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Overview

Juergen Haag is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. The subfields covered in their work include Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics of Juergen Haag's research focus on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology, Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors, Insect Resistance and Genetics, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Retinal Development and Disorders.

Recent publications by Juergen Haag include:

  • Columnar cholinergic neurotransmission onto T5 cells of Drosophila, 2025, Current Biology
  • Voltage to Calcium Transformation Enhances Direction Selectivity in Drosophila T4 Neurons, 2023, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Voltage to Calcium Transformation Enhances Direction Selectivity in Drosophila T4 neurons, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Columnar cholinergic neurotransmission onto T5 cells of Drosophila, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • IRIS: An Immersive Robot Interaction System, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequently collaborating co-authors include Alexander Borst, Eleni Samara, Tabea Schilling, Inês Ribeiro, and Maria-Bianca Leonte.

Juergen Haag's work has appeared in a range of publication venues with multiple contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), as well as publications in Current Biology, Journal of Neuroscience, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Best Publications

  • Fly Motion Vision

    Alexander Borst;Juergen Haag;Dierk F Reiff

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

    Alexander Borst;Juergen Haag

  • Fly motion vision is based on Reichardt detectors regardless of the signal−to−noise ratio

    Juergen Haag;Winfried Denk;Alexander Borst

  • Flight activity alters velocity tuning of fly motion-sensitive neurons.

    Sarah Nicola Jung;Alexander Borst;Juergen Haag

  • Neural mechanism underlying complex receptive field properties of motion-sensitive interneurons

    Juergen Haag;Alexander Borst

  • Encoding of Visual Motion Information and Reliability in Spiking and Graded Potential Neurons

    Juergen Haag;Alexander Borst

  • Amplification of high-frequency synaptic inputs by active dendritic membrane processes

    Juergen Haag;Alexander Borst

  • Dendritic Computation of Direction Selectivity and Gain Control in Visual Interneurons

    Sandra Single;Juergen Haag;Alexander Borst

  • Integration of Lobula Plate Output Signals by DNOVS1, an Identified Premotor Descending Neuron

    Juergen Haag;Adrian Wertz;Alexander Borst

  • Complementary mechanisms create direction selectivity in the fly.

    Juergen Haag;Alexander Arenz;Etienne Serbe;Fabrizio Gabbiani

  • Dendro-Dendritic Interactions between Motion-Sensitive Large-Field Neurons in the Fly

    Juergen Haag;Alexander Borst

  • The Morphological Identity of Insect Dendrites

    Hermann Cuntz;Friedrich Forstner;Juergen Haag;Alexander Borst

  • Recurrent Network Interactions Underlying Flow-Field Selectivity of Visual Interneurons

    Juergen Haag;Alexander Borst

  • Active Membrane Properties and Signal Encoding in Graded Potential Neurons

    Juergen Haag;Alexander Borst

  • Adaptation of response transients in fly motion vision. II: Model studies.

    Alexander Borst;Carolina Reisenman;Carolina Reisenman;Juergen Haag;Juergen Haag

  • Central gating of fly optomotor response

    Juergen Haag;Adrian Wertz;Alexander Borst

  • Nonlinear Integration of Binocular Optic Flow by DNOVS2, A Descending Neuron of the Fly

    Adrian Wertz;Alexander Borst;Juergen Haag

  • Effects of Mean Firing on Neural Information Rate

    Alexander Borst;Juergen Haag

  • Different receptive fields in axons and dendrites underlie robust coding in motion-sensitive neurons

    Yishai M Elyada;Juergen Haag;Alexander Borst

  • Neural Circuit Components of the Drosophila OFF Motion Vision Pathway

    Matthias Meier;Etienne Serbe;Matthew S. Maisak;Juergen Haag

  • Nonlinear, binocular interactions underlying flow field selectivity of a motion-sensitive neuron

    Karl Farrow;Juergen Haag;Alexander Borst

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Borst
Alexander Borst Max Planck Society
Gerald M. Rubin
Gerald M. Rubin Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Idan Segev
Idan Segev Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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