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Giorgio A. Ascoli is a researcher affiliated with George Mason University in the United States. Their work spans multiple domains within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience, with a strong focus on both fundamental and applied aspects of brain structure and function.

Their research contributions are published extensively in recognized scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Neuroinformatics
  • eLife
  • Nature Neuroscience

Some of their recent notable papers include:

  • "A multimodal cell census and atlas of the mammalian primary motor cortex" (2021, Nature)
  • "Cellular anatomy of the mouse primary motor cortex" (2021, Nature)
  • "Organization of the inputs and outputs of the mouse superior colliculus" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Connectivity characterization of the mouse basolateral amygdalar complex" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "BigNeuron: a resource to benchmark and predict performance of algorithms for automated tracing of neurons in light microscopy datasets" (2023, Nature Methods)

Giorgio A. Ascoli's research fields center primarily on biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology as well as neuroscience. Within these domains, their subfields of study include:

  • Biophysics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Neurology

Their main topics of work cover a broad spectrum of neuroscience and related methodologies, with particular emphasis on:

  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

Collaborations have been an important aspect of their scientific activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Michael Hawrylycz
  • Sumit Nanda
  • Hong-Wei Dong
  • Hongkui Zeng
  • Diek W. Wheeler

Best Publications

  • Petilla terminology: nomenclature of features of GABAergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex

    Giorgio A. Ascoli;Lidia Alonso-Nanclares;Stewart A. Anderson;German Barrionuevo

  • New insights into the classification and nomenclature of cortical GABAergic interneurons

    Javier DeFelipe;Pedro L. López-Cruz;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Concha Bielza

  • NeuroMorpho.Org: a central resource for neuronal morphologies.

    Giorgio A. Ascoli;Duncan E. Donohue;Maryam Halavi

  • L-Measure: a web-accessible tool for the analysis, comparison and search of digital reconstructions of neuronal morphologies.

    Ruggero Scorcioni;Sridevi Polavaram;Sridevi Polavaram;Giorgio A Ascoli;Giorgio A Ascoli

  • Mobilizing the base of neuroscience data: the case of neuronal morphologies

    Giorgio A. Ascoli

  • A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types

    Rafael Yuste;Michael Hawrylycz;Nadia Aalling;Argel Aguilar-Valles

  • Cellular anatomy of the mouse primary motor cortex

    Rodrigo Muñoz-Castañeda;Brian Zingg;Brian Zingg;Katherine S. Matho;Xiaoyin Chen;Xiaoyin Chen

  • Neuronal morphology goes digital: a research hub for cellular and system neuroscience.

    Ruchi Parekh;Giorgio A. Ascoli

  • BigNeuron: Large-Scale 3D Neuron Reconstruction from Optical Microscopy Images

    Hanchuan Peng;Michael Hawrylycz;Jane Roskams;Sean Hill

  • The Neuroscience Information Framework: A Data and Knowledge Environment for Neuroscience

    Daniel Gardner;Huda Akil;Giorgio A. Ascoli;Douglas M. Bowden

  • Drug binding to human serum albumin: Abridged review of results obtained with high-performance liquid chromatography and circular dichroism

    Giorgio A. Ascoli;Enrico Domenici;Carlo Bertucci

  • L-neuron: A modeling tool for the efficient generation and parsimonious description of dendritic morphology☆

    Giorgio A Ascoli;Jeffrey L Krichmar

  • Effects of dendritic morphology on CA3 pyramidal cell electrophysiology: a simulation study

    Jeffrey L. Krichmar;Slawomir J. Nasuto;Slawomir J. Nasuto;Ruggero Scorcioni;Stuart D. Washington

  • Automated reconstruction of neuronal morphology: An overview

    Duncan E. Donohue;Giorgio A. Ascoli

  • Neuromantic – from Semi-Manual to Semi-Automatic Reconstruction of Neuron Morphology

    Darren R. Myatt;Tye Hadlington;Giorgio A. Ascoli;Slawomir J. Nasuto

  • The NIFSTD and BIRNLex Vocabularies: Building Comprehensive Ontologies for Neuroscience

    William J. Bug;Giorgio A. Ascoli;Jeffrey S. Grethe;Amarnath Gupta

  • Hippocampome.org: a knowledge base of neuron types in the rodent hippocampus

    Diek W Wheeler;Charise M White;Christopher L Rees;Alexander O Komendantov

  • The DIADEM Data Sets: Representative Light Microscopy Images of Neuronal Morphology to Advance Automation of Digital Reconstructions

    Kerry M. Brown;Germán Barrionuevo;Alison J. Canty;Alison J. Canty;Vincenzo De Paola

  • Generation, description and storage of dendritic morphology data

    Giorgio A. Ascoli;Jeffrey L. Krichmar;Jeffrey L. Krichmar;Slawomir J. Nasuto;Stephen L. Senft

  • Distinct classes of pyramidal cells exhibit mutually exclusive firing patterns in hippocampal area CA3b.

    Peter Hemond;Daniel Epstein;Angela Boley;Michele Migliore

  • Cellular Anatomy of the Mouse Primary Motor Cortex

    Rodrigo Muñoz-Castañeda;Brian Zingg;Katherine S. Matho;Quanxin Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Michele Migliore
Michele Migliore National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Jeffrey L. Krichmar
Jeffrey L. Krichmar University of California, Irvine
Michael Hawrylycz
Michael Hawrylycz Allen Institute for Brain Science
Erik De Schutter
Erik De Schutter Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
David N. Kennedy
David N. Kennedy University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Hongkui Zeng
Hongkui Zeng Allen Institute for Brain Science
Gordon M. Shepherd
Gordon M. Shepherd Yale School of Medicine
Rafael Yuste
Rafael Yuste Columbia University
German Barrionuevo
German Barrionuevo University of Pittsburgh
Hong-Wei Dong
Hong-Wei Dong University of Southern California

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