William Lytton
Distinguished Professor at SUNY Downstate Medical Center
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Lytton is a Distinguished Professor and clinician-scientist who builds multiscale computational models of brain disease—particularly epilepsy, schizophrenia, stroke, and increasingly Alzheimer’s and dystonia—through his Neurosimulation Laboratory at SUNY Downstate. He is a long‑time developer and educator of the NEURON simulation environment, advancing integration of chemophysiology with electrophysiology across scales from single neurons to bulk tissue. Trained at Harvard and Columbia (MD), he blends rigorous biophysical modeling with hands-on neurology practice at Kings County Hospital, ensuring clinical relevance to his simulations. His career spans academic leadership and sustained tool development since the 1990s, reflecting a rare combination of clinical insight, computational depth, and commitment to reproducible open science.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Medicine (MD), Doctor of Medicine (MD) at Columbia University College of Physicians and SurgeonsAB, Physical Chemistry, AB, Physical Chemistry at Harvard College
Github Skills (17)
simulation10
neuroscience10
python9
mail-client9
neuron-simulator9
guile9
maildir8
emacs8
git-clone3
markdown2
firefox2
webapp2
user-interface1
matlab1
chromeos1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wwlytton/netpyne
Jun 2016 - Dec 2019
A python package to facilitate the development of biological neuronal networks in NEURON
Contributions:8 PRs, 42 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 6 months
python
wwlytton/nrn
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
NEURON Simulator. (iv required for the GUI)
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 months
neuron-simulator
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