Greg Field, Ph.D.

Greg Field, Ph.D.

Awards and Honors

• Brown/Danes Physics Scholarship, University of Puget Sound, 1997.
• Steward Memorial Scholarship in Physics, University of Puget Sound, 1999.
• Whitehead Scholar, Duke University, 2015.
• Murdock Summer Research Grant, University of Puget Sound, 1997.
• Murdock Summer Research Grant, University of Puget Sound, 1998.
• Otish Chapman Cooledge Scholar, University of Puget Sound, 1999.
• Helen Hay Whitney Fellow, 2004-2007.
• Research Grant, Whitehall Foundation, 2013-2016.

Publications

• Idrees S, Manookin MB, Rieke F, Field GD, Zylberberg J. Biophysical neural adaptation mechanisms enable artificial neural networks to capture dynamic retinal computation.. Nature communications, 2024.
• Shields BC, Yan H, Lim SSX, Burwell SCV, Cammarata CM, Fleming EA, Yousefzadeh SA, Goldenshtein VZ, Kahuno EW, Vagadia PP, Loughran MH, Zhiquan L, McDonnell ME, Scalabrino ML, Thapa M, Hawley TM, Field GD, Hull C, Schiltz GE, Glickfeld LL, Reitz AB, Tadross MR. DART.2: bidirectional synaptic pharmacology with thousandfold cellular specificity.. Nature methods, 2024.
• Roy S, Yao X, Rathinavelu J, Field GD. GABAergic Inhibition Controls Receptive Field Size, Sensitivity, and Contrast Preference of Direction Selective Retinal Ganglion Cells Near the Threshold of Vision.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2024.
• Fleming EA, Field GD, Tadross MR, Hull C. Local synaptic inhibition mediates cerebellar granule cell pattern separation and enables learned sensorimotor associations.. Nature neuroscience, 2024.
• Dyballa L, Rudzite AM, Hoseini MS, Thapa M, Stryker MP, Field GD, Zucker SW. Population encoding of stimulus features along the visual hierarchy.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024.
• Scalabrino ML, Thapa M, Wang T, Sampath AP, Chen J, Field GD. Late gene therapy limits the restoration of retinal function in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa.. Nature communications, 2023.
• Wu EG, Rudzite AM, Bohlen MO, Li PH, Kling A, Cooler S, Rhoades C, Brackbill N, Gogliettino AR, Shah NP, Madugula SS, Sher A, Litke AM, Field GD, Chichilnisky EJ. Decomposition of retinal ganglion cell electrical images for cell type and functional inference.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023.
• Dyballa L, Rudzite AM, Hoseini MS, Thapa M, Stryker MP, Field GD, Zucker SW. Population encoding of stimulus features along the visual hierarchy.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023.
• Duncker L, Ruda KM, Field GD, Pillow JW. Scalable Variational Inference for Low-Rank Spatiotemporal Receptive Fields.. Neural computation, 2023.
• Roy S, Wang D, Rudzite AM, Perry B, Scalabrino ML, Thapa M, Gong Y, Sher A, Field GD. Large-scale interrogation of retinal cell functions by 1-photon light-sheet microscopy.. Cell reports methods, 2023.
• Scalabrino ML, Thapa M, Wang T, Sampath AP, Chen J, Field GD. Late gene therapy limits the restoration of retinal function in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023.
• Ellis EM, Paniagua AE, Scalabrino ML, Thapa M, Rathinavelu J, Jiao Y, Williams DS, Field GD, Fain GL, Sampath AP. Cones and cone pathways remain functional in advanced retinal degeneration.. Current biology : CB, 2023.
• Scalabrino ML, Field GD. Neuroscience: Visual restoration with optogenetics.. Current biology : CB, 2023.
• Jun NY, Field GD, Pearson JM. Efficient coding, channel capacity, and the emergence of retinal mosaics.. Advances in neural information processing systems, 2022.
• Scalabrino ML, Thapa M, Chew LA, Zhang E, Xu J, Sampath AP, Chen J, Field GD. Robust cone-mediated signaling persists late into rod photoreceptor degeneration.. eLife, 2022.
• Roy S, Field GD. An optical approach for mapping functional connectivity at single-cell resolution in brain circuits.. Cell reports methods, 2022.
• Jun NY, Field GD, Pearson J. Scene statistics and noise determine the relative arrangement of receptive field mosaics.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021.
• Wang D, Roy S, Rudzite AM, Field GD, Gong Y. High-resolution light-field microscopy with patterned illumination.. Biomedical optics express, 2021.
• Hays CL, Sladek AL, Field GD, Thoreson WB. Properties of multivesicular release from mouse rod photoreceptors support transmission of single-photon responses.. eLife, 2021.
• Roy S, Jun NY, Davis EL, Pearson J, Field GD. Inter-mosaic coordination of retinal receptive fields.. Nature, 2021.
• Ruda K, Zylberberg J, Field GD. Ignoring correlated activity causes a failure of retinal population codes.. Nature communications, 2020.
• Cafaro J, Zylberberg J, Field GD. Global Motion Processing by Populations of Direction-Selective Retinal Ganglion Cells.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2020.
• Wang T, Pahlberg J, Cafaro J, Frederiksen R, Cooper AJ, Sampath AP, Field GD, Chen J. Activation of Rod Input in a Model of Retinal Degeneration Reverses Retinal Remodeling and Induces Formation of Functional Synapses and Recovery of Visual Signaling in the Adult Retina.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2019.
• Roy S, Field GD. Dopaminergic modulation of retinal processing from starlight to sunlight.. Journal of pharmacological sciences, 2019.
• Grove JCR, Hirano AA, de Los Santos J, McHugh CF, Purohit S, Field GD, Brecha NC, Barnes S. Novel hybrid action of GABA mediates inhibitory feedback in the mammalian retina.. PLoS biology, 2019.
• Kling A, Field GD, Brainard DH, Chichilnisky EJ. Probing Computation in the Primate Visual System at Single-Cone Resolution.. Annual review of neuroscience, 2019.
• Field GD, Uzzell V, Chichilnisky EJ, Rieke F. Temporal resolution of single-photon responses in primate rod photoreceptors and limits imposed by cellular noise.. Journal of neurophysiology, 2018.
• Ravi S, Ahn D, Greschner M, Chichilnisky EJ, Field GD. Pathway-Specific Asymmetries between ON and OFF Visual Signals.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2018.
• Yao X, Cafaro J, McLaughlin AJ, Postma FR, Paul DL, Awatramani G, Field GD. Gap Junctions Contribute to Differential Light Adaptation across Direction-Selective Retinal Ganglion Cells.. Neuron, 2018.
• Solomon AM, Westbrook T, Field GD, McGee AW. Nogo receptor 1 is expressed by nearly all retinal ganglion cells.. PloS one, 2018.
• Ray TA, Roy S, Kozlowski C, Wang J, Cafaro J, Hulbert SW, Wright CV, Field GD, Kay JN. Formation of retinal direction-selective circuitry initiated by starburst amacrine cell homotypic contact.. eLife, 2018.
• Johnson EN, Westbrook T, Shayesteh R, Chen EL, Schumacher JW, Fitzpatrick D, Field GD. Distribution and diversity of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells in tree shrew.. The Journal of comparative neurology, 2017.
• Sethuramanujam S, Yao X, deRosenroll G, Briggman KL, Field GD, Awatramani GB. "Silent" NMDA Synapses Enhance Motion Sensitivity in a Mature Retinal Circuit.. Neuron, 2017.
• Yu WQ, Grzywacz NM, Lee EJ, Field GD. Cell type-specific changes in retinal ganglion cell function induced by rod death and cone reorganization in rats.. Journal of neurophysiology, 2017.
• Field GD, Sampath AP. Behavioural and physiological limits to vision in mammals.. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2017.
• Greschner M, Heitman AK, Field GD, Li PH, Ahn D, Sher A, Litke AM, Chichilnisky EJ. Identification of a Retinal Circuit for Recurrent Suppression Using Indirect Electrical Imaging.. Current biology : CB, 2016.
• Freeman J, Field GD, Li PH, Greschner M, Gunning DE, Mathieson K, Sher A, Litke AM, Paninski L, Simoncelli EP, Chichilnisky EJ. Mapping nonlinear receptive field structure in primate retina at single cone resolution.. eLife, 2015.
• Li PH, Gauthier JL, Schiff M, Sher A, Ahn D, Field GD, Greschner M, Callaway EM, Litke AM, Chichilnisky EJ. Anatomical identification of extracellularly recorded cells in large-scale multielectrode recordings.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2015.
• Greschner M, Field GD, Li PH, Schiff ML, Gauthier JL, Ahn D, Sher A, Litke AM, Chichilnisky EJ. A polyaxonal amacrine cell population in the primate retina.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2014.
• Li PH, Field GD, Greschner M, Ahn D, Gunning DE, Mathieson K, Sher A, Litke AM, Chichilnisky EJ. Retinal representation of the elementary visual signal.. Neuron, 2014.
• Sadeghi K, Gauthier JL, Field GD, Greschner M, Agne M, Chichilnisky EJ, Paninski L. Monte Carlo methods for localization of cones given multielectrode retinal ganglion cell recordings.. Network (Bristol, England), 2012.
• Doi E, Gauthier JL, Field GD, Shlens J, Sher A, Greschner M, Machado TA, Jepson LH, Mathieson K, Gunning DE, Litke AM, Paninski L, Chichilnisky EJ, Simoncelli EP. Efficient coding of spatial information in the primate retina.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2012.
• Conway BR, Chatterjee S, Field GD, Horwitz GD, Johnson EN, Koida K, Mancuso K. Advances in color science: from retina to behavior.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2010.
• Field GD, Gauthier JL, Sher A, Greschner M, Machado TA, Jepson LH, Shlens J, Gunning DE, Mathieson K, Dabrowski W, Paninski L, Litke AM, Chichilnisky EJ. Functional connectivity in the retina at the resolution of photoreceptors.. Nature, 2010.
• Greschner M, Shlens J, Bakolitsa C, Field GD, Gauthier JL, Jepson LH, Sher A, Litke AM, Chichilnisky EJ. Correlated firing among major ganglion cell types in primate retina.. The Journal of physiology, 2010.
• Okawa H, Miyagishima KJ, Arman AC, Hurley JB, Field GD, Sampath AP. Optimal processing of photoreceptor signals is required to maximize behavioural sensitivity.. The Journal of physiology, 2010.
• Field GD, Greschner M, Gauthier JL, Rangel C, Shlens J, Sher A, Marshak DW, Litke AM, Chichilnisky EJ. High-sensitivity rod photoreceptor input to the blue-yellow color opponent pathway in macaque retina.. Nature neuroscience, 2009.
• Shlens J, Field GD, Gauthier JL, Greschner M, Sher A, Litke AM, Chichilnisky EJ. The structure of large-scale synchronized firing in primate retina.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2009.
• Gauthier JL, Field GD, Sher A, Shlens J, Greschner M, Litke AM, Chichilnisky EJ. Uniform signal redundancy of parasol and midget ganglion cells in primate retina.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2009.
• Gauthier JL, Field GD, Sher A, Greschner M, Shlens J, Litke AM, Chichilnisky EJ. Receptive fields in primate retina are coordinated to sample visual space more uniformly.. PLoS biology, 2009.
• Field GD, Sher A, Gauthier JL, Greschner M, Shlens J, Litke AM, Chichilnisky EJ. Spatial properties and functional organization of small bistratified ganglion cells in primate retina.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2007.
• Petrusca D, Grivich MI, Sher A, Field GD, Gauthier JL, Greschner M, Shlens J, Chichilnisky EJ, Litke AM. Identification and characterization of a Y-like primate retinal ganglion cell type.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2007.
• Field GD, Chichilnisky EJ. Information processing in the primate retina: circuitry and coding.. Annual review of neuroscience, 2007.
• Shlens J, Field GD, Gauthier JL, Grivich MI, Petrusca D, Sher A, Litke AM, Chichilnisky EJ. The structure of multi-neuron firing patterns in primate retina.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2006.
• Field GD, Sampath AP, Rieke F. Retinal processing near absolute threshold: from behavior to mechanism.. Annual review of physiology, 2005.
• Field GD, Rieke F. Mechanisms regulating variability of the single photon responses of mammalian rod photoreceptors.. Neuron, 2002.
• Field GD, Rieke F. Nonlinear signal transfer from mouse rods to bipolar cells and implications for visual sensitivity.. Neuron, 2002.
• BISHOP PO, FIELD G, HENNESSY BL, SMITH JR. Action of d-lysergic acid diethylamide on lateral geniculate synapses.. Journal of neurophysiology, 1958.