Jäckel, David

Research Interests

• Signal processing and spike sorting for neuronal microelectrode array recordings
• Synaptic connectivity and dendritic integration in neuronal networks

Biographical Information

• 2009 - now:
  PhD candidate at Bio Engineering Laboratory (BEL), ETH Zurich.
• 2008:
  MSc ETH in Electrical Engineering. Master Thesis: "Robot Head with Neuromorphic Chips" at the Institute for Neuroinformatics (INI), University of Zurich and ETH Zurich.
• 2002 - 2008:
  Studies in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich.

Publications

Journal Articles

• F. Franke, D. Jäckel, J. Dragas, J. Müller, M. Radivojevic, D. Bakkum and A. Hierlemann, "High-density microelectrode array recordings and real-time spike sorting for closed-loop experiments: an emerging technology to study neural plasticity", Frontiers in Neural Circuits, vol. 6, no. 105, 2012.
• M. Fiscella, K. Farrow, I. L. Jones, D. Jäckel, J. Müller, U. Frey, D.J. Bakkum, P. Hantz, B. Roska and A. Hierlemann, "Recording from Defined Populations of Retinal Ganglion Cells Using a High-Density CMOS-Integrated Microelectrode Array with Real-Time Switchable Electrode Selection", Journal of Neuroscience Methods, vol. 211, no. 1, pp. 103–113, 2012.
• D. Jäckel, U. Frey , M. Fiscella , F. Franke and A. Hierlemann, "Applicability of Independent Component Analysis on High-Density Microelectrode Array Recordings", Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 108, no. 1, pp. 334-348, 2012.

Conference Contributions

2012

• D. Jäckel, D. J. Bakkum, M. Radivojevic, J. Müller, M. Fiscella, U. Frey, F. Franke, and A. Hierlemann, "Using extracellular high-resolution microelectrode array recordings to estimate intracellular features of cultured neurons", Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2012, New Orleans, USA.
• D. Jäckel, U. Frey, F. Franke, A. Hierlemann, “Simulator for Realistic High-Density Microelectrode Array Signals”, Abstract book of the 5th annual INCF Congress (Neuroinformatics), September 10-12, 2012, Munich, Germany.

2011

• F. Franke, D. Jäckel, P. Meier, U. Frey, M. Fiscella, A. Hierlemann, K. Obermayer, "Spike sorting for multielectrode arrays", in Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2011, Washington DC, USA.
• M. Fiscella, I.L. Jones, D. Jäckel, J. Müller, U. Frey, K. Farrow, B. Roska, A. Hierlemann, "Recording of Light Induced Neural Activity of Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cells on an Integrated High-density Microelectrode Array", in Abstract Book 1st International SystemsX.ch Conference on Systems Biology, Oct 24th – 26th, 2011, Basel, Switzerland.
• U. Frey, D. Jäckel, M. Fiscella, and A. Hierlemann, “Spike Sorting Techniques for High-Resolution Microelectrode Array Recordings,” in Proceedings of the 26th Symposium on Biological and Physiological Engineering (BPES), 2011, Shiga, Japan.
• I.L. Jones, M. Fiscella, U. Frey, D. Jäckel, J. Müller, B. Roscic, R. Streichan, A. Hierlemann, "Recording of Neural Activity of Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cells by Means of an Integrated High-density Microelectrode Array", in Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators & Microsystems, Transducers, 2011, Beijing, China.
• D. Jäckel, J. Müller, M.U. Khalid, U. Frey, D.J. Bakkum, and A. Hierlemann "High-Density Microelectrode Array System and Optimal Filtering for Closed-Loop Experiments", in Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators & Microsystems, Transducers, 2011, Beijing, China.
• D. Jäckel, U. Frey, M. Fiscella, A. Hierlemann, “Blind Source Separation for Spike Sorting of High Density Microelectrode Array Recordings,” in Proceedings of the 5th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, 2011, Cancun, Mexico.

2010

• D. Jäckel, R. Moeckel, and S-C. Liu, “Sound Recognition with Spiking Silicon Cochlea and Hidden Markov Models,” in Proc. of the 6th Conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronic & Electronics, 2010, Berlin, Germany.
• M. Fiscella, U. Frey, D. Jäckel, J. Müller, R. Streichan, I. L. Jones, B. Roscic, K. Farrow, B. Roska, A. Hierlemann, “Recording of Neural Activity of Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cells by Means of an Integrated High-Density Microelectrode Array,” in FENS Abstr., 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• M. Fiscella, U. Frey, D. Jäckel, J. Müller, R. Streichan, I. Jones, B. Roscic, C. Farrow, B. Roska, A. Hierlemann, “Recording of Neural Activity of Mouse Retinal Ganglion Cells by Means of an Integrated High Density Microelectrode Array,” in Proceedings of the 6th International Meeting on Substrate-Integrated Micro Electrode Arrays, 2010, Reutlingen, Germany.
• D. Jäckel, U. Frey, J. Müller, I. Jones, U. Khalid, J. Sedivy, A. Hierlemann, “Online Spike Extraction for Bidirectional High-Density Microelectrode Arrays using Optimal Filters,” in Proceedings of the 6th International Meeting on Substrate-Integrated Micro Electrode Arrays, 2010, Reutlingen, Germany.

2009

• J. Sedivy, U. Frey, D. Jackel, and A. Hierlemann, “Independent-Component-Analysis-Based Spike Sorting Algorithm for High-Density Microelectrode Array Data Processing,” in Proceedings IEEE Sensors Conf., 2009, Christchurch, New Zealand.
• U. Frey, U. Egert, D. Jackel, J. Sedivy, M. Ballini, P. Livi, F. Faraci, F. Heer, S. Hafizovic, B. Roscic, and A. Hierlemann, “Depth Recording Capabilities of Planar High-Density Microelectrode Arrays,” in Proceedings of the 4th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, 2009, Antalya, Turkey.