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Moritz Helmstaedter

Moritz Helmstaedter

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Neuroscience

D-Index
48
Citations
11993
World Ranking
6114
National Ranking
511

Overview

Moritz Helmstaedter is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of Neuroscience. Their research extensively covers topics related to neural dynamics, brain function, and structural organization within the nervous system.

Helmstaedter's main fields of study include Neuroscience with a focus on several subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Structural Biology, Neurology, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The primary topics of their work encompass:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research

Among frequent co-authors collaborating with Helmstaedter are:

  • Alessandro Motta
  • Meike Sievers
  • Sahil Loomba
  • Kevin M. Boergens
  • Yunfeng Hua

Helmstaedter has published multiple papers in prominent venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Neuroscience, Science, Nature Methods, and Cell. These publication venues reflect a consistent focus on neuroscience and related biological sciences.

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Connectomic comparison of mouse and human cortex," 2022, Science
  • "The Mind of a Mouse," 2020, Cell
  • "Neuropathic pain caused by miswiring and abnormal end organ targeting," 2022, Nature
  • "Cell-type specific innervation of cortical pyramidal cells at their apical dendrites," 2020, eLife
  • "Postnatal connectomic development of inhibition in mouse barrel cortex," 2020, Science

Best Publications

  • Petilla terminology: nomenclature of features of GABAergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex

    Giorgio A. Ascoli;Lidia Alonso-Nanclares;Stewart A. Anderson;German Barrionuevo

  • Connectomic reconstruction of the inner plexiform layer in the mouse retina

    Moritz Helmstaedter;Kevin L. Briggman;Srinivas C. Turaga;Srinivas C. Turaga;Viren Jain;Viren Jain

  • Wiring specificity in the direction-selectivity circuit of the retina

    Kevin L. Briggman;Moritz Helmstaedter;Winfried Denk

  • Convolutional networks can learn to generate affinity graphs for image segmentation

    Srinivas C. Turaga;Joseph F. Murray;Viren Jain;Fabian Roth

  • Dense connectomic reconstruction in layer 4 of the somatosensory cortex

    Alessandro Motta;Manuel Berning;Kevin M. Boergens;Benedikt Staffler

  • Cell Type–Specific Three-Dimensional Structure of Thalamocortical Circuits in a Column of Rat Vibrissal Cortex

    Marcel Oberlaender;Christiaan P. J. de Kock;Randy M. Bruno;Alejandro Ramirez

  • Cellular-resolution connectomics: challenges of dense neural circuit reconstruction

    Moritz Helmstaedter

  • Large-volume en-bloc staining for electron microscopy-based connectomics.

    Yunfeng Hua;Philip Alex Michael Laserstein;Moritz Helmstaedter

  • High-accuracy neurite reconstruction for high-throughput neuroanatomy

    Moritz Helmstaedter;Kevin L Briggman;Winfried Denk

  • Inhibitory interneurons in a cortical column form hot zones of inhibition in layers 2 and 5A

    Hanno S. Meyer;Daniel Schwarz;Verena C. Wimmer;Arno C. Schmitt

  • Connectomic comparison of mouse and human cortex

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  • Supervised Learning of Image Restoration with Convolutional Networks

    V. Jain;J.F. Murray;F. Roth;S. Turaga

  • A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types

    Rafael Yuste;Michael Hawrylycz;Nadia Aalling;Argel Aguilar-Valles

  • Common circuit design in fly and mammalian motion vision

    Alexander Borst;Moritz Helmstaedter

  • Cell Type–Specific Thalamic Innervation in a Column of Rat Vibrissal Cortex

    Hanno-Sebastian Meyer;Verena C. Wimmer;Mike Hemberger;Randy M. Bruno

  • Structural neurobiology: missing link to a mechanistic understanding of neural computation

    Winfried Denk;Kevin L. Briggman;Moritz Helmstaedter

  • 3D structural imaging of the brain with photons and electrons

    Moritz Helmstaedter;Kevin L Briggman;Winfried Denk

  • Number and Laminar Distribution of Neurons in a Thalamocortical Projection Column of Rat Vibrissal Cortex

    Hanno-Sebastian Meyer;Verena C. Wimmer;Marcel Oberlaender;Christiaan de Kock

  • webKnossos: efficient online 3D data annotation for connectomics

    Kevin M Boergens;Manuel Berning;Tom Bocklisch;Dominic Bräunlein

  • The Mind of a Mouse

    Larry F. Abbott;Davi D. Bock;Edward M. Callaway;Winfried Denk

  • Large-Scale Automated Histology in the Pursuit of Connectomes

    David Kleinfeld;Arjun Bharioke;Pablo Blinder;David Bock

  • Boundary Learning by Optimization with Topological Constraints

    Viren Jain;Benjamin Bollmann;Mark Richardson;Daniel R. Berger

Frequent Co-Authors

Christiaan P. J. de Kock
Christiaan P. J. de Kock Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dirk Feldmeyer
Dirk Feldmeyer Forschungszentrum Jülich
Rafael Yuste
Rafael Yuste Columbia University
Jeff W. Lichtman
Jeff W. Lichtman Harvard University
Javier DeFelipe
Javier DeFelipe Technical University of Madrid
Randy M. Bruno
Randy M. Bruno University of Oxford
Gábor Tamás
Gábor Tamás University of Szeged
Oscar Marín
Oscar Marín King's College London
Giorgio A. Ascoli
Giorgio A. Ascoli George Mason University
Peter Somogyi
Peter Somogyi University of Oxford

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