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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - Wittgenstein Award

Overview

Barry J. Dickson is affiliated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, including Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. These disciplines frame their work on the neurobiological and behavioral aspects of insect physiology.

The scientist's subfields of study include Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology. They have contributed extensively to understanding the physiological and biochemical adaptations underlying insect neural circuits.

Barry J. Dickson's research primarily focuses on topics such as:

  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects

The scientist has published in many venues, frequently contributing to:

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

Some recent publications by Barry J. Dickson include:

  • Neural circuitry linking mating and egg laying in Drosophila females, 2020, Nature
  • Neural circuit mechanisms of sexual receptivity in Drosophila females, 2020, Nature
  • A searchable image resource of Drosophila GAL4 driver expression patterns with single neuron resolution, 2023, eLife
  • Classification and genetic targeting of cell types in the primary taste and premotor center of the adult Drosophila brain, 2021, eLife
  • Circuit and Behavioral Mechanisms of Sexual Rejection by Drosophila Females, 2020, Current Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Barry J. Dickson include:

  • Kaiyu Wang
  • Ryo Minegishi
  • Hideo Otsuna
  • Gabriella R Sterne
  • Konrad Rokicki

The career of Barry J. Dickson is marked by recognition such as the Wittgenstein Award received in 2005 and election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • A genome-wide transgenic RNAi library for conditional gene inactivation in Drosophila

    Georg Dietzl;Doris Chen;Frank Schnorrer;Kuan-Chung Su

  • Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Guidance

    Barry J. Dickson

  • Molecular, anatomical, and functional organization of the Drosophila olfactory system

    Africa Couto;Mattias Alenius;Barry J. Dickson

  • Analysis of Drosophila photoreceptor axon guidance in eye-specific mosaics

    Timothy P. Newsome;Bengt Åsling;Barry J. Dickson

  • A Drosophila SH2-SH3 Adaptor Protein Implicated in Coupling the Sevenless Tyrosine Kinase to an Activator of Ras Guanine Nucleotide Exchange, Sos

    Jean Paul Olivier;Thomas Raabe;Mark Henkemeyer;Barry Dickson

  • Dispatched, a Novel Sterol-Sensing Domain Protein Dedicated to the Release of Cholesterol-Modified Hedgehog from Signaling Cells

    Richard Burke;Denise Nellen;Manolo Bellotto;Ernst Hafen

  • The Drosophila tuberous sclerosis complex gene homologs restrict cell growth and cell proliferation.

    Nicolas Tapon;Naoto Ito;Barry J. Dickson;Jessica E. Treisman

  • Neural Circuitry that Governs Drosophila Male Courtship Behavior

    Petra Stockinger;Duda Kvitsiani;Shay Rotkopf;László Tirián

  • Genetic Analysis of Netrin Genes in Drosophila: Netrins Guide CNS Commissural Axons and Peripheral Motor Axons

    Kevin J Mitchell;Jennifer L Doyle;Tito Serafini;Timothy E Kennedy

  • A receptor that mediates the post-mating switch in Drosophila reproductive behaviour.

    Nilay Yapici;Young-Joon Kim;Carlos Ribeiro;Barry J. Dickson

  • fruitless Splicing Specifies Male Courtship Behavior in Drosophila

    Ebru Demir;Barry J. Dickson

  • Rho GTPases in growth cone guidance

    Barry J Dickson

  • Genome-scale functional characterization of Drosophila developmental enhancers in vivo

    Evgeny Z. Kvon;Evgeny Z. Kvon;Tomas Kazmar;Gerald Stampfel;J. Omar Yáñez-Cuna

  • Raf functions downstream of Ras1 in the Sevenless signal transduction pathway.

    Barry Dickson;Frank Sprenger;Frank Sprenger;Deborah Morrison;Ernst Hafen

  • Rac function and regulation during Drosophila development

    Satoko Hakeda-Suzuki;Julian Ng;Julia Tzu;Georg Dietzl

  • Short- and Long-Range Repulsion by the Drosophila Unc5 Netrin Receptor

    Krystyna Keleman;Barry J. Dickson

  • Regulation of commissural axon pathfinding by slit and its Robo receptors.

    Barry J Dickson;Giorgio F Gilestro

  • Wired for Sex: The Neurobiology of Drosophila Mating Decisions

    Barry J. Dickson

  • The DrosDel Collection: A Set of P-Element Insertions for Generating Custom Chromosomal Aberrations in Drosophila melanogaster

    Edward Ryder;Fiona Blows;Michael Ashburner;Rosa Bautista-Llacer

  • Rac GTPases control axon growth, guidance and branching

    Julian Ng;Timothy Nardine;Matthew Harms;Julia Tzu

Frequent Co-Authors

Ernst Hafen
Ernst Hafen ETH Zurich
Gregory S.X.E. Jefferis
Gregory S.X.E. Jefferis MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Alexander Borst
Alexander Borst Max Planck Society
Gerald M. Rubin
Gerald M. Rubin Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Liqun Luo
Liqun Luo Stanford University
Leslie B. Vosshall
Leslie B. Vosshall Rockefeller University
Aljoscha Nern
Aljoscha Nern Howard Hughes Medical Institute
David L. Stern
David L. Stern Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Alexander Stark
Alexander Stark Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Konrad Basler
Konrad Basler University of Zurich

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