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Name:
Artur Luczak
Phone:
(403) 394-3974
E-mail:
luczak@uleth.ca
Office:
EP 1216
Lab:
EP 1241
Website:
http://lethbridgebraindynamics.com/artur_luczak
Degrees:
PhD - Jagiellonian Univ., Poland
MSc - Wroclaw University of Technology
Teaching:
- Introduction to Programming for Neurobiologists (Matlab) (NEUR 3850A, Spring 2012)
- Applied Statistics for Neuroscience Research (NEUR 3850B, Spring 2012)

Research highlight: Spontaneous brain activity (like in sleep) activates neurons in similar order as during stimulus presentation.

Biography:

Dr. Artur Luczak received a M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, and in 2002 he obtained a Ph.D. from Jagiellonian University, Poland. During that time he was also awarded fellowships in the Netherlands, France, and Italy. During his postdoctoral training at Yale University and at Rutgers University, he studied information processing in neuronal populations using experimental and theoretical methods. In 2009, Dr. Luczak joined the University of Lethbridge as an assistant professor.

Representative Publications:

Gomez Palacio Schjetnan A, Luczak A. Recording Large-scale Neuronal Ensembles with Silicon Probes in the Anesthetized Rat. J Vis Exp.  in press (2011).

Harris KD, Bartho P, Chadderton P, Curto C, de la Rocha J, Hollender L, Itskov V, Luczak A, Marguet SL, Renart A, Sakata S. How do neurons work together? Lessons from auditory cortex. Hearing Research, 1-17 (2010)

Luczak A. Measuring neuronal branching patterns using model-based approach. Front. Comput. Neurosci. 4:135 (2010)

Barthó P, Curto C, Luczak A, Marguet S, Harris KD. Population coding of tone stimuli in auditory cortex: dynamic rate vector analysis. Eur. J.Neurosc. (2009)

Luczak A, Barthó P, Harris KD. Spontaneous events outline the realm of possible sensory responses in the auditory cortex. Neuron 62 (2009)

Luczak A, Barthó P, Marguet SL, Buzsáki G, Harris KD. Sequential structure of neocortical spontaneous activity in vivo. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 104 (2007)

Luczak A. Spatial embedding of neuronal trees modeled by diffusive growth.J. Neurosci. Methods 157 (2006)

Luczak A, Narayanan NS. Spectral representation - analyzing single- unit activity in extracellularly recorded neuronal data without spike sorting. J. Neurosci. Methods 144 (2005)

Luczak A, Hackett T, Kajikawa Y, Laubach M. Multivariable receptive field mapping in marmoset auditory cortex. J. Neurosci. Methods 136 (2004)