D-Index & Metrics Best Publications

Seymour Benzer

California Institute of Technology
United States

D-Index & Metrics D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines.

Discipline name Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking

Biology and Biochemistry D-index 77 Citations 26,521 117 World Ranking 2944 National Ranking 1551

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

2006 - Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research

2004 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute

2004 - Canada Gairdner International Award

2004 - Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience

2001 - Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award

2001 - NAS Award in the Neurosciences, U.S. National Academy of Sciences For his pioneering contributions which have brought neurogenetics to maturity. Benzer's discoveries in fruit flies have identified specific genes contributing to behaviors of central importance.

1989 - Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience

1988 - Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society A pioneer in using genetic techniques to study the genetic code and the transfer of information from DNA to proteins. By a brilliant selection of suitable experimental systems, he has succeeded over the last twenty years in advancing these techniques and applying them to the analysis of development and behavior. These contributions have greatly expanded the power of the genetic approach in neurobiology and fostered a merger between molecular biology and neurobiology that is having profound consequences on every aspect of the field

1982 - US President's National Medal of Science "For elucidating the fine structure of the gene and unifying the classical and molecular concepts of gene structure and function.", Presented by President Reagan at a White House Ceremony on May 24, 1983.

1976 - Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Columbia University

1971 - Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Lasker Foundation

1964 - Canada Gairdner International Award

1961 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

1961 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

Clock Mutants of Drosophila melanogaster

Ronald J. Konopka;Seymour Benzer.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (1971)

2844 Citations

Development of the Drosophila retina, a neurocrystalline lattice

Donald F. Ready;Thomas E. Hanson;Seymour Benzer.
Developmental Biology (1976)

1364 Citations

Regulation of Lifespan in Drosophila by Modulation of Genes in the TOR Signaling Pathway

Pankaj Kapahi;Brian M Zid;Tony Harper;Daniel Koslover.
Current Biology (2004)

1291 Citations

Extended Life-Span and Stress Resistance in the Drosophila Mutant methuselah

Yi-Jyun Lin;Laurent Seroude;Seymour Benzer.
Science (1998)

1129 Citations

BEHAVIORAL MUTANTS OF Drosophila ISOLATED BY COUNTERCURRENT DISTRIBUTION

Seymour Benzer.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (1967)

851 Citations

Genetic Suppression of Polyglutamine Toxicity in Drosophila

Parsa Kazemi-Esfarjani;Seymour Benzer.
Science (2000)

817 Citations

painless, a Drosophila gene essential for nociception

W.Daniel Tracey;Rachel I Wilson;Gilles Laurent;Seymour Benzer.
Cell (2003)

785 Citations

Conditioned Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster

William G. Quinn;William A. Harris;Seymour Benzer.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (1974)

775 Citations

Monoclonal antibodies against the Drosophila nervous system

Shinobu C. Fujita;Stephen L. Zipursky;Seymour Benzer;Alberto Ferrús.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (1982)

707 Citations

Wolbachia, normally a symbiont of Drosophila, can be virulent, causing degeneration and early death

Kyung-Tai Min;Seymour Benzer.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (1997)

703 Citations

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