Clare Gamlin

Scientific Program Manager

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Allenite

Clare Gamlin joined the Allen Institute in 2019 as a member of the Morphology and 3D reconstruction team. Prior to joining the Institute, Clare earned her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Washington. There, Clare studied the development and regulation of synaptic connectivity patterns within retinal microcircuits in Dr. Rachel Wong’s lab. She earned her B.A. in Neuroscience from Vanderbilt University.

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The synaptic architecture of layer 5 thick tufted excitatory neurons in mouse visual cortex

Nature Neuroscience

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Inhibitory specificity from a connectomic census of mouse visual cortex

Nature

publication / 2023

Target cell-specific synaptic dynamics of excitatory to inhibitory neuron connections in supragranular layers of human neocortex

eLife

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