Professor
Computational Neurobiology Laboratory
Integrative Biology Laboratory
Edwin K. Hunter Chair
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Zhou, Y., Sharpee, T.O. Hyperbolic geometry of gene expression. (2021) iScience. 24(3):102225. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102225
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
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
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
Berkowitz, J.A., Sharpee, T.O. Quantifying Information Conveyed by Large Neuronal Populations. (2019) Neural Computation.:1-33 DOI: 10.1162/neco_a_01193
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
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
Sharpee, T.O. (2018) Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Neuroscience.:1-23 DOI: doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264086.013.110
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
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
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
Sharpee, T.O. Optimizing Neural Information Capacity through Discretization. (2017) Neuron. 94(5):954-960. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.04.044
Rowekamp, R.J., Sharpee, T.O. Cross-orientation suppression in visual area V2. (2017) Nature Communications. 8:15739. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15739
Sharpee, T.O. Plasticity to the Rescue. (2016) Neuron. 92(5):935-936. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.11.042
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
Sharpee, T.O. How Invariant Feature Selectivity Is Achieved in Cortex. (2016) Front Synaptic Neurosci. 8:26. DOI: 10.3389/fnsyn.2016.00026
Sharpee, T.O. Taking a close look at electrosensing. (2016) Elife. 5. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.16209
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
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
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
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
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
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
Calhoun, A.J., Chalasani, S.H., Sharpee, T.O. Maximally informative foraging by Caenorhabditis elegans. (2014) Elife. 3. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.04220
Sharpee, T.O. Toward functional classification of neuronal types. (2014) Neuron. 83(6):1329-34. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.08.040
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
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
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
Sharpee, T.O. Computational identification of receptive fields. (2013) Annual Review of Neuroscience. 36:103-20. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-062012-170253
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sharpee, T.O. Adaptive switches in midbrain circuits. (2012) Neuron. 73(1):6-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.12.017
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Kouh, M., Sharpee, T.O. Estimating linear-nonlinear models using Renyi divergences. (2009) Network. 20(2):49-68. DOI: 10.1080/09548980902950891
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
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
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
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
Sharpee, T., Bialek, W. Neural decision boundaries for maximal information transmission. (2007) PLOS One. 2(7):e646. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000646
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
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
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
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
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
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
MS, Physics, Ukraine National University, Kiev, Ukraine
PhD, Physics, Michigan State University
Sloan-Swartz Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco