CV? Curriculum Vitae? Oh, Conduction Velocity! Getting deeper in the calculus of substrate magnitudes It has been a while since I began the journey of my PhD. I remember that, especially in the first months, I spent a lot of my time reading about atrial fibrillation (AF), therapies to treat it, like pulmonary vein isolation …
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Inducing fibrillation episodes ex vivo Hi there! As I mentioned in my last post, this post will be dedicated to inducing atrial fibrillation in tissue culture. If we think about the “macro” triggers which increase the predisposition for fibrillating episodes to happen, this can be due to several risk factors such as comorbidities, emotional triggers …
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Is there room for creativity in science? Scientists have very strict methods to follow during their work. Can they be creative despite it? The months of March and April are being very eventful for the ESRs of PersonalizeAF. We had our 2nd Consortium meeting last month, which has been a great opportunity to see what …
by Student A Brief Introduction to the Patch Clamp Technique and the Hodgkin–Huxley Equations Patricia Martínez Díaz 6. April. 2021 Hello and welcome back! Now that we had explained some of the basics of electrophysiological modeling in the previous posts, this time I am going to talk about the Patch clamp technique and to further explain the …
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Localized AF Drivers Multiple Wavelets In the previous post, I have addressed the inefficiency of pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) in patients with persistent forms of atrial fibrillation (AF) and the need for alternative ablation targets. A natural choice is the AF driving mechanisms- anatomical or functional sources maintaining AF episodes. So, what are these mechanisms? …
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My PhD journey The main part of the PhD is of course my thesis project but there’s a lot more to do and to learn. Hey all, this is Narimane early-stage researcher 10 from Bordeaux. I thought I would post a quick hello and catch-up with all my news as I haven’t posted in a …
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And you… How much do you read? Against all odds, I was able to travel home for Christmas. I had many flights canceled, since most European countries, terrified by the rapid spread of the new variant discovered in the UK, closed borders and restricted air travelling. But as we usually say in Valencia: “third time …
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Getting deeper into the research world After these first months I am starting to get more responsibilities Hello everyone! Here I am again in another update on my PhD experience. As you may know from previous posts, so far I have been mostly involve in reading about AF, ECGI and implemented my own rotor detection …
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And that’s what being in the university “from the other side” feels… Oktober, November, Dezember, Januar, Februar, März… I am not crazy, just studying German but… HAVE I BEEN WORKING HERE ALREADY FOR SIX MONTHS !? With the new year, I have been thinking that I should change my way of thinking during this pandemic situation: …
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Supervising student projects Today, I will tell you a bit about supervising students being a PhD candidate. Here at KIT, research assistants have the opportunity to help supervising projects for bachelor or master’s thesis. I will talk the beginning of this experience for me. Work with openCARP … In the last post I talked about …
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