Institute for Theoretical Computer Science
Technische Universität Graz
Inffeldgasse 16b/I
A-8010 Graz, Austria

Alexander Kaske worked at the institute as scientific employee from 1.3.2003 - 31.12.2003.

Alexander Kaske's main line of research is now in the field of cooperative dynamics and self-organisation in biological systems. This concerns especially the modeling of a spinal pattern generator in a two dimensional network of spiking neurons. In general, a main approach for the integration of biological systems is to find and to use symmetries like self-similarity and scale-invariance in the formulation of dynamics as well as network architecture. Other fields of interest are the development of a self-similar architecture in neural nets and the effects of scale-free topology on the information processing in Boolean nets. Another project deals with scale-invariant properties associated with the protein folding problem. Other interests are the application of machine learning techniques, i.e. neural networks, information theory and Bayesian classifiers in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology.

Dissertation:

Alexander Kaske (1992). Die Divergenz subcorticaler Projectionen zum striären und extrastriären visuellen Cortex bei Callithrix jacchus. Rewarded from the medical faculty of Georg-August University, Göttingen.

Monographs:

Alexander Kaske (1996). Gehirn, Realität und teleologische Maschinen. VWB-Verlag Berlin.

Textbeiträge zum philosphischem Hypertext: Sophia, Philosphie multimedial: Surfen durch Denkwelten (2001). ed. Helmut Essenschläger, Hans Kraml and Manfred Pascher. öbv et hpt Verlagsgmbh&Co. KG, Wien. 

Original articles:

Kaske A, Winberg G., Cöster J (2003) Traveling wave pattern generator controls limb movement and organization of sensory feedback in a spinal cord model. Biological Cybernetics 88(1):11-19.

Kaske A, Cöster J, Winberg G. Emergence of coherent traveling waves controlling quadropod gaits in a two-dimensional spinal cord model. Biol Cybern. 2003 Jan;88(1):20-32. 

Sandberg R, Winberg G, Bränden CI, Kaske A, Ernberg I, Cöster J (2001) Capturing whole-genome characteristics in short sequences using a naïve Bayesian classifier. Genome Research

Callsen-Cencic P, Hoheisel U, Kaske A, Mense S, Tenschert S. The controversy about spinal neuronal nitric oxide synthase: under which conditions is it up- or downregulated? Cell Tissue Res. 1999 Feb;295(2):183-94. Review.

Hoheisel U, Kaske A, Mense S. Relationship between neuronal activity and substance P-immunoreactivity in the rat spinal cord during acute and persistent myositis. Neurosci Lett. 1998 Nov 20;257(1):21-4.

Reinert A, Kaske A, Mense S. Inflammation-induced increase in the density of neuropeptide-immunoreactive nerve endings in rat skeletal muscle. Exp Brain Res. 1998 Jul;121(2):174-80.

Kaske A. Hebb-invariant neural network configurations. In ” Proceedings of the 1997 Symposium on Health, Healing & Medicine, Vol. III, by George Lasker, Hisako Koizumi & Makiko Okuyama (eds.)1998, 50-54.

Kaske A. Hebb-invariant neural network configurations. In ” Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Engineering Cybernetics, Vol. IV: Systems Logic & Neural Networks”, ed. G.Lasker, The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics,1998, 71-75.

Hoheisel U, Kaske A, Reinert A, Mense S .Frequency-dependent expression of diaphorase staining and nNOS-immunoreactivity in rat dorsal horn neurones following C-fibre stimulation. Neurosci Lett. 1997 May 23;227(3):181-4.

Kaske A. Homeostasis and Learning. Systemica, special issue 1997 ” Excavating cybernetics and systems”, ed. R Glanville and G De Zeeuw: 197-211.

Kaske A. Emergence of sensory-motor segmentation in a fractal neural network architecture. In ”Advances in Modelling of Anticipative Systems”, ed. G.E.Lasker, D.Dubois & B.Teiling. The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, 1996.

Kaske A, Dick A, Creutzfeldt OD. The local domain for divergence of subcortical afferents to the striate and extrastriate visual cortex in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus): a multiple labelling study. Exp Brain Res. 1991;84(2):254-65.

Dick A, Kaske A, Creutzfeldt OD. Topographical and topological organization of the thalamocortical projection to the striate and prestriate cortex in the marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). Exp Brain Res. 1991;84(2):233-53.

Hule R, Kaske A. Changing and connecting perspectives - action and observation, paper held in conference ”Problems of action & observation” 1997 at: The Center for Innovation and Cooperative Technology, University of Amsterdam, Faculty for Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy, Valckenierstraat 65, 1018 XE Amsterdam, to be published in Systemica (in press).

Congress presentations:

Rickard Sandberg, Alexander Kaske, Gösta Winberg, Joakim Cöster (2001) Dynamic stability and complexity in various topologies of Boolean networks (Bioinformatics 2001, organized by the Society for Bioinformatics in the Nordic Countries in Skövde, Sweden). 

More posters, presentations and invited papers at meetings of the German Society of Physiology, German Society of Anatomy, European and American Society of Neuroscience, the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, and the Center for Innovation and Cooperative Technology, University of Amsterdam etc. (lists of abstracts are not included but could be made available).