Dendrites
Third Edition
Edited by Greg Stuart, Nelson Spruston, and Michael Häusser
Author Information
Edited by Greg Stuart, Head, Eccles Institute of Neuroscience, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Nelson Spruston, Scientific Program Director and Laboratory Head, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus,, and Michael Häusser, Professor of Neuroscience, University College London
Greg Stuart is currently Head of the Eccles Institute of Neuroscience at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia. He did his undergraduate at Monash University (Melbourne), before doing a PhD in Neuroscience at the ANU. After his PhD he worked for 5 years at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. During this time he developed methods for making electrical recordings from dendrites. He is considered a world expert on the physiology of neuronal dendrites and has made a number of seminal contributions to understanding how information is processed by individual nerve cells within the brain.
Nelson Spruston is currently Scientific Program Director and Laboratory Head at the HHMI Janelia Research Campus. He completed his B.Sc. at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) and his Ph.D. at the Baylor College of Medicine (Houston). He did postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. While there, he performed the first dendritic patch-clamp recordings from hippocampal pyramidal neurons. In his own lab (first at Northwestern University and now at Janelia), Spruston studies the role of dendrites in synaptic integration and plasticity. He has also made a number of discoveries concerning the functional properties of a variety of cell types in the hippocampus.
Michael Häusser is Professor of Neuroscience at University College London and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow. He received his PhD from Oxford University under the supervision of Julian Jack. He subsequently worked with Bert Sakmann at the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg and with Philippe Ascher at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. He established his own laboratory at UCL in 1997 and became Professor of Neuroscience in 2001. He has made significant contributions to our understanding of the cellular basis of neural computation in the mammalian brain using a combination of experiments and theory, with a special focus on the role of dendrites. His group has helped to pioneer several new approaches for probing the function of single neurons and neural circuits in the intact brain.
Contributors:
Anthony Ambrosini, Princeton University, USA
Mel Bartlett, University of Southern California, USA
Manuel Berning, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
Kevin Boergens, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
Tobias Bonhoeffer, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
Pico Caroni, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland
Adam Carter, New York University, USA
Hollis Cline, Scripps Research Institute, USA
Hermann Cuntz, Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Germany and Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
Richard Dewell, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Mark Farrant, University College London, UK
Andreas Frick, Neurocentre Magendie, France
Robert Froemke, New York University, USA
Fabrizio Gabbiani, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Anirvan Ghosh, Roche Innovation Center, Basel
Albert Gidon, Hebrew University, Israel
Wes Grueber, Columbia University, USA
Kristen M. Harris, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Michael Hausser, University College London, UK
Etay Hay, Hebrew University, Israel
Fritjof Helmchen, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Moritz Helmstaedter, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
Richard Huganir, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Natasha Hussain, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Daniel Johnston, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Matthew Larkum, Charité University, Germany
Mickey London, Hebrew University, Israel
Andrew MacAskill, University College London, UK
Jérôme Maheux, McGill University Health Centre, Canada
Troy Margrie, University College London, UK
Jeff Magee, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA
Masanori Murayama, Riken Brain Science Institute, Japan
Valentin Nägerl, Université de Bordeaux, France
Zoltan Nusser, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungary
Lucy Palmer, University of Melbourne, Australia
Franck Polleux, Columbia University, USA
Nicholas Poolos, University of Washington, USA
Wilfrid Rall, National Institutes of Health, USA
Bernardo Sabatini, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA
Erin Schuman, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
Idan Segev, Hebrew University, Israel
Angus Silver, University College London, UK
Jesper Sjöström, McGill University Health Centre, Canada
Josef Spacek, Charles University, Czech Republic
Nelson Spruston, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, USA
Gregory Stuart, Australian National University, Australia
Nathan Urban, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Irena Vlatkovic, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
Samuel Wang, Princeton University, USA
Gayle Wittenberg, Janssen Research and Development, USA
Ryohei Yasuda, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, USA
