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Misha B. Ahrens is affiliated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to the subfields of cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, molecular biology, cell biology, and biophysics.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering

Ahrens has coauthored frequently with several scientists, including:

  • Sujatha Narayan (15 publications)
  • Florian Engert (13 publications)
  • Ziqiang Wei (9 publications)
  • Alex Chen (9 publications)
  • Mikail Rubinov (8 publications)

Their recent publications include:

  • Fast and sensitive GCaMP calcium indicators for imaging neural populations, 2023, Nature
  • Precision Calcium Imaging of Dense Neural Populations via a Cell-Body-Targeted Calcium Indicator, 2020, Neuron
  • Fast and sensitive GCaMP calcium indicators for imaging neural populations, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Voltage imaging identifies spinal circuits that modulate locomotor adaptation in zebrafish, 2022, Neuron
  • A brainstem integrator for self-location memory and positional homeostasis in zebrafish, 2022, Cell

Ahrens has published extensively in a range of scientific venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 17 publications
  • Neuron - 4 publications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) - 4 publications
  • Cell - 2 publications
  • Cell Reports - 2 publications

Their research integrates techniques from advanced fluorescence microscopy to improve the understanding of neural population dynamics, particularly using zebrafish as a model organism. This work contributes to fields such as neural engineering and receptor signaling, focusing on both cellular mechanisms and systems neuroscience approaches.

Best Publications

  • Whole-brain functional imaging at cellular resolution using light-sheet microscopy

    Misha B Ahrens;Michael B Orger;Drew N Robson;Jennifer M Li

  • Simultaneous Denoising, Deconvolution, and Demixing of Calcium Imaging Data

    Eftychios A. Pnevmatikakis;Daniel Soudry;Yuanjun Gao;Timothy A. Machado

  • Sensitive red protein calcium indicators for imaging neural activity

    Hod Dana;Boaz Mohar;Boaz Mohar;Yi Sun;Sujatha Narayan

  • Brain-wide neuronal dynamics during motor adaptation in zebrafish

    Misha B. Ahrens;Misha B. Ahrens;Jennifer M. Li;Michael B. Orger;Drew N. Robson

  • Labeling of active neural circuits in vivo with designed calcium integrators

    Benjamin F. Fosque;Yi Sun;Hod Dana;Chao-Tsung Yang

  • Bright and photostable chemigenetic indicators for extended in vivo voltage imaging.

    Ahmed S. Abdelfattah;Takashi Kawashima;Amrita Singh;Amrita Singh;Ondrej Novak;Ondrej Novak

  • Neural Circuits Underlying Visually Evoked Escapes in Larval Zebrafish.

    Timothy W. Dunn;Christoph Gebhardt;Eva A. Naumann;Clemens Riegler;Clemens Riegler

  • A genetically encoded fluorescent sensor for in vivo imaging of GABA.

    Jonathan S Marvin;Yoshiteru Shimoda;Vincent Magloire;Marco Leite

  • A robotic multidimensional directed evolution approach applied to fluorescent voltage reporters.

    Kiryl D. Piatkevich;Erica E. Jung;Christoph Straub;Changyang Linghu

  • Glia Accumulate Evidence that Actions Are Futile and Suppress Unsuccessful Behavior.

    Yu Mu;Davis V. Bennett;Davis V. Bennett;Mikail Rubinov;Mikail Rubinov;Sujatha Narayan

  • Mapping brain activity at scale with cluster computing

    Jeremy Freeman;Nikita Vladimirov;Takashi Kawashima;Yu Mu

  • Brain-wide mapping of neural activity controlling zebrafish exploratory locomotion

    Timothy W Dunn;Timothy W Dunn;Yu Mu;Sujatha Narayan;Owen Randlett

  • Visualizing whole-brain activity and development at the single-cell level using light-sheet microscopy.

    Philipp J. Keller;Misha B. Ahrens

  • Brain-wide Organization of Neuronal Activity and Convergent Sensorimotor Transformations in Larval Zebrafish.

    Xiuye Chen;Xiuye Chen;Yu Mu;Yu Hu;Aaron T. Kuan

  • Efficient Estimation of Detailed Single-Neuron Models

    Quentin J. M. Huys;Misha B. Ahrens;Liam Paninski

  • Nonlinearities and contextual influences in auditory cortical responses modeled with multilinear spectrotemporal methods.

    Misha B. Ahrens;Jennifer F. Linden;Maneesh Sahani

  • The Serotonergic System Tracks the Outcomes of Actions to Mediate Short-Term Motor Learning

    Takashi Kawashima;Maarten F. Zwart;Chao-Tsung Yang;Brett D. Mensh

  • Integrative whole-brain neuroscience in larval zebrafish.

    Gilles C .Vanwalleghem;Misha B Ahrens;Ethan K Scott

  • Spinal projection neurons control turning behaviors in zebrafish.

    Kuo-Hua Huang;Misha B. Ahrens;Timothy W. Dunn;Florian Engert

  • Precision Calcium Imaging of Dense Neural Populations via a Cell-Body-Targeted Calcium Indicator.

    Or A. Shemesh;Changyang Linghu;Kiryl D. Piatkevich;Daniel Goodwin;Daniel Goodwin

  • Identification of Nonvisual Photomotor Response Cells in the Vertebrate Hindbrain

    David Kokel;David Kokel;Timothy W. Dunn;Misha B. Ahrens;Rüdiger Alshut

  • Optogenetics in a transparent animal: circuit function in the larval zebrafish.

    Ruben Portugues;Kristen E Severi;Claire Wyart;Misha B Ahrens

  • Fast and sensitive GCaMP calcium indicators for imaging neural populations

    Loren Looger;Yan Zhang;Martón Rózsa;Yajie Liang;Yajie Liang

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Engert
Florian Engert Harvard University
Brett D. Mensh
Brett D. Mensh Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Karel Svoboda
Karel Svoboda Allen Institute
Koichi Kawakami
Koichi Kawakami National Institute of Genetics
Kay M. Tye
Kay M. Tye Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Vivek Jayaraman
Vivek Jayaraman Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Rafael Yuste
Rafael Yuste Columbia University
Andreas S. Tolias
Andreas S. Tolias Baylor College of Medicine
Cornelia I. Bargmann
Cornelia I. Bargmann Rockefeller University

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