2026 Markus Meister: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	70	2461	2249	1162	1043	121	27170

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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

1863
Citations
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

1384
Citations
Ventromedial hypothalamic neurons control a defensive emotion state

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

1104
Citations
Loss of sex discrimination and male-male aggression in mice deficient for TRP2.

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

1051
Citations
Eye smarter than scientists believed: Neural computations in circuits of the retina

Tim Gollisch;Markus Meister

903
Citations
Rapid Neural Coding in the Retina with Relative Spike Latencies

Tim Gollisch;Markus Meister

794
Citations
Rapid Innate Defensive Responses of Mice to Looming Visual Stimuli

Melis Yilmaz;Markus Meister

741
Citations
Transient period of correlated bursting activity during development of the mammalian retina.

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

702
Citations
The structure and precision of retinal spike trains

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

649
Citations
Fast and Slow Contrast Adaptation in Retinal Circuitry

Stephen A. Baccus;Markus Meister

647
Citations
Adaptation of retinal processing to image contrast and spatial scale

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

634
Citations
Dynamic predictive coding by the retina

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

624
Citations
The neural code of the retina.

Markus Meister;Michael J. Berry

600
Citations
Anticipation of moving stimuli by the retina

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

598
Citations
Visual transduction in cones of the monkey Macaca fascicularis.

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

560
Citations
Decoding Visual Information From a Population of Retinal Ganglion Cells

David K. Warland;Pamela Reinagel;Markus Meister

552
Citations
Refractoriness and Neural Precision

Michael J. Berry;Markus Meister

532
Citations
Segregation of object and background motion in the retina

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

526
Citations
Multi-neuronal signals from the retina: acquisition and analysis.

Markus Meister;Jerome Pine;Denis A. Baylor

515
Citations
Tuning and topography in an odor map on the rat olfactory bulb.

Markus Meister;Tobias Bonhoeffer

488
Citations