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Venkatesh N. Murthy

Venkatesh N. Murthy

Harvard University
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
55
Citations
20313
World Ranking
4619
National Ranking
2083

Venkatesh N. Murthy publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Venkatesh N. Murthy sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 140 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Venkatesh N. Murthy D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Venkatesh N. Murthy sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Venkatesh N. Murthy is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and is active in the field of neuroscience. Their research primarily focuses on sensory systems, cellular and molecular neuroscience, biomedical engineering, cognitive neuroscience, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics including olfactory and sensory function studies, advanced chemical sensor technologies, neurobiology and insect physiology research, neural dynamics and brain function, insect pheromone research and control, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and biochemical analysis and sensing techniques.

Venkatesh N. Murthy has contributed extensively to academic publications with a particular presence in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), eLife, arXiv (Cornell University), and Nature Communications.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Murthy include:

  • Multi-animal pose estimation, identification and tracking with DeepLabCut, 2022, Nature Methods
  • Olfactory Sensing and Navigation in Turbulent Environments, 2021, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics
  • Antagonistic odor interactions in olfactory sensory neurons are widespread in freely breathing mice, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Multi-animal pose estimation and tracking with DeepLabCut, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Rapid Learning of Odor-Value Association in the Olfactory Striatum, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Some of the most common coauthors are Catherine Dulac, Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, Alexander Mathis, Jessy Lauer, and Mu Zhou.

Venkatesh N. Murthy was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2000.

Best Publications

  • DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning

    Alexander Mathis;Pranav Mamidanna;Kevin M. Cury;Taiga Abe

  • Coherent 25- to 35-Hz oscillations in the sensorimotor cortex of awake behaving monkeys.

    Venkatesh N. Murthy;Eberhard E. Fetz

  • All-optical electrophysiology in mammalian neurons using engineered microbial rhodopsins

    Daniel R Hochbaum;Yongxin Zhao;Samouil L Farhi;Nathan Klapoetke

  • Inactivity produces increases in neurotransmitter release and synapse size.

    Venkatesh N Murthy;Thomas Schikorski;Charles F Stevens;Yongling Zhu

  • Heterogeneous release properties of visualized individual hippocampal synapses.

    Venkatesh N. Murthy;Terrence J. Sejnowski;Charles F. Stevens

  • Oscillatory activity in sensorimotor cortex of awake monkeys: synchronization of local field potentials and relation to behavior

    Venkatesh N. Murthy;Eberhard E. Fetz

  • Rapid turnover of actin in dendritic spines and its regulation by activity

    Erin N. Star;David J. Kwiatkowski;Venkatesh N. Murthy

  • Multiple forms of synaptic plasticity triggered by selective suppression of activity in individual neurons

    Juan Burrone;Michael O'Byrne;Venkatesh N. Murthy

  • Gradients of substrate-bound laminin orient axonal specification of neurons

    Stephan K. W. Dertinger;Xingyu Jiang;Zhiying Li;Venkatesh N. Murthy

  • Synchronization of neurons during local field potential oscillations in sensorimotor cortex of awake monkeys

    Venkatesh N. Murthy;Eberhard E. Fetz

  • Role of Astrocytes in Neurovascular Coupling

    Gabor C. Petzold;Gabor C. Petzold;Venkatesh N. Murthy

  • CELL BIOLOGY OF THE PRESYNAPTIC TERMINAL

    Venkatesh N. Murthy;Pietro De Camilli

  • Precision and diversity in an odor map on the olfactory bulb

    Edward Richard Soucy;Dinu F. Albeanu;Antoniu L. Fantana;Venkatesh N. Murthy

  • Molecular Organization of Vomeronasal Chemoreception

    Yoh Isogai;Sheng Si;Lorena Pont-Lezica;Lorena Pont-Lezica;Taralyn Marie Tan

  • Synaptic vesicles retain their identity through the endocytic cycle

    Venkatesh N. Murthy;Charles F. Stevens

  • Reversal of synaptic vesicle docking at central synapses

    Venkatesh N. Murthy;Venkatesh N. Murthy;Charles F. Stevens

  • Neuronal Representation of Social Information in the Medial Amygdala of Awake Behaving Mice

    Ying Li;Alexander Mathis;Benjamin F. Grewe;Jessica A. Osterhout;Jessica A. Osterhout

  • Inhibition of dynamin completely blocks compensatory synaptic vesicle endocytosis

    A. Jamila Newton;Tom Kirchhausen;Venkatesh N. Murthy

  • Coupling of Neural Activity to Blood Flow in Olfactory Glomeruli Is Mediated by Astrocytic Pathways

    Gabor C. Petzold;Dinu F. Albeanu;Tomokazu F. Sato;Venkatesh N. Murthy

  • Synaptic gain control and homeostasis.

    Juan Burrone;Venkatesh N Murthy

  • Serotonergic modulation of odor input to the mammalian olfactory bulb.

    Gabor C Petzold;Gabor C Petzold;Akari Hagiwara;Venkatesh N Murthy

  • Markerless tracking of user-defined features with deep learning

    Alexander Mathis;Pranav Mamidanna;Taiga Abe;Kevin M. Cury

  • All-optical electrophysiology in mammalian neurons using engineered microbial rhodopsins

    Daniel R Hochbaum;Yongxin Zhao;Samouil L Farhi;Christopher A Werley

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Mathis
Alexander Mathis École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Eberhard E. Fetz
Eberhard E. Fetz University of Washington
Juan Burrone
Juan Burrone King's College London
Matthias Bethge
Matthias Bethge University of Tübingen
Charles F. Stevens
Charles F. Stevens Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Catherine Dulac
Catherine Dulac Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Beth Stevens
Beth Stevens Boston Children's Hospital
Markus Meister
Markus Meister California Institute of Technology
William J. Tyler
William J. Tyler University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hugo J. Bellen
Hugo J. Bellen Baylor College of Medicine

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