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is interested in the principles underlying computation and communication in the brain. His lab uses computational and theoretical methods in conjunction with multi-electrode array experiments that probe retinal function. His recent work has focused on the early visual system, and has established that many aspects of the structural and functional organization of the retina can be understood as adaptations to the statistical structure of natural scenes subject to biophysical constraints. He has also worked on optimization principles in neurobiology such as maximization of information transmission at fixed metabolic cost, and on problems in statistical inference. He is currently interested in adaptation and learning in biological networks. ➤ |
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has worked extensively on the physics of artificial biomembranes, biopolymers such as DNA, and other “soft” condensed matter systems. He is currently thinking about a variety of problems in systems biology. He is especially interested in learning and adaptation by biological networks at many scales, ranging from signaling and regulatory networks in single cells to decision-making networks of neurons in the brain. ➤ |
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is a graduate student in the Physics Department working on problems in neuroscience. He is worlking on a variety of theoretical problems including location coding by place cells, and does multi-electrode array experiments. |
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is a graduate student in the Neuroscience Department. She is an experimentalist, and is using multi-electrode array experiments to study retinal adaptation to stimulus statistics. |
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is a graduate student in the Physics Department. He is presently working on the spike-sorting problem to isolate individual neural responses from spatially dispersed and noisy data obtained from multi-electrode extra-cellular recording devices. |
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is a graduate student in the Physics Department. He has worked on a variety of experimental and theoretical problems in tethered particle motion and molecular motors. |
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is a graduate student in the psychology department. He is working on the organization of the grid cell population in entorhinal cortex. |
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is an undergraduate majoring in Philosophy and in Physics. He is working on population codes in the retina. |
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