Dr. Charles Gray, Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience and the Center for Computational Biology.

Charles Gray received his B.S. in Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Arizona, and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine in 1986. Following his thesis research, he was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany. There he worked with Wolf Singer studying cortical oscillations and synchronization in the mammalian visual system. In 1990, he came back to the US to take a faculty position at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. There he continued his work on cortical oscillations and synchrony in the mammalian visual cortex. In 1993, he moved to the University of California at Davis to the new Center for Neuroscience to continue his research in this area. His research ranges from neuronal mechanisms underlying visual perception to the neuronal mechanisms underlying the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease. He has also made significant contributions in the area of bioengineering, by developing new recording techniques to aid neurosurgeons during functional stereotaxic neurosurgery.

Dr. Gray has received several awards and fellowships, including a Klingenstein Fellowship in the Neurosciences, a Sloan Fellowship in the Neurosciences, and a McDonnel-Pew Fellowship in Cognitive Neuroscience. He is a currently a contributing editor to the Journal of Computational Neuroscience and Biological Cybernetics.

Recent Publications:

Friedman-Hill,S.R., Maldonado,P.E. and Gray,C.M. (2000) Dynamics of Striate Cortical Activity in the Alert Macaque: I. Incidence and Stimulus-Dependence of Gamma-Band Neuronal Oscillations. Cerebral Cortex, In Press.

Maldonado,P.E., Friedman-Hill,S.R. and Gray,C.M. (2000) Dynamics of Striate Cortical Activity in the Alert Macaque: II. Fast Time Scale Synchronization. Cerebral Cortex, In Press.

Azouz,R. and Gray,C.M. (2000) Dynamic Spike Threshold Reveals a Mechanism for Synaptic Coincidence Detection in Cortical Neurons In Vivo. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 97(14): 8110-8115.

Azouz,R. and Gray,C.M. (1999) Cellular Mechanisms Contributing to Response Variability of Cortical Neurons In Vivo. J. Neurosci., 19:2209-2223.

Gray CM (1999) The Temporal Correlation Hypothesis of Visual Feature Integration: Still Alive and Well. Neuron, 24:31-47.

Hurtado,J.M., Gray,C.M., Tamas,L.B. and Sigvardt,K.A. (1999) Dynamics of Tremor-Related Oscillations in the Human Globus Pallidus: A Single Case Study. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 96:1674-1679.

Azouz,R., Gray,C.M., Nowak,L.G. and McCormick,D.A. (1997) Physiological Properties of Inhibitory Interneurons in Cat Striate Cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 7:534-545.

Maldonado,P.E., Goedecke,I., Gray,C.M. and Bonhoeffer,T. (1997) Orientation Selectivity in Pinwheel Centers of Cat Striate Cortex. Science, 276:1551-1555.

Gray,C.M. and Viana Di Prisco,G. (1997) Stimulus Dependent Neuronal Oscillations and Local Synchronization in Striate Cortex of the Alert Cat. J. Neurosci., 17(9):3239-3253.

Gray,C.M. and McCormick,D.A. (1996) Chattering Cells: Superficial Pyramidal Neurons Contributing to the Generation of Synchronous Oscillations in Visual Cortex. Science, 274:109-113.

Maldonado,P. and Gray,C.M. (1996) Heterogeneity in Local Distributions of Orientation Selective Neurons in the Cat Primary Visual Cortex. Vis. Neurosci., 13:509-516.

Gray,C.M., Maldonado,P., Wilson,M. and McNaughton,B. (1995) Tetrodes Markedly Improve the Reliability and Yield of Multiple Single Unit Isolation from Multiunit Recordings in Cat Striate Cortex. J. Neurosci. Meth., 63:43-54.

Singer,W. and Gray,C.M. (1995) Visual Feature Integration and the Temporal Correlation Hypothesis. Ann. Rev. Neurosci., 18:555-586.

Gray,C.M. (1994) Synchronous Oscillations in Neuronal Systems: Mechanisms and Functions. J. Comp. Neurosci., 1:11-38.