Michael Hausser Explained

Honorific Prefix:	Professor
Michael Häusser
Birth Name:	Michael A. Häusser
Alma Mater:	University of Oxford
Thesis Title:	Intrinsic properties and sympatic inhibition of substantia nigra neurones
Thesis Url:	http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?doc=oxfaleph015970677
Thesis Year:	1992
Doctoral Advisor:	Julian Jack

Michael A. Häusser is a British scientist who is professor of Neuroscience, based in the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research at University College London (UCL).^{[1] [2]}

Education

Hausser was educated at the University of Oxford where he was awarded a DPhil in 1992^[3] for research supervised by James Julian Bennett Jack^[3] on neurons in the substantia nigra.^[4]

Research

Häusser's research interests are in neuroscience, dendrites, biological neural networks and artificial neural networks.^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

Awards and honours

Häusser was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads:

Häusser was also elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2012.

Notes and References

1. 9331356. 1997. Häusser. M. Tonic synaptic inhibition modulates neuronal output pattern and spatiotemporal synaptic integration. Neuron. 19. 3. 665–78. Clark. B. A. . 10.1016/s0896-6273(00)80379-7. free.
2. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20131229184450/http://www.dendrites.org/. Neural Computation Lab. 2013-12-29.
3. DPhil . Michael. Häusser . Intrinsic properties and sympatic inhibition of substantia nigra neurones . University of Oxford . 1992 . 62252234.
4. 2061849. 1181526. 1991. Yung. W. H.. Electrophysiology of dopaminergic and non-dopaminergic neurones of the guinea-pig substantia nigra pars compacta in vitro. The Journal of Physiology. 436. 643–67. Häusser. M. A.. Jack. J. J.. 10.1113/jphysiol.1991.sp018571.
5. 11052929. 2000. Häusser. M. Diversity and dynamics of dendritic signaling. Science. 290. 5492. 739–44. Spruston. N. Stuart. G. J. . 10.1126/science.290.5492.739. 2000Sci...290..739H.
6. 10.1016/S0166-2236(96)10075-8. Action potential initiation and backpropagation in neurons of the mammalian CNS. Trends in Neurosciences. 20. 3. 125–31. 1997. Stuart . G. . Spruston . N. . Sakmann . B. . Häusser . M. . 9061867. 889625.
7. 10.1146/annurev.neuro.28.061604.135703. Dendritic Computation. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 28. 503–532. 2005. London . M. . Häusser . M. . 16033324.
8. 15103377. 2004. Chadderton. P. Integration of quanta in cerebellar granule cells during sensory processing. Nature. 428. 6985. 856–60. Margrie. T. W.. Häusser. M. 10.1038/nature02442. 2004Natur.428..856C. 98598.