Education
University
College London UK B.Sc. 1961-65 Zoology
University
College London UK Ph.D. 1965-68 Neurophysiology
University of
Frankfurt, West Germany Postdoctoral 1969 Sensory Physiology
University of
Frankfurt West Germany Habilitation 1985 Zoology
Positions and Honors
1970-75 Tenured Staff
Scientist, Max-Planck-Institüt for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, West
Germany
1975-86 Group Leader,
with tenure, Neurobiology Group, European Molecular Biology Laboratory,
Heidelberg, West Germany
1987- Professor of Neurobiology,
Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona,
Tucson
1988-2000 Member
Editorial Board, Cell and Tissue Research
1995-2000 Member Editorial Board, Journal of
Comparative Neurology
1999
Member
Editorial Board, Brain Behavior and Evolution
2000 Coordinating Editor, Arthropod
Structure and Development
1990-1995 Member,
Neural Systems and Behavior Review Panel, National Science Foundation
1997-2000 Member,
Bioinformatics Review Panel, National Science Foundation
1995- US Coordinator of the NSF
sponsored Drosophila Brain Database
FLYBRAIN.
1968 Fellow; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
1994 Fellow; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1995 Fellow; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation
1999
Regents’
Professor, University of Arizona
2000
Alexander
von Humboldt Forschungs Preis
2002 Elected Fellow of the Royal
Society
Selected peer-reviewed publications in chronological
order (75 total)
Strausfeld, N. J. (1998)
Crustacean - Insect Relationships: The Use of Brain Characters to Derive
Phylogeny amongst Segmented Invertebrates. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution.
52:186-206
Ito, K, Suzuki,
K., Estes, P., Ramaswami, M., Yamamoto, D., and N. J. Strausfeld. (1998) The
Organization of extrinsic neurons and their implications in the functional
roles of the mushroom bodies in Drosophila
melanogaster Meigen. Learning and
Memory. 5:52-77.
Strausfeld, N.J., Li, Y., Gomez, R., and K. Kei Ito. (1998) Evolution,
discovery, and interpretations of Arthropod mushroom bodies. Learning and Memory. 5:11-37
conservation and variation in dipteran visual systems.
Douglass. J. K., and N. J. Strausfeld (1998) Functionally and
anatomically segregated visual pathways in the lobula complex of a calliphorid
fly. J. Comp. Neurol. 396: 84-104.
Mizunami, M, Okada R, Li Y-S, and N. J. Strausfeld (1998) Mushroom
bodies of the cockroach: activity and identities of neurons recorded in freely
moving animals. J Comp Neurol 402:501-519.
Mizunami, M, Weibrecht J. M., and N. J. Strausfeld (1998) Mushroom
bodies of the cockroach: their participation in place memory. J Comp Neurol
402:520-537.
Strausfeld NJ, Hildebrand JG.(1999)
Olfactory systems: common design, uncommon origins? Curr Opin Neurobiol.
9:634-639.
Strausfeld NJ and YS Li
(1999a) Representation of the calyces in the medial and vertical lobes of
cockroach mushroom bodies. J Comp Neurol. 409:626-646.
Strausfeld NJ and YS Li
(1999b) Organization of olfactory and multimodal afferent neurons supplying the
calyx and pedunculus of the cockroach mushroom bodies. J Comp Neurol.
409:603-625.
Li YS, and NJ Strausfeld
(1999) Multimodal efferent and recurrent neurons in the medial lobes of
cockroach mushroom bodies. J Comp Neurol. 409:647-663.
Wicklein, M and N. J.,
Strausfeld (2000) organization and significance of neurons that detect change
of visual depth in the hawk moth Manduca
sexta. J. Comp. Neurol 424:356-376.
Strausfeld NJ,
Homberg U, and P Kloppenburg (2000) Parallel organization in honey bee mushroom
bodies by peptidergic Kenyon cells. J Comp Neurol. 424:179-195.
Campbell, H.
R. and Strausfeld, N. J. (2001). Learned discrimination of pattern orientation
in walking flies. JEB 204, 1-14
Strausfeld
NJ (1999) A brain region in insects that supervises walking. Progress in Brain
Research 123. 274-284
Douglass J. K.
and N. J. Strausfeld (2000a) Optic flow representation in the optic lobes of
Diptera: modeling the role of T5 directional tuning properties. J. Comp.
Physiol. 186. 783-797
Douglass JK,
Strausfeld NJ (2000b) Optic flow representation in the optic lobes of Diptera:
modeling innervation matrices into collators and their evolutionary
implications. J. Comp. Physiol. 186. 799-811
Jablonski P,
Strausfeld NJ (2000) Exploitation of an ancient escape circuit by an avian
predator: prey sensitivity to model predator display in the field. Brain Behav.
Evol. 56:94-106
Sinakevitch I,
Farris SM, Strausfeld NJ (2001) Taurine-, aspartate- and glutamate-like
immunoractivity identifies chemically distinct subdivisions of Kenyon cells in
the cockroach mushroom body. J Comp. Neurol 439:352-367.
Farris SM,
Strausfeld NJ (2001) Development of laminar organization in the mushroom bodies
of the cockroach: Kenyon cell proliferation, outgrowth, and maturation. J Comp
Neurol 439:331-351
Jablonski PG,
Strausfeld NJ. 2001. Exploitation of an Ancient Escape Circuit by an Avian
Predator: Relationships between Taxon-Specific Prey Escape Circuits and the
Sensitivity to Visual Cues from the Predator. Brain Behav Evol. 58:218-240.
Ongoing research support
NIH
2 P01 NS28495 04/01/01-03/31/06
(Drs.
R.B. Levine PI, with L. Tolbert, L. Restifo, L. Oland, and N. Strausfeld
co-PIs)
PPG:
“Neural Development: Intercellular and Humoral Control”
Project
1 “Developmental of a Learning and Memory Center”
This project investigates the development of learning and memory centers in the insect brain.
NSF
DBI-9723657 (N. Strausfeld, PI) 09/01/97-8/31/02
“Interactive
Insect Neuroanatomy Database for the World Wide Web”
This
project develops and implements a searchable database of the Drosophila brain for the World Wide Web.
NIH
5 R01 RR08688 (N. Strausfeld, PI) 09/01/97-08/31/02
“Neurobiology
of Simple Oculomotor System”
This
project investigates the functional orgnaization of the insect visual system.
ONR
N68936-00-2-0002 (N. Strausfeld; C. Higgins, co-PIs) 01/01/00-12/31/03
“Analysis
of Insect Visual Motion Processing and it's Application to a Biomimetic
Navigation and Tracking System”
This
project in collaboration with Dr. Charles Higgins (ECE, U of A) investigates
the orgnaization of circuits underlying visual motion discrimination.
SC-25627-1374-03
(N. Strausfeld, PI) 01/01/02-11/30/02
“Structural
and Electronmicroscopical Studies”
This
project is a STTR in collaboration with Physical Sciences Inc, to investigate
neural circuitry at the most peripheral level of the insect visual system.
HFSP
RG0143/2000-B 05/01/99-4/30/03
(T.
Préat (France), M. Heisenberg
(Germany), A. Mercer (New Zealand), N. Strausfeld, co-PIs)
“Molecular
and Systems Analysis of a Multimodal Brain Center”
Human Science
Frontiers Project with 3 others. This project investigates the neural, genetic,
and molecular mechanisms underlying the functional orgnaization of learning and
memory centers in insects.
Completed Research Support
NIH NCRR RO1
08688 (N. Strausfeld, PI) 09/01/92-08/31/97
“Neurobiology of
a simple oculomotor system”
This project
investigated the functional organization of the insect visual system with
emphasis on its descending premotor pathways.