Anna J. Li, Ph.D.

2026

Global and local origins of trial-to-trial spike count variability in visual cortex

Li AJ*, Lu Z*, Ladd AE, Matveev P, Shea-Brown E, Steinmetz NA

bioRxiv

2026

Brain-wide topographic coordination of traveling spiral waves

Ye Z, Ladd A, MacKenzie N, Kolich L, Li AJ, Birman D, Bull MS, Daigle TL, Tasic B, Zeng H, Steinmetz NA

Science

2026

NeuropixelsOpto: combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics

Lakunina A, …, Li AJ et al.

Nature Methods

2025

Benchmarking probabilistic time series forecasting models on neural activity

Lu Z, Li AJ, Ladd AE, Matveev P, Deole A, Shea-Brown E, Kutz JN, Steinmetz NA

arXiv

2024

Simultaneous mesoscopic measurement and manipulation of mouse cortical activity

Li AJ*, Matveev P*, Ye Z, Bowen AJ, Opitz-Araya X, Ting JT, Steinmetz NA

bioRxiv

2023

Excitation creates a distributed pattern of cortical suppression due to varied recurrent input

O'Rawe JF, Zhou ZS, Li AJ, LaFosse PK, Goldbach HC, Histed MH

Neuron

2023

CB1R blockade unmasks TRPV1-mediated contextual fear generalization in female, but not male rats

Huckleberry KA, Calitri R, Li AJ, Mejdell M, Singh A, Bhutani V, Laine MA, Nastase AS, Morena M, Hill MN, Shansky RM

Neuropsychopharmacology

2023

Amplified cortical neural responses as animals learn to use novel activity patterns

Akitake B, Douglas HM, LaFosse PK, Beiran M, Deveau CE, O'Rawe JF, Li AJ, Ryan LN, Duffy SP, Zhou Z, Deng Y, Rajan K, Histed MH

Current Biology

2023

Bicistronic expression of a high-performance calcium indicator and opsin for all-optical stimulation and imaging at cellular resolution

LaFosse PK, Zhou ZS, Friedman NG, Deng YT, Li AJ, Akitake B, Histed MH

eNeuro

2022

Darting across space and time: parametric modulators of sex-biased conditioned fear responses

Mitchell JR, Trettel SG, Li AJ, Wasielewski S, Huckleberry KA, Fanikos M, Golden E, Laine MA, Shansky RM

Learning & Memory

2019

Behavioral Diversity Across Classic Rodent Models Is Sex-Dependent

Colom-Lapetina J, Li AJ, Pelegrina-Perez TC, Shansky RM

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience