Last update: 03/02/2024
Education
B.S. in Biophysics and Biochemistry
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
March 31st, 2003.
Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (Auditory System Characterization)
Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA.
Defense: July 2nd, 2007; Completion: July 31st, 2007; Diploma: April 13th, 2008.
Research Experience
2001-2003: Studies in biology with Dr. Tetsu Akiyama and Dr. Yasufumi Emori at the University of Tokyo.
2002: Studies in biology with Dr. Masaaki Hamaguchi at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Undergraduate Research Program.
2003: Research assistant in neuroscience with Dr. Dmitri Chklovskii at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
2004-2008: Graduate studies in neuroscience with Dr. Anthony Zador at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
2008-2015: Postdoctoral studies in neuroscience with Dr. Markus Meister at Harvard University and California Institute of Technology.
2016-: Group leader in neurobiology at European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
Awards
2003-2007: Farish-Gerry Fellowship, Watson School of Biological Sciences.
2009-2011: Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
2010: Gatsby Cosyne Fellowship (travel award).
2014-2015: Gosney Endowment Postdoctoral Fellowship, California Institute of Technology.
Original research publications
[19] Ferrarese, L. & Asari, H. (2023) Atypical cortical feedback underlies failure to process contextual information in the superior colliculus of Scn2a+/- autism model mice. bioRxiv, 2023.10.31.564905.
[18] Boffi, J.C., Bathellier, B., Asari, H., & Prevedel, R. (2022) Noisy neuronal populations effectively encode sound localization in the dorsal inferior colliculus of awake mice. bioRxiv, 2022.08.19.504510.
[17] Malik-Sheriff, R.S., Asari, H., Hermjakob, H., Huber, W., Quail, T., Santos, S.D., Smith, A.M., Uhlmann, V. (2024) BioModels’ Model of the Year 2023. Frontiers in Systems Biology 4: 1363884.
[16] Molotkov, D.†, Ferrarese, L.†, Boissonnet, T. & Asari, H. (2023) Topographic axonal projection at single-cell precision supports local retinotopy in the mouse superior colliculus. Nature Communications 14: 7418. († denotes equall contributions; Datasets available on FIGSHARE).
[15] Boissonnet, T., Tripodi, M. & Asari, H. (2023) Awake responses suggest inefficient dense coding in the mouse retina. eLife 12: e78005. (Datasets availabe on DRYAD) - Featured with Insight article by Fadjukov, J., & Schwartz, G.
[14] Deivasigamani, S., Miteva, M.T., Natale, S., Gutierrez-Barragan, D., Basilico, B., Di Angelantonio, S., Weinhard, L., Molotkov ,D., Deb, S., Pape, C., Bolasco, G., Galbusera, A., Asari, H., Gozzi, A., Ragozzino, D. & Gross, C.T. (2023) Microglia complement signaling promotes neuronal elimination and normal brain functional connectivity. Cerebral Cortex 33: 10750–10760.
[13] Rahy, R., Asari, H. & Gross, C.T. (2022) Sensory-thresholded switch of neural firing states in a computational model of the ventromedial hypothalamus. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 16, 964634.
[12] Abballe, L. & Asari, H. (2022) Natural image statistics for mouse vision. PLoS ONE 17:e0262763.
[11] Vlasiuk, A. & Asari, H. (2021) Feedback from retinal ganglion cells to the inner retina. PLoS ONE 16: e0254611.
[10] Asari, H. (2020) Comparison of research environments between Europe and the United States. Biophysics 61(5): 347–348. (invited essay in Japanese).
[9] Ciocca, M., Giannakou, P., Mariani, P., Cinà, L., Di Carlo, A., Tas, M.O., Asari, H., Marcozzi, S., Camaioni, A., Shkunov, M., Brown, T.M. (2020) Colour-sensitive conjugated polymer inkjet-printed pixelated artificial retina model studied via a bio-hybrid photovoltaic device. Scientific Reports 10: 1-15.
[8] Asari, H. (2020) Which should come first in neuroscience: theory or experiment? Brain & Neural Networks, 27: 118-126. (invited review in Japanese)
[7] Real, E., Asari, H.*, Gollisch, T., & Meister, M*. (2017) Neural circuit inference from function to structure. Curr. Biol. 27: 189-198. (* denotes co-corresponding author).
[6] Teeters, J.L., Godfrey, K., Young, R., Dang, C., Friedsam, C., Wark, B., Asari, H., Peron, S., Li, N., Peyrache, A., Denisov, G., Siegle, J., Olsen, S.R., Martin, C., Chun, M., Tripathy, S., Blanche, T.J., Harris, K., Buzsaki, G., Koch, C., Meister, M., Svoboda, K., & Sommer, F.T. (2015). Neurodata without borders: Creating a common data format for neurophysiology. Neuron 88: 629-634.
[5] Nagarah, J.M., Stowasser, A., Parker, R.L., Asari, H. & Wagenaar, D.A. (2015) Optically transparent multi–suction electrode arrays. Front. Neurosci. 9: 384.
[4] Asari, H. & Meister, M. (2014) The projective field of retinal bipolar cells and its modulation by visual context. Neuron. 81: 641-652.
[3] Asari, H. & Meister, M. (2012) Divergence of visual channels in the inner retina. Nat. Neurosci. 15: 1581-1589.
[2] Asari, H. & Zador, A.M. (2009) Long-lasting context dependence constrains neural encoding models in rodent auditory cortex. J. Neurophys. 102(5): 2638-2656.
[1] Asari, H., Pearlmutter, B.A., & Zador, A.M. (2006) Sparse representations for the cocktail party problem. J. Neurosci. 26(28): 7477-7490.
Conference Proceedings, Book Chapters, Data Contributions, and Preprints
[5] Zhang, Y., Asari, H., & Meister, M. (2014) Multi-electrode recordings from retinal ganglion cells. CRCNS.org. http://dx.doi.org/10.6080/K0RF5RZT
[4] Asari, H., Wehr, M., Machens, C.K., & Zador, A.M. (2009) Auditory cortex and thalamic neuronal responses to various natural and synthetic sounds. CRCNS.org. http://dx.doi.org/10.6080/K0KW5CXE
[3] Asari, H., Olsson, R.K., Pearlmutter, B.A., & Zador, A.M. (2007) Sparsification for monaural source separation. In Makino, S., Lee, T-W., & Sawada, H. (eds.) Blind Speech Separation, Chap. 14, pp.387-410, Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 978-1-4020-6478-4
[2] Pearlmutter, B.A., Asari, H., & Zador, A.M. (2005) Neuronal predictions of sparse linear representations. Forum Acusticum 2005, Aug 29-Sep 2, Budapest, Hungary.
[1] Asari, H. (2004) Non-negative Matrix Factorization: A possible way to learn sound dictionaries