Shreesh P. Mysore

Honors and Awards

• Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University School of Medicine (01/2008-12/2009)
• Society for Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award, C-WIN (2008)

Professional Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology (2006)
• MA, Penn State Mathematics (2000)
• MS, Penn State Industrial Engineering (1999)
• B.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology Mechanical Engineering (1997)

Faculty Advisor

• Eric Knudsen

Research Interests

We are constantly faced with a complex sensory environment containing numerous stimuli. However, at each instant, only a small subset of this information filters through to working memory and captures our attention. A key component of this filter is competitive selection, i.e., the selection of the most salient stimulus. With electrophysiology, I study the mechanisms of bottom-up and top-down competitive stimulus selection in the barn owl optic tectum (avian homolog of the superior colliculus).

Publications

• N-cadherin, spine dynamics, and synaptic function. Mysore SP,  Tai CY, Schuman EM.  Front Neurosci.  2008; 2 (2): 168-75
• Why let networks grow? Shultz TR,  Mysore SP, Quartz SR.  In Constructing cognition: Perspectives and prospects, Oxford University Press.  2007; 2 65-98
• Effects of N-cadherin disruption on spine morphological dynamics. Mysore SP,  Tai CY, Schuman EM.  Front Cell Neurosci.  2007; 1 1
• Activity-regulated N-cadherin endocytosis. Tai CY,  Mysore SP, Chiu C, Schuman EM.  Neuron.  2007; 54 (5): 771-85
• Modeling structural plasticity in the barn owl auditory localization system with a spike-time dependent hebbian learning rule Mysore SP,  Quartz SR.  Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.  2005; 5 2766-2771