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Bio:
Karel Svoboda is the Vice President and Executive Director of the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. Before joinig the Allen Institute, he was a Senior Group Leader at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus. Svoboda’s work is at the intersection of neuronal biophysics and cognition. His goal is to identify core principles underlying information processing in mammalian neural circuits at the level of the whole brain. Svoboda has developed several widely-used methods to interrogate neural structure and function in intact brains. Notable contributions include microscopy methods to image synapses over times of weeks in the intact brain during learning; engineered sensitive fluorescent protein sensors for noninvasive imaging of neural activity; microscopes with very large fields of view that enable imaging multiple brain regions with single neuron resolution. Svoboda is an advocate for open and reproducible science. He is a founder of the Neurodata Without Borders and ScanImage projects.
Svoboda was born in Prague, then part of Czechoslovakia, and grew up in West Germany. He graduated from Cornell University with a BA in Physics (1988) and from Harvard University with a PhD in Biophysics (1994). He was a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories (until 1997) and a principal investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (until 2006). Svoboda was awarded the Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award (2004) and the Brain Prize from the Lundbeck Foundation (2015). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA).
Journal of Neural Engineering
Sep 18, 2023
Alessio P. Buccino, Olivier Winter, David Bryant, David Feng, Karel Svoboda, Joshua H. Siegle
Nature Communications
Apr 12, 2023
Ian Covert, Rohan Gala, Tim Wang, Karel Svoboda, Uygar Sümbül, Su-In Lee
Neuron
Mar 28, 2023
Ahmed S. Abdelfattah, Jihong Zheng, Amrita Singh, Yi-Chieh Huang, Daniel Reep, Getahun Tsegaye, Arthur Tsang, Benjamin J. Arthur, Monika Rehorova, Carl V. L. Olson, Yichun Shuai, Lixia Zhang, Tian-Ming Fu, Daniel E. Milkie, Maria V. Moya, Timothy D. Weber, Andrew L. Lemire, Christopher A. Baker, Natalie Falco, Qinsi Zheng, Jonathan B. Grimm, Mighten C. Yip, Deepika Walpita, Martin Chase, Luke Campagnola, Gabe J. Murphy, Allan M. Wong, Craig R. Forest, Jerome Mertz, Michael N. Economo, Glenn C. Turner, Minoru Koyama, Bei-Jung Lin, Eric Betzig, Ondrej Novak, Luke D. Lavis, Karel Svoboda, Wyatt Korff, Tsai-Wen Chen, Eric R. Schreiter, Jeremy P. Hasseman, Ilya Kolb
Oct 11, 2022
Christof Koch, Karel Svoboda, Amy Bernard, Michele A. Basso, Anne K. Churchland, Adrienne L. Fairhall, Peter A. Groblewski, Jérôme A. Lecoq, Zachary F. Mainen, Mackenzie W. Mathis, Shawn R. Olsen, John W. Phillips, Alexandre Pouget, Shreya Saxena, Josh H. Siegle, Anthony M. Zador
eLife
Oct 04, 2022
Oliver Rübel, Andrew Tritt, Ryan Ly, Benjamin K. Dichter, Satrajit Ghosh, Lawrence Niu, Pamela Baker, Ivan Soltesz, Lydia Ng, Karel Svoboda, Loren Frank, Kristofer E. Bouchard
Nature Methods
May 01, 2022
Adam K. Glaser, Kevin W. Bishop, Lindsey A. Barner, Etsuo A. Susaki, Shimpei I. Kubota, Gan Gao, Robert B. Serafin, Pooja Balaram, Emily Turschak, Philip R. Nicovich, Hoyin Lai, Luciano A. G. Lucas, Yating Yi, Eva K. Nichols, Hongyi Huang, Nicholas P. Reder, Jasmine J. Wilson, Ramya Sivakumar, Elya Shamskhou, Caleb R. Stoltzfus, Xing Wei, Andrew K. Hempton, Marko Pende, Prayag Murawala, Hans-Ulrich Dodt, Takato Imaizumi, Jay Shendure, Brian J. Beliveau, Michael Y. Gerner, Li Xin, Hu Zhao, Lawrence D. True, R. Clay Reid, Jayaram Chandrashekar, Hiroki R. Ueda, Karel Svoboda, Jonathan T. C. Liu
Cell
Sep 17, 2020
Larry F. Abbott, Davi D. Bock, Edward M. Callaway, Winfried Denk, Catherine Dulac, Adrienne L. Fairhall, Ila Fiete, Kristen M. Harris, Moritz Helmstaedter, Viren Jain, Narayanan Kasthuri, Yann LeCun, Jeff W. Lichtman, Peter B. Littlewood, Liqun Luo, John H. R. Maunsell, R. Clay Reid, Bruce R. Rosen, Gerald M. Rubin, Terrence J. Sejnowski, H. Sebastian Seung, Karel Svoboda, David W. Tank, Doris Tsao, David C. Van Essen
Science (New York, N.Y.)
Aug 16, 2019
Ahmed S. Abdelfattah, Takashi Kawashima, Amrita Singh, Ondrej Novak, Hui Liu, Yichun Shuai, Yi-Chieh Huang, Luke Campagnola, Stephanie C. Seeman, Jianing Yu, Jihong Zheng, Jonathan B. Grimm, Ronak Patel, Johannes Friedrich, Brett D. Mensh, Liam Paninski, John J. Macklin, Gabe J. Murphy, Kaspar Podgorski, Bei-Jung Lin, Tsai-Wen Chen, Glenn C. Turner, Zhe Liu, Minoru Koyama, Karel Svoboda, Misha B. Ahrens, Luke D. Lavis, Eric R. Schreiter
Nature
Nov 01, 2018
Bosiljka Tasic, Zizhen Yao, Lucas T. Graybuck, Kimberly A. Smith, Thuc Nghi Nguyen, Darren Bertagnolli, Jeff Goldy, Emma Garren, Michael N. Economo, Sarada Viswanathan, Osnat Penn, Trygve Bakken, Vilas Menon, Jeremy Miller, Olivia Fong, Karla E. Hirokawa, Kanan Lathia, Christine Rimorin, Michael Tieu, Rachael Larsen, Tamara Casper, Eliza Barkan, Matthew Kroll, Sheana Parry, Nadiya V. Shapovalova, Daniel Hirschstein, Julie Pendergraft, Heather A. Sullivan, Tae Kyung Kim, Aaron Szafer, Nick Dee, Peter Groblewski, Ian Wickersham, Ali Cetin, Julie A. Harris, Boaz P. Levi, Susan M. Sunkin, Linda Madisen, Tanya L. Daigle, Loren Looger, Amy Bernard, John Phillips, Ed Lein, Michael Hawrylycz, Karel Svoboda, Allan R. Jones, Christof Koch, Hongkui Zeng
Michael N. Economo, Sarada Viswanathan, Bosiljka Tasic, Erhan Bas, Johan Winnubst, Vilas Menon, Lucas T. Graybuck, Thuc Nghi Nguyen, Kimberly A. Smith, Zizhen Yao, Lihua Wang, Charles R. Gerfen, Jayaram Chandrashekar, Hongkui Zeng, Loren L. Looger, Karel Svoboda
Nov 08, 2017
James J. Jun, Nicholas A. Steinmetz, Joshua H. Siegle, Daniel J. Denman, Marius Bauza, Brian Barbarits, Albert K. Lee, Costas A. Anastassiou, Alexandru Andrei, Çağatay Aydın, Mladen Barbic, Timothy J. Blanche, Vincent Bonin, João Couto, Barundeb Dutta, Sergey L. Gratiy, Diego A. Gutnisky, Michael Häusser, Bill Karsh, Peter Ledochowitsch, Carolina Mora Lopez, Catalin Mitelut, Silke Musa, Michael Okun, Marius Pachitariu, Jan Putzeys, P. Dylan Rich, Cyrille Rossant, Wei-Lung Sun, Karel Svoboda, Matteo Carandini, Kenneth D. Harris, Christof Koch, John O'Keefe, Timothy D. Harris
Nov 18, 2015
Jeffery L. Teeters, Keith Godfrey, Rob Young, Chinh Dang, Claudia Friedsam, Barry Wark, Hiroki Asari, Simon Peron, Nuo Li, Adrien Peyrache, Gennady Denisov, Joshua H. Siegle, Shawn R. Olsen, Christopher Martin, Miyoung Chun, Shreejoy Tripathy, Timothy J. Blanche, Kenneth Harris, György Buzsáki, Christof Koch, Markus Meister, Karel Svoboda, Friedrich T. Sommer
Nature Neuroscience
Mar 25, 2012
Linda Madisen, Tianyi Mao, Henner Koch, Jia-min Zhuo, Antal Berenyi, Shigeyoshi Fujisawa, Yun-Wei A. Hsu, Alfredo J. Garcia, Xuan Gu, Sebastien Zanella, Jolene Kidney, Hong Gu, Yimei Mao, Bryan M. Hooks, Edward S. Boyden, György Buzsáki, Jan Marino Ramirez, Allan R. Jones, Karel Svoboda, Xue Han, Eric E. Turner, Hongkui Zeng
The Journal of Neuroscience: The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Feb 29, 2012
Hatim A. Zariwala, Bart G. Borghuis, Tycho M. Hoogland, Linda Madisen, Lin Tian, Chris I. De Zeeuw, Hongkui Zeng, Loren L. Looger, Karel Svoboda, Tsai-Wen Chen
PLoS computational biology
Mar 01, 2009
Jason W. Bohland, Caizhi Wu, Helen Barbas, Hemant Bokil, Mihail Bota, Hans C. Breiter, Hollis T. Cline, John C. Doyle, Peter J. Freed, Ralph J. Greenspan, Suzanne N. Haber, Michael Hawrylycz, Daniel G. Herrera, Claus C. Hilgetag, Z. Josh Huang, Allan Jones, Edward G. Jones, Harvey J. Karten, David Kleinfeld, Rolf Kötter, Henry A. Lester, John M. Lin, Brett D. Mensh, Shawn Mikula, Jaak Panksepp, Joseph L. Price, Joseph Safdieh, Clifford B. Saper, Nicholas D. Schiff, Jeremy D. Schmahmann, Bruce W. Stillman, Karel Svoboda, Larry W. Swanson, Arthur W. Toga, David C. Van Essen, James D. Watson, Partha P. Mitra
Adam Glaser, Jayaram Chandrashekar, Sonya Vasquez, Cameron Arshadi, Naveen Ouellette, Xiaoyun Jiang, Judith Baka, Gabor Kovacs, Micah Woodard, Sharmishtaa Seshamani, Kevin Cao, Nathan Clack, Andrew Recknagel, Anna Grim, Pooja Balaram, Emily Turschak, Marcus Hooper, Alan Liddell, John Rohde, Ayana Hellevik, Kevin Takasaki, Lindsey Erion Barner, Molly Logsdon, Chris Chronopoulos, Saskia de Vries, Jonathan Ting, Steve Perlmutter, Brian Kalmbach, Nikolai Dembrow, Bosiljka Tasic, R. Clay Reid, David Feng, Karel Svoboda
