Angus Silver

Biography

 Professor Angus Silver is Professor of Neuroscience & Wellcome Trust Senior Basic Fellow working at UCL's Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology Department.   The brain gathers information about the body and the surrounding world, allowing it to build internal representations and to plan and execute movement. Professor Silver's lab works on how synapses, neurons and networks transmit and process such information and perform computations. The brain areas the lab investigates include the cerebellum and the sensory cortex. The main aim of the work is to develop a mechanistic understanding of brain function that links the molecular, synaptic, neuronal and network levels. This requires a multidisciplinary approach that combines the most powerful experimental and theoretical methods available. To achieve this the lab both develops and applies new optical methods for measuring rapid signalling in 3D and new software tools for data acquisition, analysis and modelling. Application of these new experimental and theoretical approaches allows Professor Silver's lab to link neuronal mechanisms to information processing, thereby bridging different levels of description of brain function.

Research Interest

The main aim of the work is to develop a mechanistic understanding of brain function that links the molecular, synaptic, neuronal and network levels. This requires a multidisciplinary approach that combines the most powerful experimental and theoretical methods available. To achieve this the lab both develops and applies new optical methods for measuring rapid signalling in 3D and new software tools for data acquisition, analysis and modelling. Application of these new experimental and theoretical approaches allows Professor Silver's lab to link neuronal mechanisms to information processing, thereby bridging different levels of description of brain function.