Jana Liewald

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

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Jana Liewald is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Aging and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Jana Liewald has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 22 papers in Aging and 17 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Jana Liewald's work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (30 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (22 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (17 papers). Jana Liewald is often cited by papers focused on Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (30 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (22 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (17 papers). Jana Liewald collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Belgium. Jana Liewald's co-authors include Alexander Gottschalk, Martin Brauner, Georg Nagel, Ernst Bamberg, Christian Schultheis, Wagner Steuer Costa, Steven Husson, Szi-chieh Yu, Mei Zhen and Greg J. Stephens and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Jana Liewald

37 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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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.

Light Activation of Channelrhodopsin-2 in Excitable Cells of Caenorhabditis elegans Triggers Rapid Behavioral Responses

2005 715 citations Georg Nagel, Martin Brauner et al. Current Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jana Liewald Germany	18	1.3k	557	512	501	274	38	1.7k
Martin Brauner Germany	10	1.0k 0.8×	485 0.9×	409 0.8×	333 0.7×	228 0.8×	10	1.3k
Miri K. VanHoven United States	9	620 0.5×	548 1.0×	346 0.7×	509 1.0×	110 0.4×	13	1.3k
Taizo Kawano United States	16	359 0.3×	622 1.1×	392 0.8×	336 0.7×	98 0.4×	24	993
Hiroshi Suzuki United States	10	384 0.3×	850 1.5×	637 1.2×	334 0.7×	42 0.2×	13	1.3k
Bojun Chen United States	19	329 0.3×	488 0.9×	298 0.6×	509 1.0×	49 0.2×	41	1.0k
Jerry E. Mellem United States	19	867 0.7×	1.2k 2.1×	738 1.4×	536 1.1×	92 0.3×	24	1.8k
Karen Erbguth Germany	8	644 0.5×	191 0.3×	176 0.3×	191 0.4×	85 0.3×	8	831
Andrew C. Giles United States	18	315 0.2×	497 0.9×	279 0.5×	324 0.6×	70 0.3×	27	982
Anne Lanjuin United States	12	255 0.2×	443 0.8×	243 0.5×	543 1.1×	60 0.2×	18	1.1k

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Liewald, Jana, et al.. (2024). Neuropeptidergic regulation of neuromuscular signaling in larval zebrafish alters swimming behavior and synaptic transmission. iScience. 27(9). 110687–110687. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Szi-chieh, et al.. (2021). Synapsin Is Required for Dense Core Vesicle Capture and cAMP-Dependent Neuropeptide Release. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(19). 4187–4201. 5 indexed citations

Schüler, Christina, et al.. (2019). Rhodopsin-based voltage imaging tools for use in muscles and neurons of Caenorhabditis elegans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(34). 17051–17060. 33 indexed citations

Costa, Wagner Steuer, Caspar Glock, Jana Liewald, et al.. (2019). A GABAergic and peptidergic sleep neuron as a locomotion stop neuron with compartmentalized Ca2+ dynamics. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4095–4095. 34 indexed citations

Yu, Szi-chieh, et al.. (2018). Endophilin A and B Join Forces With Clathrin to Mediate Synaptic Vesicle Recycling in Caenorhabditis elegans. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 11. 196–196. 16 indexed citations

Schultheis, Christian, Elisabeth Fischer, Satoshi P. Tsunoda, et al.. (2018). Rhodopsin optogenetic toolbox v2.0 for light-sensitive excitation and inhibition in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS ONE. 13(2). e0191802–e0191802. 35 indexed citations

Liewald, Jana, et al.. (2016). RIC-3 phosphorylation enables dual regulation of excitation and inhibition ofCaenorhabditis elegansmuscle. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 27(19). 2994–3003. 11 indexed citations

Costa, Wagner Steuer, Jana Liewald, & Alexander Gottschalk. (2014). Photoactivated Adenylyl Cyclases as Optogenetic Modulators of Neuronal Activity. Methods in molecular biology. 1148. 161–175. 6 indexed citations

Schmitt, Cornelia, Christian Schultheis, Steven Husson, Jana Liewald, & Cornelia I. Bargmann. (2013). Correction: Specific Expression of Channelrhodopsin-2 in Single Neurons of Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS ONE. 8(2). 3 indexed citations

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Schmitt, Cornelia, Christian Schultheis, Steven Husson, Jana Liewald, & Alexander Gottschalk. (2012). Specific Expression of Channelrhodopsin-2 in Single Neurons of Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS ONE. 7(8). e43164–e43164. 58 indexed citations

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Husson, Steven, Jana Liewald, Christian Schultheis, et al.. (2012). Microbial Light-Activatable Proton Pumps as Neuronal Inhibitors to Functionally Dissect Neuronal Networks in C. elegans. PLoS ONE. 7(7). e40937–e40937. 53 indexed citations

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Schultheis, Christian, Jana Liewald, Ernst Bamberg, Georg Nagel, & Alexander Gottschalk. (2011). Optogenetic Long-Term Manipulation of Behavior and Animal Development. PLoS ONE. 6(4). e18766–e18766. 50 indexed citations

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Schultheis, Christian, Martin Brauner, Jana Liewald, & Alexander Gottschalk. (2011). Optogenetic analysis of GABA_Breceptor signaling inCaenorhabditis elegansmotor neurons. Journal of Neurophysiology. 106(2). 817–827. 32 indexed citations

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Liewald, Jana, Christian Schultheis, Diego Rayes, et al.. (2009). An ER‐resident membrane protein complex regulates nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit composition at the synapse. The EMBO Journal. 28(17). 2636–2649. 46 indexed citations

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Biala, Yoav, Jana Liewald, Hagit Cohen Ben-Ami, Alexander Gottschalk, & Millet Treinin. (2008). The Conserved RIC-3 Coiled-Coil Domain Mediates Receptor-specific Interactions with Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 20(5). 1419–1427. 18 indexed citations

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Wang, Liping, Martin Brauner, Jana Liewald, et al.. (2007). Multimodal fast optical interrogation of neural circuitry. Nature. 446(7136). 633–639. 55 indexed citations

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Nagel, Georg, et al.. (2005). Light Activation of Channelrhodopsin-2 in Excitable Cells of Caenorhabditis elegans Triggers Rapid Behavioral Responses. Current Biology. 15(24). 2279–2284. 715 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rotmann, Alexander, Ellen I. Closs, Jana Liewald, & Hermann Nawrath. (2003). Intracellular accumulation of l-Arg, kinetics of transport, and potassium leak conductance in oocytes from Xenopus laevis expressing hCAT-1, hCAT-2A, and hCAT-2B. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1660(1-2). 138–143. 12 indexed citations

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Becker, Andreas, et al.. (2001). Antagonistic effects of hypertrehalosemic neuropeptide on the activities of 6-phosphofructo-1-kinase and fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase in cockroach fat body. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 31(4-5). 381–392. 7 indexed citations

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Becker, Andreas, Jana Liewald, & Gerhard Wegener. (1998). Signal transduction in isolated fat body from the cockroach Blaptica dubia exposed to hypertrehalosaemic neuropeptide. Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 168(3). 159–167. 7 indexed citations

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