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Activity Landscape and Plasticity Signatures (ALPS): A Data-Driven Bioinformatic Analysis of Neuronal Activity Regimes and Neuronal Plasticity from single-cell Patch-seq data.
Rel. Roberta Bardini, Stefano Di Carlo, Alessandro Savino, Gianluca Amprimo, Lorenzo Martini. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Computer Engineering, 2026
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Abstract
Intrinsic neuronal excitability provides a functional proxy of a neuron’s activity state and reflects its capacity for adaptation through intrinsic plasticity. This thesis aims to discover and characterize electrophysiological excitability regimes as dynamic functional states by constructing a data-driven excitability landscape directly from patch-clamp recordings and assessing their relationship with neuronal types and subtypes defined by Patch-seq. Despite the central role of excitability in neuronal computation and plasticity, electrophysiology still lacks a unified characterization of excitability levels that quantifies where a neuron lies within a continuous spectrum of responses when subjected to stimulation. This thesis addresses this gap by constructing a data-driven excitability landscape directly from patch-clamp recordings and by testing whether electrophysiological excitability regimes align with, or cut across, transcriptomically defined neuronal types and subtypes measured with Patch-seq.
At the single-spike level, the Neuronal Spike Shape (NSS) approach is extended by incorporating additional first-spike action potential features with known relevance to intrinsic plasticity, most notably descriptors of the after-hyperpolarization phase, measured under both long square and ramp stimulation protocols
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