Marcelo Osvaldo Magnasco
| Current Position: | Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience |
| Current Address: | The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue New York NY10021, U.S.A. |
| Telephone: | (212) 327 8542 (w) 7422 (f) |
| Email: | mgnsclb at rockefeller.edu |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4870-2234 |
Education
| March 1992 | The University of Chicago: Ph.D. (Physics) Thesis: Structure and Evolution of Cellular Patterns Advisor: Prof. Leo P. Kadanoff |
| August 1989 | The University of Chicago: M.Sc. (Physics) |
| March 1987 | University of La Plata: Licenciado en Fisica |
Employment
| Aug 2003- | Professor and Head of Lab, Rockefeller University | |
| Jul 2002-Jul 2003 | Research Scientist, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, UNESCO Trieste, Italy. (On sabbatical leave of absence from RU) | |
| Jan 1999-Jul 2003 | Associate Professor and Head of Lab Rockefeller University | |
| Dec 1993- Dec 1998 | Assistant Professor and Head of Lab, Rockefeller University | |
| Jan 1992- Dec 1993 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Rockefeller University (under M. J. Feigenbaum) and Visiting Scientist, NEC Research Institute (under A. J. Libchaber and P. A. Wolff) | |
| 1991 | William Rayney Harper Dissertation Fellow (best PhD thesis in the Physical Sciences Division) and Sydney Bloomenthal Dissertation Fellow (best PhD thesis in the Physics Department) The University of Chicago | |
| Sep 1988- Dec 1991 | Research Assistant, (under L. P. Kadanoff), The James Frank Institute, Teaching Assistant, Kersten Physics Teaching Center The University of Chicago . |
Thesis advised
- Guillermo A. Cecchi. Towards a song code: representations of song in the canary brain. PhD thesis, Rockefeller University, 1999
- Yong Choe, The role of mechanotransduction in osmoreception and auditory amplification Ph. D. thesis, Rockefeller University, April 2002. (co-advised; principal advisor Jim Hudspeth)
- Mariano Sigman, How the brain learns and constructs the structure of the world. Ph. D. thesis, Rockefeller University, April 2002 (jointly advised with Charles Gilbert)
- Timothy Gardner, Vocal Analysis and Learning Mechanisms for Canary Song. Ph. D. thesis, Rockefeller University, Sept 2002
- Maurizio Pellegrino, Deconstructing Insect Odorant Receptors, Ph. D. thesis (co-advised, principal advisor Leslie Vosshall), July 2010
- Thibaud Taillefumier, Random paths though neural coding. Ph. D. thesis, Rockefeller University, September 2011
- Jacob Oppenheim
- Akinori Ebihara
- Matthew Dornfeld
- Keith Hayton
- Dimitrios Moirogiannis
- Sean Woodward
- Frank Tejera
- Bridig Maloney
- Mason Hargrave
Publications
Full list at Google Scholar. First page as of June 2024:
| TITLE | CITED BY | YEAR | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forced thermal ratchets MO MagnascoPhysical Review Letters 71 (10), 1477 | 1552 | 1993 | |
| Humans can discriminate more than 1 trillion olfactory stimuli C Bushdid, MO Magnasco, LB Vosshall, A Keller Science 343 (6177), 1370-1372 | 1096 | 2014 | |
| Decay rates of human mRNAs: correlation with functional characteristics and sequence attributes E Yang, E van Nimwegen, M Zavolan, N Rajewsky, M Schroeder, …Genome research 13 (8), 1863-1872 | 721 | 2003 | |
| Essential nonlinearities in hearing VM Eguíluz, M Ospeck, Y Choe, AJ Hudspeth, MO Magnasco Physical review letters 84 (22), 5232 | 497 | 2000 | |
| Virtual gating and nuclear transport: the hole picture MP Rout, JD Aitchison, MO Magnasco, BT Chait Trends in cell biology 13 (12), 622-628 | 491 | 2003 | |
| Measurement of the persistence length of polymerized actin using fluorescence microscopy A Ott, M Magnasco, A Simon, A Libchaber Physical Review E 48 (3), R1642 | 473 | 1993 | |
| On a common circle: Natural scenes and Gestalt rules M Sigman, GA Cecchi, CD Gilbert, MO Magnasco Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98 (4), 1935-1940 | 397 | 2001 | |
| Damage and fluctuations induce loops in optimal transport networks E Katifori, GJ Szöllősi, MO Magnasco Physical review letters 104 (4), 048704 | 379 | 2010 | |
| Solving the riddle of the bright mismatches: labeling and effective binding in oligonucleotide arrays F Naef, MO Magnasco Physical Review E 68 (1), 011906 | 275 | 2003 | |
| A model for amplification of hair-bundle motion by cyclical binding of Ca2+ to mechanoelectrical-transduction channels Y Choe, MO Magnasco, AJ Hudspeth Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95 (26), 15321-15326 | 253 | 1998 | |
| Molecular combustion motors MO Magnasco Physical review letters 72 (16), 2656 | 245 | 1994 | |
| Absolute mRNA concentrations from sequence‐specific calibration of oligonucleotide arrays D Hekstra, AR Taussig, M Magnasco, F Naef Nucleic acids research 31 (7), 1962-1968 | 218 | 2003 | |
| Toward a song code: evidence for a syllabic representation in the canary brain S Ribeiro, GA Cecchi, MO Magnasco, CV Mello Neuron 21 (2), 359-371 | 191 | 1998 | |
| Simple motor gestures for birdsongs T Gardner, G Cecchi, M Magnasco, R Laje, GB Mindlin Physical review letters 87 (20), 208101 | 168 | 2001 | |
| DNA hybridization to mismatched templates: a chip study F Naef, DA Lim, N Patil, M Magnasco Physical Review E 65 (4), 040902 | 165 | 2002 | |
| Chemical kinetics is Turing universal MO Magnasco Physical Review Letters 78 (6), 1190 | 162 | 1997 | |
| Structure, scaling, and phase transition in the optimal transport network S Bohn, MO Magnasco Physical review letters 98 (8), 088702 | 155 | 2007 | |
| Sparse time-frequency representations TJ Gardner, MO Magnasco Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (16), 6094-6099 | 144 | 2006 | |
| Unsupervised learning and adaptation in a model of adult neurogenesis GA Cecchi, LT Petreanu, A Alvarez-Buylla, MO Magnasco Journal of computational neuroscience 11, 175-182 | 143 | 2001 | |
| A kinetic proofreading mechanism for disentanglement of DNA by topoisomerases J Yan, MO Magnasco, JF Marko Nature 401 (6756), 932-935 | 136 | 1999 |