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Robert G. Smith is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in related subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Biophysics, and Materials Chemistry.

Their work covers a range of main topics such as Retinal Development and Disorders, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Visual Perception and Processing Mechanisms, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques.

Robert G. Smith has authored numerous papers, with recent publications including:

  • Origins of direction selectivity in the primate retina, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Retinal horizontal cells use different synaptic sites for global feedforward and local feedback signaling, 2021, Current Biology
  • Bayesian inference for biophysical neuron models enables stimulus optimization for retinal neuroprosthetics, 2020, eLife
  • Gain control by sparse, ultra-slow glycinergic synapses, 2022, Cell Reports
  • Preserving inhibition with a disinhibitory microcircuit in the retina, 2020, eLife

Their frequent coauthors include Christian Behrens, Katrin Franke, Thomas Euler, Philipp Berens, and Jonathan Oesterle. Robert G. Smith has published notably in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), eLife, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, and Current Biology.

Best Publications

  • The SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey. Paper I: Introduction and Description

    Nigel Hambly;Harvey MacGillivray;Mike Read;Sue Tritton

  • Microcircuitry of the dark-adapted cat retina: functional architecture of the rod-cone network

    RG Smith;MA Freed;P Sterling

  • Architecture of rod and cone circuits to the on-beta ganglion cell

    P Sterling;MA Freed;RG Smith

  • A novel mechanism of cone photoreceptor adaptation.

    Marcus H. C. Howlett;Robert G. Smith;Maarten Kamermans;Maarten Kamermans

  • Species-specific wiring for direction selectivity in the mammalian retina

    Huayu Ding;Robert G. Smith;Alon Poleg-Polsky;Jeffrey S. Diamond

  • Electrical Coupling between Mammalian Cones

    Steven H. DeVries;Xiaofeng Qi;Robert Smith;Walter Makous

  • Rod bipolar array in the cat retina: Pattern of input from rods and GABA‐accumulating amacrine cells

    Michael A. Freed;Robert G. Smith;Peter Sterling

  • Effects of Noise on the Spike Timing Precision of Retinal Ganglion Cells

    M.C.W. van Rossum;B. J. O'Brien;R. G. Smith

  • Parallel mechanisms encode direction in the retina.

    Stuart Trenholm;Kyle Johnson;Xiao Li;Robert G. Smith

  • Simulation of the AII amacrine cell of mammalian retina: functional consequences of electrical coupling and regenerative membrane properties.

    Robert G. Smith;Noga Vardi

  • Design of a Neuronal Array

    Bart G. Borghuis;Charles P. Ratliff;Robert G. Smith;Peter Sterling

  • Noise removal at the rod synapse of mammalian retina.

    M.C.W. van Rossum;R.G. Smith

  • The role of starburst amacrine cells in visual signal processing.

    W.R. Taylor;R.G. Smith

  • Microcircuitry and functional architecture of the cat retina

    Peter Sterling;Michael Freed;Robert G. Smith

  • NaV1.1 channels in axon initial segments of bipolar cells augment input to magnocellular visual pathways in the primate retina.

    Teresa Puthussery;Sowmya Venkataramani;Jacqueline Gayet-Primo;Robert G. Smith

  • Nonlinear dendritic integration of electrical and chemical synaptic inputs drives fine-scale correlations

    Stuart Trenholm;Amanda J McLaughlin;David J Schwab;Maxwell H Turner

  • Direction selectivity in a model of the starburst amacrine cell.

    John J. Tukker;W. Rowland Taylor;Robert G. Smith

  • Transmission of single photon signals through a binary synapse in the mammalian retina.

    Amy Berntson;Robert G. Smith;W. Rowland Taylor

  • Origins of direction selectivity in the primate retina

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  • Dendritic Spikes Amplify the Synaptic Signal to Enhance Detection of Motion in a Simulation of the Direction-Selective Ganglion Cell

    Michael J. Schachter;Nicholas Oesch;Robert G. Smith;W. Rowland Taylor

  • Chromatic Properties of Horizontal and Ganglion Cell Responses Follow a Dual Gradient in Cone Opsin Expression

    Lu Yin;Robert G Smith;Peter Sterling;David H. Brainard

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Sterling
Peter Sterling University of Pennsylvania
Maarten Kamermans
Maarten Kamermans Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Thomas Euler
Thomas Euler University of Tübingen
David M. Berson
David M. Berson Brown University
Peter D. Lukasiewicz
Peter D. Lukasiewicz Washington University in St. Louis
Kerry R. Delaney
Kerry R. Delaney University of Victoria
Nigel Hambly
Nigel Hambly University of Edinburgh
Simon P. Driver
Simon P. Driver University of Western Australia
Andy Lawrence
Andy Lawrence University of Edinburgh
Quentin A. Parker
Quentin A. Parker University of Hong Kong

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