Kenneth D Harris Explained

Kenneth D Harris
Nationality:British, American
Field:Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Systems Neuroscience
Work Institution:University College London (professor)
Prizes:Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator 2011, European Research Council Advanced Investigator 2014, Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, EPSRC Leadership Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship

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.

Notes and 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. 10.1038/nature01834. 1476-4687. 12891358. 2003Natur.424..552H . 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. 10.1073/pnas.0605643104. 0027-8424. 1765463. 17185420. 2007PNAS..104..347L . free .
  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. 10.1126/science.1179850. 1095-9203. 2861483. 20110507. 2010Sci...327..587R .
  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. 10.1038/s41586-019-1346-5. 1476-4687. 6642054. 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. 10.1126/science.aav7893. 1095-9203. 6525101. 31000656. 2019Sci...364..255S .
  6. Web site: 'Noise' in the Brain Encodes Surprisingly Important Signals. Cepelewicz. Jordana. Quanta Magazine. 2019-11-11.
  7. Web site: $5M for international neuroscience 'dream team'. 2015-11-03. University of Michigan News. en-US. 2019-09-23.
  8. Web site: New Silicon Probes Record Activity of Hundreds of Neurons Simultaneously. HHMI. HHMI.org. en. 2019-09-23.
  9. Abbott. Alison. 2020-08-11. Inside the mind of an animal. Nature. en. 584. 7820. 182–185. 10.1038/d41586-020-02337-x. 32782378. 2020Natur.584..182A . free.
  10. Web site: Neurotree - Kenneth D. Harris Family Tree. neurotree.org. 2019-09-23.
  11. Web site: harris-kenneth. UCL. 2019-02-08. UCL Division of Biosciences. en. 2019-09-23.
  12. Web site: UCL - London's Global University. UCL. Cortexlab. en. 2019-09-23.

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