAN2)
  • Machine learning (sklearn, XGBoost, Pytorch, Keras)
  • Neural data analysis (neo, MNE, Klusta, SpyKING CIRCUS)

Experimental skills

  • Surgery in rodents
  • In-vivo electrophysiology (Silicon probes, film ECoG probes)
  • Histology

Research management skills

  • Linux system administration
  • Version control
  • Knowledge management (ontologies)

Languages

  • English (advanced, TOEFL iBT 100/120)
  • Russian (native)
  • Greek (elementary)

Publications

Preprints

  1. Roman Makarov, Spyridon Chavlis, Panayiota Poirazi
    DendroTweaks: An interactive approach for unraveling dendritic dynamics
    bioRχiv 2024.09.06.611191
    DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.06.611191

Peer-reviewed Journals

  1. Michalis Pagkalos, Roman Makarov, Panayiota Poirazi
    Leveraging dendritic properties to advance machine learning and neuro-inspired computing
    Current Opinion in Neurobiology 85, 102853
    DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2024.102853
  2. Roman Makarov, Michalis Pagkalos, Panayiota Poirazi
    Dendrites and efficiency: Optimizing performance and resource utilization
    Current Opinion in Neurobiology 83, 102812
    DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2023.102812
  3. Roman Makarov, Mikhail Sintsov, Guzel Valeeva, Pavel Starikov, Dmitry Negrov, Roustem Khazipov
    Bone conducted responses in the neonatal rat auditory cortex
    Scientific Reports 11, 16777
    DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-96188-9
  4. Guzel Valeeva, Sona Janackova, Azat Nasretdinov, Veronika Rychkova, Roman Makarov, Gregory L Holmes, Roustem Khazipov, Pierre-Pascal Lenck-Santini
    Emergence of Coordinated Activity in the Developing Entorhinal–Hippocampal Network
    Cerebral Cortex 29, Issue 2
    DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhy309

Conference Proceedings

  1. Roman Makarov, Spyridon Chavlis, Panayiota Poirazi
    DendroTweaks: An interactive approach for unraveling dendritic dynamics
    Science Communications World Wide
    DOI: 10.57736/abba-7149
  2. Azat Nasretdinov, Roman Makarov, Alina Vazetdinova, Fliza Valiullina-Rakhmatullina, Alexandr Evstifeev, Roustem Khazipov
    Sequence to sequence reconstruction of whole-cell signals from the cell-attached current-clamp recordings
    European Journal of Clinical Investigation, 51, pp. 99-99
    DOI: 10.1111/eci.13567
  3. Gulshat Burkhanova, Roman Makarov, Mikhail Sintsov, Guzel Valeeva, Roustem Khazipov
    Unsupervised learning of activity patterns in the neonatal rat auditory cortex
    European Journal of Clinical Investigation. Special Issue: Abstracts of the 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation, Coimbra, Portugal 29, Issue 2
    DOI: 10.1111/eci.13109

Reviewing

Conferences

  1. FENS Forum (poster)
    Vienna, Austria
  2. EMBO Workshop "Principles of dendritic function and computation" (poster)
    Chania, Greece
  3. 30th Meeting of the Hellenic Society for Neuroscience, HSfN (poster)
    Athens, Greece
  4. Free and Open Source Software Communities Meeting, FOSSCOMM (booth)
    Heraklion, Greece
  5. Neuromatch 3.0 (traditional talk)
    Virtual conference
  6. Bernstein Conference (poster)
    Berlin, Germany
  7. 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation (poster)
    Coimbra, Portugal
  8. The International Conference “CCCP 2018 - Cortical Codes: Control & Perception” (poster)
    Moscow, Russia
  9. The 4th International Conference “Brain-Computer Interface: Science and Practice” (poster)
    Samara, Russia
  10. The 14th International Conference “Adaptation of Developing Organism” (poster)
    Kazan, Russia
  11. The 10th Conference of Young Biology Scientists “SymBioSE Russia” (poster)
    Kazan, Russia

Memberships

Awards