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Markus Meister

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Neuroscience

D-Index
70
Citations
27170
World Ranking
2461
National Ranking
1162

Markus Meister publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Markus Meister sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 121 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Markus Meister D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Markus Meister sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Markus Meister is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their primary research focus lies within the field of Neuroscience, with specific interest and contributions in Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's work covers several key topics including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

Markus Meister has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • eLife (5 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (5 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (4 publications)
  • Nature (1 publication)
  • Neuron (1 publication)

Among their notable recent papers are:

  • "Evolution of neuronal cell classes and types in the vertebrate retina," 2023, Nature
  • "Mice in a labyrinth show rapid learning, sudden insight, and efficient exploration," 2021, eLife
  • "The sifting of visual information in the superior colliculus," 2020, eLife
  • "Functional Architecture of Motion Direction in the Mouse Superior Colliculus," 2020, Current Biology
  • "Functional cell types in the mouse superior colliculus," 2023, eLife

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Matthew Rosenberg (6 coauthored works)
  • Tony Zhang (5 coauthored works)
  • Pietro Perona (5 coauthored works)
  • Ya-tang Li (3 coauthored works)
  • Zeyu Jing (3 coauthored works)

Best Publications

  • Individual neurons dissociated from rat suprachiasmatic nucleus express independently phased circadian firing rhythms

    David K Welsh;Diomedes E Logothetis;Markus Meister;Steven M Reppert

  • Synchronous Bursts of Action Potentials in Ganglion Cells of the Developing Mammalian Retina

    Markus Meister;Rachel O. L. Wong;Denis A. Baylor;Carla J. Shatz

  • Ventromedial hypothalamic neurons control a defensive emotion state

    Prabhat S Kunwar;Moriel Zelikowsky;Ryan Remedios;Haijiang Cai

  • Loss of sex discrimination and male-male aggression in mice deficient for TRP2.

    Lisa Stowers;Timothy E. Holy;Markus Meister;Catherine Dulac

  • Eye smarter than scientists believed: Neural computations in circuits of the retina

    Tim Gollisch;Markus Meister

  • Rapid Neural Coding in the Retina with Relative Spike Latencies

    Tim Gollisch;Markus Meister

  • Rapid Innate Defensive Responses of Mice to Looming Visual Stimuli

    Melis Yilmaz;Markus Meister

  • Transient period of correlated bursting activity during development of the mammalian retina.

    R.O.L. Wong;M. Meister;C.J. Shatz

  • The structure and precision of retinal spike trains

    Michael J. Berry;David K. Warland;Markus Meister

  • Fast and Slow Contrast Adaptation in Retinal Circuitry

    Stephen A. Baccus;Markus Meister

  • Adaptation of retinal processing to image contrast and spatial scale

    Stelios M. Smirnakis;Michael J. Berry;David K. Warland;William Bialek

  • Dynamic predictive coding by the retina

    T. Hosoya;S.A. Baccus;M. Meister

  • The neural code of the retina.

    Markus Meister;Michael J. Berry

  • Anticipation of moving stimuli by the retina

    Michael J. Berry;Iman H. Brivanlou;Thomas A. Jordan;Markus Meister

  • Visual transduction in cones of the monkey Macaca fascicularis.

    J L Schnapf;B J Nunn;M Meister;D A Baylor

  • Decoding Visual Information From a Population of Retinal Ganglion Cells

    David K. Warland;Pamela Reinagel;Markus Meister

  • Refractoriness and Neural Precision

    Michael J. Berry;Markus Meister

  • Segregation of object and background motion in the retina

    Bence P. Ölveczky;Bence P. Ölveczky;Stephen A. Baccus;Markus Meister

  • Multi-neuronal signals from the retina: acquisition and analysis.

    Markus Meister;Jerome Pine;Denis A. Baylor

  • Tuning and topography in an odor map on the rat olfactory bulb.

    Markus Meister;Tobias Bonhoeffer

Frequent Co-Authors

Haim Sompolinsky
Haim Sompolinsky Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Joshua R. Sanes
Joshua R. Sanes Harvard University
Pietro Perona
Pietro Perona California Institute of Technology
Howard C. Berg
Howard C. Berg Harvard University
Catherine Dulac
Catherine Dulac Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Jeremy Nathans
Jeremy Nathans Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Venkatesh N. Murthy
Venkatesh N. Murthy Harvard University
Yisong Yue
Yisong Yue California Institute of Technology
Jeff W. Lichtman
Jeff W. Lichtman Harvard University
Rachel O.L. Wong
Rachel O.L. Wong University of Washington

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