Ian Meinertzhagen
Professor Emeritus
Related Information
Email: iam@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-2131
Fax: (902) 494-6585
Mailing Address:
- Development
- Neuroscience
- 3-D visualization and reconstruction
- Invertebrate neurobiology
- Synaptic fine structure
- Electron microscopy
- Connectomics
Education
BA/BSc University of Aberdeen
MA/MSc (University)
PhD University of St. Andrews
DSc University of St. Andrews
PDF Australian National University; Harvard University
Research Interests
Dr. Meinertzhagen鈥檚 work has pioneered studies on simple invertebrate nervous systems, especially the immaculately precise fly's visual system and the numerically diminutive nervous system of the ascidian tadpole larva, and has examined structurally identified circuits of neurons, their functional anatomy, their origins in both ontogeny and evolution, and their plasticity in adult animals.听
Selected Publications
鈥orycz, J., Borycz, J.A., Loubani, M. & Meinertzhagen, I.A. (2002). 听Tan and ebony genes regulate a novel pathway for transmitter metabolism at fly photoreceptor terminals.听 J. Neurosci. 22, 10549-10557.
鈥einertzhagen, I.A., Lemaire, P. & Okamura, Y. (2004).听 The neurobiology of the ascidian tadpole larva: recent developments in an ancient chordate.听 Ann. Rev. Neurosci. 27, 453-485.
鈥illard, S.S., Lu, Z., Zipursky, S.L. & Meinertzhagen, I.A. (2010).听 Drosophila Dscam proteins regulate postsynaptic specificity at multiple-contact synapses.听 Neuron 67, 761-768.
鈥hinomiya, K., Karuppudurai, T., Lin, T-Y., Lu, Z., Lee, C-H. & Meinertzhagen, I.A. (2014).听 Candidate neural substrates for off-edge motion detection in听Drosophila.听听Curr. Biol.听24, 1062-1070.
鈥abian-Fine, R., Meisner, S., Torkkeli, P.H. & Meinertzhagen, I.A. (2015).听 Co-localization of gamma-aminobutyric acid and glutamate in neurons of the spider central nervous system.听听Cell Tiss. Res. 362:461-479.
鈥akemura, S., Xu, C.S., Lu, Z., Rivlin, P.K., Olbris, D.J., Parag, T., Plaza, S.,听听Katz, W.T., Umayam, L., Weaver, C., Hess, H., Horne, J.A., Nunez, J., Aniceto, R., Chang, L-A., Lauchie, S., Nasca, A., Ogundeyi, O., Sigmund, C., Takemura, S., Tran, J., Langille, C., Le Lacheur, K., McLin, S., Shinomiya, A.,Chklovskii, D.B., Meinertzhagen, I.A. & Scheffer, L.K. (2015).听听听Multi-column synaptic circuits and an analysis of their variations in the visual system of听Drosophila.听听Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA听112,听13711-13716.
鈥yan, K., Lu, Z. & Meinertzhagen, I.A. (2016).听 The CNS connectome of a tadpole larva of听Ciona intestinalis听highlights sidedness in the brain of a chordate sibling.听听eLife听5, e16962.
鈥yan, K., Lu, Z. & Meinertzhagen, I.A. (2017).听 Circuit homology of decussating pathways in the听Ciona听larval CNS and the vertebrate startle-response pathway.听听Curr. Biol.听27, 1-8. 听
鈥akemura, S., Nern, A. Plaza, S., Chklovskii, D.B., Scheffer, L.K., Rubin, G.M. & Meinertzhagen, I.A. (2017).听听The听comprehensive connectome of a neural substrate for 鈥極N鈥� motion detection in听Drosophila.听听eLife听6:e24394. doi: 10.7554/eLife.24394.听
鈥yan K. & Meinertzhagen, I.A. (2018).听 Neuronal Identity: The neuron types of a simple chordate sibling, the tadpole larva of听Ciona intestinalis.听听Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 56, 47-60. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2018.10.015.
鈥hinomiya, K., Huang, G., Lu, Z., Parag, T., Xu, S.C., Aniceto, R., Ansari, N., Cheatham, N., Lauchie, S., Neace, E., Ogundeyi, O., Ordish, C., Peel, D., Shinomiya, A., Smith, C., Takemura, S., Talebi, I., Rivlin, P.K., Nern, A., Scheffer, L.K., Plaza, S.M. & Meinertzhagen, I.A..听(2019).听 Comparisons between the ON- and OFF-edge motion pathways in the听Drosophila听brain.听听eLife听2019;听8:e40025.听 doi:听.听 PMID:听30624205
鈥cheffer, L. & Meinertzhagen, I.A. (2019).听 The fly brain atlas.听听Ann. Rev.听Cell & Dev. Biol.听35, 10.1-10.17
Awards and Publications
鈥TEPS Fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
鈥zaak Walton Killam Professor in Neuroscience, AV俱乐部
鈥ellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
鈥niversity Research Professorship, AV俱乐部
鈥anada Council Killam Research Fellow
鈥ellowship, Royal Society of Canada
Service and Activity
Associate Editor, Journal of Comparative Neurology
Editorial Board, Journal of Neurogenetics
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Invertebrate Physiology