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Overview

Jeff W. Lichtman is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience. Their research spans various subfields including biophysics, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, structural biology, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their work covers numerous topics such as cell image analysis techniques, advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques, advanced electron microscopy techniques and applications, neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, and photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

Recent publications by Lichtman include the following papers:

  • Connectomes across development reveal principles of brain maturation (2021, Nature)
  • A connectomic study of a petascale fragment of human cerebral cortex (2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • A petavoxel fragment of human cerebral cortex reconstructed at nanoscale resolution (2024, Science)
  • The Mind of a Mouse (2020, Cell)
  • Connectome 2.0: Developing the next-generation ultra-high gradient strength human MRI scanner for bridging studies of the micro-, meso- and macro-connectome (2021, NeuroImage)

Lichtman has collaborated frequently with several co-authors over their career, including:

  • Richard Schalek
  • Daniel R. Berger
  • Yuelong Wu
  • Hanspeter Pfister
  • Yaron Meirovitch

Their publications are predominantly found in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), arXiv (Cornell University), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, UNC Libraries, and NeuroImage, with bioRxiv having the highest number of publications.

Best Publications

  • Imaging neuronal subsets in transgenic mice expressing multiple spectral variants of GFP.

    Guoping Feng;Rebecca H. Mellor;Michael Bernstein;Cynthia Keller-Peck

  • Development of the vertebrate neuromuscular junction.

    Joshua R. Sanes;Jeff W. Lichtman

  • Transgenic strategies for combinatorial expression of fluorescent proteins in the nervous system

    Jean Livet;Tamily A Weissman;Hyuno Kang

  • Induction, assembly, maturation and maintenance of a postsynaptic apparatus

    Joshua R. Sanes;Jeff W. Lichtman

  • Cell diversity and network dynamics in photosensitive human brain organoids

    Giorgia Quadrato;Giorgia Quadrato;Tuan Nguyen;Tuan Nguyen;Evan Z. Macosko;Evan Z. Macosko;John L. Sherwood;John L. Sherwood

  • Saturated Reconstruction of a Volume of Neocortex

    Narayanan Kasthuri;Kenneth Jeffrey Hayworth;Daniel Raimund Berger;Daniel Raimund Berger;Richard Lee Schalek

  • Elimination of synapses in the developing nervous system.

    Dale Purves;Jeff W. Lichtman

  • Principles of neural development

    Dale Purves;Jeff W. Lichtman

  • In vivo imaging of axonal degeneration and regeneration in the injured spinal cord.

    Martin Kerschensteiner;Martin E Schwab;Jeff W Lichtman;Thomas Misgeld

  • Distinct profiles of myelin distribution along single axons of pyramidal neurons in the neocortex

    Giulio Srubek Tomassy;Daniel R. Berger;Daniel R. Berger;Hsu-Hsin Chen;Narayanan Kasthuri

  • Imaging axonal transport of mitochondria in vivo.

    Thomas Misgeld;Thomas Misgeld;Martin Kerschensteiner;Martin Kerschensteiner;Florence M Bareyre;Florence M Bareyre;Robert W Burgess

  • Attenuation of age-related changes in mouse neuromuscular synapses by caloric restriction and exercise

    Gregorio Valdez;Juan C. Tapia;Hyuno Kang;Gregory D. Clemenson

  • Synapse elimination and indelible memory.

    Jeff W Lichtman;Howard Colman

  • The big and the small: challenges of imaging the brain's circuits.

    Jeff W. Lichtman;Winfried Denk

  • Improved tools for the Brainbow toolbox

    Dawen Cai;Kimberly B Cohen;Tuanlian Luo;Jeff W Lichtman

  • Can molecules explain long-term potentiation?

    Joshua R. Sanes;Jeff W. Lichtman

  • Connectomes across development reveal principles of brain maturation

    Daniel Witvliet;Daniel Witvliet;Ben Mulcahy;James K. Mitchell;Yaron Meirovitch;Yaron Meirovitch

  • Multicolor “DiOlistic” Labeling of the Nervous System Using Lipophilic Dye Combinations

    Wen Biao Gan;Jaime Grutzendler;Wai Thong Wong;Rachel O L Wong

  • Roles of neurotransmitter in synapse formation: development of neuromuscular junctions lacking choline acetyltransferase.

    Thomas Misgeld;Robert W Burgess;Renate M Lewis;Jeanette M Cunningham

  • Whole-brain serial-section electron microscopy in larval zebrafish

    David Grant Colburn Hildebrand;Marcelo Cicconet;Russel M. Iguel Torres;Russel M. Iguel Torres;Woohyuk Choi

  • A technicolour approach to the connectome

    Jeff W. Lichtman;Jean Livet;Joshua R. Sanes

  • Neurotechnique Imaging Neuronal Subsets in Transgenic Mice Expressing Multiple Spectral Variants of GFP

    Guoping Feng;Rebecca H. Mellor;Michael Bernstein;Cynthia Keller-Peck

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua R. Sanes
Joshua R. Sanes Harvard University
Thomas Misgeld
Thomas Misgeld Technical University of Munich
Dale Purves
Dale Purves Duke University
Wen-Biao Gan
Wen-Biao Gan New York University
Ronald L. Walsworth
Ronald L. Walsworth University of Maryland, Baltimore
Rachel O.L. Wong
Rachel O.L. Wong University of Washington
Takao K. Hensch
Takao K. Hensch Harvard University
Rita J. Balice-Gordon
Rita J. Balice-Gordon University of Pennsylvania
Paola Arlotta
Paola Arlotta Harvard University

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