Kenneth D Harris
NationalityBritish, American
AwardsWellcome Trust Senior Investigator 2011, European Research Council Advanced Investigator 2014, Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, EPSRC Leadership Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Systems Neuroscience
InstitutionsUniversity College London (professor)

Kenneth D. Harris is a neuroscientist at University College London. He is most known for his contributions to the understanding of the neural code used by vast populations of neurons.[1][2][3][4][5] Among his discoveries is the finding that populations in sensory areas of the brain also code for body movements.[6] Harris has contributed to the development of silicon probes[7] and most recently of Neuropixels probes.[8] With these probes, he and his team discovered that engagement in a task activates neurons throughout the brain.[9]

Harris obtained his PhD from UCL in the laboratory of Michael Recce, and did his postdoctoral studies at Rutgers University in the laboratory of Gyorgy Buzsaki.[10] He is a Professor of Quantitative Neuroscience[11] at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, where he co-directs the Cortical Processing Laboratory[12] with Matteo Carandini. Harris is a founding member of the International Brain Laboratory.

References

  1. ↑ Harris, Kenneth D.; Csicsvari, Jozsef; Hirase, Hajime; Dragoi, George; Buzsáki, György (2003-07-31). "Organization of cell assemblies in the hippocampus". Nature. 424 (6948): 552–556. Bibcode:2003Natur.424..552H. doi:10.1038/nature01834. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 12891358. S2CID 4420968.
  2. ↑ Luczak, Artur; Barthó, Peter; Marguet, Stephan L.; Buzsáki, György; Harris, Kenneth D. (2007-01-02). "Sequential structure of neocortical spontaneous activity in vivo". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104 (1): 347–352. Bibcode:2007PNAS..104..347L. doi:10.1073/pnas.0605643104. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 1765463. PMID 17185420.
  3. ↑ Renart, Alfonso; de la Rocha, Jaime; Bartho, Peter; Hollender, Liad; Parga, Néstor; Reyes, Alex; Harris, Kenneth D. (2010-01-29). "The asynchronous state in cortical circuits". Science. 327 (5965): 587–590. Bibcode:2010Sci...327..587R. doi:10.1126/science.1179850. ISSN 1095-9203. PMC 2861483. PMID 20110507.
  4. ↑ Stringer, Carsen; Pachitariu, Marius; Steinmetz, Nicholas; Carandini, Matteo; Harris, Kenneth D. (2019). "High-dimensional geometry of population responses in visual cortex". Nature. 571 (7765): 361–365. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1346-5. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 6642054. PMID 31243367. Q72587818
  5. ↑ Stringer, Carsen; Pachitariu, Marius; Steinmetz, Nicholas; Reddy, Charu Bai; Carandini, Matteo; Harris, Kenneth D. (2019). "Spontaneous behaviors drive multidimensional, brainwide activity". Science. 364 (6437): 255. Bibcode:2019Sci...364..255S. doi:10.1126/science.aav7893. ISSN 1095-9203. PMC 6525101. PMID 31000656.
  6. ↑ Cepelewicz, Jordana. "'Noise' in the Brain Encodes Surprisingly Important Signals". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
  7. ↑ "$5M for international neuroscience 'dream team'". University of Michigan News. 2015-11-03. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  8. ↑ HHMI. "New Silicon Probes Record Activity of Hundreds of Neurons Simultaneously". HHMI.org. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  9. ↑ Abbott, Alison (2020-08-11). "Inside the mind of an animal". Nature. 584 (7820): 182–185. Bibcode:2020Natur.584..182A. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02337-x. PMID 32782378.
  10. ↑ "Neurotree - Kenneth D. Harris Family Tree". neurotree.org. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  11. ↑ UCL (2019-02-08). "harris-kenneth". UCL Division of Biosciences. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  12. ↑ UCL. "UCL - London's Global University". Cortexlab. Retrieved 2019-09-23.


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