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  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Ulrike Heberlein is affiliated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and agricultural and biological sciences. Within these fields, they further specialize in cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, molecular biology, and ecology.

The scientist's main research topics include neurobiology and insect physiology, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, physiological and biochemical adaptations, and invertebrate immune response mechanisms.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Ulrike Heberlein include:

  • Failure to mate enhances investment in behaviors that may promote mating reward and impairs the ability to cope with stressors via a subpopulation of Neuropeptide F receptor neurons, 2024, PLoS Genetics
  • Social hierarchy is established and maintained with distinct acts of aggression in male Drosophila, 2020, Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Social hierarchy is established and maintained with distinct acts of aggression in male Drosophila, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Behavioral features of motivated response to alcohol in Drosophila, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Failure to mate enhances investment in behaviors that may promote mating reward and impairs the ability to cope with stressors via a subpopulation of Neuropeptide F receptor neurons, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent coauthors working with Ulrike Heberlein include:

  • Julia Ryvkin
  • Liora Omesi
  • Yong-Kyu Kim
  • Mali Levi
  • Hadar Pozeilov

The main publication venues where Ulrike Heberlein's work appears frequently are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Genetics
  • Journal of Experimental Biology

Ulrike Heberlein has been recognized by the scientific community with awards such as:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010

Best Publications

  • Guidelines on nicotine dose selection for in vivo research

    Shannon G. Matta;David J. Balfour;Neal L. Benowitz;R. Thomas Boyd

  • Mushroom body output neurons encode valence and guide memory-based action selection in Drosophila

    Yoshinori Aso;Divya Sitaraman;Toshiharu Ichinose;Karla R. Kaun

  • Alpha-factor-directed synthesis and secretion of mature foreign proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Anthony J. Brake;James P. Merryweather;Doris G. Coit;Ulrike A. Heberlein

  • The TGFβ homolog dpp and the segment polarity gene hedgehog are required for propagation of a morphogenetic wave in the Drosophila retina

    Ulrike Heberlein;Tanya Wolff;Gerald M. Rubin

  • Ethanol Intoxication in Drosophila: Genetic and Pharmacological Evidence for Regulation by the cAMP Signaling Pathway

    Monica S Moore;Jim DeZazzo;Alvin Y Luk;Tim Tully

  • Dopamine modulates acute responses to cocaine, nicotine and ethanol in Drosophila

    Roland J Bainton;Linus T-Y Tsai;Carol M Singh;Monica S Moore

  • The homeo domain protein rough is expressed in a subset of cells in the developing Drosophila eye where it can specify photoreceptor cell subtype

    Bruce E. Kimmel;Ulrike Heberlein;Gerald M. Rubin

  • Genome-wide association and genetic functional studies identify autism susceptibility candidate 2 gene (AUTS2) in the regulation of alcohol consumption

    Gunter Schumann;Lachlan J. Coin;Anbarasu Lourdusamy;Pimphen Charoen;Pimphen Charoen

  • Functional Ethanol Tolerance in Drosophila

    Henrike Scholz;Jennifer Ramond;Carol M. Singh;Ulrike Heberlein

  • Characterization of drosophila transcription factors that activate the tandem promoters of the alcohol dehydrogenase gene

    Ulrike Heberlein;Bruce England;Robert Tjian

  • Aurora-A acts as a tumor suppressor and regulates self-renewal of Drosophila neuroblasts

    Hongyan Wang;Gregory W. Somers;Arash Bashirullah;Ulrike Heberlein

  • Sensory neurons in the Drosophila genital tract regulate female reproductive behavior.

    Martin Häsemeyer;Nilay Yapici;Ulrike Heberlein;Barry J. Dickson

  • Growth and differentiation in the drosophila eye coordinated by hedgehog

    Ulrike Heberlein;Carol M. Singh;Alvin Y. Luk;Terrence J. Donohoe

  • GPCR Signaling Is Required for Blood-Brain Barrier Formation in Drosophila

    Tina Schwabe;Roland J. Bainton;Richard D. Fetter;Ulrike Heberlein

  • Invertebrate models of drug abuse.

    Fred W. Wolf;Ulrike Heberlein

  • moody encodes two GPCRs that regulate cocaine behaviors and blood-brain barrier permeability in Drosophila.

    Roland J. Bainton;Linus T.-Y. Tsai;Tina Schwabe;Michael DeSalvo

  • A Drosophila model for alcohol reward

    Karla R Kaun;Reza Azanchi;Zaw Maung;Jay Hirsh

  • Mechanisms of drosophila retinal morphogenesis: The virtues of being progressive

    Ulrike Heberlein;Ulrike Heberlein;Kevin Mosest

  • Oviposition preference for and positional avoidance of acetic acid provide a model for competing behavioral drives in Drosophila

    Ryan M. Joseph;Anita V. Devineni;Ian F. G. King;Ulrike Heberlein

  • High-Resolution Analysis of Ethanol-Induced Locomotor Stimulation in Drosophila

    Fred W. Wolf;Aylin R. Rodan;Linus T.-Y. Tsai;Ulrike Heberlein

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald M. Rubin
Gerald M. Rubin Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Viktor Kharazia
Viktor Kharazia University of California, San Francisco
Nicole Soranzo
Nicole Soranzo Wellcome Sanger Institute
Jouke-Jan Hottenga
Jouke-Jan Hottenga Hamad bin Khalifa University
Gonneke Willemsen
Gonneke Willemsen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen
Leena Peltonen
Leena Peltonen University of Helsinki
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London

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