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Ilya A. Rybak is affiliated with Drexel University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines including Medicine, Neuroscience, and Engineering, with a notable focus on subfields such as Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology, Small Animals, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist has concentrated on key topics including Spinal Cord Injury Research, Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications, Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology, Robotic Locomotion and Control, Muscle activation and electromyography studies, Neuroscience of respiration and sleep, and Motor Control and Adaptation.

Recent publications by Ilya A. Rybak include:

  • "The role of V3 neurons in speed-dependent interlimb coordination during locomotion in mice" (2022, eLife)
  • "A Whole-Body Musculoskeletal Model of the Mouse" (2021, IEEE Access)
  • "Modulation of the gait pattern during split-belt locomotion after lateral spinal cord hemisection in adult cats" (2022, Journal of Neurophysiology)
  • "Sensory Perturbations from Hindlimb Cutaneous Afferents Generate Coordinated Functional Responses in All Four Limbs during Locomotion in Intact Cats" (2022, eNeuro)
  • "On the Organization of the Locomotor CPG: Insights From Split-Belt Locomotion and Mathematical Modeling" (2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience)

Their frequent coauthors are:

  • Alain Frigon
  • Boris I. Prilutsky
  • Johannie Audet
  • Natalia A. Shevtsova
  • Charly G. Lecomte

Publications have appeared predominantly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, The Journal of Physiology, Journal of Neurophysiology, and eNeuro.

Best Publications

  • Organization of mammalian locomotor rhythm and pattern generation.

    David A. McCrea;Ilya A. Rybak

  • Modelling spinal circuitry involved in locomotor pattern generation: insights from deletions during fictive locomotion

    Ilya A. Rybak;Natalia A. Shevtsova;Natalia A. Shevtsova;Myriam Lafreniere-Roula;David A. McCrea

  • Spatial and functional architecture of the mammalian brain stem respiratory network: a hierarchy of three oscillatory mechanisms.

    Jeffrey C Smith;Ana A.P.L. Abdala;Hidehiko Koizumi;Ilya A Rybak

  • Brainstem respiratory networks: building blocks and microcircuits

    Jeffrey C. Smith;Ana P.L. Abdala;Anke Borgmann;Ilya A. Rybak

  • Structural and functional architecture of respiratory networks in the mammalian brainstem

    Jeffrey C Smith;Ana Paula Abdala;Ilya A Rybak;Julian F R Paton

  • A model of attention-guided visual perception and recognition

    I.A. Rybak;V.I. Gusakova;A.V. Golovan;L.N. Podladchikova

  • Modelling spinal circuitry involved in locomotor pattern generation: insights from the effects of afferent stimulation

    Ilya A. Rybak;Katinka Stecina;Natalia A. Shevtsova;Natalia A. Shevtsova;David A. McCrea

  • Modeling the ponto-medullary respiratory network.

    I. A. Rybak;N. A. Shevtsova;N. A. Shevtsova;J. F R Paton;Thomas E Dick

  • Abdominal expiratory activity in the rat brainstem-spinal cord in situ: patterns, origins and implications for respiratory rhythm generation.

    A. P. L. Abdala;I. A. Rybak;J. C. Smith;J. F. R. Paton

  • Spatial organization and state-dependent mechanisms for respiratory rhythm and pattern generation

    Ilya A Rybak;Ana Paula Abdala;Sergey N Markin;Julian F R Paton

  • Modeling Neural Mechanisms for Genesis of Respiratory Rhythm and Pattern. II. Network Models of the Central Respiratory Pattern Generator

    Ilya A. Rybak;Julian F. R. Paton;James S. Schwaber

  • Neuronal activity in the isolated mouse spinal cord during spontaneous deletions in fictive locomotion: insights into locomotor central pattern generator organization

    Guisheng Zhong;Natalia A. Shevtsova;Ilya A. Rybak;Ronald M. Harris-Warrick

  • Organization of the Mammalian Locomotor CPG: Review of Computational Model and Circuit Architectures Based on Genetically Identified Spinal Interneurons(1,2,3).

    Ilya A. Rybak;Kimberly J. Dougherty;Natalia A. Shevtsova

  • Multiple Rhythmic States in a Model of the Respiratory Central Pattern Generator

    Jonathan E. Rubin;Natalia A. Shevtsova;G. Bard Ermentrout;Jeffrey C. Smith

  • Endogenous rhythm generation in the pre-Bötzinger complex and ionic currents: modelling and in vitro studies.

    Ilya A. Rybak;Natalia A. Shevtsova;Walter M. St-John;Julian F. R. Paton

  • Computational Models and Emergent Properties of Respiratory Neural Networks

    Bruce G. Lindsey;Ilya A. Rybak;Jeffrey C. Smith

  • Modeling the spinal cord neural circuitry controlling cat hindlimb movement during locomotion

    Dmitry G. Ivashko;Boris I. Prilutsky;Sergey N. Markin;John K. Chapin

  • Respiratory Rhythm Entrainment by Somatic Afferent Stimulation

    Jeffrey T. Potts;Ilya A. Rybak;Julian F. R. Paton

  • Modeling the mammalian locomotor CPG: insights from mistakes and perturbations.

    David A. McCrea;Ilya A. Rybak

  • Computational modeling of spinal circuits controlling limb coordination and gaits in quadrupeds

    Simon M Danner;Natalia A Shevtsova;Alain Frigon;Ilya A Rybak

  • Control of oscillation periods and phase durations in half-center central pattern generators: a comparative mechanistic analysis

    Silvia Daun;Jonathan E. Rubin;Ilya A. Rybak

Frequent Co-Authors

Natalia A. Shevtsova
Natalia A. Shevtsova Drexel University
Jeffrey C. Smith
Jeffrey C. Smith National Institutes of Health
Jonathan E. Rubin
Jonathan E. Rubin University of Pittsburgh
James S. Schwaber
James S. Schwaber Thomas Jefferson University
Alain Frigon
Alain Frigon Université de Sherbrooke
Bruce G. Lindsey
Bruce G. Lindsey University of South Florida
Gaute T. Einevoll
Gaute T. Einevoll Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Ronald M. Harris-Warrick
Ronald M. Harris-Warrick Cornell University
D A McCrea
D A McCrea University of Manitoba
Heidi I.L. Jacobs
Heidi I.L. Jacobs Harvard University

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