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Rhanor Gillette is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, including Engineering, Neuroscience, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Biomedical Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology.

Their work covers various topics of scientific inquiry, notably Cephalopods and Marine Biology, Soft Robotics and Applications, Neural dynamics and brain function, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Robot Manipulation and Learning, Advanced Memory and Neural Computing, and Muscle activation and electromyography studies.

Recent publications include:

  • Highly stretchable and customizable microneedle electrode arrays for intramuscular electromyography, 2024, Science Advances
  • Emergence of functional neuromuscular junctions in an engineered, multicellular spinal cord-muscle bioactuator, 2020, APL Bioengineering
  • Characterization of Neuronal RNA Modifications during Non-associative Learning in Aplysia Reveals Key Roles for tRNAs in Behavioral Sensitization, 2021, ACS Central Science
  • A Sensory Feedback Control Law for Octopus Arm Movements, 2022, 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
  • Hierarchical Control and Learning of a Foraging CyberOctopus, 2023, Advanced Intelligent Systems

Their collaborations include frequent co-authors such as Ekaterina Gribkova, Mattia Gazzola, Udit Halder, Prashant G. Mehta, and Noel Naughton.

In terms of dissemination venues, Gillette has published predominantly in arXiv (Cornell University) with six publications, as well as multiple articles in Advanced Intelligent Systems, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Physiology, and PLoS ONE.

Best Publications

  • Circadian rhythm of firing rate recorded from single cells in the rat suprachiasmatic brain slice

    Daniel J. Green;Rhanor Gillette

  • Command neurons in Pleurobranchaea receive synaptic feedback from the motor network they excite

    Rhanor Gillette;Mark P. Kovac;William J. Davis

  • The role of the metacerebral giant neuron in the feeding behavior ofPleurobranchaea

    Rhanor Gillette;William J. Davis

  • Neural correlate of behavioral plasticity in command neurons of Pleurobranchaea.

    William J. Davis;Rhanor Gillette

  • Evolution and Function in Serotonergic Systems

    Rhanor Gillette

  • Cost-benefit analysis potential in feeding behavior of a predatory snail by integration of hunger, taste, and pain.

    Rhanor Gillette;Rong-Chi Huang;Nathan Hatcher;Leonid L. Moroz

  • Functional optical coherence tomography for detecting neural activity through scattering changes.

    Mariya Lazebnik;Daniel L. Marks;Kurt Potgieter;Rhanor Gillette

  • Single Neuron Analysis by Capillary Electrophoresis with Fluorescence Spectroscopy

    Robert R Fuller;Leonid L Moroz;Rhanor Gillette;Jonathan V Sweedler

  • Action-potential broadening and endogenously sustained bursting are substrates of command ability in a feeding neuron of Pleurobranchaea.

    Rhanor Gillette;Martha U. Gillette;William J. Davis

  • Central pattern generator for escape swimming in the notaspid sea slug Pleurobranchaea californica.

    Jian Jing;Rhanor Gillette

  • Nitric oxide synthase activity in the molluscan CNS.

    Leonid L. Moroz;Dong Chen;Martha U. Gillette;Rhanor Gillette

  • Control of feeding motor output by paracerebral neurons in brain of Pleurobranchaea californica

    R. Gillette;M. P. Kovac;W. J. Davis

  • Patch- and voltage-clamp analysis of cyclic AMP-stimulated inward current underlying neurone bursting

    Daniel J. Green;Rhanor Gillette

  • Single-cell analyses of nitrergic neurons in simple nervous systems.

    Leonid L. Moroz;Rhanor Gillette;Jonathan V. Sweedler

  • Escape Swim Network Interneurons Have Diverse Roles in Behavioral Switching and Putative Arousal in Pleurobranchaea

    Jian Jing;Rhanor Gillette

  • Neuronal elements that mediate escape swimming and suppress feeding behavior in the predatory sea slug Pleurobranchaea

    Jian Jing;Rhanor Gillette

  • Nitrite and nitrate levels in individual molluscan neurons: single-cell capillary electrophoresis analysis.

    Lou Ann Cruz;Leonid L. Moroz;Rhanor Gillette;Jonathan V. Sweedler

  • NADPH‐diaphorase localization in the CNS and peripheral tissues of the predatory sea‐slug Pleurobranchaea californica

    Leonid L. Moroz;Rhanor Gillette

  • Capillary electrophoresis analysis of nitric oxide synthase related metabolites in single identified neurons.

    Philip D. Floyd;Leonid L. Moroz;Rhanor Gillette;Jonathan V. Sweedler

  • Evolving concepts of arousal: insights from simple model systems.

    Jian Jing;Rhanor Gillette;Klaudiusz R. Weiss

Frequent Co-Authors

Jian Jing
Jian Jing Nanjing University
Martha U. Gillette
Martha U. Gillette University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rashid Bashir
Rashid Bashir University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mark W. Miller
Mark W. Miller Boston University
Marlene A. Wilson
Marlene A. Wilson University of South Carolina
Michael O'Shea
Michael O'Shea University of Sussex
Paul R. Benjamin
Paul R. Benjamin University of Sussex
Klaudiusz R. Weiss
Klaudiusz R. Weiss Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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