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D-Index
50
Citations
16890
World Ranking
5636
National Ranking
158

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Rachel Wilson is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and specializes primarily in the field of Neuroscience. Their research spans several important subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work addresses diverse topics such as Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Motor Control and Adaptation, Neural dynamics and brain function, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies, and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies.

Rachel Wilson has contributed to multiple recent papers, some of which have seen notable citations. These include:

  • Automatic detection of synaptic partners in a whole-brain Drosophila electron microscopy data set, 2021, Nature Methods
  • Transforming representations of movement from body- to world-centric space, 2021, Nature
  • A Neural Network for Wind-Guided Compass Navigation, 2020, Neuron
  • Neural circuit mechanisms for steering control in walking Drosophila, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SPARC enables genetic manipulation of precise proportions of cells, 2020, Nature Neuroscience

Frequent publication venues for their research include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature, Current Biology, and Nature Neuroscience.

Rachel Wilson has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, notably including Isabel D'Alessandro, Yvette E. Fisher, Stephen L Holtz, Quinn X Vanderbeck, and Laia Serratosa Capdevila.

The scientist has been recognized with distinctions such as Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2017 and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Endogenous cannabinoids mediate retrograde signalling at hippocampal synapses.

    Rachel I. Wilson;Roger A. Nicoll

  • Endocannabinoid signaling in the brain.

    Rachel I. Wilson;Roger A. Nicoll

  • painless, a Drosophila gene essential for nociception

    W.Daniel Tracey;Rachel I Wilson;Gilles Laurent;Seymour Benzer

  • Oscillations and Sparsening of Odor Representations in the Mushroom Body

    Javier Perez-Orive;Ofer Mazor;Glenn C. Turner;Stijn Cassenaer

  • Presynaptic Specificity of Endocannabinoid Signaling in the Hippocampus

    Rachel I. Wilson;George Kunos;Roger A. Nicoll

  • Transformation of olfactory representations in the Drosophila antennal lobe.

    Rachel I. Wilson;Glenn C. Turner;Gilles Laurent

  • Lateral presynaptic inhibition mediates gain control in an olfactory circuit

    Shawn R. Olsen;Rachel I. Wilson

  • Role of GABAergic Inhibition in Shaping Odor-Evoked Spatiotemporal Patterns in the Drosophila Antennal Lobe

    Rachel I. Wilson;Gilles Laurent

  • Divisive Normalization in Olfactory Population Codes

    Shawn R Olsen;Vikas Bhandawat;Rachel Irene Wilson

  • The Role of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Receptors in the Mature Hippocampus: Modulation of Long-Term Potentiation through a Presynaptic Mechanism involving TrkB

    Baoji Xu;Wolfram Gottschalk;Ana Chow;Rachel I. Wilson

  • EARLY EVENTS IN OLFACTORY PROCESSING

    Rachel I. Wilson;Zachary F. Mainen

  • Early olfactory processing in Drosophila: mechanisms and principles.

    Rachel I. Wilson

  • Sensory processing in the Drosophila antennal lobe increases reliability and separability of ensemble odor representations.

    Vikas Bhandawat;Shawn R Olsen;Nathan W Gouwens;Michelle L Schlief

  • Diversity and Wiring Variability of Olfactory Local Interneurons in the Drosophila Antennal Lobe

    Ya Hui Chou;Maria L. Spletter;Emre Yaksi;Jonathan C.S. Leong

  • Excitatory Interactions between Olfactory Processing Channels in the Drosophila Antennal Lobe

    Shawn R. Olsen;Vikas Bhandawat;Rachel I. Wilson

  • Glutamate is an inhibitory neurotransmitter in the Drosophila olfactory system

    Wendy W. Liu;Rachel I. Wilson

  • Mechanosensation and Adaptive Motor Control in Insects.

    John C. Tuthill;Rachel I. Wilson

  • Socio-cognitive and nutritional factors associated with body mass index in children and adolescents: possibilities for childhood obesity prevention

    Jennifer A. O'Dea;Rachel Wilson

  • Electrical coupling between olfactory glomeruli

    Emre Yaksi;Rachel I. Wilson

  • Biophysical mechanisms underlying olfactory receptor neuron dynamics

    Katherine I Nagel;Rachel I Wilson;Rachel I Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

Gilles Laurent
Gilles Laurent Max Planck Society
Roger A. Nicoll
Roger A. Nicoll University of California, San Francisco
Silvia Arber
Silvia Arber University of Basel
Anatol C. Kreitzer
Anatol C. Kreitzer University of California, San Francisco
Antonello Bonci
Antonello Bonci National Institute on Drug Abuse
Mark J. Schnitzer
Mark J. Schnitzer Stanford University
Krishna V. Shenoy
Krishna V. Shenoy Stanford University
Botond Roska
Botond Roska University of Basel
Antoine Roger Adamantidis
Antoine Roger Adamantidis University of Bern
Thomas R. Clandinin
Thomas R. Clandinin Stanford University

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