Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor of Neuroscience (in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute)
Current Administrative Positions
- Principal Investigator at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute
Departments and Divisions
- Department of Neuroscience
Links
Lab Locations
Jerome L. Greene Science Center
3227 Broadway
L6-077
New York, NY 10027- Phone:
- (212) 853-1832
- Email:
- ak3625@columbia.edu
Research Interests
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
- Systems and Circuits
- Theoretical Neuroscience
NIH Grants
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PIRIFORM CORTEX AND AMYGDALA IN A MODEL OF ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING IN THE MAMMALIAN OFFACTORY SYSTEM (Federal Gov)
Aug 1 2014 - Jul 31 2017
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PIRIFORM CORTEX AND AMYGDALA IN A MODEL OF ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING IN THE MAMMALIAN OFFACTORY SYSTEM (Federal Gov)
Aug 1 2014 - Jul 31 2017
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PIRIFORM CORTEX AND AMYGDALA IN A MODEL OF ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING IN THE MAMMALIAN OFFACTORY SYSTEM (Federal Gov)
Aug 1 2014 - Jul 31 2017
HIGHER-LEVEL OLFACTORY PROCESSING (Private)
Jul 1 2014 - Jun 30 2017
Publications
K. Eichler*, F. Li*, A. Litwin-Kumar* (*equal contribution), Y. Park, I. Andrade, C. M. Schneider-Mizell, T. Saumweber, A. Huser, C. Eschbach, B. Gerber, R. D. Fetter, J. W. Truman, C. E. Priebe, L. F. Abbott, A. S. Thum, M. Zlatic & A. Cardona (2017). The complete connectome of a learning and memory centre in an insect brain. Nature 548(7666), 175-182.
A. Litwin-Kumar, K. D. Harris, R. Axel, H. Sompolinsky & L. F. Abbott (2017). Optimal degrees of synaptic connectivity. Neuron 93(5), 1153-1164.
A. Litwin-Kumar, R. Rosenbaum & B. Doiron (2016). Inhibitory stabilization and visual coding in cortical circuits with multiple interneuron subtypes. Journal of Neurophysiology 115(3), 1399-1409.
B. Doiron, A. Litwin-Kumar, R. Rosenbaum, G. Ocker & K. Josić (2016). The mechanics of state dependent neural correlations [review]. Nature Neuroscience 19(3), 383-393.
A. Litwin-Kumar & B. Doiron (2014). Formation and maintenance of neuronal assemblies through synaptic plasticity. Nature Communications 5(5319).
A. Litwin-Kumar & B. Doiron (2012). Slow dynamics and high variability in balanced cortical networks with clustered connections. Nature Neuroscience 15(11), 1498-1505.