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Overview

Aljoscha Nern is affiliated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the United States. Their research focuses on several areas within neuroscience and related biological sciences, characterized by a notable interdisciplinary approach spanning molecular biology, genetics, and ecological behavior.

Their primary fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broad areas, their subfields of study extend to:

  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics
  • Biophysics

The main topics covered by Nern's research are:

  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies

Several recent publications illustrate the scope and focus of their work:

  • "The connectome of the adult Drosophila mushroom body provides insights into function", 2020, eLife
  • "A genetic, genomic, and computational resource for exploring neural circuit function", 2020, eLife
  • "An unbiased template of the Drosophila brain and ventral nerve cord", 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "A searchable image resource of Drosophila GAL4 driver expression patterns with single neuron resolution", 2023, eLife
  • "A functionally ordered visual feature map in the Drosophila brain", 2022, Neuron

Nern frequently collaborates with a group of coauthors whose partnerships reflect continued work in related scientific fields. The most frequent coauthors include:

  • Gerald M. Rubin
  • Michael B. Reiser
  • Arthur Zhao
  • Edward M. Rogers
  • Marisa Dreher

The scientist's research is notably published in venues known for neuroscientific and biological sciences, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Nature
  • Current Biology
  • Nature Methods

Best Publications

  • Optimized tools for multicolor stochastic labeling reveal diverse stereotyped cell arrangements in the fly visual system

    Aljoscha Nern;Barret D. Pfeiffer;Gerald M. Rubin

  • A visual motion detection circuit suggested by Drosophila connectomics

    Shin-ya Takemura;Arjun Bharioke;Zhiyuan Lu;Zhiyuan Lu;Aljoscha Nern

  • The connectome of the adult Drosophila mushroom body provides insights into function

    Feng Li;Jack W Lindsey;Elizabeth C Marin;Nils Otto;Nils Otto

  • Visual projection neurons in the Drosophila lobula link feature detection to distinct behavioral programs.

    Ming Wu;Aljoscha Nern;W Ryan Williamson;Mai M Morimoto

  • A genetic, genomic, and computational resource for exploring neural circuit function

    Fred P Davis;Aljoscha Nern;Serge Picard;Michael B Reiser

  • Contributions of the 12 neuron classes in the fly lamina to motion vision.

    John C. Tuthill;Aljoscha Nern;Stephen L. Holtz;Gerald M. Rubin

  • The comprehensive connectome of a neural substrate for ‘ON’ motion detection in Drosophila

    Shin-ya Takemura;Aljoscha Nern;Dmitri B Chklovskii;Louis K Scheffer

  • Ig Superfamily Ligand and Receptor Pairs Expressed in Synaptic Partners in Drosophila

    Liming Tan;Kelvin Xi Zhang;Matthew Y. Pecot;Sonal Nagarkar-Jaiswal

  • Cell-type-specific labeling of synapses in vivo through synaptic tagging with recombination.

    Yi Chen;Orkun Akin;Aljoscha Nern;C.Y. Kimberly Tsui

  • The Emergence of Directional Selectivity in the Visual Motion Pathway of Drosophila.

    James A. Strother;Shiuan-Tze Wu;Allan M. Wong;Aljoscha Nern

  • Ultra-selective looming detection from radial motion opponency

    Nathan C. Klapoetke;Aljoscha Nern;Martin Y. Peek;Edward M. Rogers

  • Feature Integration Drives Probabilistic Behavior in the Drosophila Escape Response.

    Catherine R. von Reyn;Aljoscha Nern;W. Ryan Williamson;Patrick Breads

  • Direct Observation of ON and OFF Pathways in the Drosophila Visual System

    James A. Strother;Aljoscha Nern;Michael B. Reiser

  • Neural Circuit to Integrate Opposing Motions in the Visual Field.

    Alex S. Mauss;Katarina Pankova;Alexander Arenz;Aljoscha Nern

  • Comparisons between the ON- and OFF-edge motion pathways in the Drosophila brain

    Kazunori Shinomiya;Gary Huang;Zhiyuan Lu;Zhiyuan Lu;Toufiq Parag;Toufiq Parag

  • An unbiased template of the Drosophila brain and ventral nerve cord.

    John A. Bogovic;Hideo Otsuna;Larissa Heinrich;Masayoshi Ito

  • Columnar cells necessary for motion responses of wide-field visual interneurons in Drosophila

    Bettina Schnell;Shamprasad Varija Raghu;Aljoscha Nern;Alexander Borst

  • Neural signatures of dynamic stimulus selection in Drosophila

    Yi Sun;Aljoscha Nern;Romain Franconville;Hod Dana

  • Stem Cell-Intrinsic, Seven-up-Triggered Temporal Factor Gradients Diversify Intermediate Neural Progenitors

    Qingzhong Ren;Ching-Po Yang;Zhiyong Liu;Ken Sugino

  • Local N-cadherin interactions mediate distinct steps in the targeting of lamina neurons.

    Aljoscha Nern;Yan Zhu;S. Lawrence Zipursky

  • Coordinate control of synaptic-layer specificity and rhodopsins in photoreceptor neurons

    Marta Morey;Susan K. Yee;Tory Herman;Tory Herman;Aljoscha Nern

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald M. Rubin
Gerald M. Rubin Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ian A. Meinertzhagen
Ian A. Meinertzhagen Dalhousie University
Yoshinori Aso
Yoshinori Aso Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Gregory S.X.E. Jefferis
Gregory S.X.E. Jefferis MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Scott Waddell
Scott Waddell University of Oxford
Karel Svoboda
Karel Svoboda Allen Institute
Hugo J. Bellen
Hugo J. Bellen Baylor College of Medicine
Alexander Borst
Alexander Borst Max Planck Society
Kei Ito
Kei Ito University of Cologne
Larry F. Abbott
Larry F. Abbott Columbia University

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