William A. Harris

Research.com Recognitions

• 2020 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
• 2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
• 2004 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
• 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1985 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Best Publications

• A critical window for cooperation and competition among developing retinotectal synapses

  Li I. Zhang;Huizhong W. Tao;Christine E. Holt;William A. Harris

  1144
  Citations

• Binocular impulse blockade prevents the formation of ocular dominance columns in cat visual cortex

  MP Stryker;WA Harris

  869
  Citations

• Conditioned Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster

  William G. Quinn;William A. Harris;Seymour Benzer

  857
  Citations

• Cellular determination in the xenopus retina is independent of lineage and birth date

  Christine E. Holt;Thomas W. Bertsch;Hilary M. Ellis;William A. Harris

  783
  Citations

• Specification of the vertebrate eye by a network of eye field transcription factors.

  Michael E. Zuber;Gaia Gestri;Andrea S. Viczian;Giuseppina Barsacchi

  639
  Citations

• Genetic dissection of the photoreceptor system in the compound eye of Drosophila melanogaster

  William S. Stark;John A. Walker;William A. Harris

  484
  Citations

• Development of the Nervous System

  Dan H. Sanes;Thomas A. Reh;William A. Harris

  467
  Citations

• Genetic disorders of vision revealed by a behavioral screen of 400 essential loci in zebrafish.

  Stephan C. F. Neuhauss;Oliver Biehlmaier;Mathias W. Seeliger;Tilak Das

  467
  Citations

• Expression of an extracellular deletion of Xotch diverts cell fate in Xenopus embryos

  Clark R. Coffman;Clark R. Coffman;Paul Skoglund;William A. Harris;Chris R. Kintner

  458
  Citations

• Late Endosomes Act as mRNA Translation Platforms and Sustain Mitochondria in Axons.

  Jean-Michel Cioni;Julie Qiaojin Lin;Anne V. Holtermann;Max Koppers

  425
  Citations

• Xotch, the Xenopus homolog of Drosophila notch

  Clark Coffman;William Harris;Chris Kintner

  386
  Citations

• 'Threshold-level' multipulse transcranial electrical stimulation of motor cortex for intraoperative monitoring of spinal motor tracts: Description of method and comparison to somatosensory evoked potential monitoring

  Blair Calancie;William Harris;James G. Broton;Natalia Alexeeva

  384
  Citations

• Inhibition of Activin/Nodal signaling promotes specification of human embryonic stem cells into neuroectoderm.

  Joseph R. Smith;Ludovic Vallier;Giuseppe Lupo;Morgan Alexander

  379
  Citations

• Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Growth and Guidance

  John L. Bixby;William A. Harris

  375
  Citations

• The genetic sequence of retinal development in the ciliary margin of the Xenopus eye.

  Muriel Perron;Shami Kanekar;Monica L. Vetter;William A. Harris

  372
  Citations

• Neuronal determination without cell division in xenopus embryos

  William A. Harris;Volker Hartenstein

  361
  Citations

• Mapping of the presumptive brain regions in the neural plate of Xenopus laevis

  Gerald W. Eagleson;William A. Harris

  342
  Citations

• Retinal axons with and without their somata, growing to and arborizing in the tectum of Xenopus embryos: a time-lapse video study of single fibres in vivo.

  W.A. Harris;C.E. Holt;F. Bonhoeffer

  342
  Citations

• The transcription factor Engrailed-2 guides retinal axons

  Isabelle Brunet;Christine Weinl;Michael Piper;Alain Trembleau

  341
  Citations

• Xotch inhibits cell differentiation in the Xenopus retina.

  Richard I Dorsky;David H Rapaport;William A Harris

  338
  Citations