Seymour Benzer

Research.com Recognitions

• 2006 - Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research
• 2004 - Canada Gairdner International Award
• 2004 - Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
• 2004 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
• 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 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1961 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Best Publications

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

  Pankaj Kapahi;Brian M Zid;Tony Harper;Daniel Koslover

  1502
  Citations

• Development of the Drosophila retina, a neurocrystalline lattice

  Donald F. Ready;Thomas E. Hanson;Seymour Benzer

  1464
  Citations

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

  Yi Jyun Lin;Laurent Seroude;Seymour Benzer

  1205
  Citations

• painless, a Drosophila gene essential for nociception

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

  978
  Citations

• Genetic Suppression of Polyglutamine Toxicity in Drosophila

  Parsa Kazemi-Esfarjani;Seymour Benzer

  841
  Citations

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

  Kyung-Tai Min;Seymour Benzer

  793
  Citations

• Prandiology of Drosophila and the CAFE assay.

  William W. Ja;Gil B. Carvalho;Elizabeth M. Mak;Noelle N. de la Rosa

  749
  Citations

• ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE GENETIC FINE STRUCTURE

  Seymour Benzer

  748
  Citations

• dunce, a mutant of Drosophila deficient in learning

  Yadin Dudai;Yuh-Nung Jan;Duncan Byers;William G. Quinn

  736
  Citations

• Monoclonal antibodies against the Drosophila nervous system

  Shinobu C. Fujita;Stephen L. Zipursky;Seymour Benzer;Alberto Ferrús

  727
  Citations

• Fine Structure of a Genetic Region in Bacteriophage

  Seymour Benzer

  657
  Citations

• The eyes absent gene: Genetic control of cell survival and differentiation in the developing Drosophila eye

  Nancy M. Bonini;William M. Leiserson;Seymour Benzer

  629
  Citations

• A single population of olfactory sensory neurons mediates an innate avoidance behaviour in Drosophila

  Greg S. B. Suh;Allan M. Wong;Allan M. Wong;Anne C. Hergarden;Jing W. Wang;Jing W. Wang

  612
  Citations

• 4E-BP Extends Lifespan upon Dietary Restriction by Enhancing Mitochondrial Activity in Drosophila

  Brian M. Zid;Aric N. Rogers;Subhash D. Katewa;Misha A. Vargas

  609
  Citations

• Neuronal development in the Drosophila retina: monoclonal antibodies as molecular probes.

  S.L. Zipursky;Tadmiri R. Venkatesh;David B. Teplow;Seymour Benzer

  588
  Citations

• Paralysis and early death in cysteine string protein mutants of Drosophila

  Konrad E. Zinsmaier;Kai K. Eberle;Erich Buchner;Niklaus Walter

  528
  Citations

• ON THE TOPOLOGY OF THE GENETIC FINE STRUCTURE.

  Seymour Benzer

  519
  Citations

• On the role of soluble ribonucleic acid in coding for amino acids.

  Francois Chapeville;Fritz Lipmann;Günter von Ehrenstein;Bernard Weisblum

  490
  Citations

• Mapping of Behaviour in Drosophila Mosaics

  Yoshiki Hotta;Yoshiki Hotta;Seymour Benzer

  476
  Citations

• Wolbachia, normally a symbiont of Drosophila, can be virulent, causing degeneration and early death (symbiosisymicrobial infectionyparasiteyRickettsiaylife-span)

  Kyung-Tai Min;Seymour Benzer

  4
  Citations