Anthony Zador

Anthony Zador
NationalityAmerican
EducationB.A., University of California, Berkeley; MD-PhD, Yale University
Known forMolecular approaches to connectomics; neural circuits underlying auditory decision making
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience
InstitutionsCold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Doctoral advisorChristof Koch
Other academic advisorsCharles 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]

  1. ^ "CSHL Anthony Zador". Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Sequencing the Connectome: Will DNA Bar Codes and a Sneaky Virus Change the Way Scientists Map the Brain?". Scientific American. 23 October 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  3. ^ "Mapmaking with barcoded neurons". Nature Methods. 31 October 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.