Boris V. Zemelman

11.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
55 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Boris V. Zemelman is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Boris V. Zemelman has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 24 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 21 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Boris V. Zemelman's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (19 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (14 papers). Boris V. Zemelman is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (19 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (14 papers). Boris V. Zemelman collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Boris V. Zemelman's co-authors include James E. Rothman, Thomas Söllner, James A. McNew, Michael Gmachl, Francesco Parlati, Benedikt Westermann, Thomas Weber, Attila Losonczy, Gero Miesenböck and Jeffrey C. Magee and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Boris V. Zemelman

51 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

SNAREpins: Minimal Machinery for Membrane Fusion

1998 2.0k citations Thomas Weber, Boris V. Zemelman et al. Cell profile →
Control of timing, rate and bursts of hippocampal place cells by dendritic and somatic inhibition

2012 484 citations Sébastien Royer, Boris V. Zemelman et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Boris V. Zemelman United States	29	3.8k	2.7k	2.2k	1.9k	401	55	6.4k
Susanne Schoch Germany	43	3.4k 0.9×	3.5k 1.3×	984 0.4×	2.1k 1.1×	634 1.6×	112	6.3k
Graeme W. Davis United States	50	6.2k 1.6×	4.6k 1.7×	988 0.4×	3.3k 1.8×	570 1.4×	90	8.8k
Pascal S. Kaeser United States	39	3.0k 0.8×	3.5k 1.3×	714 0.3×	1.8k 1.0×	236 0.6×	63	5.3k
Markus Missler Germany	42	4.2k 1.1×	4.6k 1.7×	1.2k 0.5×	2.5k 1.3×	566 1.4×	85	7.8k
Douglas S. Kim United States	28	5.5k 1.5×	3.7k 1.4×	2.5k 1.1×	734 0.4×	440 1.1×	40	9.1k
Gero Miesenböck United States	35	4.9k 1.3×	2.9k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	591 1.5×	50	8.5k
Masamichi Ohkura Japan	28	2.3k 0.6×	2.6k 1.0×	999 0.4×	547 0.3×	314 0.8×	66	5.2k
Sabine L. Renninger Portugal	9	3.3k 0.9×	1.9k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	511 0.3×	273 0.7×	12	5.4k
Tsai‐Wen Chen United States	18	4.3k 1.1×	2.3k 0.8×	2.6k 1.1×	482 0.3×	323 0.8×	23	7.1k
Michisuke Yuzaki Japan	51	4.5k 1.2×	4.4k 1.6×	705 0.3×	1.1k 0.6×	488 1.2×	163	7.7k

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Robert, Vincent, et al.. (2025). Cortical glutamatergic and GABAergic inputs support learning-driven hippocampal stability. Science. 390(6778). eadn0623–eadn0623.

Vázquez, Jessica, et al.. (2024). A non-conducting role of the Cav1.4 Ca2+ channel drives homeostatic plasticity at the cone photoreceptor synapse. eLife. 13.

Boutz, Daniel R., et al.. (2024). Engineering a human P2X2 receptor with altered ligand selectivity in yeast. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(5). 107248–107248. 1 indexed citations

Zemelman, Boris V., et al.. (2023). Primate neocortex performs balanced sensory amplification. Neuron. 112(4). 661–675.e7. 2 indexed citations

Zemelman, Boris V., et al.. (2022). Granule Cells Constitute One of the Major Neuronal Subtypes in the Molecular Layer of the Posterior Cerebellum. eNeuro. 9(3). ENEURO.0289–21.2022. 2 indexed citations

Mehta, Preeti, et al.. (2021). Excitatory cholecystokinin neurons of the midbrain integrate diverse temporal responses and drive auditory thalamic subdomains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(10). 15 indexed citations

Rolotti, Sebi V., Miklos Szoboszlay, Tristan Geiller, et al.. (2021). Local Feedback Inhibition Tightly Controls Rapid Formation of Hippocampal Place Fields. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations

Kuwajima, Masaaki, et al.. (2020). Ultrastructure of light-activated axons following optogenetic stimulation to produce late-phase long-term potentiation. PLoS ONE. 15(1). e0226797–e0226797. 7 indexed citations

Ko, Hee‐kyoung, et al.. (2020). Uniform spatial pooling explains topographic organization and deviation from receptive-field scale invariance in primate V1. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6390–6390. 5 indexed citations

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Wylie, Dennis, Hans A. Hofmann, & Boris V. Zemelman. (2019). SArKS: de novo discovery of gene expression regulatory motif sites and domains by suffix array kernel smoothing. Bioinformatics. 35(20). 3944–3952. 1 indexed citations

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Bernier, Brian E., Anthony F. Lacagnina, Francis Shue, et al.. (2017). Dentate Gyrus Contributes to Retrieval as well as Encoding: Evidence from Context Fear Conditioning, Recall, and Extinction. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(26). 6359–6371. 117 indexed citations

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Siegel, Jennifer J., Raymond A. Chitwood, James Ding, et al.. (2017). Prefrontal Cortex Dysfunction in Fragile X Mice Depends on the Continued Absence of Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein in the Adult Brain. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(31). 7305–7317. 22 indexed citations

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Miller, David, Ahmed M. Hassan, Jeremy W. Jarrett, et al.. (2017). In vivo multiphoton imaging of a diverse array of fluorophores to investigate deep neurovascular structure. Biomedical Optics Express. 8(7). 3470–3470. 24 indexed citations

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Niere, Farr, Ehwang Song, Geoffrey A. Dilly, et al.. (2015). Analysis of Proteins That Rapidly Change Upon Mechanistic/Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Complex 1 (mTORC1) Repression Identifies Parkinson Protein 7 (PARK7) as a Novel Protein Aberrantly Expressed in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC). Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 15(2). 412–430. 25 indexed citations

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Lovett-Barron, Matthew, Patrick Kaifosh, Mazen A. Kheirbek, et al.. (2014). Dendritic Inhibition in the Hippocampus Supports Fear Learning. Science. 343(6173). 857–863. 357 indexed citations

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Royer, Sébastien, Boris V. Zemelman, Attila Losonczy, et al.. (2012). Control of timing, rate and bursts of hippocampal place cells by dendritic and somatic inhibition. Nature Neuroscience. 15(5). 769–775. 484 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lovett-Barron, Matthew, Gergely F. Turi, Patrick Kaifosh, et al.. (2012). Regulation of neuronal input transformations by tunable dendritic inhibition. Nature Neuroscience. 15(3). 423–430. 314 indexed citations

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Varga, Viktor, Attila Losonczy, Boris V. Zemelman, et al.. (2009). Fast Synaptic Subcortical Control of Hippocampal Circuits. Science. 326(5951). 449–453. 207 indexed citations

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Zemelman, Boris V., et al.. (2002). Endonuclease G, a Candidate Human Enzyme for the Initiation of Genomic Inversion in Herpes Simplex Type 1 Virus. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(23). 21071–21079. 27 indexed citations

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Weber, Thomas, Boris V. Zemelman, James A. McNew, et al.. (1998). SNAREpins: Minimal Machinery for Membrane Fusion. Cell. 92(6). 759–772. 2013 indexed citations breakdown →

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