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Nicholas J. Strausfeld

Nicholas J. Strausfeld

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Neuroscience

D-Index
82
Citations
20037
World Ranking
1528
National Ranking
756

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1995 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 1994 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Nicholas J. Strausfeld is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. These broad areas underpin their focus on subfields such as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, and Genetics.

The scientist's work is primarily concentrated on topics related to Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Crustacean Biology and Ecology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, as well as broader Plant and Animal Studies.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Nicholas J. Strausfeld are:

  • "A Toll-receptor map underlies structural brain plasticity," 2020, eLife
  • "Mushroom body evolution demonstrates homology and divergence across Pancrustacea," 2020, eLife
  • "Ancestral regulatory mechanisms specify conserved midbrain circuitry in arthropods and vertebrates," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The lower Cambrian lobopodian Cardiodictyon resolves the origin of euarthropod brains," 2022, Science
  • "Leanchoiliidae reveals the ancestral organization of the stem euarthropod brain," 2021, Current Biology

Nicholas J. Strausfeld has published extensively in venues such as:

  • eLife
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science
  • Current Biology
  • Arthropod Structure & Development

Frequent collaborators include Frank Hirth, Marcel E. Sayre, Xianguang Hou, David R. Andrew, and Guiyi Li.

The scientist has been recognized with multiple fellowships including Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom in 2002, Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1995, and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1994.

Best Publications

  • Atlas of an insect brain

    Nicholas James Strausfeld

  • Evolution, Discovery, and Interpretations of Arthropod Mushroom Bodies

    Nicholas J. Strausfeld;Lars Hansen;Yongsheng Li;Robert S. Gomez

  • A Systematic Nomenclature for the Insect Brain

    Kei Ito;Kazunori Shinomiya;Masayoshi Ito;J. Douglas Armstrong

  • Subdivision of the drosophila mushroom bodies by enhancer-trap expression patterns

    Ming Yao Yang;J.Douglas Armstrong;Ilya Vilinsky;Nicholas J. Strausfeld

  • The Organization of Extrinsic Neurons and Their Implications in the Functional Roles of the Mushroom Bodies in Drosophila melanogaster Meigen

    Kei Ito;Kazumi Suzuki;Kazumi Suzuki;Patricia Estes;Mani Ramaswami

  • Deep Homology of Arthropod Central Complex and Vertebrate Basal Ganglia

    Nicholas J. Strausfeld;Frank Hirth

  • Organization of the honey bee mushroom body: representation of the calyx within the vertical and gamma lobes.

    Nicholas J. Strausfeld

  • Neuroarchitectures Serving Compound Eyes of Crustacea and Insects

    N. J. Strausfeld;D. R. Nässel

  • Arthropod Brains: Evolution, Functional Elegance, and Historical Significance

    Nicholas James Strausfeld

  • Mushroom bodies of the cockroach: their participation in place memory.

    Makoto Mizunami;Josette M. Weibrecht;Nicholas J. Strausfeld

  • Dissection of the peripheral motion channel in the visual system of Drosophila melanogaster.

    Jens Rister;Dennis Pauls;Bettina Schnell;Chun Yuan Ting

  • Olfactory systems: common design, uncommon origins?

    Nicholas J Strausfeld;John G Hildebrand

  • The optic lobes of Lepidoptera.

    Nicholas James Strausfeld;A. D. Blest

  • Ground plan of the insect mushroom body: functional and evolutionary implications.

    Nicholas J. Strausfeld;Irina Sinakevitch;Sheena M. Brown;Sarah M. Farris

  • Physiology and morphology of projection neurons in the antennal lobe of the male moth Manduca sexta

    Ryohei Kanzaki;Edmund A. Arbas;Nicholas J. Strausfeld;John G. Hildebrand

  • The organization of the insect visual system (Light microscopy) I: Projections and arrangements of neurons in the lamina ganglionaris of Diptera

    N. J. Strausfeld

  • Convergence of visual, haltere, and prosternai inputs at neck motor neurons of Calliphora erythrocephala

    N. J. Strausfeld;H. S. Seyan

  • Crustacean-insect relationships: the use of brain characters to derive phylogeny amongst segmented invertebrates.

    Nicholas J. Strausfeld

  • Complex brain and optic lobes in an early Cambrian arthropod

    Xiaoya Ma;Xianguang Hou;Gregory D. Edgecombe;Nicholas J. Strausfeld

  • Vision in insects: pathways possibly underlying neural adaptation and lateral inhibition

    N. J. Strausfeld;J. A. Campos-Ortega

  • Lobula plate and ocellar interneurons converge onto a cluster of descending neurons leading to neck and leg motor neuropil in Calliphora erythrocephala

    N. J. Strausfeld;U. K. Bassemir

  • The neck motor system of the fly Calliphora erythrocephala. II: Sensory organization

    J. J. Milde;H. S. Seyan;N. J. Strausfeld

  • The neck motor system of the fly Calliphora erythrocephala. I: Muscles and motor neurons

    N. J. Strausfeld;H. S. Seyan;J. J. Milde

Frequent Co-Authors

Kei Ito
Kei Ito University of Cologne
Bill S. Hansson
Bill S. Hansson Max Planck Society
Wulfila Gronenberg
Wulfila Gronenberg University of Arizona
Makoto Mizunami
Makoto Mizunami Hokkaido University
John G. Hildebrand
John G. Hildebrand University of Arizona
Martin Heisenberg
Martin Heisenberg University of Würzburg
Markus Göker
Markus Göker Leibniz Association
Alexander S. Raikhel
Alexander S. Raikhel University of California, Riverside
Anthony A. James
Anthony A. James University of California, Irvine
Mariana F. Wolfner
Mariana F. Wolfner Cornell University

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