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Charlotte Helfrich-Förster

Charlotte Helfrich-Förster

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Neuroscience

D-Index
69
Citations
16102
World Ranking
2644
National Ranking
229

Overview

Charlotte Helfrich-Förster is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany. Their research primarily centers on neuroscience with a strong emphasis on cellular and molecular neuroscience, as well as endocrine and autonomic systems. Additional fields of study include genetics, plant science, and physiology.

The scientist's work concentrates on several interconnected topics, including neurobiology and insect physiology research, circadian rhythm and melatonin, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, light effects on plants, spaceflight effects on biology, and physiological and biochemical adaptations.

Frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Journal of Comparative Physiology A
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Biological Rhythms
  • Frontiers in Physiology
  • The Journal of Comparative Neurology

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Helfrich-Förster include:

  • Women temporarily synchronize their menstrual cycles with the luminance and gravimetric cycles of the Moon, 2021, Science Advances
  • Model and Non-model Insects in Chronobiology, 2020, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Synaptic connectome of the Drosophila circadian clock, 2024, Nature Communications
  • The Neuronal Circuit of the Dorsal Circadian Clock Neurons in Drosophila melanogaster, 2022, Frontiers in Physiology
  • The lateral posterior clock neurons of Drosophila melanogaster express three neuropeptides and have multiple connections within the circadian clock network and beyond, 2021, The Journal of Comparative Neurology

Collaborations have frequently involved co-authors such as Dirk Rieger, Nils Reinhard, Giulia Manoli, Taishi Yoshii, and Christian Wegener, indicating an active network within their research community.

Best Publications

  • Differential regulation of circadian pacemaker output by separate clock genes in Drosophila

    Jae H. Park;Charlotte Helfrich-Förster;Gyunghee Lee;Li Liu

  • The period clock gene is expressed in central nervous system neurons which also produce a neuropeptide that reveals the projections of circadian pacemaker cells within the brain of Drosophila melanogaster.

    Charlotte Helfrich-Forster

  • Drosophila CRY Is a Deep Brain Circadian Photoreceptor

    Patrick Emery;Ralf Stanewsky;Charlotte Helfrich-Förster;Myai Emery-Le;Myai Emery-Le

  • The Circadian Clock of Fruit Flies Is Blind after Elimination of All Known Photoreceptors

    Charlotte Helfrich-Förster;Christine Winter;Alois Hofbauer;Jeffrey C. Hall

  • Spatial and temporal expression of the period and timeless genes in the developing nervous system of Drosophila: newly identified pacemaker candidates and novel features of clock gene product cycling.

    Maki Kaneko;Charlotte Helfrich-Förster;Jeffrey C. Hall

  • Robust circadian rhythmicity of Drosophila melanogaster requires the presence of lateral neurons: a brain-behavioral study of disconnected mutants

    Helfrich-Förster C

  • Medicine in the Fourth Dimension.

    Christopher R. Cederroth;Urs Albrecht;Joseph Bass;Steven A. Brown

  • Development of pigment-dispersing hormone-immunoreactive neurons in the nervous system of Drosophila melanogaster.

    Charlotte Helfrich‐Förster

  • Cryptochrome, Compound Eyes, Hofbauer-Buchner Eyelets, and Ocelli Play Different Roles in the Entrainment and Masking Pathway of the Locomotor Activity Rhythm in the Fruit Fly Drosophila Melanogaster

    Dirk Rieger;Ralf Stanewsky;Charlotte Helfrich-Förster

  • Development and morphology of the clock-gene-expressing lateral neurons of Drosophila melanogaster.

    Charlotte Helfrich-Förster;Orie T. Shafer;Corinna Wülbeck;Eva Grieshaber

  • Setting the clock – by nature: Circadian rhythm in the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster

    Nicolai Peschel;Charlotte Helfrich-Förster

  • The Neuropeptide Pigment-Dispersing Factor Adjusts Period and Phase of Drosophila's Clock

    Taishi Yoshii;Corinna Wülbeck;Hana Sehadova;Shobi Veleri

  • Differential control of morning and evening components in the activity rhythm of Drosophila melanogaster--sex-specific differences suggest a different quality of activity.

    Charlotte Helfrich-Förster

  • Functional Analysis of Circadian Pacemaker Neurons in Drosophila melanogaster

    Dirk Rieger;Orie Thomas Shafer;Kenji Tomioka;Charlotte Helfrich-Förster

  • The extraretinal eyelet of Drosophila: development, ultrastructure, and putative circadian function.

    Charlotte Helfrich-Förster;Tara Edwards;Kouji Yasuyama;Barbara Wisotzki

  • Chronobiology by moonlight.

    Noga Kronfeld-Schor;Davide M. Dominoni;Horacio de la Iglesia;Oren Levy

  • Cryptochrome mediates light-dependent magnetosensitivity of Drosophila's circadian clock.

    Taishi Yoshii;Margaret Ahmad;Charlotte Helfrich-Förster

  • Ectopic Expression of the Neuropeptide Pigment-Dispersing Factor Alters Behavioral Rhythms in Drosophila melanogaster

    Charlotte Helfrich-Förster;Marcus Täuber;Jae H. Park;Max Mühlig-Versen

  • The neuroarchitecture of the circadian clock in the brain of Drosophila melanogaster.

    Charlotte Helfrich-Förster

  • Cryptochrome Is Present in the Compound Eyes and a Subset of Drosophila's Clock Neurons

    Taishi Yoshii;Takeshi Todo;Corinna Wülbeck;Ralf Stanewsky

  • Pigment-dispersing hormone-immunoreactive neurons in the nervous system of wild-type Drosophila melanogaster and of several mutants with altered circadian rhythmicity

    Charlotte Helfrich‐Förster;Uwe Homberg

  • Targeted ablation of CCAP neuropeptide-containing neurons of Drosophila causes specific defects in execution and circadian timing of ecdysis behavior.

    Jae H. Park;Andrew J. Schroeder;Charlotte Helfrich-Förster;F. Rob Jackson

  • Neurobiology of the fruit fly's circadian clock.

    C. Helfrich-Förster

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Rosbash
Michael Rosbash Brandeis University
Jeffrey C. Hall
Jeffrey C. Hall Brandeis University
Charalambos P. Kyriacou
Charalambos P. Kyriacou University of Leicester
Bertram Gerber
Bertram Gerber Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
David A. Slattery
David A. Slattery Goethe University Frankfurt
Russell G. Foster
Russell G. Foster University of Oxford
Joseph S. Takahashi
Joseph S. Takahashi The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Sven Pettersson
Sven Pettersson Karolinska Institute
Thomas Dandekar
Thomas Dandekar University of Würzburg
Uwe Homberg
Uwe Homberg Philipp University of Marburg

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