Larry Abbott

Laurence Frederick Abbott[2] (born 1950) is an American theoretical neuroscientist, who is currently the William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University, where he helped create the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. He is widely regarded as one of the leaders of theoretical neuroscience, and is coauthor, along with Peter Dayan, on the first comprehensive textbook on theoretical neuroscience, which is considered to be the standard text for students and researchers entering theoretical neuroscience.[3] He helped invent the dynamic clamp method alongside Eve Marder.[4]

Larry F. Abbott
NationalityAmerican
Alma materOberlin College[1]
Brandeis University
Known forDynamic clamp method
AwardsIrving Institute MOTY Award
IBT Math. Neuro. Prize
NIH Pioneer Award
Swartz Prize
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical Neuroscience
InstitutionsColumbia University
ThesisThe Hartree approximation in quantum field theory (1977)
Doctoral advisorHoward Schnitzer
Doctoral studentsTim Vogels

Abbott has received numerous awards for his work in the field, including memberships in the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2010, he received the Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience.

Biography

Abbott attended Oberlin College from 1968 to 1971, where he received a bachelors degree in physics.[2] He subsequently attended graduate school at Brandeis University from 1973 to 1977, where he received his Ph.D. in physics. He subsequently worked as a in theoretical particle physics, serving as research associate at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center from 1977 to 1979, as a Scientific Associate at the Theory division at CERN from 1980 to 1981, and as a tenure track professor in the physics department at Brandeis from 1979 to 2005.[5] Abbott began his transition to neuroscience research in 1989, joined the Department of Biology at Brandeis in 1993, and was the co-director of Brandeis Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology from 1994 to 2002, the director of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis from 1997–2002, and a visiting faculty at UCSF Sloan Center for Theoretical Neuroscience from 1994 to 2002.[2] At Brandeis, he held the position of the Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neuroscience from 1997 to 2002 and the Zalman Abraham Kekst Professor of Neuroscience from 2003 to 2005.[1] In 2005, he joined the faculty of Columbia University, where he is currently a member of the Department of Neuroscience, and the Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics. He is co-director of the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience.[6][7] He has been a senior fellow at HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus since 2015.[2][1]

Select publications
  • Vogels, T. P.; Sprekeler, H.; Zenke, F.; Clopath, C.; Gerstner, W. (2011-12-16). "Inhibitory Plasticity Balances Excitation and Inhibition in Sensory Pathways and Memory Networks". Science. 334 (6062): 1569–1573. doi:10.1126/science.1211095. hdl:10044/1/21441. PMID 22075724. S2CID 45134325.

Awards, Honors, and Memberships

Bibliography

References
  1. Columbia University. "Larry Abbott". Retrieved on 31 March 2020.
  2. "LAURENCE F. ABBOTT CV". Retrieved on 31 March 2020.
  3. Plunkett, John. "Theoretical Neuroscience", MIT Press, Retrieved on 31 March 2020.
  4. "A physicist in the neurobiology lab". Symmetrymagazine.org. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
  5. "Larry Abbott". Neuron. 92 (1): 9–10. 5 October 2016. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2016.09.041.CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  6. "Larry Abbott, PhD". Columbia.edu. Retrieved Jan 22, 2020.
  7. "Learning How Little We Know About the Brain". The New York Times. November 10, 2014. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
  8. "2004 Pioneer Award Recipients". National Institutes of Health. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
  9. "Abbott Receives Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience". Society for Neuroscience. November 15, 2010. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
  10. "Larry Abbott, PhD". Columbia.edu. Retrieved Jan 22, 2020.
  11. "Larry Abbott". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
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