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Portrait photo of Richard Axel
Portrait photo of Richard Axel

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Richard Axel, Ph.D.

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

Affiliations
  • Professor, Columbia University
  • Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Publications

Individual bitter-sensing neurons in Drosophila exhibit both ON and OFF responses that influence synaptic plasticity

Curr Biol, October 28, 2021

AV Devineni, JU Deere, B Sun, and R. Axel

Olfactory landmarks and path integration converge to form a cognitive spatial map

Neuron, October 25, 2021

W Fischler-Ruiz, DG Clark, N Joshi, V Devi-Chou, L Kitch, M. Schnitzer, et al.

Evolving the olfactory system with machine learning

Neuron, October 6, 2021

PY Wang, Y Sun, R. Axel, L. Abbott, and GR Yang

Representational drift in primary olfactory cortex

Nature, June 9, 2021

CE Schoonover, SN Ohashi, R. Axel, and AJP Fink

Projects

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Global Brain

Simons Collaboration
The representation of internal state in the fly brain

The representation of internal state in the fly brain

Funded Work

Featuring Richard Axel

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In Olfactory System, a Balance of Randomness and Order

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