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  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Rainer W. Friedrich is affiliated with the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with significant work within the domains of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's publications emphasize areas including cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, cell biology, molecular biology, and sensory systems.

The research topics addressed by Rainer W. Friedrich cover a range of subjects in neural science, including:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Zebrafish biomedical research applications
  • Olfactory and sensory function studies
  • Neurobiology and insect physiology research
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Advanced chemical sensor technologies
  • Retinal development and disorders

Their recent scientific papers include the following:

  • A database and deep learning toolbox for noise-optimized, generalized spike inference from calcium imaging (2021, Nature Neuroscience)
  • Whole-body integration of gene expression and single-cell morphology (2021, Cell)
  • A virtual reality system to analyze neural activity and behavior in adult zebrafish (2020, Nature Methods)
  • Whitening of odor representations by the wiring diagram of the olfactory bulb (2020, Nature Neuroscience)
  • Dense Circuit Reconstruction to Understand Neuronal Computation: Focus on Zebrafish (2021, Annual Review of Neuroscience)

Rainer W. Friedrich has frequently collaborated with several co-authors. Some of the most frequent collaborators include:

  • Peter Rupprecht
  • Adrian Wanner
  • Claire Meissner-Bernard
  • Benjamin Titze
  • Chie Satou

The scientist's work has appeared predominantly in specific publication venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Cell
  • Nature Methods

Recognition of their contributions includes membership in the Academia Europaea, awarded in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Combinatorial and Chemotopic Odorant Coding in the Zebrafish Olfactory Bulb Visualized by Optical Imaging

    Rainer W Friedrich;Sigrun I Korsching

  • Amygdala interneuron subtypes control fear learning through disinhibition

    Steffen B. E. Wolff;Jan Gründemann;Philip Tovote;Sabine Krabbe

  • Dynamic optimization of odor representations by slow temporal patterning of mitral cell activity.

    Rainer W. Friedrich;Gilles Laurent

  • Odor encoding as an active, dynamical process : Experiments, computation, and theory

    Gilles Laurent;Mark Stopfer;Rainer W. Friedrich;Misha I. Rabinovich

  • NompC TRP channel required for vertebrate sensory hair cell mechanotransduction.

    Samuel Sidi;Rainer W. Friedrich;Teresa Nicolson

  • Reconstruction of firing rate changes across neuronal populations by temporally deconvolved Ca2+ imaging

    Emre Yaksi;Rainer W Friedrich

  • Chemotopic, Combinatorial, and Noncombinatorial Odorant Representations in the Olfactory Bulb Revealed Using a Voltage-Sensitive Axon Tracer

    Rainer W. Friedrich;Sigrun I. Korsching

  • Multiplexing using synchrony in the zebrafish olfactory bulb.

    Rainer W Friedrich;Christopher J Habermann;Gilles Laurent

  • Temporal Dynamics and Latency Patterns of Receptor Neuron Input to the Olfactory Bulb

    Hartwig Spors;Matt Wachowiak;Lawrence B. Cohen;Rainer W. Friedrich

  • Functional fluorescent Ca2+ indicator proteins in transgenic mice under TET control.

    Mazahir T Hasan;Rainer W Friedrich;Thomas Euler;Matthew E Larkum

  • Chondroitin fragments are odorants that trigger fear behavior in fish.

    Ajay S. Mathuru;Caroline Kibat;Wei Fun Cheong;Guanghou Shui

  • Circuit Neuroscience in Zebrafish

    Rainer W. Friedrich;Gilad A. Jacobson;Peixin Zhu

  • Olfactory pattern classification by discrete neuronal network states

    Jörn Niessing;Rainer W. Friedrich

  • Community-based benchmarking improves spike rate inference from two-photon calcium imaging data.

    Philipp Berens;Jeremy Freeman;Thomas Deneux;Nikolay Chenkov

  • Dense EM-based reconstruction of the interglomerular projectome in the zebrafish olfactory bulb

    Adrian A Wanner;Adrian A Wanner;Christel Genoud;Tafheem Masudi;Tafheem Masudi;Léa Siksou

  • Early Development of Functional Spatial Maps in the Zebrafish Olfactory Bulb

    Jun Li;Julia A Mack;Marcel Souren;Emre Yaksi

  • Processing of odor mixtures in the zebrafish olfactory bulb

    Rico Tabor;Emre Yaksi;Jan-Marek Weislogel;Rainer W. Friedrich

  • Functional organization of sensory input to the olfactory bulb glomerulus analyzed by two-photon calcium imaging.

    Matt Wachowiak;Winfried Denk;Rainer W. Friedrich

  • Optogenetic Dissection of Neuronal Circuits in Zebrafish using Viral Gene Transfer and the Tet System

    Peixin Zhu;Yuichi Narita;Sebastian T. Bundschuh;Otto Fajardo

  • A database and deep learning toolbox for noise-optimized, generalized spike inference from calcium imaging.

    Peter Rupprecht;Peter Rupprecht;Stefano Carta;Adrian Hoffmann;Mayumi Echizen;Mayumi Echizen

  • Mechanisms of pattern decorrelation by recurrent neuronal circuits.

    Martin T Wiechert;Benjamin Judkewitz;Hermann Riecke;Rainer W Friedrich

  • gemini Encodes a Zebrafish L-Type Calcium Channel That Localizes at Sensory Hair Cell Ribbon Synapses

    Samuel Sidi;Elisabeth Busch-Nentwich;Rainer W. Friedrich;Ulrike Schoenberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Gilles Laurent
Gilles Laurent Max Planck Society
Shin-ichi Higashijima
Shin-ichi Higashijima National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Matt Wachowiak
Matt Wachowiak University of Utah
Thomas Euler
Thomas Euler University of Tübingen
Andreas S. Tolias
Andreas S. Tolias Baylor College of Medicine
Rachael L. Neve
Rachael L. Neve Harvard University
Fritjof Helmchen
Fritjof Helmchen University of Zurich
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth Stanford University
Mark Stopfer
Mark Stopfer National Institutes of Health
Sonja B. Hofer
Sonja B. Hofer University College London

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