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Already Pavlov (1927) in his early days has used his classic\r\nconditioning experiments to study the neural mechanisms governing behavioral adaptation.\r\nWhat was not known back then was that the part of the brain that is largely responsible for\r\nthis type of associative learning is the cerebellum.\r\nSince then, plenty of theories on cerebellar learning have emerged. Despite their differences,\r\none thing they all have in common is that learning relies on synaptic and intrinsic plasticity.\r\nThe goal of my PhD project was to unravel the molecular mechanisms underlying synaptic\r\nplasticity in two synapses that have been shown to be implicated in motor learning, in an\r\neffort to understand how learning and memory formation are processed in the cerebellum.\r\nOne of the earliest and most well-known cerebellar theories postulates that motor learning\r\nlargely depends on long-term depression at the parallel fiber-Purkinje cell (PC-PC) synapse.\r\nHowever, the discovery of other types of plasticity in the cerebellar circuitry, like long-term\r\npotentiation (LTP) at the PC-PC synapse, potentiation of molecular layer interneurons (MLIs),\r\nand plasticity transfer from the cortex to the cerebellar/ vestibular nuclei has increased the\r\npopularity of the idea that multiple sites of plasticity might be involved in learning.\r\nStill a lot remains unknown about the molecular mechanisms responsible for these types of\r\nplasticity and whether they occur during physiological learning.\r\nIn the first part of this thesis we have analyzed the variation and nanodistribution of voltagegated calcium channels (VGCCs) and α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid\r\ntype glutamate receptors (AMPARs) on the parallel fiber-Purkinje cell synapse after vestibuloocular reflex phase reversal adaptation, a behavior that has been suggested to rely on PF-PC\r\nLTP. We have found that on the last day of adaptation there is no learning trace in form of\r\nVGCCs nor AMPARs variation at the PF-PC synapse, but instead a decrease in the number of\r\nPF-PC synapses. These data seem to support the view that learning is only stored in the\r\ncerebellar cortex in an initial learning phase, being transferred later to the vestibular nuclei.\r\nNext, we have studied the role of MLIs in motor learning using a relatively simple and well characterized behavioral paradigm – horizontal optokinetic reflex (HOKR) adaptation. We\r\nhave found behavior-induced MLI potentiation in form of release probability increase that\r\ncould be explained by the increase of VGCCs at the presynaptic side. Our results strengthen\r\nthe idea of distributed cerebellar plasticity contributing to learning and provide a novel\r\nmechanism for release probability increase. 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These filaments are recruited to the inner membrane by FtsA, a highly conserved bacterial actin homologue. FtsA interacts with other proteins in the periplasm and thus connects the cytoplasmic and periplasmic components of the divisome. \r\nA previous model postulated that FtsA regulates maturation of the divisome by switching from an oligomeric, inactive state to a monomeric and active state. This model was based mostly on in vivo studies, as a biochemical characterization of FtsA has been hampered by difficulties in purifying the protein. Here, we studied FtsA using an in vitro reconstitution approach and aimed to answer two questions: (i) How are dynamics from cytoplasmic, treadmilling FtsZ filaments coupled to proteins acting in the periplasmic space and (ii) How does FtsA regulate the maturation of the divisome?\r\nWe found that the cytoplasmic peptides of the transmembrane proteins FtsN and FtsQ interact directly with FtsA and can follow the spatiotemporal signal of FtsA/Z filaments. When we investigated the underlying mechanism by imaging single molecules of FtsNcyto, we found the peptide to interact transiently with FtsA. An in depth analysis of the single molecule trajectories helped to postulate a model where PG synthases follow the dynamics of FtsZ by a diffusion and capture mechanism. \r\nFollowing up on these findings we were interested in how the self-interaction of FtsA changes when it encounters FtsNcyto and if we can confirm the proposed oligomer-monomer switch. For this, we compared the behavior of the previously identified, hyperactive mutant FtsA R286W with wildtype FtsA. The mutant outperforms WT in mirroring and transmitting the spatiotemporal signal of treadmilling FtsZ filaments. Surprisingly however, we found that this was not due to a difference in the self-interaction strength of the two variants, but a difference in their membrane residence time. Furthermore, in contrast to our expectations, upon binding of FtsNcyto the measured self-interaction of FtsA actually increased. \r\nWe propose that FtsNcyto induces a rearrangement of the oligomeric architecture of FtsA. In further consequence this change leads to more persistent FtsZ filaments which results in a defined signalling zone, allowing formation of the mature divisome. The observed difference between FtsA WT and R286W is due to the vastly different membrane turnover of the proteins. R286W cycles 5-10x faster compared to WT which allows to sample FtsZ filaments at faster frequencies. These findings can explain the observed differences in toxicity for overexpression of FtsA WT and R286W and help to understand how FtsA regulates divisome maturation."}],"publication_status":"published","page":"156","article_processing_charge":"No","title":"Spatiotemporal signaling during assembly of the bacterial divisome","degree_awarded":"PhD","keyword":["Cell Division","Reconstitution","FtsZ","FtsA","Divisome","E.coli"],"supervisor":[{"last_name":"Loose","first_name":"Martin","full_name":"Loose, Martin","orcid":"0000-0001-7309-9724","id":"462D4284-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"}],"OA_place":"publisher","user_id":"ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd","author":[{"full_name":"Radler, Philipp","id":"40136C2A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-9198-2182 ","first_name":"Philipp","last_name":"Radler"}],"related_material":{"record":[{"status":"public","id":"10934","relation":"research_data"},{"status":"public","id":"11373","relation":"part_of_dissertation"},{"relation":"part_of_dissertation","id":"7387","status":"public"}]},"acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"Bio"},{"_id":"LifeSc"}],"file":[{"date_created":"2023-10-04T10:11:53Z","file_name":"PhD Thesis_Philipp Radler_20231004.docx","content_type":"application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document","creator":"pradler","file_id":"14390","access_level":"closed","checksum":"87eef11fbc5c7df0826f12a3a629b444","relation":"source_file","file_size":114932847,"embargo_to":"open_access","date_updated":"2024-10-05T22:30:03Z"},{"file_id":"14391","embargo":"2024-10-04","file_size":37838778,"date_updated":"2024-10-05T22:30:03Z","relation":"main_file","checksum":"3253e099b7126469d941fd9419d68b4f","access_level":"open_access","file_name":"PhD Thesis_Philipp Radler_20231004.pdf","content_type":"application/pdf","date_created":"2023-10-04T10:11:21Z","creator":"pradler"}],"corr_author":"1","ddc":["572"],"has_accepted_license":"1","year":"2023","date_created":"2023-09-06T10:58:25Z","doi":"10.15479/at:ista:14280","publication_identifier":{"issn":["2663-337X"],"isbn":["978-3-99078-033-6"]},"oa":1,"file_date_updated":"2024-10-05T22:30:03Z","department":[{"_id":"GradSch"},{"_id":"MaLo"}],"publisher":"Institute of Science and Technology Austria","date_updated":"2026-04-07T14:06:05Z","month":"09","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_published":"2023-09-25T00:00:00Z","type":"dissertation","oa_version":"Published Version","_id":"14280","project":[{"call_identifier":"H2020","name":"Self-Organization of the Bacterial Cell","_id":"2595697A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"679239"},{"grant_number":"P34607","_id":"fc38323b-9c52-11eb-aca3-ff8afb4a011d","name":"In vitro reconstitution of bacterial cell division"},{"name":"Synthesis of bacterial cell wall","_id":"2596EAB6-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"ALTF 2015-1163"},{"_id":"259B655A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"LT000824/2016","name":"Reconstitution of bacterial cell wall synthesis"}],"citation":{"ista":"Radler P. 2023. 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Structural and Mechanistic Study of Bacterial Complex I and Its Cyanobacterial Ortholog. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:12781.","chicago":"Kravchuk, Vladyslav. “Structural and Mechanistic Study of Bacterial Complex I and Its Cyanobacterial Ortholog.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12781.","apa":"Kravchuk, V. (2023). Structural and mechanistic study of bacterial complex I and its cyanobacterial ortholog. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12781","ama":"Kravchuk V. Structural and mechanistic study of bacterial complex I and its cyanobacterial ortholog. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:12781","ista":"Kravchuk V. 2023. Structural and mechanistic study of bacterial complex I and its cyanobacterial ortholog. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.","short":"V. 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Complex I is the first and the largest enzyme of the respiratory chain which is essential for energy production. It couples the transfer of two electrons from NADH to ubiquinone with proton translocation across bacterial or inner mitochondrial membrane. The coupling mechanism between electron transfer and proton translocation is one of the biggest enigma in bioenergetics and structural biology. Even though the enzyme has been studied for decades, only recent technological advances in cryo-EM allowed its extensive structural investigation. \r\n\r\nComplex I from E.coli appears to be of special importance because it is a perfect model system with a rich mutant library, however the structure of the entire complex was unknown. In this thesis I have resolved structures of the minimal complex I version from E. coli in different states including reduced, inhibited, under reaction turnover and several others. Extensive structural analyses of these structures and comparison to structures from other species allowed to derive general features of conformational dynamics and propose a universal coupling mechanism. The mechanism is straightforward, robust and consistent with decades of experimental data available for complex I from different species. \r\n\r\nCyanobacterial NDH (cyanobacterial complex I) is a part of broad complex I superfamily and was studied as well in this thesis. It plays an important role in cyclic electron transfer (CET), during which electrons are cycled within PSI through ferredoxin and plastoquinone to generate proton gradient without NADPH production. Here, I solved structure of NDH and revealed additional state, which was not observed before. The novel “resting” state allowed to propose the mechanism of CET regulation. Moreover, conformational dynamics of NDH resembles one in complex I which suggest more broad universality of the proposed coupling mechanism.\r\n\r\nIn summary, results presented here helped to interpret decades of experimental data for complex I and contributed to fundamental mechanistic understanding of protein function.\r\n","lang":"eng"}],"publication_status":"published","page":"127","article_processing_charge":"No","title":"Structural and mechanistic study of bacterial complex I and its cyanobacterial ortholog","degree_awarded":"PhD","supervisor":[{"id":"338D39FE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0002-0977-7989","full_name":"Sazanov, Leonid A","first_name":"Leonid A","last_name":"Sazanov"}],"year":"2023","date_created":"2023-03-31T12:24:42Z","publication_identifier":{"isbn":["978-3-99078-029-9"],"issn":["2663-337X"]},"doi":"10.15479/at:ista:12781","file":[{"file_name":"VladyslavKravchuk_PhD_Thesis_PostSub_Final_1.pdf","content_type":"application/pdf","date_created":"2023-04-19T14:33:41Z","creator":"vkravchu","file_id":"12852","embargo":"2024-04-20","file_size":6071553,"date_updated":"2024-04-22T22:30:06Z","access_level":"open_access","relation":"main_file","checksum":"5ebb6345cb4119f93460c81310265a6d"},{"file_size":19468766,"date_updated":"2024-04-22T22:30:06Z","access_level":"open_access","relation":"source_file","checksum":"c12055c48411d030d2afa51de2166221","embargo":"2024-04-20","file_id":"12853","creator":"vkravchu","content_type":"application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document","file_name":"VladyslavKravchuk_PhD_Thesis_PostSub_Final.docx","date_created":"2023-04-19T14:33:52Z"}],"corr_author":"1","ddc":["570","572"],"has_accepted_license":"1"},{"ec_funded":1,"alternative_title":["ISTA Thesis"],"day":"05","status":"public","citation":{"apa":"Schauer, A. 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For instance, embryonic\r\nstem cell cultures can recapitulate the hallmarks of gastrulation, i.e. break symmetry\r\nleading to germ layer formation and morphogenesis, in a very reduced environment.\r\nThis leads to questions on specific contributions of embryo-specific features, such as\r\nthe presence of extraembryonic tissues, which are inherently involved in gastrulation\r\nin the full embryonic context. To address this, we established zebrafish embryonic\r\nexplants without the extraembryonic yolk cell, an important player as a signaling\r\nsource and for morphogenesis during gastrulation, as a model of ex vivo development.\r\nWe found that dorsal-marginal determinants are required and sufficient in these\r\nexplants to form and pattern all three germ layers. However, formation of tissues,\r\nwhich require the highest Nodal-signaling levels, is variable, demonstrating a\r\ncontribution of extraembryonic tissues for reaching peak Nodal signaling levels.\r\nBlastoderm explants also undergo gastrulation-like axis elongation. We found that this\r\nelongation movement shows hallmarks of oriented mesendoderm cell intercalations\r\ntypically associated with dorsal tissues in the intact embryo. These are disrupted by\r\nuniform upregulation of BMP signaling activity and concomitant explant ventralization,\r\nsuggesting that tight spatial control of BMP signaling is a prerequisite for explant\r\nmorphogenesis. This control is achieved by Nodal signaling, which is critical for\r\neffectively downregulating BMP signaling in the mesendoderm, highlighting that Nodal\r\nsignaling is not only directly required for mesendoderm cell fate specification and\r\nmorphogenesis, but also by maintaining low levels of BMP signaling at the dorsal side.\r\nCollectively, we provide insights into the capacity and organization of signaling and\r\nmorphogenetic domains to recapitulate features of zebrafish gastrulation outside of\r\nthe full embryonic context.","lang":"eng"}],"publication_status":"published","title":"Mesendoderm formation in zebrafish gastrulation: The role of extraembryonic tissues","degree_awarded":"PhD","supervisor":[{"full_name":"Heisenberg, Carl-Philipp J","orcid":"0000-0002-0912-4566","id":"39427864-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Carl-Philipp J","last_name":"Heisenberg"}]},{"file_date_updated":"2024-12-20T23:30:04Z","oa":1,"date_updated":"2026-06-18T17:34:48Z","department":[{"_id":"GradSch"},{"_id":"MiSi"}],"publisher":"Institute of Science and Technology Austria","date_published":"2023-12-20T00:00:00Z","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"month":"12","type":"dissertation","oa_version":"Published Version","_id":"14697","project":[{"_id":"2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"665385","call_identifier":"H2020","name":"International IST Doctoral Program"}],"citation":{"mla":"Stopp, Julian A. Neutrophils on the Hunt : Migratory Strategies Employed by Neutrophils to Fulfill Their Effector Function. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:14697.","chicago":"Stopp, Julian A. “Neutrophils on the Hunt : Migratory Strategies Employed by Neutrophils to Fulfill Their Effector Function.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14697.","apa":"Stopp, J. A. (2023). Neutrophils on the hunt : Migratory strategies employed by neutrophils to fulfill their effector function. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14697","ama":"Stopp JA. Neutrophils on the hunt : Migratory strategies employed by neutrophils to fulfill their effector function. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:14697","ista":"Stopp JA. 2023. Neutrophils on the hunt : Migratory strategies employed by neutrophils to fulfill their effector function. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.","short":"J.A. Stopp, Neutrophils on the Hunt : Migratory Strategies Employed by Neutrophils to Fulfill Their Effector Function, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.","ieee":"J. A. Stopp, “Neutrophils on the hunt : Migratory strategies employed by neutrophils to fulfill their effector function,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023."},"ec_funded":1,"day":"20","status":"public","alternative_title":["ISTA Thesis"],"publication_status":"published","abstract":[{"text":"During my Ph.D. research, I managed a series of projects, each focused on the\r\nmechanisms underlying cell migration. My work involved an in-depth examination of\r\nthe complex strategies employed by neutrophils, with a specific focus on their ability to\r\nsynchronize spatial-temporal cues and optimize their gradient perception. However, it\r\nis essential to acknowledge that not all projects yielded successful results, as some\r\nideas were discontinued and are archived for future reference within this thesis.\r\nMy main project investigated how neutrophils decode spatial cues for precise navigation. Human neutrophils showcased distinct movement patterns based on source\r\ntype – linear or point-like. By combining single-cell tracking in 3D environments with\r\nproxy dyes, this project linked cell behaviors to gradient changes, revealing a stronger\r\nresponse to semi-exponential gradients from point sources. In addition, neutrophils\r\nexhibited oscillating migration speeds, using speed minima to adjust trajectories toward sources. Experiencing continuous concentration changes, they accelerated over\r\ntime and employed a \"Run and Fumble\" strategy, alternating between consistent runs\r\nand strategic \"tumbles\" for efficient navigation.\r\nThe project extended to the possibility of cells amplifying perceived gradients by\r\nenclosing their immediate surroundings, pushing attractants forward for enrichment\r\nwhile depleting it at the cell rear. Microfluidic devices were employed, and various experimental parameters configurations were optimized. Although significant differences\r\nin migratory efficacy were detected across pore sizes and device heights, quantifying\r\ngradient manipulation effects proved challenging.\r\nThe \"Laser-Assisted Protein Adsorption by Photobleaching\" (LAPAP) project was\r\npromising, as it allowed the printing of gradients. Initially successful with dendritic cells,\r\nwe aimed to adapt it for neutrophils. Through extensive experimentation with multiple\r\nparameters, we attempted to trigger responses from neutrophils. Despite these efforts\r\nand collaboration, the project failed due to practical challenges and limitations.\r\nFacing a lack of neutrophil-like cells at IST, we initially established the SCF-HoxB8\r\nprimary murine cell line. Despite their existence, their migratory behavior was largely\r\nunexplored due to potential limitations. Through differentiation protocol refinements we\r\nenhanced their migratory capabilities, though their capacity still lagged behind human\r\nneutrophils. Despite this, the improved migration potential of these cells pointed toward\r\ntheir utility for in vitro murine neutrophil migration studies.","lang":"eng"}],"article_processing_charge":"No","page":"226","supervisor":[{"full_name":"Sixt, Michael K","id":"41E9FBEA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0002-6620-9179","last_name":"Sixt","first_name":"Michael K"}],"degree_awarded":"PhD","title":"Neutrophils on the hunt : Migratory strategies employed by neutrophils to fulfill their effector function","OA_place":"publisher","user_id":"ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd","author":[{"full_name":"Stopp, Julian A","id":"489E3F00-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Julian A","last_name":"Stopp"}],"related_material":{"record":[{"relation":"part_of_dissertation","id":"14360","status":"public"},{"status":"public","relation":"part_of_dissertation","id":"12272"},{"id":"6328","relation":"part_of_dissertation","status":"public"},{"status":"public","id":"7885","relation":"part_of_dissertation"},{"status":"public","id":"14274","relation":"part_of_dissertation"}]},"acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"LifeSc"},{"_id":"Bio"}],"file":[{"date_updated":"2024-12-20T23:30:04Z","file_size":51585778,"access_level":"open_access","relation":"main_file","checksum":"457927165d5d556305d3086f6b83e5c7","embargo":"2024-12-20","file_id":"14699","creator":"jstopp","file_name":"Thesis.pdf","content_type":"application/pdf","date_created":"2023-12-20T09:35:34Z"},{"creator":"jstopp","file_name":"Thesis.docx","content_type":"application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document","date_created":"2023-12-20T09:35:35Z","file_size":69625950,"date_updated":"2024-12-20T23:30:04Z","embargo_to":"open_access","checksum":"e8d26449ac461f5e8478a62c9507506f","relation":"source_file","access_level":"closed","file_id":"14700"}],"corr_author":"1","ddc":["570"],"has_accepted_license":"1","date_created":"2023-12-18T19:14:28Z","year":"2023","doi":"10.15479/at:ista:14697","publication_identifier":{"isbn":["978-3-99078-038-1"],"issn":["2663-337X"]}},{"year":"2023","date_created":"2023-05-23T19:10:42Z","publication_identifier":{"issn":["2663-337X"]},"doi":"10.15479/at:ista:13081","corr_author":"1","file":[{"creator":"lbocaneg","date_created":"2023-05-25T06:32:12Z","file_name":"Thesis_final_LauraBocanegra.docx","content_type":"application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document","relation":"source_file","checksum":"74f3f89e59a0189bee53ebfad9c1b9af","access_level":"closed","date_updated":"2024-06-01T22:30:04Z","file_size":25615534,"embargo_to":"open_access","file_id":"13089"},{"creator":"lbocaneg","content_type":"application/pdf","file_name":"TotalFinal_Thesis_LauraBocanegraArx.pdf","date_created":"2023-05-25T06:32:16Z","file_size":12386046,"date_updated":"2024-06-01T22:30:04Z","access_level":"open_access","checksum":"c6cdef6323eacfb4b7a8af20f32eae97","relation":"main_file","embargo":"2024-05-31","file_id":"13090"}],"has_accepted_license":"1","ddc":["570"],"author":[{"id":"4896F754-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Bocanegra, Laura","first_name":"Laura","last_name":"Bocanegra"}],"user_id":"ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd","OA_place":"publisher","acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"Bio"},{"_id":"LifeSc"}],"related_material":{"record":[{"relation":"part_of_dissertation","id":"9349","status":"public"},{"status":"public","id":"12837","relation":"part_of_dissertation"}]},"page":"93","article_processing_charge":"No","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/","abstract":[{"text":"During development, tissues undergo changes in size and shape to form functional organs. Distinct cellular processes such as cell division and cell rearrangements underlie tissue morphogenesis. Yet how the distinct processes are controlled and coordinated, and how they contribute to morphogenesis is poorly understood. In our study, we addressed these questions using the developing mouse neural tube. This epithelial organ transforms from a flat epithelial sheet to an epithelial tube while increasing in size and undergoing morpho-gen-mediated patterning. The extent and mechanism of neural progenitor rearrangement within the developing mouse neuroepithelium is unknown. To investigate this, we per-formed high resolution lineage tracing analysis to quantify the extent of epithelial rear-rangement at different stages of neural tube development. We quantitatively described the relationship between apical cell size with cell cycle dependent interkinetic nuclear migra-tions (IKNM) and performed high cellular resolution live imaging of the neuroepithelium to study the dynamics of junctional remodeling. Furthermore, developed a vertex model of the neuroepithelium to investigate the quantitative contribution of cell proliferation, cell differentiation and mechanical properties to the epithelial rearrangement dynamics and validated the model predictions through functional experiments. Our analysis revealed that at early developmental stages, the apical cell area kinetics driven by IKNM induce high lev-els of cell rearrangements in a regime of high junctional tension and contractility. After E9.5, there is a sharp decline in the extent of cell rearrangements, suggesting that the epi-thelium transitions from a fluid-like to a solid-like state. We found that this transition is regulated by the growth rate of the tissue, rather than by changes in cell-cell adhesion and contractile forces. Overall, our study provides a quantitative description of the relationship between tissue growth, cell cycle dynamics, epithelia rearrangements and the emergent tissue material properties, and novel insights on how epithelial cell dynamics influences tissue morphogenesis.","lang":"eng"}],"publication_status":"published","degree_awarded":"PhD","title":"Epithelial dynamics during mouse neural tube development","supervisor":[{"id":"3959A2A0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0003-4509-4998","full_name":"Kicheva, Anna","last_name":"Kicheva","first_name":"Anna"}],"tmp":{"short":"CC BY-NC-ND (4.0)","name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode","image":"/images/cc_by_nc_nd.png"},"alternative_title":["ISTA Thesis"],"status":"public","day":"23","citation":{"chicago":"Bocanegra, Laura. “Epithelial Dynamics during Mouse Neural Tube Development.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:13081.","apa":"Bocanegra, L. 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Kuzmicz-Kowalska, Regulation of Neural Progenitor Survival by Shh and BMP in the Developing Spinal Cord, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.","ieee":"K. Kuzmicz-Kowalska, “Regulation of neural progenitor survival by Shh and BMP in the developing spinal cord,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.","ista":"Kuzmicz-Kowalska K. 2023. Regulation of neural progenitor survival by Shh and BMP in the developing spinal cord. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.","ama":"Kuzmicz-Kowalska K. Regulation of neural progenitor survival by Shh and BMP in the developing spinal cord. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:14323","apa":"Kuzmicz-Kowalska, K. (2023). Regulation of neural progenitor survival by Shh and BMP in the developing spinal cord. 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In addition to patterning, morphogens also control tissue growth. However, the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. We studied the role of morphogens in regulating tissue growth in the developing vertebrate neural tube. In this system, opposing morphogen gradients of Shh and BMP establish the dorsoventral pattern of neural progenitor domains. Perturbations in these morphogen pathways result in alterations in tissue growth and cell cycle progression, however, it has been unclear what cellular process is affected. To address this, we analysed the rates of cell proliferation and cell death in mouse mutants in which signaling is perturbed, as well as in chick neural plate explants exposed to defined concentrations of signaling activators or inhibitors. Our results indicated that the rate of cell proliferation was not altered in these assays. By contrast, both the Shh and BMP signaling pathways had profound effects on neural progenitor survival. Our results indicate that these pathways synergise to promote cell survival within neural progenitors. Consistent with this, we found that progenitors within the intermediate region of the neural tube, where the combined levels of Shh and BMP are the lowest, are most prone to cell death when signaling activity is inhibited. In addition, we found that downregulation of Shh results in increased apoptosis within the roof plate, which is the dorsal source of BMP ligand production. This revealed a cross-interaction between the Shh and BMP morphogen signaling pathways that may be relevant for understanding how gradients scale in neural tubes with different overall sizes. We further studied the mechanism acting downstream of Shh in cell survival regulation using genetic and genomic approaches. We propose that Shh transcriptionally regulates a non-canonical apoptotic pathway. Altogether, our study points to a novel role of opposing morphogen gradients in tissue size regulation and provides new insights into complex interactions between Shh and BMP signaling gradients in the neural tube."}],"publication_status":"published","publication_identifier":{"issn":["2663-337X"]},"doi":"10.15479/at:ista:14323","year":"2023","date_created":"2023-09-13T10:07:18Z","has_accepted_license":"1","ddc":["570"],"corr_author":"1","file":[{"creator":"kkuzmicz","date_created":"2023-09-13T09:52:52Z","file_name":"PhDThesis_KK_final_pdfA.pdf","content_type":"application/pdf","access_level":"open_access","relation":"main_file","checksum":"bd83596869c814b24aeff7077d031c0e","date_updated":"2025-03-13T23:30:05Z","file_size":10147911,"file_id":"14324","embargo":"2025-03-13"},{"access_level":"closed","checksum":"aa2757ae4c3478041fd7e62c587d3e4d","relation":"source_file","file_size":103980668,"embargo_to":"open_access","date_updated":"2025-03-13T23:30:05Z","file_id":"14325","creator":"kkuzmicz","date_created":"2023-09-13T09:53:29Z","content_type":"application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document","file_name":"thesis_KK_final_corrections_092023.docx"}]},{"has_accepted_license":"1","ddc":["610"],"corr_author":"1","file":[{"date_created":"2023-10-12T14:53:50Z","file_name":"Confavreux_Thesis_2A.pdf","content_type":"application/pdf","creator":"cchlebak","file_id":"14424","embargo":"2024-10-12","access_level":"open_access","relation":"main_file","checksum":"7f636555eae7803323df287672fd13ed","file_size":30599717,"date_updated":"2024-10-13T22:30:04Z"},{"creator":"cchlebak","date_created":"2023-10-18T07:38:34Z","file_name":"Confavreux Thesis.zip","content_type":"application/x-zip-compressed","access_level":"closed","relation":"source_file","checksum":"725e85946db92290a4583a0de9779e1b","embargo_to":"open_access","date_updated":"2024-10-13T22:30:04Z","file_size":68406739,"file_id":"14440"}],"publication_identifier":{"issn":["2663-337X"]},"doi":"10.15479/at:ista:14422","date_created":"2023-10-12T14:13:25Z","year":"2023","supervisor":[{"full_name":"Vogels, Tim P","orcid":"0000-0003-3295-6181","id":"CB6FF8D2-008F-11EA-8E08-2637E6697425","last_name":"Vogels","first_name":"Tim P"}],"degree_awarded":"PhD","title":"Synapseek: Meta-learning synaptic plasticity rules","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/","article_processing_charge":"No","page":"148","publication_status":"published","abstract":[{"text":"Animals exhibit a remarkable ability to learn and remember new behaviors, skills, and associations throughout their lifetime. These capabilities are made possible thanks to a variety of\r\nchanges in the brain throughout adulthood, regrouped under the term \"plasticity\". Some cells\r\nin the brain —neurons— and specifically changes in the connections between neurons, the\r\nsynapses, were shown to be crucial for the formation, selection, and consolidation of memories\r\nfrom past experiences. These ongoing changes of synapses across time are called synaptic\r\nplasticity. Understanding how a myriad of biochemical processes operating at individual\r\nsynapses can somehow work in concert to give rise to meaningful changes in behavior is a\r\nfascinating problem and an active area of research.\r\nHowever, the experimental search for the precise plasticity mechanisms at play in the brain\r\nis daunting, as it is difficult to control and observe synapses during learning. Theoretical\r\napproaches have thus been the default method to probe the plasticity-behavior connection. Such\r\nstudies attempt to extract unifying principles across synapses and model all observed synaptic\r\nchanges using plasticity rules: equations that govern the evolution of synaptic strengths across\r\ntime in neuronal network models. These rules can use many relevant quantities to determine\r\nthe magnitude of synaptic changes, such as the precise timings of pre- and postsynaptic\r\naction potentials, the recent neuronal activity levels, the state of neighboring synapses, etc.\r\nHowever, analytical studies rely heavily on human intuition and are forced to make simplifying\r\nassumptions about plasticity rules.\r\nIn this thesis, we aim to assist and augment human intuition in this search for plasticity rules.\r\nWe explore whether a numerical approach could automatically discover the plasticity rules\r\nthat elicit desired behaviors in large networks of interconnected neurons. This approach is\r\ndubbed meta-learning synaptic plasticity: learning plasticity rules which themselves will make\r\nneuronal networks learn how to solve a desired task. We first write all the potential plasticity\r\nmechanisms to consider using a single expression with adjustable parameters. We then optimize\r\nthese plasticity parameters using evolutionary strategies or Bayesian inference on tasks known\r\nto involve synaptic plasticity, such as familiarity detection and network stabilization.\r\nWe show that these automated approaches are powerful tools, able to complement established\r\nanalytical methods. By comprehensively screening plasticity rules at all synapse types in\r\nrealistic, spiking neuronal network models, we discover entire sets of degenerate plausible\r\nplasticity rules that reliably elicit memory-related behaviors. Our approaches allow for more\r\nrobust experimental predictions, by abstracting out the idiosyncrasies of individual plasticity\r\nrules, and provide fresh insights on synaptic plasticity in spiking network models.\r\n","lang":"eng"}],"related_material":{"record":[{"status":"public","id":"9633","relation":"part_of_dissertation"}]},"author":[{"last_name":"Confavreux","first_name":"Basile J","full_name":"Confavreux, Basile J","id":"C7610134-B532-11EA-BD9F-F5753DDC885E"}],"user_id":"ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd","OA_place":"publisher","citation":{"chicago":"Confavreux, Basile J. “Synapseek: Meta-Learning Synaptic Plasticity Rules.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14422.","apa":"Confavreux, B. J. (2023). Synapseek: Meta-learning synaptic plasticity rules. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14422","mla":"Confavreux, Basile J. Synapseek: Meta-Learning Synaptic Plasticity Rules. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:14422.","ieee":"B. J. Confavreux, “Synapseek: Meta-learning synaptic plasticity rules,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.","short":"B.J. Confavreux, Synapseek: Meta-Learning Synaptic Plasticity Rules, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.","ista":"Confavreux BJ. 2023. Synapseek: Meta-learning synaptic plasticity rules. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.","ama":"Confavreux BJ. Synapseek: Meta-learning synaptic plasticity rules. 2023. doi:10.15479/at:ista:14422"},"project":[{"call_identifier":"H2020","name":"Learning the shape of synaptic plasticity rules for neuronal architectures and function through machine learning.","_id":"0aacfa84-070f-11eb-9043-d7eb2c709234","grant_number":"819603"}],"alternative_title":["ISTA Thesis"],"day":"12","status":"public","tmp":{"short":"CC BY-NC-SA (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by_nc_sa.png","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode","name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)"},"ec_funded":1,"date_published":"2023-10-12T00:00:00Z","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"month":"10","date_updated":"2026-07-07T06:53:33Z","department":[{"_id":"GradSch"},{"_id":"TiVo"}],"publisher":"Institute of Science and Technology Austria","file_date_updated":"2024-10-13T22:30:04Z","oa":1,"_id":"14422","oa_version":"Published Version","type":"dissertation"},{"related_material":{"record":[{"id":"14591","relation":"part_of_dissertation","status":"public"},{"status":"public","id":"9887","relation":"part_of_dissertation"},{"relation":"part_of_dissertation","id":"8139","status":"public"}]},"acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"EM-Fac"},{"_id":"Bio"},{"_id":"LifeSc"}],"OA_place":"publisher","author":[{"last_name":"Gnyliukh","first_name":"Nataliia","orcid":"0000-0002-2198-0509","id":"390C1120-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Gnyliukh, Nataliia"}],"user_id":"ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd","degree_awarded":"PhD","title":"Mechanism of clathrin-coated vesicle formation during endocytosis in plants","supervisor":[{"orcid":"0000-0002-8302-7596","id":"4159519E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Friml, Jiří","first_name":"Jiří","last_name":"Friml"},{"first_name":"Martin","last_name":"Loose","orcid":"0000-0001-7309-9724","id":"462D4284-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Loose, Martin"}],"keyword":["Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis","vesicle scission","Dynamin-Related Protein 2","SH3P2","TPLATE complex","Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy","Arabidopsis thaliana"],"abstract":[{"text":"Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is vital for the regulation of plant growth and\r\ndevelopment by controlling plasma membrane protein composition and cargo uptake. CME\r\nrelies on the precise recruitment control of protein regulators for vesicle maturation and\r\nrelease. During the early stages of endocytosis, an area of flat membrane is remodelled by\r\nproteins to create a spherical vesicle against intracellular forces. After the Clathrin-coated\r\nvesicle (CCV) is fully formed, scission machinery releases it from the plasma membrane,\r\nand cargo proceeds for recycling or degradation through early endosomes / Trans Golgi\r\nnetwork. Protein machineries that mediate membrane bending and vesicle release in plants\r\nare unknown. However, studies show, that plant endocytosis is actin independent, thus\r\nindicating that plants utilize a unique mechanism to mediate membrane bending against highturgor pressure compared to other model systems. First, by using biochemical and advanced\r\nlive microscopy approaches we investigate the TPLATE complex, a plant-specific\r\nendocytosis protein complex. We found that TPLATE is peripherally associated with\r\nclathrin-coated vesicles and localises at the rim of endocytosis events. Next, our study of\r\nplant Dynamin-related protein 1C (DRP1C), which was hypothesised previously to play a\r\nrole in vesicle release, shows the recruitment of the protein already at the early stages of\r\nendocytosis. Moreover, DRP1C assembles into organised ring-like structures and is able to\r\ninduce membrane deformation and tubulation, suggesting its role also in membrane bending\r\nduring early CME. Based on the data from mammalian and yeast systems, plant DynaminRelated Proteins 2 and SH3P2 protein are strong candidates to be part of the plant vesicle\r\nscission machinery; however, their precise role in plant CME has not been yet elucidated.\r\nHere, we characterised DRP2s and SH3P2 roles in CME by combining high-resolution\r\nimaging of endocytic events in vivo and protein characterisation. Although DRP2s and\r\nSH3P2 arrive together during late CME and physically interact, genetic analysis using\r\n∆sh3p1,2,3 mutant and complementation with non-DRP2-interacting SH3P2 variants suggest\r\nthat SH3P2 does not directly recruit DRP2s to the site of endocytosis. Summarising our\r\nresearch, these observations provide new important insights into the mechanism of plant\r\nCME and show that, despite plants posses many homologues of mammalian and yeast CME\r\ncomponents, they do not necessarily act in the same manner. 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To decode its complex connectivity, it is \r\npivotal to disentangle its intricate architecture spanning from cm-sized circuits down to tens of \r\nnm-small synapses.\r\nTo achieve this goal, I developed CATS – Comprehensive Analysis of nervous Tissue across \r\nScales, a versatile toolbox for obtaining a holistic view of nervous tissue context with (super\u0002resolution) fluorescence microscopy. CATS combines comprehensive labeling of the extracellular\r\nspace, that is compatible with chemical fixation, with information on molecular markers, super\u0002resolved data acquisition and machine-learning based data analysis for segmentation and synapse \r\nidentification.\r\nI used CATS to analyze key features of nervous tissue connectivity, ranging from whole tissue \r\narchitecture, neuronal in- and output-fields, down to synapse morphology.\r\nFocusing on the hippocampal circuitry, I quantified synaptic transmission properties of mossy \r\nfiber boutons and analyzed the connectivity pattern of dentate gyrus granule cells with CA3 \r\npyramidal neurons. 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(2023). Improving variational quantum algorithms: Innovative initialization techniques and extensions to qudit systems. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14622","chicago":"Sack, Stefan. “Improving Variational Quantum Algorithms: Innovative Initialization Techniques and Extensions to Qudit Systems.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:14622.","mla":"Sack, Stefan. Improving Variational Quantum Algorithms: Innovative Initialization Techniques and Extensions to Qudit Systems. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023, doi:10.15479/at:ista:14622.","short":"S. Sack, Improving Variational Quantum Algorithms: Innovative Initialization Techniques and Extensions to Qudit Systems, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2023.","ieee":"S. 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Our\r\nprimary focus lies on two particular types of VQAs: the Quantum Approximate Optimization\r\nAlgorithm (QAOA), used for solving binary optimization problems, and the Variational Quantum\r\nEigensolver (VQE), utilized for finding ground states of quantum many-body systems.\r\nIn the first part of the thesis, we examine the issue of effective parameter initialization for\r\nthe QAOA. The work demonstrates that random initialization of the QAOA often leads to\r\nconvergence in local minima with sub-optimal performance. To mitigate this issue, we propose\r\nan initialization of QAOA parameters based on the Trotterized Quantum Annealing (TQA).\r\nWe show that TQA initialization leads to the same performance as the best of an exponentially\r\nscaling number of random initializations.\r\nThe second study introduces Transition States (TS), stationary points with a single direction\r\nof descent, as a tool for systematically exploring the QAOA optimization landscape. This\r\nleads us to propose a novel greedy parameter initialization strategy that guarantees for the\r\nenergy to decrease with increasing number of circuit layers.\r\nIn the third section, we extend the QAOA to qudit systems, which are higher-dimensional\r\ngeneralizations of qubits. This chapter provides theoretical insights and practical strategies for\r\nleveraging the increased computational power of qudits in the context of quantum optimization\r\nalgorithms and suggests a quantum circuit for implementing the algorithm on an ion trap\r\nquantum computer.\r\nFinally, we propose an algorithm to avoid “barren plateaus”, regions in parameter space with\r\nvanishing gradients that obstruct efficient parameter optimization. This novel approach relies\r\non defining a notion of weak barren plateaus based on the entropies of local reduced density\r\nmatrices and showcases how these can be efficiently quantified using shadow tomography.\r\nTo illustrate the approach we employ the strategy in the VQE and show that it allows to\r\nsuccessfully avoid barren plateaus in the initialization and throughout the optimization.\r\nTaken together, this thesis greatly enhances our understanding of parameter initialization and\r\noptimization in VQAs, expands the scope of QAOA to higher-dimensional quantum systems,\r\nand presents a method to address the challenge of barren plateaus using the VQE. These\r\ninsights are instrumental in advancing the field of near-term quantum computation.","lang":"eng"}],"article_processing_charge":"No","page":"142","supervisor":[{"last_name":"Serbyn","first_name":"Maksym","orcid":"0000-0002-2399-5827","id":"47809E7E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Serbyn, Maksym"}],"doi_confirm":"1","degree_awarded":"PhD","title":"Improving variational quantum algorithms: Innovative initialization techniques and extensions to qudit systems","OA_place":"publisher","user_id":"8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9","author":[{"id":"dd622248-f6e0-11ea-865d-ce382a1c81a5","orcid":"0000-0001-5400-8508","full_name":"Sack, Stefan","last_name":"Sack","first_name":"Stefan"}],"related_material":{"record":[{"relation":"part_of_dissertation","id":"13125","status":"public"},{"relation":"part_of_dissertation","id":"11471","status":"public"},{"status":"public","id":"9760","relation":"part_of_dissertation"}]},"file":[{"creator":"ssack","content_type":"application/pdf","file_name":"PhD_Thesis.pdf","date_created":"2023-11-30T15:53:10Z","date_updated":"2024-11-30T23:30:03Z","file_size":11947523,"checksum":"068fd3570506ec42b2faa390de784bc4","relation":"main_file","access_level":"open_access","file_id":"14635","embargo":"2024-11-30"},{"content_type":"application/zip","file_name":"PhD Thesis (1).zip","date_created":"2023-11-30T15:54:11Z","creator":"ssack","file_id":"14636","embargo_to":"open_access","file_size":18422964,"date_updated":"2024-11-30T23:30:03Z","access_level":"closed","relation":"source_file","checksum":"0fa3bc0d108aed0ac59d2c6beef2220a"}],"corr_author":"1","ddc":["530"],"has_accepted_license":"1","date_created":"2023-11-28T10:58:13Z","year":"2023","publication_identifier":{"issn":["2663-337X"]},"doi":"10.15479/at:ista:14622"},{"author":[{"last_name":"Matejovicova","first_name":"Lenka","id":"2DFDEC72-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Matejovicova, Lenka"}],"user_id":"ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd","OA_place":"publisher","acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"ScienComp"},{"_id":"Bio"}],"article_processing_charge":"No","page":"112","publication_status":"published","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Although we often see studies focusing on simple or even discrete traits in studies of colouration,\r\nthe variation of “appearance” phenotypes found in nature is often more complex, continuous\r\nand high-dimensional. Therefore, we developed automated methods suitable for large datasets\r\nof genomes and images, striving to account for their complex nature, while minimising human\r\nbias. We used these methods on a dataset of more than 20, 000 plant SNP genomes and\r\ncorresponding fower images from a hybrid zone of two subspecies of Antirrhinum majus with\r\ndistinctly coloured fowers to improve our understanding of the genetic nature of the fower\r\ncolour in our study system.\r\nFirstly, we use the advantage of large numbers of genotyped plants to estimate the haplotypes in\r\nthe main fower colour regulating region. We study colour- and geography-related characteristics\r\nof the estimated haplotypes and how they connect to their relatedness. We show discrepancies\r\nfrom the expected fower colour distributions given the genotype and identify particular\r\nhaplotypes leading to unexpected phenotypes. We also confrm a signifcant defcit of the\r\ndouble recessive recombinant and quite surprisingly, we show that haplotypes of the most\r\nfrequent parental type are much less variable than others.\r\nSecondly, we introduce our pipeline capable of processing tens of thousands of full fower\r\nimages without human interaction and summarising each image into a set of informative scores.\r\nWe show the compatibility of these machine-measured fower colour scores with the previously\r\nused manual scores and study impact of external efect on the resulting scores. Finally, we use\r\nthe machine-measured fower colour scores to ft and examine a phenotype cline across the\r\nhybrid zone in Planoles using full fower images as opposed to discrete, manual scores and\r\ncompare it with the genotypic cline."}],"supervisor":[{"last_name":"Barton","first_name":"Nicholas H","full_name":"Barton, Nicholas H","orcid":"0000-0002-8548-5240","id":"4880FE40-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"}],"degree_awarded":"PhD","title":"Genetic basis of flower colour as a model for adaptive evolution","date_created":"2022-04-07T08:19:54Z","year":"2022","doi":"10.15479/at:ista:11128","publication_identifier":{"isbn":["978-3-99078-016-9"],"issn":["2663-337X"]},"corr_author":"1","file":[{"file_size":11906472,"date_updated":"2022-04-07T08:11:34Z","relation":"main_file","checksum":"e9609bc4e8f8e20146fc1125fd4f1bf7","access_level":"open_access","file_id":"11129","creator":"cchlebak","content_type":"application/pdf","file_name":"LenkaPhD_Official_PDFA.pdf","date_created":"2022-04-07T08:11:34Z"},{"file_id":"11130","relation":"source_file","checksum":"99d67040432fd07a225643a212ee8588","access_level":"closed","date_updated":"2022-04-07T08:11:51Z","file_size":23036766,"date_created":"2022-04-07T08:11:51Z","file_name":"LenkaPhD Official_source.zip","content_type":"application/x-zip-compressed","creator":"cchlebak"}],"has_accepted_license":"1","ddc":["576","582"],"oa_version":"Published Version","type":"dissertation","_id":"11128","file_date_updated":"2022-04-07T08:11:51Z","oa":1,"date_published":"2022-04-06T00:00:00Z","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"month":"04","date_updated":"2026-04-07T14:12:19Z","department":[{"_id":"GradSch"},{"_id":"NiBa"}],"publisher":"Institute of Science and Technology Austria","tmp":{"legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","short":"CC BY (4.0)"},"alternative_title":["ISTA Thesis"],"status":"public","day":"06","citation":{"ama":"Matejovicova L. 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Polarons in Bose Gases and Polar Crystals: Some Rigorous Energy Estimates. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2022, doi:10.15479/at:ista:11473.","short":"K. Mysliwy, Polarons in Bose Gases and Polar Crystals: Some Rigorous Energy Estimates, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2022.","ieee":"K. Mysliwy, “Polarons in Bose gases and polar crystals: Some rigorous energy estimates,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2022.","ista":"Mysliwy K. 2022. Polarons in Bose gases and polar crystals: Some rigorous energy estimates. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.","ama":"Mysliwy K. 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It arises in many physical contexts. We are mostly concerned\r\nwith models applicable in the context of an impurity atom in a Bose-Einstein condensate as\r\nwell as the problem of electrons moving in polar crystals.\r\nThe model has a simple structure in which the interaction of the particle with the field is given\r\nby a term linear in the field’s creation and annihilation operators. In this work, we investigate\r\nthe properties of this model by providing rigorous estimates on various energies relevant to the\r\nproblem. The estimates are obtained, for the most part, by suitable operator techniques which\r\nconstitute the principal mathematical substance of the thesis.\r\nThe first application of these techniques is to derive the polaron model rigorously from first\r\nprinciples, i.e., from a full microscopic quantum-mechanical many-body problem involving an\r\nimpurity in an otherwise homogeneous system. We accomplish this for the N + 1 Bose gas\r\nin the mean-field regime by showing that a suitable polaron-type Hamiltonian arises at weak\r\ninteractions as a low-energy effective theory for this problem.\r\nIn the second part, we investigate rigorously the ground state of the model at fixed momentum\r\nand for large values of the coupling constant. Qualitatively, the system is expected to display\r\na transition from the quasi-particle behavior at small momenta, where the dispersion relation\r\nis parabolic and the particle moves through the medium dragging along a cloud of phonons, to\r\nthe radiative behavior at larger momenta where the polaron decelerates and emits free phonons.\r\nAt the same time, in the strong coupling regime, the bosonic field is expected to behave purely\r\nclassically. Accordingly, the effective mass of the polaron at strong coupling is conjectured to\r\nbe asymptotically equal to the one obtained from the semiclassical counterpart of the problem,\r\nfirst studied by Landau and Pekar in the 1940s. For polaron models with regularized form\r\nfactors and phonon dispersion relations of superfluid type, i.e., bounded below by a linear\r\nfunction of the wavenumbers for all phonon momenta as in the interacting Bose gas, we prove\r\nthat for a large window of momenta below the radiation threshold, the energy-momentum\r\nrelation at strong coupling is indeed essentially a parabola with semi-latus rectum equal to the\r\nLandau–Pekar effective mass, as expected.\r\nFor the Fröhlich polaron describing electrons in polar crystals where the dispersion relation is\r\nof the optical type and the form factor is formally UV–singular due to the nature of the point\r\ncharge-dipole interaction, we are able to give the corresponding upper bound. In contrast to\r\nthe regular case, this requires the inclusion of the quantum fluctuations of the phonon field,\r\nwhich makes the problem considerably more difficult.\r\nThe results are supplemented by studies on the absolute ground-state energy at strong coupling,\r\na proof of the divergence of the effective mass with the coupling constant for a wide class of\r\npolaron models, as well as the discussion of the apparent UV singularity of the Fröhlich model\r\nand the application of the techniques used for its removal for the energy estimates.\r\n"}],"article_processing_charge":"No","page":"138","supervisor":[{"full_name":"Seiringer, Robert","id":"4AFD0470-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0002-6781-0521","first_name":"Robert","last_name":"Seiringer"}],"degree_awarded":"PhD","title":"Polarons in Bose gases and polar crystals: Some rigorous energy estimates"},{"_id":"11626","oa_version":"Published Version","type":"dissertation","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"month":"07","date_published":"2022-07-20T00:00:00Z","department":[{"_id":"GradSch"},{"_id":"JiFr"}],"publisher":"Institute of Science and Technology Austria","date_updated":"2026-06-18T19:02:05Z","oa":1,"file_date_updated":"2022-07-25T11:48:45Z","alternative_title":["ISTA Thesis"],"day":"20","status":"public","ec_funded":1,"citation":{"chicago":"Gallei, Michelle C. “Auxin and Strigolactone Non-Canonical Signaling Regulating Development in Arabidopsis Thaliana.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2022. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:11626.","apa":"Gallei, M. 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The high capacity for post-embryonic organ formation and tissue regeneration requires tightly regulated intercellular communication and coordinated tissue polarization. One of the most important drivers for patterning and polarity in plant development is the phytohormone auxin. Auxin has the unique characteristic to establish polarized channels for its own active directional cell to cell transport. This fascinating phenomenon is called auxin canalization. Those auxin transport channels are characterized by the expression and polar, subcellular localization of PIN auxin efflux carriers. PIN proteins have the ability to dynamically change their localization and auxin itself can affect this by interfering with trafficking. Most of the underlying molecular mechanisms of canalization still remain enigmatic. What is known so far is that canonical auxin signaling is indispensable but also other non-canonical signaling components are thought to play a role. In order to shed light into the mysteries auf auxin canalization this study revisits the branches of auxin signaling in detail. Further a new auxin analogue, PISA, is developed which triggers auxin-like responses but does not directly activate canonical transcriptional auxin signaling. We revisit the direct auxin effect on PIN trafficking where we found that, contradictory to previous observations, auxin is very specifically promoting endocytosis of PIN2 but has no overall effect on endocytosis. Further, we evaluate which cellular processes related to PIN subcellular dynamics are involved in the establishment of auxin conducting channels and the formation of vascular tissue. We are re-evaluating the function of AUXIN BINDING PROTEIN 1 (ABP1) and provide a comprehensive picture about its developmental phneotypes and involvement in auxin signaling and canalization. Lastly, we are focusing on the crosstalk between the hormone strigolactone (SL) and auxin and found that SL is interfering with essentially all processes involved in auxin canalization in a non-transcriptional manner. Lastly we identify a new way of SL perception and signaling which is emanating from mitochondria, is independent of canonical SL signaling and is modulating primary root growth."}],"publication_status":"published","publication_identifier":{"issn":["2663-337X"],"isbn":["978-3-99078-019-0"]},"doi":"10.15479/at:ista:11626","year":"2022","date_created":"2022-07-20T11:21:53Z","has_accepted_license":"1","ddc":["575"],"corr_author":"1","file":[{"file_name":"Thesis_Gallei.pdf","content_type":"application/pdf","date_created":"2022-07-25T09:08:47Z","creator":"mgallei","file_id":"11645","date_updated":"2022-07-25T09:08:47Z","file_size":9730864,"access_level":"open_access","relation":"main_file","checksum":"bd7ac35403cf5b4b2607287d2a104b3a"},{"checksum":"a9e54fe5471ba25dc13c2150c1b8ccbb","relation":"source_file","access_level":"closed","date_updated":"2022-07-25T09:39:58Z","file_size":19560720,"file_id":"11646","creator":"mgallei","date_created":"2022-07-25T09:09:09Z","content_type":"application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document","file_name":"Thesis_Gallei_source.docx"},{"description":"This is the print version of the thesis including the full appendix","file_id":"11647","access_level":"closed","relation":"source_file","checksum":"3994f7f20058941b5bb8a16886b21e71","date_updated":"2022-07-25T09:39:58Z","file_size":24542837,"date_created":"2022-07-25T09:09:32Z","file_name":"Thesis_Gallei_to_print.pdf","content_type":"application/pdf","creator":"mgallei"},{"file_name":"Thesis_Gallei_Appendix.pdf","content_type":"application/pdf","date_created":"2022-07-25T11:48:45Z","creator":"mgallei","file_id":"11650","date_updated":"2022-07-25T11:48:45Z","file_size":15435966,"relation":"main_file","checksum":"f24acd3c0d864f4c6676e8b0d7bfa76b","access_level":"open_access"}]},{"date_created":"2022-08-10T15:51:19Z","year":"2022","doi":"10.15479/at:ista:11777","publication_identifier":{"issn":["2663-337X"],"isbn":["978-3-99078-021-3"]},"corr_author":"1","file":[{"creator":"pwild","content_type":"text/x-python","file_name":"flags.py","date_created":"2022-08-10T15:34:04Z","date_updated":"2022-08-10T15:34:04Z","file_size":16828,"access_level":"open_access","relation":"supplementary_material","checksum":"f5f3af1fb7c8a24b71ddc88ad7f7c5b4","description":"Code for computer-assisted proofs in Section 8.4.7 in Thesis","file_id":"11780"},{"date_created":"2022-08-10T15:34:10Z","content_type":"text/x-c++src","file_name":"lowerbound.cpp","creator":"pwild","description":"Code for proof of Lemma 8.20 in Thesis","file_id":"11781","access_level":"open_access","relation":"supplementary_material","checksum":"1f7c12dfe3bdaa9b147e4fbc3d34e3d5","file_size":12226,"date_updated":"2022-08-10T15:34:10Z"},{"file_id":"11782","description":"Code for proof of Proposition 7.9 in Thesis","date_updated":"2022-08-10T15:34:17Z","file_size":3240,"relation":"supplementary_material","checksum":"4cf81455c49e5dec3b9b2e3980137eeb","access_level":"open_access","file_name":"upperbound.py","content_type":"text/x-python","date_created":"2022-08-10T15:34:17Z","creator":"pwild"},{"checksum":"4e96575b10cbe4e0d0db2045b2847774","relation":"main_file","title":"High-Dimensional Expansion and Crossing Numbers of Simplicial Complexes","access_level":"open_access","file_size":5086282,"date_updated":"2022-08-11T16:08:33Z","file_id":"11809","creator":"pwild","date_created":"2022-08-11T16:08:33Z","content_type":"application/pdf","file_name":"finalthesisPascalWildPDFA.pdf"},{"file_id":"11810","access_level":"closed","relation":"source_file","checksum":"92d94842a1fb6dca5808448137573b2e","date_updated":"2022-08-11T16:09:19Z","file_size":18150068,"date_created":"2022-08-11T16:09:19Z","file_name":"ThesisSubmission.zip","content_type":"application/zip","creator":"pwild"}],"has_accepted_license":"1","ddc":["500","516","514"],"author":[{"first_name":"Pascal","last_name":"Wild","full_name":"Wild, Pascal","id":"4C20D868-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"}],"user_id":"ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd","OA_place":"publisher","article_processing_charge":"No","page":"170","publication_status":"published","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"In this dissertation we study coboundary expansion of simplicial complex with a view of giving geometric applications.\r\nOur main novel tool is an equivariant version of Gromov's celebrated Topological Overlap Theorem. The equivariant topological overlap theorem leads to various geometric applications including a quantitative non-embeddability result for sufficiently thick buildings (which partially resolves a conjecture of Tancer and Vorwerk) and an improved lower bound on the pair-crossing number of (bounded degree) expander graphs. Additionally, we will give new proofs for several known lower bounds for geometric problems such as the number of Tverberg partitions or the crossing number of complete bipartite graphs.\r\nFor the aforementioned applications one is naturally lead to study expansion properties of joins of simplicial complexes. In the presence of a special certificate for expansion (as it is the case, e.g., for spherical buildings), the join of two expanders is an expander. On the flip-side, we report quite some evidence that coboundary expansion exhibits very non-product-like behaviour under taking joins. For instance, we exhibit infinite families of graphs $(G_n)_{n\\in \\mathbb{N}}$ and $(H_n)_{n\\in\\mathbb{N}}$ whose join $G_n*H_n$ has expansion of lower order than the product of the expansion constant of the graphs. Moreover, we show an upper bound of $(d+1)/2^d$ on the normalized coboundary expansion constants for the complete multipartite complex $[n]^{*(d+1)}$ (under a mild divisibility condition on $n$).\r\nVia the probabilistic method the latter result extends to an upper bound of $(d+1)/2^d+\\varepsilon$ on the coboundary expansion constant of the spherical building associated with $\\mathrm{PGL}_{d+2}(\\mathbb{F}_q)$ for any $\\varepsilon>0$ and sufficiently large $q=q(\\varepsilon)$. This disproves a conjecture of Lubotzky, Meshulam and Mozes -- in a rather strong sense.\r\nBy improving on existing lower bounds we make further progress towards closing the gap between the known lower and upper bounds on the coboundary expansion constants of $[n]^{*(d+1)}$. The best improvements we achieve using computer-aided proofs and flag algebras. The exact value even for the complete $3$-partite $2$-dimensional complex $[n]^{*3}$ remains unknown but we are happy to conjecture a precise value for every $n$. %Moreover, we show that a previously shown lower bound on the expansion constant of the spherical building associated with $\\mathrm{PGL}_{2}(\\mathbb{F}_q)$ is not tight.\r\nIn a loosely structured, last chapter of this thesis we collect further smaller observations related to expansion. We point out a link between discrete Morse theory and a technique for showing coboundary expansion, elaborate a bit on the hardness of computing coboundary expansion constants, propose a new criterion for coboundary expansion (in a very dense setting) and give one way of making the folklore result that expansion of links is a necessary condition for a simplicial complex to be an expander precise."}],"supervisor":[{"id":"36690CA2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0002-1494-0568","full_name":"Wagner, Uli","first_name":"Uli","last_name":"Wagner"}],"degree_awarded":"PhD","title":"High-dimensional expansion and crossing numbers of simplicial complexes","ec_funded":1,"alternative_title":["ISTA Thesis"],"status":"public","day":"11","citation":{"short":"P. Wild, High-Dimensional Expansion and Crossing Numbers of Simplicial Complexes, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2022.","ieee":"P. 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Chimeric G protein-coupled receptors mimic distinct signaling pathways and modulate microglia function. 2022. doi:10.15479/at:ista:11945","ista":"Schulz R. 2022. Chimeric G protein-coupled receptors mimic distinct signaling pathways and modulate microglia function. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.","ieee":"R. Schulz, “Chimeric G protein-coupled receptors mimic distinct signaling pathways and modulate microglia function,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2022.","short":"R. Schulz, Chimeric G Protein-Coupled Receptors Mimic Distinct Signaling Pathways and Modulate Microglia Function, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2022.","mla":"Schulz, Rouven. Chimeric G Protein-Coupled Receptors Mimic Distinct Signaling Pathways and Modulate Microglia Function. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2022, doi:10.15479/at:ista:11945.","apa":"Schulz, R. (2022). Chimeric G protein-coupled receptors mimic distinct signaling pathways and modulate microglia function. 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However, ligands for many GPCRs remain unknown, suffer from off-target effects or have poor bioavailability. Additional challenges exist to dissect cell-type specific responses when the same GPCR is expressed on several cell types within the body. Here, we overcome these limitations by engineering DREADD-based GPCR chimeras that selectively bind their agonist clozapine-N-oxide (CNO) and mimic a GPCR-of-interest in a desired cell type.\r\nWe validated our approach with β2-adrenergic receptor (β2AR/ADRB2) and show that our chimeric DREADD-β2AR triggers comparable responses on second messenger and kinase activity, post-translational modifications, and protein-protein interactions. Since β2AR is also enriched in microglia, which can drive inflammation in the central nervous system, we expressed chimeric DREADD-β2AR in primary microglia and successfully recapitulate β2AR-mediated filopodia formation through CNO stimulation. To dissect the role of selected GPCRs during microglial inflammation, we additionally generated DREADD-based chimeras for microglia-enriched GPR65 and GPR109A/HCAR2. In a microglia cell line, DREADD-β2AR and DREADD-GPR65 both modulated the inflammatory response with a similar profile as endogenously expressed β2AR, while DREADD-GPR109A showed no impact.\r\nOur DREADD-based approach provides the means to obtain mechanistic and functional insights into GPCR signaling on a cell-type specific level.","lang":"eng"}],"publication_identifier":{"issn":["2663-337X"]},"doi":"10.15479/at:ista:11945","date_created":"2022-08-23T11:33:11Z","year":"2022","has_accepted_license":"1","ddc":["570"],"corr_author":"1","file":[{"file_id":"11970","date_updated":"2022-08-25T08:59:57Z","file_size":28079331,"access_level":"open_access","relation":"main_file","checksum":"61b1b666a210ff7cdd0e95ea75207a13","content_type":"application/pdf","file_name":"Thesis_Rouven_Schulz_2022_final.pdf","date_created":"2022-08-25T08:59:57Z","success":1,"creator":"rschulz"},{"creator":"rschulz","file_name":"Thesis_Rouven_Schulz_2022_final.docx","content_type":"application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document","date_created":"2022-08-25T09:00:11Z","file_size":27226963,"date_updated":"2022-08-25T09:33:31Z","access_level":"closed","checksum":"2b8f95ea1c134dbdb927b41b1dbeeeb5","relation":"source_file","file_id":"11971"}]},{"OA_place":"publisher","user_id":"ba8df636-2132-11f1-aed0-ed93e2281fdd","author":[{"first_name":"Georg","last_name":"Sperl","full_name":"Sperl, Georg","id":"4DD40360-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"}],"related_material":{"record":[{"status":"public","id":"8385","relation":"part_of_dissertation"},{"status":"public","id":"11736","relation":"part_of_dissertation"},{"relation":"part_of_dissertation","id":"9818","status":"public"}]},"acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"SSU"}],"abstract":[{"text":"The complex yarn structure of knitted and woven fabrics gives rise to both a mechanical and\r\nvisual complexity. The small-scale interactions of yarns colliding with and pulling on each\r\nother result in drastically different large-scale stretching and bending behavior, introducing\r\nanisotropy, curling, and more. While simulating cloth as individual yarns can reproduce this\r\ncomplexity and match the quality of real fabric, it may be too computationally expensive for\r\nlarge fabrics. On the other hand, continuum-based approaches do not need to discretize the\r\ncloth at a stitch-level, but it is non-trivial to find a material model that would replicate the\r\nlarge-scale behavior of yarn fabrics, and they discard the intricate visual detail. In this thesis,\r\nwe discuss three methods to try and bridge the gap between small-scale and large-scale yarn\r\nmechanics using numerical homogenization: fitting a continuum model to periodic yarn simulations, adding mechanics-aware yarn detail onto thin-shell simulations, and quantitatively\r\nfitting yarn parameters to physical measurements of real fabric.\r\nTo start, we present a method for animating yarn-level cloth effects using a thin-shell solver.\r\nWe first use a large number of periodic yarn-level simulations to build a model of the potential\r\nenergy density of the cloth, and then use it to compute forces in a thin-shell simulator. The\r\nresulting simulations faithfully reproduce expected effects like the stiffening of woven fabrics\r\nand the highly deformable nature and anisotropy of knitted fabrics at a fraction of the cost of\r\nfull yarn-level simulation.\r\nWhile our thin-shell simulations are able to capture large-scale yarn mechanics, they lack\r\nthe rich visual detail of yarn-level simulations. Therefore, we propose a method to animate\r\nyarn-level cloth geometry on top of an underlying deforming mesh in a mechanics-aware\r\nfashion in real time. Using triangle strains to interpolate precomputed yarn geometry, we are\r\nable to reproduce effects such as knit loops tightening under stretching at negligible cost.\r\nFinally, we introduce a methodology for inverse-modeling of yarn-level mechanics of cloth,\r\nbased on the mechanical response of fabrics in the real world. We compile a database from\r\nphysical tests of several knitted fabrics used in the textile industry spanning diverse physical\r\nproperties like stiffness, nonlinearity, and anisotropy. 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The \r\nbinding of adhesion receptors and remodeling of the actomyosin cell cortex at cell-cell \r\ninteraction sites have been implicated in cell-cell contact formation. Yet, how these two \r\nprocesses functionally interact to drive cell-cell contact expansion and strengthening \r\nremains unclear. Here, we study how primary germ layer progenitor cells from zebrafish \r\nbind to supported lipid bilayers (SLB) functionalized with E-cadherin ectodomains as an \r\nassay system for monitoring cell-cell contact formation at high spatiotemporal resolution. \r\nWe show that cell-cell contact formation represents a two-tiered process: E-cadherin\u0002mediated downregulation of the small GTPase RhoA at the forming contact leads to both \r\ndepletion of Myosin-2 and decrease of F-actin. This is followed by centrifugal actin \r\nnetwork flows at the contact triggered by a sharp gradient of Myosin-2 at the rim of the \r\ncontact zone, with Myosin-2 displaying higher cortical localization outside than inside of \r\nthe contact. These centrifugal cortical actin flows, in turn, not only further dilute the actin \r\nnetwork at the contact disc, but also lead to an accumulation of both F-actin and E\u0002cadherin at the contact rim. Eventually, this combination of actomyosin downregulation \r\nand flows at the contact contribute to the characteristic molecular organization implicated \r\nin contact formation and maintenance: depletion of cortical actomyosin at the contact disc, \r\ndriving contact expansion by lowering interfacial tension at the contact, and accumulation \r\nof both E-cadherin and F-actin at the contact rim, mechanically linking the contractile \r\ncortices of the adhering cells. 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In particular we are going to\r\ninvestigate translation-invariant Bose gases in the mean field limit, effectively described by\r\nthe Hartree functional, and the Fröhlich Polaron in the regime of strong coupling, effectively\r\ndescribed by the Pekar functional. The latter is a model describing the interaction between a\r\ncharged particle and the optical modes of a polar crystal. Regarding the former, we assume in\r\naddition that the particles in the gas are unconfined, and typically we will consider particles\r\nthat are subject to an attractive interaction. In both cases the ground state energy of the\r\nHamiltonian is not a proper eigenvalue due to the underlying translation-invariance, while on\r\nthe contrary there exists a whole invariant orbit of minimizers for the corresponding effective\r\nfunctionals. Both, the absence of proper eigenstates and the broken symmetry of the effective\r\ntheory, make the study significantly more involved and it is the content of this thesis to\r\ndevelop a frameworks which allows for a systematic way to circumvent these issues.\r\nIt is a well-established result that the ground state energy of Bose gases in the mean field limit,\r\nas well as the ground state energy of the Fröhlich Polaron in the regime of strong coupling, is\r\nto leading order given by the minimal energy of the corresponding effective theory. As part\r\nof this thesis we identify the sub-leading term in the expansion of the ground state energy,\r\nwhich can be interpreted as the quantum correction to the classical energy, since the effective\r\ntheories under consideration can be seen as classical counterparts.\r\nWe are further going to establish an asymptotic expression for the energy-momentum relation\r\nof the Fröhlich Polaron in the strong coupling limit. In the regime of suitably small momenta,\r\nthis asymptotic expression agrees with the energy-momentum relation of a free particle having\r\nan effectively increased mass, and we find that this effectively increased mass agrees with the\r\nconjectured value in the physics literature.\r\nIn addition we will discuss two unrelated papers written by the author during his stay at ISTA\r\nin the appendix. The first one concerns the realization of anyons, which are quasi-particles\r\nacquiring a non-trivial phase under the exchange of two particles, as molecular impurities.\r\nThe second one provides a classification of those vector fields defined on a given manifold\r\nthat can be written as the gradient of a given functional with respect to a suitable metric,\r\nprovided that some mild smoothness assumptions hold. This classification is subsequently\r\nused to identify those quantum Markov semigroups that can be written as a gradient flow of\r\nthe relative entropy.\r\n"}],"alternative_title":["ISTA Thesis"],"status":"public","day":"15","tmp":{"short":"CC BY-NC-SA (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by_nc_sa.png","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode","name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)"},"ec_funded":1,"citation":{"apa":"Brooks, M. (2022). Translation-invariant quantum systems with effectively broken symmetry. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12390","chicago":"Brooks, Morris. “Translation-Invariant Quantum Systems with Effectively Broken Symmetry.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2022. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12390.","mla":"Brooks, Morris. Translation-Invariant Quantum Systems with Effectively Broken Symmetry. 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I supplement this with exploration of other applications of machine learning, in particular artificial neural networks, in many-body physics. In Chapters 3 and 4, I study quasiparticle systems with variational approach. I derive a Hamiltonian describing the angulon quasiparticle in the presence of a magnetic field. I apply analytic variational treatment to this Hamiltonian. Then, I introduce a variational approach for non-additive systems, based on artificial neural networks. I exemplify this approach on the example of the polaron quasiparticle (Fröhlich Hamiltonian). In Chapter 5, I continue using artificial neural networks, albeit in a different setting. I apply artificial neural networks to detect phases from snapshots of two types physical systems. Namely, I study Monte Carlo snapshots of multilayer classical spin models as well as molecular dynamics maps of colloidal systems. The main type of networks that I use here are convolutional neural networks, known for their applicability to image data.","lang":"eng"}],"supervisor":[{"first_name":"Mikhail","last_name":"Lemeshko","id":"37CB05FA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0002-6990-7802","full_name":"Lemeshko, Mikhail"}],"degree_awarded":"PhD","title":"Analytic and machine learning approaches to composite quantum impurities","ec_funded":1,"alternative_title":["ISTA Thesis"],"day":"21","status":"public","citation":{"apa":"Rzadkowski, W. (2022). Analytic and machine learning approaches to composite quantum impurities. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:10759","chicago":"Rzadkowski, Wojciech. “Analytic and Machine Learning Approaches to Composite Quantum Impurities.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2022. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:10759.","mla":"Rzadkowski, Wojciech. Analytic and Machine Learning Approaches to Composite Quantum Impurities. 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