• Neurobiologist
• PhD candidate at Poirazi Lab
• Heraklion, Greece

Education

Employment

Research

• Computational skills
  • Programming Languages (Python, MATLAB)
  • Modeling and simulation (NEURON, BRIAN2)
  • Machine learning (sklearn, XGBoost, Pytorch, Keras)
  • Data analysis (neo, MNE, Klusta, SpyKING CIRCUS)
• Experimental skills
  • Surgery in rodents
  • In-vivo electrophysiology
  • Histology
• Research management skills
  • Linux system administration
  • Version control
  • Knowledge management (ontologies)
• Communication skills
  • Scientific writing and publishing
  • Scientific visualization
  • Web development
  • Languages
    • English (advanced, TOEFL iBT 100/120)
    • Russian (native)
    • Greek (elementary)

Publications

1. 2024

   Roman Makarov, Spyridon Chavlis, Panayiota Poirazi

   DendroTweaks: An interactive approach for unraveling dendritic dynamics

   bioRχiv 2024.09.06.611191;

   https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.06.611191

1. 2024

   Michalis Pagkalos, Roman Makarov, Panayiota Poirazi

   Leveraging dendritic properties to advance machine learning and neuro-inspired computing

   Current Opinion in Neurobiology 85, 102853

   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2024.102853
2. 2023

   Roman Makarov, Michalis Pagkalos, Panayiota Poirazi

   Dendrites and efficiency: Optimizing performance and resource utilization

   Current Opinion in Neurobiology 83, 102812

   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2023.102812
3. 2021

   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

   https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96188-9
4. 2019

   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

   https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhy309

1. 2024

   Roman Makarov, Spyridon Chavlis, Panayiota Poirazi

   DendroTweaks: An interactive approach for unraveling dendritic dynamics

   Science Communications World Wide

   https://doi.org/10.57736/abba-7149
2. 2021

   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

   https://doi.org/10.1111/eci.13567
3. 2019

   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

   https://doi.org/10.1111/eci.13109

Conferences

1. 2024

   FENS Forum (poster)

   Vienna, Austria
2. 2024

   EMBO Workshop "Principles of dendritic function and computation"(poster)

   Chania, Greece
3. 2023

   30th Meeting of the Hellenic Society for Neuroscience, HSfN (poster)

   Athens, Greece
4. 2023

   Free and Open Source Software Communities Meeting, FOSSCOMM (booth)

   Heraklion, Greece
5. 2021

   Neuromatch 3.0 (traditional talk)

   Virtual conference
6. 2019

   Bernstein Conference (poster)

   Berlin, Germany
7. 2019

   53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Investigation (poster)

   Coimbra, Portugal
8. 2018

   The International Conference “CCCP 2018 - Cortical Codes: Control & Perception”(poster)

   Moscow, Russia
9. 2018

   The 4th International Conference “Brain-Computer Interface: Science and Practice” (poster)

   Samara, Russia
10. 2018

    The 14th International Conference “Adaptation of Developing Organism” (poster)

    Kazan, Russia
11. 2017

    The 10th Conference of Young Biology Scientists “SymBioSE Russia” (poster)

    Kazan, Russia

Awards

• 2023

  Travel grant for the 30th Meeting of the Hellenic Society for Neuroscience
• 2021-2024

  PhD scholarship, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union