Anthony Zador | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.A., University of California, Berkeley; MD-PhD, Yale University |
| Known for | Molecular approaches to connectomics; neural circuits underlying auditory decision making |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience |
| Institutions | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| Doctoral advisor | Christof Koch |
| Other academic advisors | Charles F. Stevens |
Anthony M. Zador is an American neuroscientist and the Alle Davis Harris Professor of Biology and Chair of Neuroscience at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.[1] He is a co-founder, in 2004, of the Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) conference, and of the NAISYS (Neuroscience to Artificially Intelligent Systems) meeting about the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Dr. Zador's research has focused on understanding the circuits of the auditory cortex in rodents. More recently, he has pioneered a new approach to connectome mapping using the methods of molecular biology, which may dramatically decrease the cost and improve the speed of mapping neuronal circuits at the single cell level.[2][3]