Larry F. Abbott
Affiliations: | Physiology and Cellular Biophysics | Columbia University, New York, NY |
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Computation & TheoryWebsite:
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"Larry Abbott"Bio:
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http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1977PhDT........13A
Professor Abbott is a physicist-turned-biologist who uses mathematical modeling to study the neural networks that are responsible for our actions and behaviors. His thesis work at Brandeis University was in the area of theoretical elementary particle physics, culminating in a PhD in 1977. He then worked in theoretical particle physics at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and, later, at CERN, the European center for particle physics research. He became an assistant professor in the physics department at Brandeis in 1979, received tenure in 1982, and became a full professor of physics in 1988. Abbott began his transition to neuroscience research in 1989 and moved to the Biology Department at Brandeis in 1993. From 1994-2005, he was the co-director of the Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Brandeis. In 2005, Abbott joined the faculty of Columbia University where his research involves using analytic techniques and computer simulation to study the electrical characteristics of single neurons, to determine how neurons interact to produce functioning neural circuits, and to investigate how large populations of neurons represent, store, and process information.
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Cross-listing: Physics Tree
Parents
Sign in to add mentorHoward J. Schnitzer | grad student | 1977 | Brandeis (Physics Tree) | |
(The Hartree approximation in quantum field theory) |
Children
Sign in to add traineeCollaborators
Sign in to add collaboratorDmitriy Aronov | collaborator | ||
Sung Soo Kim | collaborator | Columbia | |
Eve Marder | collaborator | Brandeis | |
Sacha B. Nelson | collaborator | Brandeis | |
Gordon Pipa | collaborator | Max-Planck for Brain Research | |
Stefano Fusi | collaborator | 2003- | Brandeis |
Walter Fischler-Ruiz | collaborator | 2014-2020 | Columbia |
Publications
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Abbott L, Svoboda K. (2020) Brain-wide interactions between neural circuits. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 65: iii-v |
Li F, Lindsey JW, Marin EC, et al. (2020) The connectome of the adult mushroom body provides insights into function. Elife. 9 |
Abbott LF, Bock DD, Callaway EM, et al. (2020) The Mind of a Mouse. Cell. 182: 1372-1376 |
Wang PY, Boboila C, Chin M, et al. (2020) Transient and Persistent Representations of Odor Value in Prefrontal Cortex. Neuron |
Liou JY, Smith EH, Bateman LM, et al. (2020) A model for focal seizure onset, propagation, evolution, and progression. Elife. 9 |
Iascone DM, Li Y, Sümbül U, et al. (2020) Whole-Neuron Synaptic Mapping Reveals Spatially Precise Excitatory/Inhibitory Balance Limiting Dendritic and Somatic Spiking. Neuron |
Kim SS, Hermundstad AM, Romani S, et al. (2019) Generation of stable heading representations in diverse visual scenes. Nature |
Ingrosso A, Abbott LF. (2019) Training dynamically balanced excitatory-inhibitory networks. Plos One. 14: e0220547 |
Abbott LF, Marder E, Hooper SL. (2019) Oscillating Networks: Control of Burst Duration by Electrically Coupled Neurons. Neural Computation. 3: 487-497 |
Jercog PE, Ahmadian Y, Woodruff C, et al. (2019) Heading direction with respect to a reference point modulates place-cell activity. Nature Communications. 10: 2333 |