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123
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award
  • 1996 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Rafael Yuste is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and specializes in Neuroscience, with a focus on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Paleontology, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology. Their main research themes include neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, neuroscience and neural engineering, marine invertebrate physiology and ecology, neuroethics, human enhancement, biomedical innovations, and zebrafish biomedical research applications.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Recommendations for Responsible Development and Application of Neurotechnologies, 2021, Neuroethics
  • Voltage compartmentalization in dendritic spines in vivo, 2021, Science
  • Roadmap on holography, 2020, Journal of Optics
  • Playing the piano with the cortex: role of neuronal ensembles and pattern completion in perception and behavior, 2020, Current Opinion in Neurobiology
  • Long-term stability of cortical ensembles, 2021, eLife

Frequent coauthors include Netanel Ofer, Jesús Pérez-Ortega, Wataru Yamamoto, Michael Wenzel, and Adrienne L. Fairhall.

Their work has been published regularly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Neuron, STAR Protocols, and Current Biology.

In addition to journal articles, Rafael Yuste has contributed to book publications, notably "Lectures in Neuroscience," published by Columbia University Press in 2021.

Awards received during their career include the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award in 2013 and recognition as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1996.

Best Publications

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

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

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

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

  • Morphological changes in dendritic spines associated with long-term synaptic plasticity.

    Rafael Yuste;Tobias Bonhoeffer

  • Dendritic spines as basic functional units of neuronal integration.

    Rafael Yuste;Winfried Denk

  • Simultaneous Denoising, Deconvolution, and Demixing of Calcium Imaging Data

    Eftychios A. Pnevmatikakis;Daniel Soudry;Yuanjun Gao;Timothy A. Machado

  • Synfire Chains and Cortical Songs: Temporal Modules of Cortical Activity

    Yuji Ikegaya;Gloster Aaron;Rosa Cossart;Dmitriy Aronov

  • 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

  • From the neuron doctrine to neural networks

    Rafael Yuste

  • Attractor dynamics of network UP states in the neocortex.

    Rosa Cossart;Dmitriy Aronov;Rafael Yuste

  • Genesis of dendritic spines: insights from ultrastructural and imaging studies

    Rafael Yuste;Tobias Bonhoeffer

  • The Brain Activity Map Project and the Challenge of Functional Connectomics

    A. Paul Alivisatos;Miyoung Chun;George M. Church;Ralph J. Greenspan

  • Control of postsynaptic Ca2+ influx in developing neocortex by excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters

    Rafael Yuste;Lawrence C. Katz

  • Dense Inhibitory Connectivity in Neocortex

    Elodie Fino;Rafael Yuste

  • Dense, unspecific connectivity of neocortical parvalbumin-positive interneurons: a canonical microcircuit for inhibition?

    Adam M. Packer;Rafael Yuste

  • Ultrastructure of dendritic spines: correlation between synaptic and spine morphologies.

    Jon I. Arellano;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Javier DeFelipe;Rafael Yuste

  • Neuronal domains in developing neocortex

    Rafael Yuste;Alejandro Peinado;Lawrence C. Katz

  • Four ethical priorities for neurotechnologies and AI

    Rafael Yuste;Sara Goering;Blaise Agüera y Arcas;Guoqiang Bi

  • Fast Nonnegative Deconvolution for Spike Train Inference From Population Calcium Imaging

    Joshua T. Vogelstein;Adam M. Packer;Timothy A. Machado;Tanya Sippy

  • Developmental regulation of spine motility in the mammalian central nervous system

    Anna Dunaevsky;Ayumu Tashiro;Ania Majewska;Carol Ann Mason

  • Super-multiplex vibrational imaging

    Lu Wei;Zhixing Chen;Lixue Shi;Rong Long

  • Anatomical and functional imaging of neurons using 2-photon laser scanning microscopy

    W. Denk;K. R. Delaney;A. Gelperin;D. Kleinfeld

  • Fluorescence microscopy today.

    Rafael Yuste

Frequent Co-Authors

Javier DeFelipe
Javier DeFelipe Technical University of Madrid
Kenneth L. Shepard
Kenneth L. Shepard Columbia University
Ania K. Majewska
Ania K. Majewska University of Rochester
Gábor Tamás
Gábor Tamás University of Szeged
George M. Church
George M. Church Harvard University
Giorgio A. Ascoli
Giorgio A. Ascoli George Mason University
Ed S. Lein
Ed S. Lein University of Washington
Yuji Ikegaya
Yuji Ikegaya University of Tokyo
Stewart A. Anderson
Stewart A. Anderson Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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