Rate My Professor Shreesh Mysore

Mysore's research centers on neural circuits underlying behavior, with a focus on attention and decision-making. His lab employs computational neuroscience and comparative methods, studying these processes in the barn owl midbrain to uncover circuit mechanisms. He received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2021 for work on neural circuit mechanisms of spatial target selection. Previous honors include the Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship from Stanford University School of Medicine in 2008 and 2009, finalist for the Sammy Kuo Award for postdoctoral research excellence from the Stanford Neuroscience Institute in 2012, first-place poster awards at Stanford Institute retreats and symposia, and various travel fellowships. Key publications include "A shared inhibitory circuit for both exogenous and endogenous control of stimulus selection" (Nature Neuroscience, 2013), "Reciprocal inhibition of inhibition: A circuit motif for flexible categorization in stimulus selection" (Neuron, 2012), "Signaling of the strongest stimulus in the owl optic tectum" (Journal of Neuroscience, 2011; cover article), "Global inhibition and stimulus competition in the owl optic tectum" (Journal of Neuroscience, 2010), "Stimulus-driven competition in a cholinergic midbrain nucleus" (Nature Neuroscience, 2010), and "Categorical Signaling of the Strongest Stimulus by an Ensemble of Inferior Colliculus Neurons" (Journal of Neuroscience, 2020). His findings have advanced models of competitive stimulus selection in midbrain networks.