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  • 1978 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

A. M. Litke is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States, with a research focus predominantly in the field of Neuroscience. Their scholarly output includes numerous publications spanning several specialized areas within neuroscience, emphasizing cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and electrical and electronic engineering. Additional research contributions relate to molecular biology and sensory systems.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad spectrum within neuroscience and neural engineering, including neural dynamics and brain function, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, advanced memory and neural computing, retinal development and disorders, visual perception and processing mechanisms, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Recent published papers exemplify these thematic areas:

  • "Reconstruction of natural images from responses of primate retinal ganglion cells" (2020) published in eLife
  • "Inference of nonlinear receptive field subunits with spike-triggered clustering" (2020) published in eLife
  • "Functional Organization of Midget and Parasol Ganglion Cells in the Human Retina" (2020) published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Spectral cues are necessary to encode azimuthal auditory space in the mouse superior colliculus" (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • "Focal electrical stimulation of human retinal ganglion cells for vision restoration" (2022) published in Journal of Neural Engineering

Frequent publication venues for Litke's work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neural Engineering
  • eLife
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Nature Communications

Collaborations with other researchers have been a notable aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Alexander Sher
  • E. J. Chichilnisky
  • Alex Gogliettino
  • Alexandra Kling
  • Nishal P. Shah

The scientist has been recognized with an award, being named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1978.

Best Publications

  • Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

    G. Aad;E. Abat;J. Abdallah;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

  • The ATLAS Simulation Infrastructure

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A.A. Abdelalim

  • Improved luminosity determination in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Performance of the ATLAS trigger system in 2015

    M. Aaboud;G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Search for dark matter candidates and large extra dimensions in events with a jet and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Electron performance measurements with the ATLAS detector using the 2010 LHC proton-proton collision data

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

  • Performance of the ATLAS Trigger System in 2010

    G. Aad;G. Aad;B. Abbott;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim;A. A. Abdelalim

  • Muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector in proton–proton collision data at √ s =13 TeV

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;O. Abdinov

  • Luminosity determination in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    Morad Aaboud;Alexander Kupco;Peter Davison;Samuel Webb

  • Multi-channel search for squarks and gluinos in √s = 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott

  • Measurement of the top quark-pair production cross section with ATLAS in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7\TeV$

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

  • Topological cell clustering in the ATLAS calorimeters and its performance in LHC Run 1

    Georges Aad;Alexander Kupco;Peter Davison;Samuel Webb

  • Electron reconstruction and identification efficiency measurements with the atlas detector using the 2011 lhc proton-proton collision data

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Measurement of the jet fragmentation function and transverse profile in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

  • Luminosity Determination in pp Collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV Using the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

    D. Aad;D. Aad;B. Abbott;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim;A. A. Abdelalim

  • Performance of pile-up mitigation techniques for jets in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;O. Abdinov

  • Measurement of the muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector using 2011 and 2012 LHC proton-proton collision data

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;S. Abdel Khalek

  • Search for top squark pair production in final states with one isolated lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum in √s=8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Electron and photon energy calibration with the ATLAS detector using LHC Run 1 data

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

Frequent Co-Authors

Bobby Samir Acharya
Bobby Samir Acharya King's College London
Pierre Savard
Pierre Savard University of Toronto
Tord Ekelof
Tord Ekelof Uppsala University
Richard Brenner
Richard Brenner Uppsala University
Mattias Ellert
Mattias Ellert Uppsala University
Tobias Golling
Tobias Golling University of Geneva
Andrew White
Andrew White The University of Texas at Arlington
Michael A. Strauss
Michael A. Strauss University of Oklahoma
Kaushik De
Kaushik De The University of Texas at Arlington

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