Larry Abbott

{{short description|American theoretical neuroscientist (born 1950)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1950|}}

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| nationality = American

| fields = Theoretical Neuroscience

| workplaces = Columbia University

| alma_mater = Oberlin CollegeColumbia University. [https://presidentialscholars.columbia.edu/directory/larry-abbott "Larry Abbott"]. Retrieved on 31 March 2020.

Brandeis University

| thesis_title = The Hartree approximation in quantum field theory

| thesis_url = https://search.library.brandeis.edu/permalink/f/urfvar/BRAND_ALMA21210321080001921

| thesis_year = 1977

| doctoral_advisor = Howard Schnitzer

| doctoral_students = Kanaka Rajan, Tim Vogels

| known_for = Dynamic clamp method

| awards = Irving Institute MOTY Award
IBT Math. Neuro. Prize
NIH Pioneer Award
Swartz Prize
Brain prize 2024

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Laurence Frederick Abbott[https://sni-db.stanford.edu/cv/VitaLFA.pdf "LAURENCE F. ABBOTT CV"]. Retrieved on 31 March 2020. (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.Plunkett, John. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/theoretical-neuroscience "Theoretical Neuroscience"], MIT Press, Retrieved on 31 March 2020. He helped invent the dynamic clamp method alongside Eve Marder.{{cite web |url=http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/july-2014/a-physicist-in-the-neurobiology-lab |title=A physicist in the neurobiology lab |newspaper=Symmetrymagazine.org |date= 8 July 2014|author= |access-date= May 12, 2015}}

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. In 2022 he was awarded the Gruber Neuroscience Prize.[https://gruber.yale.edu/neuroscience Gruber Neuroscience Prize 2022] In 2024, he was awarded The Brain Prize for contributions to theoretical neuroscience, alongside Terrence Sejnowski and Haim Sompolinsky.Columbia | Zuckerman Institute. (2024, March 6). [https://zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/scientist-columbia-s-zuckerman-institute-wins-prestigious-brain-prize Scientist at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute wins prestigious brain prize.]

Biography

Abbott attended Oberlin College from 1968 to 1971, where he received a bachelor's degree in physics. He subsequently attended graduate school at Brandeis University from 1973 to 1977, where he received his Ph.D. in physics.

Scientific career

He subsequently worked 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.{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=5 October 2016|title=Larry Abbott|url=|journal=Neuron|volume=92|issue=1|pages=9–10|doi=10.1016/j.neuron.2016.09.041|doi-access=free}} 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 to 2002, and a visiting faculty at UCSF Sloan Center for Theoretical Neuroscience from 1994 to 2002. 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. 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.{{Cite web|url= https://neuroscience.columbia.edu/profile/larryabbott |title= Larry Abbott, PhD|access-date= Jan 22, 2020 |website= Columbia.edu}}{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/science/learning-how-little-we-know-about-the-brain.html |title=Learning How Little We Know About the Brain |newspaper=The New York Times |date= November 10, 2014 |author= |access-date= May 12, 2015}} He has been a senior fellow at HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus since 2015.

Select publications

{{cite journal |last1=Abbott |first1=L. F. |last2=Varela |first2=J. A. |last3=Sen |first3=Kamal |last4=Nelson |first4=S. B. |title=Synaptic Depression and Cortical Gain Control |journal=Science |date=10 January 1997 |volume=275 |issue=5297 |pages=221–224 |doi=10.1126/science.275.5297.221 |pmid=8985017 |url=https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.275.5297.221 |language=en |issn=0036-8075|url-access=subscription }}
{{cite journal |last1=Song |first1=Sen |last2=Miller |first2=Kenneth D. |last3=Abbott |first3=L. F. |title=Competitive Hebbian learning through spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity |journal=Nature Neuroscience |date=September 2000 |volume=3 |issue=9 |pages=919–926 |doi=10.1038/78829 |pmid=10966623 |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nn0900_919 |language=en |issn=1546-1726|url-access=subscription }}
{{cite journal |last1=Sussillo |first1=David |last2=Abbott |first2=L.F. |title=Generating Coherent Patterns of Activity from Chaotic Neural Networks |journal=Neuron |date=August 2009 |volume=63 |issue=4 |pages=544–557 |doi=10.1016/j.neuron.2009.07.018 |pmid=19709635 |pmc=2756108 }}
{{cite journal |last1=Rajan |first1=Kanaka |last2=Abbott |first2=L. F. |last3=Sompolinsky |first3=Haim |title=Stimulus-dependent suppression of chaos in recurrent neural networks|url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=7f66a0b8d7690845e665c5b014231d8ff273fde2 |journal=Physical Review E |date=7 July 2010 |volume=82 |issue=1 |page=011903 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevE.82.011903|pmid=20866644 |pmc=10683875 |arxiv=0912.3513 |bibcode=2010PhRvE..82a1903R |s2cid=946870 }}
{{Cite journal|last1=Vogels|first1=T. P.|last2=Abbott|first2=L.|date=2009-03-22|title=Gating multiple signals through detailed balance of excitation and inhibition in spiking networks|url= |journal=Nature Neuroscience|volume=12|issue=4|pages=483–491|doi=10.1038/nn.2276|pmid=19305402|pmc=2693069}}
{{cite journal |last1=Rajan |first1=Kanaka |last2=Abbott |first2=L. F. |title=Eigenvalue Spectra of Random Matrices for Neural Networks |journal=Physical Review Letters|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/neurotheory/Larry/RajanPRL06.pdf |date=2 November 2006 |volume=97 |issue=18 |page=188104 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.188104|pmid=17155583 |bibcode=2006PhRvL..97r8104R }}

Awards, honors, and memberships

The Brain Prize 2024
Gruber Neuroscience Prize 2022
National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award{{Cite web |url= http://commonfund.nih.gov/pioneer/Recipients04 |title= 2004 Pioneer Award Recipients |access-date= May 15, 2015 |website= National Institutes of Health |archive-date= April 1, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140401121502/http://commonfund.nih.gov/pioneer/Recipients04 |url-status= dead }}
Swartz Prize{{Cite web|url= http://www.sfn.org/Press-Room/News-Release-Archives/2010/Abbott-Receives-Swartz-Prize-for-Theoretical-and-Computational-Neuroscience |title= Abbott Receives Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience |date= November 15, 2010 |access-date= May 15, 2015 |website= Society for Neuroscience}}
Israel Brain Technologies’ Mathematical Neuroscience Prize.
First Annual Prize in Mathematical Neuroscience.
Irving Institute Mentor of the Year Award.
National Academy of Sciences member{{Cite web|url= http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20033167.html |title= Larry Abbott |access-date= May 15, 2015 |website= National Academy of Sciences}}
Member, Kavli Institute for Brain Science
Member of the Motor Neuron Center, Columbia University
Senior Fellow, HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Steering Committee, Safra Center for Brain Sciences, Hebrew University
Scientific Advisory Panel, Gatsby Unit, UCL
Advisory Council for Physics Department, Princeton University
Scholars Selection Committee, McKnight Foundation
Mindscope Advisory Council, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Scientific Advisory Board, Champalimaud Neuroscience Program
Brain and Cognitive Sciences Visiting Committee, MIT
Scientific and Academic Advisory Committee, Weizmann Institute
Executive Committee, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

Published works

{{cite journal|last1=Prinz |first1=Astrid A. |last2=Abbott |first2=L.F. |last3=Marder |first3=Eve |date=April 2004 |title=The dynamic clamp comes of age |url=http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~larry/PrinzTINS04.pdf |journal=Trends in Neurosciences |publisher=Elsevier |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=218–224 |access-date=May 15, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508195723/http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~larry/PrinzTINS04.pdf |archive-date=May 8, 2014 |doi=10.1016/j.tins.2004.02.004 |pmid=15046881|s2cid=11246529 }}

References

External links

[https://neuroscience.columbia.edu/profile/larryabbott Columbia Profile page]
[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/neurotheory/Larry/ Columbia Neurotheory page]
[https://www.simonsfoundation.org/team/larry-abbott/ Simons Foundation Profile page]
[http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20033167.html National Academy of Science Member page]

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