David Owald

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

David Owald is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, David Owald has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 8 papers in Cell Biology and 8 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in David Owald's work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (19 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (8 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (8 papers). David Owald is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (19 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (8 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (8 papers). David Owald collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. David Owald's co-authors include Scott Waddell, Stephan J. Sigrist, Wolf Huetteroth, Clifford B. Talbot, Emmanuel Perisse, Carolin Wichmann, Wernher Fouquet, Gaurav Das, Sara Mertel and Harald Depner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

David Owald

23 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Layered reward signalling through octopamine and dopamine... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300
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.

  1. Layered reward signalling through octopamine and dopamine in Drosophila
    2012 397 citations Christopher J. Burke, Wolf Huetteroth et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Owald Germany 19 2.0k 725 707 508 436 25 2.5k
Arnim Jenett France 14 1.9k 0.9× 827 1.1× 1000 1.4× 273 0.5× 815 1.9× 21 2.9k
Richard A. Baines United Kingdom 31 2.1k 1.1× 1.5k 2.0× 478 0.7× 434 0.9× 255 0.6× 99 3.2k
Marta Zlatic United States 26 1.9k 0.9× 465 0.6× 740 1.0× 245 0.5× 466 1.1× 38 2.5k
Carsten Duch Germany 27 1.4k 0.7× 500 0.7× 561 0.8× 209 0.4× 400 0.9× 72 1.9k
André Fiala Germany 31 2.6k 1.3× 928 1.3× 1.1k 1.6× 224 0.4× 732 1.7× 60 3.5k
Takeshi Awasaki Japan 26 2.0k 1.0× 1.1k 1.6× 613 0.9× 340 0.7× 429 1.0× 48 2.9k
M Eugenia Chiappe Portugal 13 2.5k 1.2× 861 1.2× 873 1.2× 241 0.5× 568 1.3× 19 3.4k
Barret D. Pfeiffer United States 23 2.6k 1.3× 2.4k 3.3× 1.3k 1.8× 447 0.9× 746 1.7× 26 4.6k
Marion Silies Germany 21 1.4k 0.7× 674 0.9× 444 0.6× 239 0.5× 397 0.9× 38 1.9k
Emre Yaksi Norway 26 1.5k 0.7× 521 0.7× 442 0.6× 577 1.1× 304 0.7× 44 2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by David Owald

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Owald

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Owald

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Owald. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Owald based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with David Owald. David Owald is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Raccuglia, Davide, Sridhar R. Jagannathan, York Winter, et al.. (2025). Network synchrony creates neural filters promoting quiescence in Drosophila. Nature. 646(8085). 667–675.
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Scheunemann, Lisa, et al.. (2024). Mating proximity blinds threat perception. Nature. 634(8034). 635–643. 9 indexed citations
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Owald, David, et al.. (2022). Learning accurate path integration in ring attractor models of the head direction system. eLife. 11. 7 indexed citations
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Vierock, Johannes, Johannes Oppermann, Dietmar Schmitz, et al.. (2022). Calcium-permeable channelrhodopsins for the photocontrol of calcium signalling. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7844–7844. 21 indexed citations
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Chen, Yi‐Chun, Eric Reynolds, Lisa Scheunemann, et al.. (2022). Postsynaptic plasticity of cholinergic synapses underlies the induction and expression of appetitive and familiarity memories in Drosophila. eLife. 11. 16 indexed citations
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Raccuglia, Davide, Sheng Huang, Agustin Liotta, et al.. (2019). Network-Specific Synchronization of Electrical Slow-Wave Oscillations Regulates Sleep Drive in Drosophila. Current Biology. 29(21). 3611–3621.e3. 56 indexed citations
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Ehmann, Nadine, David Owald, & Robert J. Kittel. (2017). Drosophila active zones: From molecules to behaviour. Neuroscience Research. 127. 14–24. 18 indexed citations
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Perisse, Emmanuel, David Owald, Oliver Barnstedt, et al.. (2016). Aversive Learning and Appetitive Motivation Toggle Feed-Forward Inhibition in the Drosophila Mushroom Body. Neuron. 90(5). 1086–1099. 129 indexed citations
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Barnstedt, Oliver, David Owald, Johannes Felsenberg, et al.. (2016). Memory-Relevant Mushroom Body Output Synapses Are Cholinergic. Neuron. 89(6). 1237–1247. 127 indexed citations
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Patton, Brian, Daniel Burke, David Owald, et al.. (2016). Three-dimensional STED microscopy of aberrating tissue using dual adaptive optics. Optics Express. 24(8). 8862–8862. 73 indexed citations
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Owald, David & Scott Waddell. (2015). Olfactory learning skews mushroom body output pathways to steer behavioral choice in Drosophila. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 35. 178–184. 146 indexed citations
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Lin, Suewei, David Owald, Vikram Chandra, et al.. (2014). Neural correlates of water reward in thirsty Drosophila. Nature Neuroscience. 17(11). 1536–1542. 158 indexed citations
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Owald, David, Omid Khorramshahi, Varun Gupta, et al.. (2012). Cooperation of Syd-1 with Neurexin synchronizes pre- with postsynaptic assembly. Nature Neuroscience. 15(9). 1219–1226. 90 indexed citations
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Burke, Christopher J., Wolf Huetteroth, David Owald, et al.. (2012). Layered reward signalling through octopamine and dopamine in Drosophila. Nature. 492(7429). 433–437. 397 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zube, Christina, Till F. M. Andlauer, Carolin Wichmann, et al.. (2011). Presynapses in Kenyon Cell Dendrites in the Mushroom Body Calyx of Drosophila. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(26). 9696–9707. 69 indexed citations
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Owald, David, Wernher Fouquet, Manuela Schmidt, et al.. (2010). A Syd-1 homologue regulates pre- and postsynaptic maturation in Drosophila. The Journal of Cell Biology. 188(4). 565–579. 133 indexed citations
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Hallermann, Stefan, Robert J. Kittel, Carolin Wichmann, et al.. (2010). Naked Dense Bodies Provoke Depression. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(43). 14340–14345. 69 indexed citations
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Khorramshahi, Omid, David Owald, Carolin Wichmann, et al.. (2010). Drosophila Neuroligin 1 Promotes Growth and Postsynaptic Differentiation at Glutamatergic Neuromuscular Junctions. Neuron. 66(5). 724–738. 121 indexed citations
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Fouquet, Wernher, David Owald, Carolin Wichmann, et al.. (2009). Maturation of active zone assembly by Drosophila Bruchpilot. The Journal of Cell Biology. 186(1). 129–145. 304 indexed citations
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Owald, David & Stephan J. Sigrist. (2009). Assembling the presynaptic active zone. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 19(3). 311–318. 68 indexed citations

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