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CURRICULUM VITAE Julie S. Haas, Ph.D. Institute for Nonlinear Science University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive MC 0402 La Jolla, CA 92093-0402

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Personal Citizenship: USA Education Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, 2003 Boston University, Boston, MA Methods in Computational Neuroscience, 2001 Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA Late Entry Accelerated Program in Engineering, 1994-1995 Boston University, Boston, MA B.A., 1994: Music and Mathematics Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Research and Professional Experience 2003-present Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for Nonlinear Science, UCSD Supervisors: Henry Abarbanel, Ph.D. and Alan Selverston, Ph.D. plasticity of inhibitory synapses, synchronization of chaotic neuronal oscillators 1996-2003 Research Assistant, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University Supervisor: John A. White, Ph.D. reliability and information transfer of neurons in response to naturalistic stimuli 1994-2003 violinist with Indian Hills Symphony and Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra Teaching Experience 2000 Teaching Fellow, Signals and Systems in Biomedical Engineering, Boston University supervised weekly laboratory exercises, coordinated and graded weekly reports. 1999 Teaching Fellow, Quantitative Studies of Excitable Cells, Boston University led weekly study section; supervised weekly laboratory computational exercises 1998 Teaching Fellow, Signals and Systems in Biomedical Engineering, Boston University led weekly problem-solving recitations of smaller groups of students; held office hours for individual instruction, coordinated grading work 1993-1994 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University Students Advised: 2004 Sam Numella, Sachin Talathi graduate student rotations 2005 Dafna Avraham, senior internship, Torrey Pines High School. Honors and Awards 2006 Blasker Award from The San Diego Foundation 2005 Blasker Award from the San Diego Foundation. 1997-present Alpha Eta Mu Beta, biomedical engineering honor society 1996 GAANN Fellowship, Boston University Member, Society for Neuroscience and American Physiological Society Publications White JA and Haas JS (2001) Noise from voltage-gated ion channels: effects on dynamics and reliability in intrinsically oscillatory neurons. In Handbook of Biological Physics, Vol. 4 F Moss and S Gielen (Eds.), Elsevier Press, Amsterdam

Haas JS and White JA (2002). Frequency selectivity of layer II stellate cells in the medial entorhinal cortex. J. Neurophysiol. 88(5): 2422-2429. Netoff TI, Banks MI, Dorval AD, Acker CD, Haas JS, Kopell N, White JA (2004). Synchronization in hybrid neuronal networks of the hippocampal formation. J. Neurophysiol. 93(3):1197-1208. Haas JS, Dorval AD, White JA (2006). Contributions of Ih to Feature Selectivity in Layer II Stellate Cells of the Entorhinal Cortex. J. Computational Neuroscience (in press). Haas JS, Nowotny TN, Abarbanel HDI (2006). Spike-timing-dependent plasticity at inhibitory synapses in the entorhinal cortex. J. Neurophysiol (in press). Nowotny TN, Haas JS, Abarbanel HDI (2006). STDP of inhibitory synapses: A mechanism for controlling runaway excitation in the EC (in preparation). Selected Abstracts Haas JS, Cameron DA, Collins JJ, and White JA (1998) Responses of frog retinal ganglion cells to varying spatial correlation of noise. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 24: 136. Haas JS and White JA (1999) Reliability in intrinsically noisy and oscillatory neurons of the medial entorhinal cortex. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 25: 994. White JA, Haas JS, and Dorval AD (1999) Stochastic dynamic clamping as a method for studying the effects of biological noise sources. Abstracts of the BMES & EMBS 148-149. Haas JS and White JA (2000) Nonlinear resonance in oscillatory neurons of the medial entorhinal cortex. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 26: 1264. White JA, Acker CD, and Haas JS (2001) Tuned neuronal properties may support synchrony in structures with different network topologies. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 29:S-122. Acker CD, Haas JS, Kopell N, and White JA (2001) Predicting synchrony in the oscillatory stellate cells of the medial entorhinal cortex. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 27: 47.3. Haas JS, Dorval AD, and White JA (2002). Resonance and feature selectivity in stellate cells of the entorhinal cortex. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 28: 753.9. Haas JS and White JA (2003). Ih and rhythmicity in oscillatory stellate cells of the entorhinal cortex. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 29: 369.2. Haas JS, Selverston AI, Abarbanel HDI. (2004) Spike-timing-dependent plasticity of inhibition in the entorhinal cortex. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 30: 57.13. Haas JS, Nowotny T, Abarbanel HDI. (2005) STDP of inhibitory synapses in the entorhinal cortex: I. Electrophysiology. CoSyne, 2005. Nowotny T, Haas JS, Abarbanel HDI. (2005) STDP of inhibitory synapses in the entorhinal cortex: II. Implications for network function. CoSyne, 2005. Haas JS, Nowotny T, Abarbanel HDI. (2005) Spike-timing-dependent plasticity of inhibition in the entorhinal cortex: Mechanisms and function. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 31: 384.20