Tatyana Sharpee, PhD

Professor

Computational Neurobiology Laboratory

Integrative Biology Laboratory

Edwin K. Hunter Chair

Salk Institute for Biological Studies - Publications

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Alvarez-Kuglen, M., Ninomiya, K., Qin, H., Rodriguez, D., Fiengo, L., Farhy, C., Hsu, W.M., Kirk, B., Havas, A., Feng, G.S., Roberts, A.J., Anderson, R.M., Serrano, M., Adams, P.D., Sharpee, T.O., Terskikh, A.V. ImAge quantitates aging and rejuvenation. (2024) Nat Aging. DOI: 10.1038/s43587-024-00685-1

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Alvarez-Kuglen, M., Rodriguez, D., Qin, H., Ninomiya, K., Fiengo, L., Farhy, C., Hsu, W.M., Havas, A., Feng, G.S., Roberts, A.J., Anderson, R.M., Serrano, M., Adams, P.D., Sharpee, T.O., Terskikh, A.V. Imaging-based chromatin and epigenetic age, ImAge, quantitates aging and rejuvenation. (2023) Res Sq. DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3479973/v1

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Little, J.C., Kaaronen, R.O., Hukkinen, J.I., Xiao, S., Sharpee, T., Farid, A.M., Nilchiani, R., Barton, C.M. Earth Systems to Anthropocene Systems: An Evolutionary, System-of-Systems, Convergence Paradigm for Interdependent Societal Challenges. (2023) Environ Sci Technol. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c06203

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Yang, J.Y., O'Connell, T.F., Hsu, W.M., Bauer, M.S., Dylla, K.V., Sharpee, T.O., Hong, E.J. Restructuring of olfactory representations in the fly brain around odor relationships in natural sources. (2023) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.15.528627

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Zhang, H., Rich, P.D., Lee, A.K., Sharpee, T.O. Hippocampal spatial representations exhibit a hyperbolic geometry that expands with experience. (2022) Nature Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1038/s41593-022-01212-4

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Ghaninia, M., Zhou, Y., Knauer, A.C., Schiestl, F.P., Sharpee, T.O., Smith, B.H. Hyperbolic odorant mixtures as a basis for more efficient signaling between flowering plants and bees. (2022) PLOS One. 17(7):e0270358. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270358

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Zhou, Y., Sharpee, T.O. Using Global t-SNE to Preserve Intercluster Data Structure. (2022) Neural Computation.:1-15 DOI: 10.1162/neco_a_01504

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Nowotny, T., van Albada, S.J., Fellous, J.M., Haas, J.S., Jolivet, R.B., Metzner, C., Sharpee, T. Editorial: Advances in Computational Neuroscience. (2022) Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 15:824899. DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2021.824899


Shadel, G.S., Adams, P.D., Berggren, W.T., Diedrich, J.K., Diffenderfer, K.E., Gage, F.H., Hah, N., Hansen, M., Hetzer, M.W., Molina, A.J.A., Manor, U., Marek, K., O'Keefe, D.D., Pinto, A.F.M., Sacco, A., Sharpee, T.O., Shokriev, M.N., Zambetti, S. The San Diego Nathan Shock Center: tackling the heterogeneity of aging. (2021) Geroscience. DOI: 10.1007/s11357-021-00426-x

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Hsu, W.M., Kastner, D.B., Baccus, S.A., Sharpee, T.O. How inhibitory neurons increase information transmission under threshold modulation. (2021) Cell Reports. 35(8):109158. DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109158

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Zhou, Y., Sharpee, T.O. Hyperbolic geometry of gene expression. (2021) iScience. 24(3):102225. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102225

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Sharpee, T.O., Berkowitz, J.A. Linking neural responses to behavior with information-preserving population vectors (2019) Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 29:37-44. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2019.03.004

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Amatya, D.N., Linker, S.B., Mendes, A.P.D., Santos, R., Erikson, G., Shokhirev, M.N., Zhou, Y., Sharpee, T., Gage, F.H., Marchetto, M.C., Kim, Y. Dynamical Electrical Complexity Is Reduced during Neuronal Differentiation in Autism Spectrum Disorder. (2019) Stem Cell Reports. DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2019.08.001

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Sharpee, T.O. An argument for hyperbolic geometry in neural circuits. (2019) Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 58:101-104. DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2019.07.008

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Berkowitz, J.A., Sharpee, T.O. Quantifying Information Conveyed by Large Neuronal Populations. (2019) Neural Computation.:1-33 DOI: 10.1162/neco_a_01193

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Zhou, Y., Smith, B.H., Sharpee, T.O. Hyperbolic geometry of the olfactory space. (2018) Science Advances. 4(8):eaaq1458. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaq1458

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Zhang, Y., Kastner, D.B., Baccus, S.A., Sharpee, T.O. Optimal Information Transmission by Overlapping Retinal Cell Mosaics. (2018) Proc Conf Inf Sci Syst. 2018. DOI: 10.1109/ciss.2018.8362310

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Sharpee, T.O. (2018) Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Neuroscience.:1-23 DOI: doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264086.013.110

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Atencio, C.A., Sharpee, T.O. Multidimensional receptive field processing by cat primary auditory cortical neurons. (2017) Neuroscience. 359:130-141. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.07.003

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Sharpee, T.O. On texture, form, and fixational eye movements. (2017) Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 46:228-233. DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2017.09.002

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Kaardal, J.T., Theunissen, F.E., Sharpee, T.O. A Low-Rank Method for Characterizing High-Level Neural Computations. (2017) Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 11:68. DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2017.00068

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Sharpee, T.O. Optimizing Neural Information Capacity through Discretization. (2017) Neuron. 94(5):954-960. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.04.044

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Rowekamp, R.J., Sharpee, T.O. Cross-orientation suppression in visual area V2. (2017) Nature Communications. 8:15739. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15739

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Sharpee, T.O. Plasticity to the Rescue. (2016) Neuron. 92(5):935-936. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.11.042

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Kuczala, A., Sharpee, T.O. Eigenvalue spectra of large correlated random matrices. (2016) Phys Rev E. 94(5-1):050101. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.94.050101

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Sharpee, T.O. How Invariant Feature Selectivity Is Achieved in Cortex. (2016) Front Synaptic Neurosci. 8:26. DOI: 10.3389/fnsyn.2016.00026

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Sharpee, T.O. Taking a close look at electrosensing. (2016) Elife. 5. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.16209

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Zhang, Y., Sharpee, T.O. A Robust Feedforward Model of the Olfactory System. (2016) PLOS Computational Biology. 12(4):e1004850. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004850

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Aljadeff, J., Renfrew, D., Vegué, M., Sharpee, T.O. Low-dimensional dynamics of structured random networks. (2016) Phys Rev E. 93(2):022302. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.022302

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Hinckley, C.A., Alaynick, W.A., Gallarda, B.W., Hayashi, M., Hilde, K.L., Driscoll, S.P., Dekker, J.D., Tucker, H.O., Sharpee, T.O., Pfaff, S.L. Spinal Locomotor Circuits Develop Using Hierarchical Rules Based on Motorneuron Position and Identity. (2015) Neuron. 87(5):1008-21. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.08.005

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Calhoun, A.J., Tong, A., Pokala, N., Fitzpatrick, J.A., Sharpee, T.O., Chalasani, S.H. Neural Mechanisms for Evaluating Environmental Variability in Caenorhabditis elegans. (2015) Neuron. 86(2):428-41. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.03.026

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Aljadeff, J., Stern, M., Sharpee, T. Transition to chaos in random networks with cell-type-specific connectivity. (2015) Phys. Rev. Lett. 114(8):088101. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.088101

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Kastner, D.B., Baccus, S.A., Sharpee, T.O. Critical and maximally informative encoding between neural populations in the retina. (2015) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112(8):2533-8. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1418092112

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Calhoun, A.J., Chalasani, S.H., Sharpee, T.O. Maximally informative foraging by Caenorhabditis elegans. (2014) Elife. 3. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.04220

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Sharpee, T.O. Toward functional classification of neuronal types. (2014) Neuron. 83(6):1329-34. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.08.040

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Sharpee, T.O. Function determines structure in complex neural networks. (2014) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111(23):8327-8. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1407198111


Sharpee, T.O., Calhoun, A.J., Chalasani, S.H. Information theory of adaptation in neurons, behavior, and mood. (2014) Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 25:47-53. DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2013.11.007

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Morris, R., Sancho-Martinez, I., Sharpee, T.O., Izpisua Belmonte, J.C. Mathematical approaches to modeling development and reprogramming. (2014) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111(14):5076-82. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317150111

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Aljadeff, J., Segev, R., Berry, M.J., Sharpee, T.O. Spike triggered covariance in strongly correlated gaussian stimuli. (2013) PLOS Computational Biology. 9(9):e1003206. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003206

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Sharpee, T.O. Computational identification of receptive fields. (2013) Annual Review of Neuroscience. 36:103-20. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-062012-170253

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Sharpee, T.O., Kouh, M., Reynolds, J.H. Trade-off between curvature tuning and position invariance in visual area V4. (2013) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110(28):11618-23. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217479110

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Kaardal, J., Fitzgerald, J.D., Berry, M.J., Sharpee, T.O. Identifying functional bases for multidimensional neural computations. (2013) Neural Computation. 25(7):1870-90. DOI: 10.1162/NECO_a_00465

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Nandy, A.S., Sharpee, T.O., Reynolds, J.H., Mitchell, J.F. The fine structure of shape tuning in area V4. (2013) Neuron. 78(6):1102-15. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.04.016

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Saremi, S., Sejnowski, T.J., Sharpee, T.O. Double-gabor filters are independent components of small translation-invariant image patches. (2013) Neural Computation. 25(4):922-39. DOI: 10.1162/NECO_a_00418

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Jeanne, J.M., Sharpee, T.O., Gentner, T.Q. Associative learning enhances population coding by inverting interneuronal correlation patterns. (2013) Neuron. 78(2):352-63. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.02.023

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Eickenberg, M., Rowekamp, R.J., Kouh, M., Sharpee, T.O. Characterizing responses of translation-invariant neurons to natural stimuli: maximally informative invariant dimensions. (2012) Neural Computation. 24(9):2384-421. DOI: 10.1162/NECO_a_00330

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Atencio, C.A., Sharpee, T.O., Schreiner, C.E. Receptive field dimensionality increases from the auditory midbrain to cortex. (2012) Journal of Neurophysiology. 107(10):2594-603. DOI: 10.1152/jn.01025.2011

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Sharpee, T.O. Adaptive switches in midbrain circuits. (2012) Neuron. 73(1):6-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.12.017

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Fitzgerald, J.D., Rowekamp, R.J., Sincich, L.C., Sharpee, T.O. Second order dimensionality reduction using minimum and maximum mutual information models. (2011) PLOS Computational Biology. 7(10):e1002249. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002249

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Sharpee, T.O., Nagel, K.I., Doupe, A.J. Two-dimensional adaptation in the auditory forebrain. (2011) Journal of Neurophysiology. 106(4):1841-61. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00905.2010

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Sharpee, T.O., Atencio, C.A., Schreiner, C.E. Hierarchical representations in the auditory cortex. (2011) Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 21(5):761-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2011.05.027

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Rowekamp, R.J., Sharpee, T.O. Analyzing multicomponent receptive fields from neural responses to natural stimuli. (2011) Network. 22(1-4):45-73. DOI: 10.3109/0954898X.2011.566303

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Fitzgerald, J.D., Sincich, L.C., Sharpee, T.O. Minimal models of multidimensional computations. (2011) PLOS Computational Biology. 7(3):e1001111. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001111

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Jeanne, J.M., Thompson, J.V., Sharpee, T.O., Gentner, T.Q. Emergence of learned categorical representations within an auditory forebrain circuit. (2011) Journal of Neuroscience. 31(7):2595-606. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3930-10.2011

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Imaizumi, K., Priebe, N.J., Sharpee, T.O., Cheung, S.W., Schreiner, C.E. Encoding of temporal information by timing, rate, and place in cat auditory cortex. (2010) PLOS One. 5(7):e11531. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011531

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Gallarda, B.W., Sharpee, T.O., Pfaff, S.L., Alaynick, W.A. Defining rhythmic locomotor burst patterns using a continuous wavelet transform. (2010) Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1198:133-9. DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05437.x

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Atencio, C.A., Sharpee, T.O., Schreiner, C.E. Hierarchical computation in the canonical auditory cortical circuit. (2009) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106(51):21894-9. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908383106

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Fitzgerald, J.D., Sharpee, T.O. Maximally informative pairwise interactions in networks. (2009) Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 80(3 Pt 1):031914. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031914

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Liu, Y.S., Stevens, C.F., Sharpee, T.O. Predictable irregularities in retinal receptive fields. (2009) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106(38):16499-504. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908926106

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Sincich, L.C., Horton, J.C., Sharpee, T.O. Preserving information in neural transmission. (2009) Journal of Neuroscience. 29(19):6207-16. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3701-08.2009

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Sharpee, T.O., Victor, J.D. Contextual modulation of V1 receptive fields depends on their spatial symmetry. (2009) Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 26(2):203-18. DOI: 10.1007/s10827-008-0107-5

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Kouh, M., Sharpee, T.O. Estimating linear-nonlinear models using Renyi divergences. (2009) Network. 20(2):49-68. DOI: 10.1080/09548980902950891

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Atencio, C.A., Sharpee, T.O., Schreiner, C.E. Cooperative nonlinearities in auditory cortical neurons. (2008) Neuron. 58(6):956-66. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.04.026

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Sharpee, T.O., Miller, K.D., Stryker, M.P. On the importance of static nonlinearity in estimating spatiotemporal neural filters with natural stimuli. (2008) Journal of Neurophysiology. 99(5):2496-509. DOI: 10.1152/jn.01397.2007

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Clifford, C.W., Webster, M.A., Stanley, G.B., Stocker, A.A., Kohn, A., Sharpee, T.O., Schwartz, O. Visual adaptation: neural, psychological and computational aspects. (2007) Vision Research. 47(25):3125-31. DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.08.023

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Sharpee, T.O. Comparison of information and variance maximization strategies for characterizing neural feature selectivity. (2007) Stat Med. 26(21):4009-31. DOI: 10.1002/sim.2931

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Sharpee, T., Bialek, W. Neural decision boundaries for maximal information transmission. (2007) PLOS One. 2(7):e646. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000646

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Sharpee, T.O., Sugihara, H., Kurgansky, A.V., Rebrik, S.P., Stryker, M.P., Miller, K.D. Adaptive filtering enhances information transmission in visual cortex. (2006) Nature. 439(7079):936-42. DOI: 10.1038/nature04519

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Victor, J.D., Mechler, F., Repucci, M.A., Purpura, K.P., Sharpee, T. Responses of V1 neurons to two-dimensional hermite functions. (2006) Journal of Neurophysiology. 95(1):379-400. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00498.2005

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Sharpee, T., Sugihara, H., Kurgansky, A.V., Rebrik, S., Stryker, M.P., Miller, K.D. Probing feature selectivity of neurons in primary visual cortex with natural stimuli. (2004) Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng.(5467):212-222

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Sharpee, T., Rust, N.C., Bialek, W. Analyzing neural responses to natural signals: maximally informative dimensions. (2004) Neural Computation. 16(2):223-50. DOI: 10.1162/089976604322742010

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Dykman, M.I., Sharpee, T., Platzman, P.M. Enhancement of tunneling from a correlated 2D electron system by a many-electron Mössbauer-type recoil in a magnetic field. (2001) Phys. Rev. Lett. 86(11):2408-11. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.2408

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Barabash-Sharpee, T., Dykman, M.I., Platzman, P.M. Tunneling transverse to a magnetic field and its occurrence in correlated 2D electron systems. (2000) Phys. Rev. Lett. 84(10):2227-30. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.2227

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Education

MS, Physics, Ukraine National University, Kiev, Ukraine
PhD, Physics, Michigan State University
Sloan-Swartz Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco


Affiliations


Awards & Honors

  • American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s (ASBMB) DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences, 2022
  • American Physical Society Fellow, 2018
  • National Science Foundation Career Award, 2013
  • W.M. Keck Foundation, Research Excellence Award, 2009
  • Mcknight Scholar Award, 2009
  • Ray Thomas Edwards Foundation Career Award, 2008
  • Searle Scholar, 2008
  • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2008