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Overview

Michael Hawrylycz is affiliated with the Allen Institute for Brain Science in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Neuroscience. The subfields they have contributed to include Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their work covers several main topics such as Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Cell Image Analysis Techniques, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Neural dynamics and brain function, Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, and Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies.

Michael Hawrylycz has published numerous articles, with key recent publications including:

  • The Allen Mouse Brain Common Coordinate Framework: A 3D Reference Atlas, 2020, Cell
  • A taxonomy of transcriptomic cell types across the isocortex and hippocampal formation, 2021, Cell
  • A high-resolution transcriptomic and spatial atlas of cell types in the whole mouse brain, 2023, Nature
  • Comparative cellular analysis of motor cortex in human, marmoset and mouse, 2021, Nature
  • A multimodal cell census and atlas of the mammalian primary motor cortex, 2021, Nature

The frequent co-authors in their work include Hongkui Zeng, Ed S. Lein, Kimberly A. Smith, Nick Dee, and Bosiljka Tasic.

Michael Hawrylycz has published most frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature, Alzheimer's & Dementia, Nature Methods, and Nature Neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • A robust and high-throughput Cre reporting and characterization system for the whole mouse brain

    Linda Madisen;Theresa A Zwingman;Susan M Sunkin;Seung Wook Oh

  • Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain

    Ed S. Lein;Michael J. Hawrylycz;Nancy Ao;Mikael Ayres

  • Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

    Ewan Birney;John A. Stamatoyannopoulos;Anindya Dutta;Roderic Guigó

  • An anatomically comprehensive atlas of the adult human brain transcriptome

    Michael J. Hawrylycz;Ed S. Lein;Angela L. Guillozet-Bongaarts;Elaine H. Shen

  • The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia of DNA elements) Project

    E. A. Feingold;P. J. Good;M. S. Guyer;S. Kamholz

  • A mesoscale connectome of the mouse brain

    Seung Wook Oh;Julie A. Harris;Lydia Ng;Brent Winslow

  • Shared and distinct transcriptomic cell types across neocortical areas

    Bosiljka Tasic;Zizhen Yao;Lucas T. Graybuck;Kimberly A. Smith

  • Adult mouse cortical cell taxonomy revealed by single cell transcriptomics

    Bosiljka Tasic;Vilas Menon;Thuc Nghi Nguyen;Tae Kyung Kim

  • Conserved cell types with divergent features in human versus mouse cortex.

    Rebecca D. Hodge;Trygve E. Bakken;Jeremy A. Miller;Kimberly A. Smith

  • Transcriptional landscape of the prenatal human brain

    Jeremy A. Miller;Song Lin Ding;Susan M. Sunkin;Kimberly A. Smith

  • The Allen Mouse Brain Common Coordinate Framework: A 3D Reference Atlas.

    Quanxin Wang;Song-Lin Ding;Yang Li;Josh Royall

  • A taxonomy of transcriptomic cell types across the isocortex and hippocampal formation.

    Zizhen Yao;Cindy T.J. van Velthoven;Thuc Nghi Nguyen;Jeff Goldy

  • A high-resolution transcriptomic and spatial atlas of cell types in the whole mouse brain

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  • Integrative functional genomic analysis of human brain development and neuropsychiatric risks

    Mingfeng Li;Gabriel Santpere;Yuka Imamura Kawasawa;Yuka Imamura Kawasawa;Oleg V Evgrafov

  • Allen Brain Atlas: an integrated spatio-temporal portal for exploring the central nervous system

    Susan Sunkin;Lydia Ng;Christopher Lau;Tim Dolbeare

  • Comparative cellular analysis of motor cortex in human, marmoset and mouse

    Trygve E. Bakken;Nikolas L. Jorstad;Qiwen Hu;Blue B. Lake

  • Canonical Genetic Signatures of the Adult Human Brain

    Michael Hawrylycz;Jeremy A. Miller;Vilas Menon;David Feng

  • Correlated gene expression supports synchronous activity in brain networks

    Jonas Richiardi;Jonas Richiardi;Andre Altmann;Anna-Clare Milazzo;Anna-Clare Milazzo;Catie Chang

  • An anatomic transcriptional atlas of human glioblastoma

    Ralph B. Puchalski;Nameeta Shah;Jeremy Miller;Rachel Dalley

  • Integrated Morphoelectric and Transcriptomic Classification of Cortical GABAergic Cells.

    Nathan W. Gouwens;Staci A. Sorensen;Fahimeh Baftizadeh;Agata Budzillo

  • Mind matters: placebo enhances reward learning in Parkinson's disease

    Liane Schmidt;Erin Kendall Braun;Tor D Wager;Daphna Shohamy

  • A Taxonomy of Transcriptomic Cell Types Across the Isocortex and Hippocampal Formation

    Zizhen Yao;Thuc Nghi Nguyen;Cindy T. J. van Velthoven;Jeff Goldy

Frequent Co-Authors

Lydia Ng
Lydia Ng Allen Institute for Brain Science
Ed S. Lein
Ed S. Lein University of Washington
Hongkui Zeng
Hongkui Zeng Allen Institute for Brain Science
Amy Bernard
Amy Bernard Kavli Foundation
Bosiljka Tasic
Bosiljka Tasic Allen Institute for Brain Science
Kimberly A. Smith
Kimberly A. Smith Allen Institute for Brain Science
Christof Koch
Christof Koch Allen Institute for Brain Science
Zizhen Yao
Zizhen Yao Allen Institute for Brain Science
Giorgio A. Ascoli
Giorgio A. Ascoli George Mason University
Songlin Ding
Songlin Ding RMIT University

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