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Samuel S.-H. Wang is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research fields primarily span Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these disciplines, their subfields of study include Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Biophysics, and Neurology.

Their work addresses a variety of scientific topics, such as Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications, Vestibular and Auditory Disorders, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques.

Samuel S.-H. Wang has authored numerous scientific publications in various venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • SLEAP: A deep learning system for multi-animal pose tracking (2022) in Nature Methods
  • Fast and sensitive GCaMP calcium indicators for imaging neural populations (2023) in Nature
  • Homologous organization of cerebellar pathways to sensory, motor, and associative forebrain (2021) in Cell Reports
  • Fast and sensitive GCaMP calcium indicators for imaging neural populations (2021) in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Transcriptomic mapping uncovers Purkinje neuron plasticity driving learning (2022) in Nature

The scientist frequently publishes in several journals and platforms, with multiple contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature, Nature Methods, Journal of Visualized Experiments, and Cell Reports.

Collaborations are an evident aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including Mikhail Kislin, Jessica L. Verpeut, Joshua W. Shaevitz, Gerard Joey Broussard, and Austin Hoag, indicating ongoing scientific partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Optimization of a GCaMP calcium indicator for neural activity imaging.

    Jasper Akerboom;Tsai Wen Chen;Trevor J. Wardill;Lin Tian;Lin Tian

  • The Cerebellum, Sensitive Periods, and Autism

    Samuel Sheng-Hung Wang;Alexander D. Kloth;Aleksandra Badura

  • Fast animal pose estimation using deep neural networks.

    Talmo D. Pereira;Diego E. Aldarondo;Diego E. Aldarondo;Lindsay Willmore;Mikhail Kislin

  • Coincidence detection in single dendritic spines mediated by calcium release

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

  • Stability, affinity, and chromatic variants of the glutamate sensor iGluSnFR.

    Jonathan S. Marvin;Benjamin Scholl;Daniel E. Wilson;Kaspar Podgorski

  • Malleability of spike-timing-dependent plasticity at the CA3-CA1 synapse.

    Gayle M. Wittenberg;Samuel Sheng-Hung Wang

  • Scalable architecture in mammalian brains

    Damon A. Clark;Partha P. Mitra;Samuel Sheng-Hung Wang

  • Functional trade-offs in white matter axonal scaling

    Samuel S.-H. Wang;Jennifer R. Shultz;Mark J. Burish;Kimberly H. Harrison

  • Graded bidirectional synaptic plasticity is composed of switch-like unitary events.

    Daniel H. O'Connor;Gayle M. Wittenberg;Samuel S.-H. Wang

  • Spike timing dependent plasticity: a consequence of more fundamental learning rules.

    Harel Z. Shouval;Samuel Sheng-Hung Wang;Gayle M. Wittenberg

  • Chemical two-photon uncaging: a novel approach to mapping glutamate receptors.

    Diana L Pettit;Samuel S.-H Wang;Kyle R Gee;George J Augustine

  • Cerebellar granule cells acquire a widespread predictive feedback signal during motor learning

    Andrea Giovannucci;Aleksandra Badura;Aleksandra Badura;Ben Deverett;Ben Deverett;Farzaneh Najafi

  • Normal cognitive and social development require posterior cerebellar activity

    Aleksandra Badura;Jessica L. Verpeut;Julia W. Metzger;Talmo D. Pereira

  • Cerebellar plasticity and motor learning deficits in a copy-number variation mouse model of autism

    Claire Piochon;Alexander D. Kloth;Giorgio Grasselli;Heather K. Titley

  • Brain architecture and social complexity in modern and ancient birds.

    Mark J. Burish;Hao Yuan Kueh;Samuel S.-H. Wang

  • SNAP-mediated protein-protein interactions essential for neurotransmitter release

    W. M. Debello;V. O'connor;T. Dresbach;T. Dresbach;S. W. Whiteheart;S. W. Whiteheart

  • Rapid neurotransmitter uncaging in spatially defined patterns

    Shy Shoham;Daniel H. O'Connor;Dmitry V. Sarkisov;Samuel Sheng-Hung Wang

  • Radially expanding transglial calcium waves in the intact cerebellum

    Tycho M. Hoogland;Bernd Kuhn;Werner Göbel;Wenying Huang

  • Fast GCaMPs for improved tracking of neuronal activity

    Xiaonan R. Sun;Aleksandra Badura;Diego A. Pacheco;Laura A. Lynch

  • Cerebellar associative sensory learning defects in five mouse autism models

    Alexander D Kloth;Aleksandra Badura;Amy Li;Adriana Cherskov

  • Confocal imaging and local photolysis of caged compounds: Dual probes of synaptic function

    Samuel S.-H. Wang;George J. Augustine

  • Fast and sensitive GCaMP calcium indicators for imaging neural populations

    Loren Looger;Yan Zhang;Martón Rózsa;Yajie Liang;Yajie Liang

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Hansel
Christian Hansel University of Chicago
George J Augustine
George J Augustine Nanyang Technological University
Javier F. Medina
Javier F. Medina Baylor College of Medicine
Toru Takumi
Toru Takumi Kobe University
David W. Tank
David W. Tank Princeton University
Patrick R. Hof
Patrick R. Hof Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Stephen J. Peroutka
Stephen J. Peroutka Stanford University
Lynn W. Enquist
Lynn W. Enquist Princeton University
Mustafa Sahin
Mustafa Sahin Boston Children's Hospital
Daniel H. Geschwind
Daniel H. Geschwind University of California, Los Angeles

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