Harold Lecar

Affiliations: 
1963-1985 National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, United States 
 1985-2014 Molecular and Cellular Biology University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States 
Area:
ion channels
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Bio:

(1935-2014)
Developed the Morris-Lecar model of electrical activity in neurons

Mean distance: 14.57 (cluster 11)
 
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Parents

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Charles Hard Townes grad student 1963 Columbia (Physics Tree)
 (Maser techniques in microwave spectroscopy)

Children

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Meyer B. Jackson grad student 1978-1981 NIH
Kaarin Goncz Kerr grad student 1994 UC Berkeley
H Peter Larsson grad student 1994 UC Berkeley
Elliot Greenfield grad student 2001 UC Berkeley (Physics Tree)
Thomas William Gerling grad student 2002 UC Berkeley
Catherine Morris post-doc NINDS
Frederick Sachs post-doc NINDS (Chemistry Tree)
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Grabe M, Lecar H, Jan YN, et al. (2004) A quantitative assessment of models for voltage-dependent gating of ion channels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 101: 17640-5
Lecar H, Larsson HP, Grabe M. (2003) Electrostatic model of S4 motion in voltage-gated ion channels. Biophysical Journal. 85: 2854-64
Greenfield E, Lecar H. (2001) Mutual information in a dilute, asymmetric neural network model. Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 63: 041905
Larsson HP, Kleene SJ, Lecar H. (1997) Noise analysis of ion channels in non-space-clamped cables: estimates of channel parameters in olfactory cilia. Biophysical Journal. 72: 1193-203
Larsson HP, Picaud SA, Werblin FS, et al. (1996) Noise analysis of the glutamate-activated current in photoreceptors. Biophysical Journal. 70: 733-42
Picaud SA, Larsson HP, Grant GB, et al. (1995) Glutamate-gated chloride channel with glutamate-transporter-like properties in cone photoreceptors of the tiger salamander. Journal of Neurophysiology. 74: 1760-71
Picaud S, Larsson HP, Wellis DP, et al. (1995) Cone photoreceptors respond to their own glutamate release in the tiger salamander. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 92: 9417-21
Vacata V, Höfer M, Larsson HP, et al. (1993) Ionic channels in the plasma membrane of Schizosaccharomyces pombe: evidence from patch-clamp measurements. Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes. 25: 43-53
Sachs F, Lecar H. (1991) Stochastic models for mechanical transduction. Biophysical Journal. 59: 1143-5
Ramirez JA, Vacata V, McCusker JH, et al. (1989) ATP-sensitive K+ channels in a plasma membrane H+-ATPase mutant of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 86: 7866-70
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