
About Me
Professional Background
Faculty Appointments
Associate Professor - Department of Neuroscience (SMD)
Associate Professor - Department of Brain/Cognitive Sciences RC (RC) - Joint
Associate Professor - Center for Visual Science A&S (RC) - Joint
Credentials
Post-doctoral Training & Residency
Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. W. Martin Usrey (co-mentored by Drs. B. Chapman, G.R. Mangun), UC Davis 2003 - 2010
Education
PhD | University of California, San Diego. Biology. 2003
BA | Dartmouth College. Biology. 1997
Awards
Scholar-in-Residence. 2022
Neuroscience Graduate Program Annual Retreat Faculty Speaker. 2018
Mentoring Award. 2016
Pathway to Independence Award. 2009 - 2014
Society for Neuroscience Chapters Postdoctoral Trainee Travel Award. 2007 - 2009
Optical Society of America Young Investigator Award. 2007
Research
Publications
Journal Articles
Yang J, Saionz EL, Cavanaugh MR, Fahrenthold BK, Melnick MD, Tadin D, Briggs F, Carrasco M, Huxlin KR
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences.. 2023 September 2 Epub 09/02/2023.
Yang J, Huxlin K, Briggs F
Journal of vision.. 2023 September 123 (11):79. Epub 1900 01 01.
Hu W, Zhu S, Briggs F, Doyley MM
NeuroImage.. 2023 January 18 :119889. Epub 01/18/2023.
Adusei M, Hasse JM, Briggs F
Brain structure & function.. 2021 October 12 Epub 10/12/2021.
Shah S, Mancarella M, Hembrook-Short JR, Mock VL, Briggs F
The Journal of comparative neurology.. 2021 May 5 Epub 05/05/2021.
Murphy AJ, Hasse JM, Briggs F
Journal of neurophysiology.. 2020 July 15 Epub 07/15/2020.
Murphy AJ, Shaw L, Hasse JM, Goris RLT, Briggs F
Journal of computational neuroscience.. 2020 July 6 Epub 07/06/2020.
Briggs F
Annual review of vision science.. 2020 June 17 Epub 06/17/2020.
Sharafeldin A, Mock VL, Meisenhelter S, Hembrook-Short JR, Briggs F
Cerebral cortex communications.. 2020 1 (1):tgaa014. Epub 04/24/2020.
Mock VL, Luke KL, Hembrook-Short JR, Briggs F
Journal of neurophysiology.. 2018 December 12 Epub 12/12/2018.
Hembrook-Short JR, Mock VL, Usrey WM, Briggs F
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.. 2018 December 12 Epub 12/12/2018.
Mock VL, Luke KL, Hembrook-Short JR, Briggs F
Journal of neurophysiology.. 2018 October 1120 (4):1625-1639. Epub 07/05/2018.
Hasse JM, Bragg EM, Murphy AJ, Briggs F
The Journal of comparative neurology.. 2018 April 17 Epub 04/17/2018.
Hasse JM, Briggs F
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.. 2017 July 25114 (30):E6222-E6230. Epub 07/11/2017.
Hembrook-Short JR, Mock VL, Briggs F
Current biology : CB.. 2017 July 1027 (13):1878-1887.e5. Epub 06/22/2017.
Bragg EM, Fairless EA, Liu S, Briggs F
The Journal of comparative neurology.. 2017 April 1525 (5):1273-1290. Epub 11/21/2016.
Bragg EM, Briggs F
Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE.. 2017 February 15 (120)Epub 02/15/2017.
Hasse JM, Briggs F
Visual neuroscience.. 2017 34 Epub 11/16/2017.
Briggs F, Kiley CW, Callaway EM, Usrey WM
Neuron.. 2016 April 2090 (2):388-99. Epub 03/31/2016.
Bastos AM, Briggs F, Alitto HJ, Mangun GR, Usrey WM
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.. 2014 May 2834 (22):7639-44. Epub 1900 01 01.
Briggs F, Mangun GR, Usrey WM
Nature.. 2013 July 25499 (7459):476-80. Epub 06/26/2013.
Briggs F, Usrey WM
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.. 2011 August 3131 (35):12644-9. Epub 1900 01 01.
Briggs F, Usrey WM
The Journal of physiology.. 2011 January 1589 (Pt 1):33-40. Epub 08/19/2010.
Briggs F
Frontiers in neural circuits. 2010 4 :3. Epub 02/12/2010.
Briggs F, Usrey WM
Frontiers in neuroscience.. 2010 4 :18. Epub 09/15/2010.
Briggs F, Usrey WM
Neuron.. 2009 April 1662 (1):135-46. Epub 1900 01 01.
Briggs F, Usrey WM
Frontiers in integrative neuroscience.. 2009 3 :15. Epub 07/07/2009.
Briggs F, Usrey WM
Current opinion in neurobiology.. 2008 August 18 (4):403-7. Epub 10/06/2008.
Briggs F, Usrey WM
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.. 2007 May 1627 (20):5431-6. Epub 1900 01 01.
Briggs F, Usrey WM
Frontiers in integrative neuroscience.. 2007 1 :3. Epub 11/30/2007.
Briggs F, Usrey WM
Thalamus & related systems.. 2005 June 3 (2):133-139. Epub 1900 01 01.
Briggs F, Callaway EM
Cerebral cortex.. 2005 May 15 (5):479-88. Epub 08/18/2004.
Briggs F, Usrey WM
Nature neuroscience.. 2004 August 7 (8):796-7. Epub 1900 01 01.
Briggs F, Callaway EM
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.. 2001 May 1521 (10):3600-8. Epub 1900 01 01.
Books
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (2017)
Chapter: Mammalian visual system organization
Authors: Farran Briggs
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017
The New Visual Neurosciences (2014)
Chapter: Functional properties of cortical feedback to the primate lateral geniculate nucleus
Authors: Farran Briggs and W. Martin Usrey
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge 2014
Encyclopedia of Perception (2008)
Chapter: Visual system structure
Authors: Farran Briggs and W. Martin Usrey
Publisher: Sage Press 2008
Encyclopedia of Perception (2008)
Chapter: Visual processing: primary visual cortex
Authors: Farran Briggs and W. Martin Usrey
Publisher: Sage Press 2008
Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (2008)
Chapter: Corticothalamic connections: structure and function
Authors: Farran Briggs and W. Martin USrey
Publisher: Elsevier 2008