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Alexander Borst

Alexander Borst

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Neuroscience

D-Index
81
Citations
21354
World Ranking
1586
National Ranking
143

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
  • 1996 - International Balzan Prize
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Alexander Borst is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these broad areas, Borst's work focuses on several subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The main topics covered in Borst's research include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Retinal Development and Disorders, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies, and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

Borst has published extensively, with recent papers highlighting various aspects of neural function and sensory processing. Notable publications include:

  • "A biophysical account of multiplication by a single neuron" (2022, Nature)
  • "Dynamic Signal Compression for Robust Motion Vision in Flies" (2020, Current Biology)
  • "Conditional protein tagging methods reveal highly specific subcellular distribution of ion channels in motion-sensing neurons" (2020, eLife)
  • "Anatomical distribution and functional roles of electrical synapses in Drosophila" (2022, Current Biology)
  • "Maximally efficient prediction in the early fly visual system may support evasive flight maneuvers" (2021, PLoS Computational Biology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Borst include Lukas N. Groschner, Étienne Serbe, Maria-Bianca Leonte, Eleni Samara, and Inês Ribeiro. Their cooperation spans multiple research projects and publications.

Core publication venues for Borst's work encompass bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Current Biology, PLoS ONE, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, and PLoS Computational Biology. These journals and repositories have hosted the majority of Borst's scientific contributions.

Borst's scientific career has been recognized with several awards. Among these are membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, awarded in 2011 with a citation in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, the International Balzan Prize received in 1996, and an affiliation as a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Information theory and neural coding.

    Alexander Borst;Frédéric E. Theunissen

  • How does Nature Program Neuron Types

    Alexander Borst

  • Drosophila Mushroom Body Mutants are Deficient in Olfactory Learning

    Martin Heisenberg;Alexander Borst;Sibylle Wagner;Duncan Byers

  • Principles of visual motion detection

    Alexander Borst;Martin Egelhaaf

  • A genetically encoded calcium indicator for chronic in vivo two-photon imaging

    Marco Mank;Alexandre Ferrão Santos;Stephan Direnberger;Thomas D Mrsic-Flogel

  • Neuronal architecture of the antennal lobe in Drosophila melanogaster.

    R. F. Stocker;M. C. Lienhard;A. Borst;K. F. Fischbach

  • One rule to grow them all: a general theory of neuronal branching and its practical application.

    Hermann Cuntz;Friedrich Forstner;Alexander Borst;Michael Häusser

  • ON and OFF pathways in Drosophila motion vision

    Maximilian Joesch;Bettina Schnell;Shamprasad Varija Raghu;Dierk F. Reiff

  • Fly Motion Vision

    Alexander Borst;Juergen Haag;Dierk F Reiff

  • Neural networks in the cockpit of the fly

    A. Borst;J. Haag

  • Computational structure of a biological motion-detection system as revealed by local detector analysis in the fly's nervous system.

    Martin Egelhaaf;Alexander Borst;Werner Reichardt

  • Seeing Things in Motion: Models, Circuits, and Mechanisms

    Alexander Borst;Thomas Euler

  • Drosophila's view on insect vision.

    Alexander Borst

  • Dendritic integration and its role in computing image velocity.

    Sandra Single;Alexander Borst

  • In Vivo Performance of Genetically Encoded Indicators of Neural Activity in Flies

    Dierk F. Reiff;Alexandra Ihring;Giovanna Guerrero;Ehud Y. Isacoff

  • Common circuit design in fly and mammalian motion vision

    Alexander Borst;Moritz Helmstaedter

  • Response Properties of Motion-Sensitive Visual Interneurons in the Lobula Plate of : Drosophila melanogaster

    Maximilian Joesch;Johannes Plett;Alexander Borst;Dierk F. Reiff

  • Transient and steady-state response properties of movement detectors

    Martin Egelhaaf;Alexander Borst

  • The intrinsic electrophysiological characteristics of fly lobula plate tangential cells: I. Passive membrane properties.

    Alexander Borst;Juergen Haag

  • Fluorescence Changes of Genetic Calcium Indicators and OGB-1 Correlated with Neural Activity and Calcium In Vivo and In Vitro

    Thomas Hendel;Marco Mank;Bettina Schnell;Oliver Griesbeck

Frequent Co-Authors

Juergen Haag
Juergen Haag Max Planck Society
Martin Egelhaaf
Martin Egelhaaf Bielefeld University
Idan Segev
Idan Segev Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Martin Buss
Martin Buss Technical University of Munich
Frédéric E. Theunissen
Frédéric E. Theunissen University of California, Berkeley
Moritz Helmstaedter
Moritz Helmstaedter Max Planck Society
Michael Häusser
Michael Häusser University College London
Gerald M. Rubin
Gerald M. Rubin Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Aljoscha Nern
Aljoscha Nern Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Detlef H. Heck
Detlef H. Heck University of Tennessee Health Science Center

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