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2026

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Neuroscience

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107
Citations
38928
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617
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43

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
107
Citations
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World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2014 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Physiology and Pharmacology/Toxicology
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Nils Brose is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has a significant body of work mainly within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. Their research spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cell Biology, Genetics, and Physiology.

The main topics covered in their work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Cellular transport and secretion, Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Retinal Development and Disorders, and Neurogenesis and Neuroplasticity Mechanisms.

Frequent publication venues for their research include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neuron, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, Cell Reports, and eLife.

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  • Cordelia Imig
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  • Noa Lipstein
  • JeongSeop Rhee

Recent papers associated with this scientist are:

  • Optimizing Nervous System-Specific Gene Targeting with Cre Driver Lines: Prevalence of Germline Recombination and Influencing Factors, 2020, Neuron
  • LifeTime and improving European healthcare through cell-based interceptive medicine, 2020, Nature
  • An active vesicle priming machinery suppresses axon regeneration upon adult CNS injury, 2021, Neuron
  • Mammalian oocytes store proteins for the early embryo on cytoplasmic lattices, 2023, Cell
  • A fluorescent nanosensor paint detects dopamine release at axonal varicosities with high spatiotemporal resolution, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist has been recognized by several awards and honors including membership in the Academia Europaea since 2016, induction into the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2014 with a focus on Physiology and Pharmacology/Toxicology, and membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Synaptotagmin: a calcium sensor on the synaptic vesicle surface

    Nils Brose;Alexander G. Petrenko;Thomas C. Südhof;Reinhard Jahn

  • Synaptotagmin I functions as a calcium regulator of release probability

    Rafael Fernández-Chacón;Andreas Königstorfer;Stefan H. Gerber;Jesús García

  • Neuroligins Determine Synapse Maturation and Function

    Frédérique Varoqueaux;Gayane Aramuni;Randi L. Rawson;Ralf Mohrmann;Ralf Mohrmann

  • SynGO : An Evidence-Based, Expert-Curated Knowledge Base for the Synapse

    Frank Koopmans;Pim van Nierop;Maria Andres-Alonso;Andrea Byrnes

  • Munc13-1 is essential for fusion competence of glutamatergic synaptic vesicles

    Iris Augustin;Christian Rosenmund;Thomas C. Südhof;Nils Brose

  • Neuroligin 1 is a postsynaptic cell-adhesion molecule of excitatory synapses

    Ji-Ying Song;Konstantin Ichtchenko;Thomas C. Südhof;Nils Brose

  • Ca 2+ -dependent and -independent activities of neural and non-neural synaptotagmins

    Cai Li;Beate Ullrich;Jimmy Z. Zhang;Richard G. W. Anderson

  • Total arrest of spontaneous and evoked synaptic transmission but normal synaptogenesis in the absence of Munc13-mediated vesicle priming

    Frederique Varoqueaux;Albrecht Sigler;Jeong-Seop Rhee;Nils Brose

  • Activity-Dependent Validation of Excitatory versus Inhibitory Synapses by Neuroligin-1 versus Neuroligin-2

    Alexander A. Chubykin;Deniz Atasoy;Mark R. Etherton;Nils Brose

  • Neuroligin 2 is exclusively localized to inhibitory synapses.

    Frédérique Varoqueaux;Stéphane Jamain;Nils Brose

  • Reduced social interaction and ultrasonic communication in a mouse model of monogenic heritable autism

    Stephane Jamain;Konstantin Radyushkin;Kurt Hammerschmidt;Sylvie Granon

  • Complexins regulate a late step in Ca2+-dependent neurotransmitter release.

    Kerstin Reim;Michael Mansour;Frederique Varoqueaux;Harvey T. McMahon

  • An essential role for vesicular glutamate transporter 1 (VGLUT1) in postnatal development and control of quantal size

    Sonja M. Wojcik;J. S. Rhee;E. Herzog;Albrecht Sigler

  • Beta phorbol ester- and diacylglycerol-induced augmentation of transmitter release is mediated by Munc13s and not by PKCs.

    Jeong Seop Rhee;Andrea Betz;Sonja Pyott;Kerstin Reim

  • Neuroligin 2 drives postsynaptic assembly at perisomatic inhibitory synapses through gephyrin and collybistin

    Alexandros Poulopoulos;Gayane Aramuni;Guido Meyer;Tolga Soykan

  • Mammalian homologues of Caenorhabditis elegans unc-13 gene define novel family of C2-domain proteins.

    Nils Brose;Kay Hofmann;Yutaka Hata;Thomas C. Südhof

  • Munc13-1 Is a Presynaptic Phorbol Ester Receptor that Enhances Neurotransmitter Release

    Andrea Betz;Uri Ashery;Michael Rickmann;Iris Augustin

  • Functional interaction of the active zone proteins Munc13-1 and RIM1 in synaptic vesicle priming.

    Andrea Betz;Pratima Thakur;Harald J. Junge;Uri Ashery

  • Differential Control of Vesicle Priming and Short-Term Plasticity by Munc13 Isoforms

    Christian Rosenmund;Albrecht Sigler;Iris Augustin;Kerstin Reim

  • Move over protein kinase C, you've got company: alternative cellular effectors of diacylglycerol and phorbol esters

    Nils Brose;Christian Rosenmund

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Rosenmund
Christian Rosenmund Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Thomas C. Südhof
Thomas C. Südhof Stanford University
Hannelore Ehrenreich
Hannelore Ehrenreich Central Institute of Mental Health
Jens Rettig
Jens Rettig Saarland University
Olaf Jahn
Olaf Jahn Max Planck Society
Klaus-Armin Nave
Klaus-Armin Nave Max Planck Society
Reinhard Jahn
Reinhard Jahn Max Planck Society
Johann Helmut Brandstätter
Johann Helmut Brandstätter University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Tobias Moser
Tobias Moser University of Göttingen
Matthijs Verhage
Matthijs Verhage Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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