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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Michael Häusser is a researcher affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily focuses on the field of Neuroscience, with a total of 81 publications. Their subfields of interest include Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Biophysics.

The scientist's main topics of research cover a broad range within neuroscience, including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Vestibular and auditory disorders

Michael Häusser has published extensively in several key scientific venues, which include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuron
  • Cell
  • Nature
  • Nature Neuroscience

Frequent coauthors in their collaborations include:

  • Matteo Carandini
  • Lloyd Russell
  • Nicholas A. Steinmetz
  • Maxime Beau
  • Dimitar Kostadinov

Among their recent scientific publications are:

  • Neuropixels 2.0: A miniaturized high-density probe for stable, long-term brain recordings, 2021, Science
  • Targeted Activation of Hippocampal Place Cells Drives Memory-Guided Spatial Behavior, 2020, Cell
  • Standardized and reproducible measurement of decision-making in mice, 2021, eLife
  • Neuropixels 2.0: A miniaturized high-density probe for stable, long-term brain recordings, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • How many neurons are sufficient for perception of cortical activity?, 2020, eLife

Their research contributions have been recognized through several distinctions, including:

  • Member of Academia Europaea (2016)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2015)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Best Publications

  • Fully integrated silicon probes for high-density recording of neural activity

    James J Jun;Nicholas A Steinmetz;Nicholas A Steinmetz;Nicholas A Steinmetz;Joshua H Siegle;Daniel J Denman

  • Dendritic computation.

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  • Neuropixels 2.0: A miniaturized high-density probe for stable, long-term brain recordings

    Nicholas A. Steinmetz;Nicholas A. Steinmetz;Cagatay Aydin;Anna Lebedeva;Michael Okun;Michael Okun

  • Diversity and dynamics of dendritic signaling.

    Michael Hausser;Nelson Spruston;Gregory J Stuart

  • Action potential initiation and backpropagation in neurons of the mammalian CNS

    Greg Stuart;Nelson Spruston;Bert Sakmann;Michael Häusser

  • Dendritic Excitability and Synaptic Plasticity

    P. Jesper Sjöström;Ede A. Rancz;Arnd Roth;Michael Häusser

  • Tonic Synaptic Inhibition Modulates Neuronal Output Pattern and Spatiotemporal Synaptic Integration

    Michael Häusser;Beverley A Clark

  • Integration of quanta in cerebellar granule cells during sensory processing.

    Paul Chadderton;Troy W. Margrie;Michael Häusser

  • Propagation of action potentials in dendrites depends on dendritic morphology

    Philipp Vetter;Arnd Roth;Michael Häusser

  • Inhibition dominates sensory responses in the awake cortex

    Bilal Haider;Michael Häusser;Matteo Carandini

  • Simultaneous all-optical manipulation and recording of neural circuit activity with cellular resolution in vivo

    Adam M Packer;Lloyd E Russell;Henry W P Dalgleish;Michael Häusser

  • Electrophysiology in the age of light

    Massimo Scanziani;Michael Häusser

  • Dendritic discrimination of temporal input sequences in cortical neurons.

    Tiago Branco;Beverley A. Clark;Michael Häusser

  • Coincidence detection in single dendritic spines mediated by calcium release

    Samuel S. H. Wang;Winfried Denk;Michael Häusser;Michael Häusser

  • Sensitivity to perturbations in vivo implies high noise and suggests rate coding in cortex

    Michael London;Arnd Roth;Lisa Beeren;Michael Häusser

  • A Cooperative Switch Determines the Sign of Synaptic Plasticity in Distal Dendrites of Neocortical Pyramidal Neurons

    Per Jesper Sjöström;Michael Häusser

  • Dendrites: bug or feature?

    Michael Häusser;Bartlett Mel;Bartlett Mel

  • One rule to grow them all: a general theory of neuronal branching and its practical application.

    Hermann Cuntz;Friedrich Forstner;Alexander Borst;Michael Häusser

  • Feed-forward inhibition shapes the spike output of cerebellar Purkinje cells

    Wolfgang Mittmann;Ursula Koch;Ursula Koch;Michael Häusser

  • Targeting neurons and photons for optogenetics

    Adam M Packer;Botond Roska;Michael Häusser

  • Dendritic spikes enhance stimulus selectivity in cortical neurons in vivo

    Spencer L. Smith;Ikuko T. Smith;Ikuko T. Smith;Tiago Branco;Tiago Branco;Michael Häusser

  • Neuropixels 2.0: A miniaturized high-density probe for stable, long-term brain recordings

    Nicholas A. Steinmetz;Nicholas A. Steinmetz;Cagatay Aydin;Anna Lebedeva;Michael Okun;Michael Okun

Frequent Co-Authors

Matteo Carandini
Matteo Carandini University College London
Nelson Spruston
Nelson Spruston Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Tiago Branco
Tiago Branco University College London
Greg J. Stuart
Greg J. Stuart Australian National University
Nicholas A. Steinmetz
Nicholas A. Steinmetz University of Washington
P. Jesper Sjöström
P. Jesper Sjöström McGill University
Michael S. Okun
Michael S. Okun University of Florida
Kenneth D. Harris
Kenneth D. Harris University College London
Anthony M. Zador
Anthony M. Zador Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Yang Dan
Yang Dan University of California, Berkeley

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