6  Thesis layout

  1. BACKGROUND
    • Research question
    • Report style and philosophy
    • Ethics and Reproducibility
      • Science for the profit of whom?
      • Importance of reproducibility
      • Ethics and reproducibility go together
    • Data Hazards
    • Memory and Learning
      • Why study CaMKII and NMDAR interactions to study memory formation?
      • A brief history background on learning and memory research
      • Long Term Potentiation
      • NMDA receptors structure and functions
      • CaMKII structure and functions
      • Bringing it all together: LTP, CaMKII/NMDAR complex as a molecular memory and interactions within the postsynaptic neuron
    • Why use computational modelling to study biological systems?
      • How do we model biochemical systems networks?
      • Rule Based Modelling
      • BioNetGen
      • MCell
      • Biodynamo
  2. METHODS
    • Model Description
    • Model development and validation
      • A reproducible model
  3. RESULTS