Welcoming New Faculty
S. Andrew Hires Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Ph.D., Neurosciences, 2007 University of California, San Diego Andrew Hires leverages innovative neurotechnologies, including optogenetics, silicon probes and genetically encoded activity indicators to determine how cortical microcircuits construct sensory perception. His research focuses on how the sense of touch is represented in cortex and how to synthesize biomimetic tactile perceptions via patterned photostimulation of cortical networks. His recent work has been published in Nature Neuroscience, Nature Methods, The Journal of Neuroscience and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His co-authored work on imaging cortical activity with a novel fluorescent neural activity sensor, GCaMP3, has more than 400 citations in fewer than four years.
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