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FABRIZIO GABBIANI

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InstitutionBaylor College of Medicine
DepartmentDepartment of Neuroscience
AddressOne Baylor Plaza
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    R01NS130917     (GABBIANI, FABRIZIO)Aug 1, 2022 - Jul 31, 2027
    NIH
    CRCNS: Understanding Single-Neuron Computation Using Nonlinear Model Optimization
    Role: Principal Investigator
    R01MH065339     (GABBIANI, FABRIZIO)Jun 1, 2002 - Feb 28, 2019
    NIH
    Neuronal Mechanisms of Multiplication and Invariance
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Mitra S, Namazifard S, Bellini DM, Sarne AL, Halder B, Eisenbrandt MR, Macknojia A, Luo J, Xie S, Song H, Zong C, Gabbiani F, Dewell RB. To jump or not to jump: comparing effects of phenotypic plasticity on the visual responses and escape behavior of locusts and grasshoppers. J Neurophysiol. 2026 Jan 01; 135(1):312-323. PMID: 41363944.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    2. Dewell RB, Carroll-Mikhail T, Eisenbrandt MR, Mendoza AF, Halder B, Preuss T, Gabbiani F. Convergent escape behaviour from distinct visual processing of impending collision in fish and grasshoppers. J Physiol. 2023 10; 601(19):4355-4373. PMID: 37671925; PMCID: PMC10595048.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    3. Gabbiani F, Preuss T, Dewell RB. Approaching object acceleration differentially affects the predictions of neuronal collision avoidance models. Biol Cybern. 2023 04; 117(1-2):129-142. PMID: 37029831; PMCID: PMC10314993.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    4. Dewell RB, Zhu Y, Eisenbrandt M, Morse R, Gabbiani F. Contrast polarity-specific mapping improves efficiency of neuronal computation for collision detection. Elife. 2022 10 31; 11. PMID: 36314775; PMCID: PMC9674337.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    5. Dierick HA, Ben-Shahar Y, Raman B, Gabbiani F. Genetic and viral approaches to record or manipulate neurons in insects. Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2021 12; 48:79-88. PMID: 34710643; PMCID: PMC8648980.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    6. Wang H, Foquet B, Dewell RB, Song H, Dierick HA, Gabbiani F. Molecular characterization and distribution of the voltage-gated sodium channel, Para, in the brain of the grasshopper and vinegar fly. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2020 03; 206(2):289-307. PMID: 31902005; PMCID: PMC7073303.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    7. Dewell RB, Gabbiani F. Active membrane conductances and morphology of a collision detection neuron broaden its impedance profile and improve discrimination of input synchrony. J Neurophysiol. 2019 08 01; 122(2):691-706. PMID: 31268830; PMCID: PMC6734408.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    8. Wang H, Dewell RB, Ehrengruber MU, Segev E, Reimer J, Roukes ML, Gabbiani F. Optogenetic manipulation of medullary neurons in the locust optic lobe. J Neurophysiol. 2018 10 01; 120(4):2049-2058. PMID: 30110231; PMCID: PMC6230808.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    9. Dewell RB, Gabbiani F. M current regulates firing mode and spike reliability in a collision-detecting neuron. J Neurophysiol. 2018 10 01; 120(4):1753-1764. PMID: 30044671; PMCID: PMC6230786.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    10. Zhu Y, Dewell RB, Wang H, Gabbiani F. Pre-synaptic Muscarinic Excitation Enhances the Discrimination of Looming Stimuli in a Collision-Detection Neuron. Cell Rep. 2018 05 22; 23(8):2365-2378. PMID: 29791848; PMCID: PMC5997271.
      Citations: 5     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    11. Wang H, Dewell RB, Zhu Y, Gabbiani F. Feedforward Inhibition Conveys Time-Varying Stimulus Information in a Collision Detection Circuit. Curr Biol. 2018 05 21; 28(10):1509-1521.e3. PMID: 29754904; PMCID: PMC5964032.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    12. Dewell RB, Gabbiani F. Biophysics of object segmentation in a collision-detecting neuron. Elife. 2018 04 18; 7. PMID: 29667927; PMCID: PMC5947989.
      Citations: 9     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    13. Gabbiani F, Dewell RB. Collision Avoidance: Broadening the Toolkit for Directionally Selective Motion Computations. Curr Biol. 2018 02 05; 28(3):R124-R126. PMID: 29408261.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:Cells
    14. Haag J, Arenz A, Serbe E, Gabbiani F, Borst A. Complementary mechanisms create direction selectivity in the fly. Elife. 2016 08 09; 5. PMID: 27502554; PMCID: PMC4978522.
      Citations: 39     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    15. Zhu Y, Gabbiani F. Fine and distributed subcellular retinotopy of excitatory inputs to the dendritic tree of a collision-detecting neuron. J Neurophysiol. 2016 06 01; 115(6):3101-12. PMID: 27009157; PMCID: PMC4946611.
      Citations: 6     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    16. Dierick HA, Gabbiani F. Drosophila Neurobiology: No Escape from 'Big Data' Science. Curr Biol. 2015 Jul 20; 25(14):R606-8. PMID: 26196487.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    17. Dewell RB, GABBIANI F. Dendrites. Dendritic Processing in Invertebrates. 2015.
    18. . Mathematics for Neuroscientists. 2015; 498 pages.
    19. Trousdale J, Carroll SR, Gabbiani F, Josic K. Near-optimal decoding of transient stimuli from coupled neuronal subpopulations. J Neurosci. 2014 Sep 03; 34(36):12206-22. PMID: 25186763; PMCID: PMC4152614.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    20. Chan RW, Gabbiani F. Collision-avoidance behaviors of minimally restrained flying locusts to looming stimuli. J Exp Biol. 2013 Feb 15; 216(Pt 4):641-55. PMID: 23364572; PMCID: PMC3561775.
      Citations: 7     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    21. Chan R, GABBIANI F. Advanced Methods in Neuroethological Research. Computational analysis of behavioral and neural data through Bayesian statistical modelling. 2013.
    22. Jones PW, Gabbiani F. Logarithmic compression of sensory signals within the dendritic tree of a collision-sensitive neuron. J Neurosci. 2012 Apr 04; 32(14):4923-34. PMID: 22492048; PMCID: PMC3752046.
      Citations: 9     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    23. Dewell RB, Gabbiani F. Escape behavior: linking neural computation to action. Curr Biol. 2012 Mar 06; 22(5):R152-3. PMID: 22401892.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    24. GABBIANI F, Midtgaard J. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Neural Information Processing. 2012. View Publication.
    25. Jones PW, Gabbiani F. Impact of neural noise on a sensory-motor pathway signaling impending collision. J Neurophysiol. 2012 Feb; 107(4):1067-79. PMID: 22114160; PMCID: PMC3289460.
      Citations: 8     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    26. Gabbiani F, Jones PW. A genetic push to understand motion detection. Neuron. 2011 Jun 23; 70(6):1023-5. PMID: 21689590.
      Citations: 3     Fields:    
    27. Harrison RR, Fotowat H, Chan R, Kier RJ, Olberg R, Leonardo A, Gabbiani F. Wireless Neural/EMG Telemetry Systems for Small Freely Moving Animals. IEEE Trans Biomed Circuits Syst. 2011 Apr; 5(2):103-11. PMID: 23851198.
      Citations: 14     Fields:    
    28. Fotowat H, Harrison RR, Gabbiani F. Multiplexing of motor information in the discharge of a collision detecting neuron during escape behaviors. Neuron. 2011 Jan 13; 69(1):147-58. PMID: 21220105; PMCID: PMC3035170.
      Citations: 44     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    29. Fotowat H, Gabbiani F. Collision detection as a model for sensory-motor integration. Annu Rev Neurosci. 2011; 34:1-19. PMID: 21391815.
      Citations: 51     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    30. Harrison RR, Fotowat H, Chan R, Kier RJ, Olberg R, Leonardo A, GABBIANI F. Wireless Neural/EMG Telemetry Systems for Small Freely Moving Animals. IEEE Trans Biomed Circuits Syst. 2011; (5):103-111.
    31. Jones PW, Gabbiani F. Synchronized neural input shapes stimulus selectivity in a collision-detecting neuron. Curr Biol. 2010 Nov 23; 20(22):2052-7. PMID: 21055939; PMCID: PMC2998055.
      Citations: 19     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    32. Harrison RR, Fotowat H, Chan R, Kier RJ, Leonardo A, GABBIANI F. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2010). A wireless neural/EMG telemetry system for freely moving insects. 2010; 2952- 2955.
    33. Rogers SM, Harston GW, Kilburn-Toppin F, Matheson T, Burrows M, Gabbiani F, Krapp HG. Spatiotemporal receptive field properties of a looming-sensitive neuron in solitarious and gregarious phases of the desert locust. J Neurophysiol. 2010 Feb; 103(2):779-92. PMID: 19955292; PMCID: PMC2822700.
      Citations: 11     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    34. Peron SP, Jones PW, Gabbiani F. Precise subcellular input retinotopy and its computational consequences in an identified visual interneuron. Neuron. 2009 Sep 24; 63(6):830-42. PMID: 19778511; PMCID: PMC2774212.
      Citations: 19     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    35. Fotowat H, Fayyazuddin A, Bellen HJ, Gabbiani F. A novel neuronal pathway for visually guided escape in Drosophila melanogaster. J Neurophysiol. 2009 Aug; 102(2):875-85. PMID: 19474177; PMCID: PMC3817277.
      Citations: 38     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    36. Peron SP, Gabbiani F. Role of spike-frequency adaptation in shaping neuronal response to dynamic stimuli. Biol Cybern. 2009 Jun; 100(6):505-20. PMID: 19381681; PMCID: PMC2854487.
      Citations: 17     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    37. Peron S, Gabbiani F. Spike frequency adaptation mediates looming stimulus selectivity in a collision-detecting neuron. Nat Neurosci. 2009 Mar; 12(3):318-26. PMID: 19198607; PMCID: PMC2662764.
      Citations: 50     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    38. Fotowat H, Gabbiani F. Relationship between the phases of sensory and motor activity during a looming-evoked multistage escape behavior. J Neurosci. 2007 Sep 12; 27(37):10047-59. PMID: 17855619; PMCID: PMC2081158.
      Citations: 38     Fields:    Translation:Animals
    39. Peron SP, Krapp HG, Gabbiani F. Influence of electrotonic structure and synaptic mapping on the receptive field properties of a collision-detecting neuron. J Neurophysiol. 2007 Jan; 97(1):159-77. PMID: 17021031; PMCID: PMC1945173.
      Citations: 17     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    40. Gabbiani F, Krapp HG. Spike-frequency adaptation and intrinsic properties of an identified, looming-sensitive neuron. J Neurophysiol. 2006 Dec; 96(6):2951-62. PMID: 16571737; PMCID: PMC1995006.
      Citations: 25     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    41. Kropp M, Gabbiani F, Prank K. Differential coding of humoral stimuli by timing and amplitude of intracellular calcium spike trains. Syst Biol (Stevenage). 2005 Dec; 152(4):263-8. PMID: 16986269.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    42. Gabbiani F, Cohen I, Laurent G. Time-dependent activation of feed-forward inhibition in a looming-sensitive neuron. J Neurophysiol. 2005 Sep; 94(3):2150-61. PMID: 15928055; PMCID: PMC1804290.
      Citations: 22     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    43. Krapp HG, Gabbiani F. Spatial distribution of inputs and local receptive field properties of a wide-field, looming sensitive neuron. J Neurophysiol. 2005 Apr; 93(4):2240-53. PMID: 15548622.
      Citations: 25     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    44. Gabbiani F, Krapp HG, Hatsopoulos N, Mo CH, Koch C, Laurent G. Multiplication and stimulus invariance in a looming-sensitive neuron. J Physiol Paris. 2004 Jan-Jun; 98(1-3):19-34. PMID: 15477020.
      Citations: 24     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    45. Gabbiani F, Krahe R. Burst firing in sensory systems. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2004 Jan; 5(1):13-23. PMID: 14661065.
      Citations: 170     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    46. Peters RJ, Gabbiani F, Koch C. Human visual object categorization can be described by models with low memory capacity. Vision Res. 2003 Sep; 43(21):2265-80. PMID: 12885380.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    47. Gabbiani F. Interpolating between Cellular Biophysics and Computation in Single Neurons. Neuron. 2003 Mar 27; 37(6):890-1. PMID: 12670417.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    48. Gabbiani F. A switch for oscillatory bursting. Nat Neurosci. 2003 Mar; 6(3):212-3. PMID: 12601379.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    49. Krahe R and GABBIANI F. Computational neuroscience: a comprehensive approach. Bursting activity in weakly electric fish. 2003.
    50. Gabbiani F, Krapp HG, Koch C, Laurent G. Multiplicative computation in a visual neuron sensitive to looming. Nature. 2002 Nov 21; 420(6913):320-4. PMID: 12447440.
      Citations: 131     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    51. Kreiman G, Gabbiani F, Koch C, Metzner W, Krahe R. Stimulus encoding and feature extraction by multiple sensory neurons. J Neurosci. 2002 Mar 15; 22(6):2374-82. PMID: 11896176; PMCID: PMC6758263.
      Citations: 25     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    52. Sigala N, Gabbiani F, Logothetis NK. Visual categorization and object representation in monkeys and humans. J Cogn Neurosci. 2002 Feb 15; 14(2):187-98. PMID: 11970785.
      Citations: 40     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    53. GABBIANI F. The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks. Rate Coding and Signal Processing. 2002; 941-945.
    54. Gabbiani F, Mo C, Laurent G. Invariance of angular threshold computation in a wide-field looming-sensitive neuron. J Neurosci. 2001 Jan 01; 21(1):314-29. PMID: 11150349; PMCID: PMC6762430.
      Citations: 38     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    55. Kreiman G, Krahe R, Metzner W, Koch C, Gabbiani F. Robustness and variability of neuronal coding by amplitude-sensitive afferents in the weakly electric fish eigenmannia. J Neurophysiol. 2000 Jul; 84(1):189-204. PMID: 10899196.
      Citations: 30     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    56. Prank K, Gabbiani F, Brabant G. Coding efficiency and information rates in transmembrane signaling. Biosystems. 2000 Feb; 55(1-3):15-22. PMID: 10745104.
      Citations: 7     Fields:    Translation:Cells
    57. GABBIANI F, Midtgaard J. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Neural Information Processing. 2000.
    58. Gabbiani F, Laurent G, Hatsopoulos N, Krapp HG. The many ways of building collision-sensitive neurons. Trends Neurosci. 1999 Oct; 22(10):437-8. PMID: 10481188.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    59. Gabbiani F, Krapp HG, Laurent G. Computation of object approach by a wide-field, motion-sensitive neuron. J Neurosci. 1999 Feb 01; 19(3):1122-41. PMID: 9920674; PMCID: PMC6782150.
      Citations: 106     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    60. GABBIANI F, Metzner W. Encoding and Processing of sensory information in neuronal spike trains. J Exp Biol. 1999; (202):1267-1279.
    61. Laurent G, Gabbiani F. Collision-avoidance: nature's many solutions. Nat Neurosci. 1998 Aug; 1(4):261-3. PMID: 10195154.
      Citations: 5     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    62. Metzner W, Koch C, Wessel R, Gabbiani F. Feature extraction by burst-like spike patterns in multiple sensory maps. J Neurosci. 1998 Mar 15; 18(6):2283-300. PMID: 9482813; PMCID: PMC6792916.
      Citations: 59     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    63. Prank K, Wagner M, Brabant G, Gabbiani F, Sch?fl C, L?er L, von zur M?hlen A. Coding of time-varying hormonal signals in intracellular calcium spike trains. Pac Symp Biocomput. 1998; 633-44. PMID: 9697218.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    64. GABBIANI F, Metzner W, Wessel R, Koch C. Feature Extraction in the Electrosensory Lateral Line Lobe of Weakly Electric Fish. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 1997; (9):62-68.
    65. GABBIANI F, Koch C. Methods in Neuronal Modeling. Principles of Spike Train Analysis. 1997; 313-360.
    66. Gabbiani F, Metzner W, Wessel R, Koch C. From stimulus encoding to feature extraction in weakly electric fish. Nature. 1996 Dec 12; 384(6609):564-7. PMID: 8955269.
      Citations: 87     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    67. Wessel R, Koch C, Gabbiani F. Coding of time-varying electric field amplitude modulations in a wave-type electric fish. J Neurophysiol. 1996 Jun; 75(6):2280-93. PMID: 8793741.
      Citations: 33     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    68. Gabbiani F. Coding of time-varying signals in spike trains of linear and half-wave rectifying neurons. Network. 1996; 7(1):61-85. PMID: 29480147.
      Citations: 23     Fields:    
    69. GABBIANI F. Coding of Time-Varying Signals in Spike Trains of Linear and Half-Wave Rectifying Neurons. Comput in Neur Syst. 1996; (7):61-85.
    70. GABBIANI F, Koch F. Neural Codes and Distributed Representations – Foundations of Neural Computation. Coding of Time-Varying Signals in Spike Trains of Integrate-and-Fire Neurons with Random Threshold. 1996; 201-223.
    71. Hatsopoulos N, Gabbiani F, Laurent G. Elementary computation of object approach by wide-field visual neuron. Science. 1995 Nov 10; 270(5238):1000-3. PMID: 15290817.
      Citations: 67     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    72. Fröhlich J, Chamseddine AH, GABBIANI F, Kerler T, King C, Marchetti PA, Studer UM, Thiran E. Proceedings of the International Conference of Mathematicians. The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, Chern-Simmons Theory, and Integral Lattices. 1995; 75-105.
    73. Midtgaard J, Gabbiani F, Kn?pfel T. Synaptic integration in a model of cerebellar granule cells. J Neurophysiol. 1994 Aug; 72(2):999-1009. PMID: 7527078.
      Citations: 63     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    74. GABBIANI F, Fröhlich J. Operator algebras and conformal field theory. Comm Math Phys. 1993; (155):569-640.
    75. Fröhlich J, GABBIANI F. Braid statistics in local quantum theory. Rev Math Phys. 1990; (2):251-353.
    76. Fröhlich J, GABBIANI F, Marchetti P-A. The algebraic theory of superselection sectors. Introduction and recent results. Braid statistics in three dimensional local quantum theory. 1990; 259-332.
    77. Fröhlich J, GABBIANI F, Marchetti P-A. John Hopkins Workshop on current problems in particle theory. Superselection structure and statistics in three-dimensional local quantum field theory. 1990; 335-415.
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