2026 Mikko Juusola: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	38	8642	7986	643	595	89	4286

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Overview

Mikko Juusola is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on neuroscience and related areas.

The primary fields of study for Mikko Juusola include:

Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, the subfields they have contributed to are:

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Genetics
Molecular Biology

The main research topics covered in their work are:

Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Neural dynamics and brain function
Plant and animal studies
Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies

Mikko Juusola has had frequent collaboration with several researchers including:

Lars Chıttka
Joni Kemppainen
Jouni Takalo
Alice Bridges
HaDi MaBouDi

Their publications have appeared in several notable venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Preprints.org
Nature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Vision Research

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Mikko Juusola include:

Theory of morphodynamic information processing: Linking sensing to behaviour, 2025, Vision Research
Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone, 2024, Nature
Binocular mirror-symmetric microsaccadic sampling enables Drosophila hyperacute 3D vision, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
High-speed imaging of light-induced photoreceptor microsaccades in compound eyes, 2022, Communications Biology
Multiscale 'whole-cell' models to study neural information processing - New insights from fly photoreceptor studies, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Best Publications

Calcium influx via TRP channels is required to maintain PIP2 levels in Drosophila photoreceptors.

Roger C Hardie;Padinjat Raghu;Suzanna Moore;Mikko Juusola

229
Citations
Information processing by graded-potential transmission through tonically active synapses

Mikko Juusola;Andrew S French;Raimo O Uusitalo;Matti Weckström

215
Citations
Light Adaptation in Drosophila Photoreceptors: I. Response Dynamics and Signaling Efficiency at 25°C

Mikko Juusola;Roger C. Hardie

181
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Normal Mitochondrial Dynamics Requires Rhomboid-7 and Affects Drosophila Lifespan and Neuronal Function

G. Angus McQuibban;G. Angus McQuibban;Jeffrey R. Lee;Lei Zheng;Mikko Juusola

156
Citations
Phototransduction in Drosophila

Roger C Hardie;Mikko Juusola

154
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Compound eyes and retinal information processing in miniature dipteran species match their specific ecological demands

Paloma T. Gonzalez-Bellido;Trevor J. Wardill;Trevor J. Wardill;Mikko Juusola;Mikko Juusola

152
Citations
Multiple spectral inputs improve motion discrimination in the Drosophila visual system.

Trevor J. Wardill;Olivier List;Xiaofeng Li;Xiaofeng Li;Sidhartha Dongre

145
Citations
Transfer of Graded Potentials at the Photoreceptor-Interneuron Synapse

M Juusola;R O Uusitalo;M Weckström

143
Citations
Molecular basis of amplification in Drosophila phototransduction: roles for G protein, phospholipase C, and diacylglycerol kinase.

R.C. Hardie;F. Martin;G.W. Cochrane;M. Juusola

130
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Contrast gain, signal-to-noise ratio, and linearity in light-adapted blowfly photoreceptors.

M Juusola;E Kouvalainen;M Järvilehto;M Weckström

127
Citations
Light Adaptation in Drosophila Photoreceptors: II. Rising Temperature Increases the Bandwidth of Reliable Signaling

Mikko Juusola;Roger C. Hardie

125
Citations
Feedback Network Controls Photoreceptor Output at the Layer of First Visual Synapses in Drosophila

Lei Zheng;Gonzalo G. de Polavieja;Verena Wolfram;Musa H. Asyali

123
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Stochastic, Adaptive Sampling of Information by Microvilli in Fly Photoreceptors

Zhuoyi Song;Marten Postma;Marten Postma;Stephen A. Billings;Daniel Coca

116
Citations
The contribution of Shaker K + channels to the information capacity of Drosophila photoreceptors

Jeremy E. Niven;Mikko Vähäsöyrinki;Mika Kauranen;Roger C. Hardie

115
Citations
Distinct roles for two histamine receptors (hclA and hclB) at the Drosophila photoreceptor synapse.

Antonios Pantazis;Ashvina Segaran;Che-Hsiung Liu;Anton Nikolaev

109
Citations
The Efficiency of Sensory Information Coding by Mechanoreceptor Neurons

Mikko Juusola;Andrew S French

96
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Stimulus history reliably shapes action potential waveforms of cortical neurons.

Gonzalo G de Polavieja;Annette Harsch;Ingo Kleppe;Hugh P C Robinson

93
Citations
The rate of information transfer of naturalistic stimulation by graded potentials.

Mikko Juusola;Gonzalo G. de Polavieja;Gonzalo G. de Polavieja

84
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Robustness of neural coding in Drosophila photoreceptors in the absence of slow delayed rectifier K+ channels.

Mikko Vähäsöyrinki;Jeremy E. Niven;Roger C. Hardie;Matti Weckström

78
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Intrinsic Activity in the Fly Brain Gates Visual Information during Behavioral Choices

Shiming Tang;Shiming Tang;Mikko Juusola;Mikko Juusola

78
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channels to the information capacity of Drosophila photoreceptors

Jeremy E. Niven;Mika Kauranen;Roger C. Hardie;Mikko Juusola

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