Silke Sachse

7.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
68 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

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Silke Sachse is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Silke Sachse has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 40 papers in Genetics and 32 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Silke Sachse's work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (59 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (39 papers) and Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (23 papers). Silke Sachse is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (59 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (39 papers) and Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (23 papers). Silke Sachse collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Sweden. Silke Sachse's co-authors include C. Giovanni Galizia, Bill S. Hansson, Leslie B. Vosshall, Richard Benton, Stephen W. Michnick, Markus Knaden, Veit Grabe, Angelika Rappert, Hany K. M. Dweck and Antonia Strutz and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Silke Sachse

68 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Atypical Membrane Topology and Heteromeric Function of Drosophila Odorant Receptors In Vivo

2006 752 citations Richard Benton, Silke Sachse et al. PLoS Biology profile →
A Conserved Dedicated Olfactory Circuit for Detecting Harmful Microbes in Drosophila

2012 443 citations Marcus C. Stensmyr, Hany K. M. Dweck et al. Cell profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Silke Sachse	4.1k	2.4k	2.3k	1.9k	1.2k	68	5.1k
Marcus C. Stensmyr	3.0k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	2.4k 1.1×	1.5k 0.8×	639 0.5×	51	4.7k
C. Giovanni Galizia	4.8k 1.2×	3.0k 1.3×	2.4k 1.1×	2.9k 1.6×	1.9k 1.6×	124	6.2k
Jing W. Wang	4.6k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	875 0.7×	56	5.3k
Reinhard F. Stocker	4.8k 1.2×	2.3k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	69	5.3k
Markus Knaden	2.6k 0.6×	2.1k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	379 0.3×	113	4.4k
Hubert Amrein	4.6k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	2.3k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	992 0.8×	48	6.0k
Elissa A. Hallem	2.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	1.9k 0.8×	651 0.4×	745 0.6×	52	4.1k
Laurence J. Zwiebel	5.1k 1.2×	2.8k 1.2×	3.6k 1.6×	1.2k 0.6×	684 0.6×	88	7.1k
Bertram Gerber	3.4k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	360 0.3×	96	4.2k
Kristin Scott	4.1k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	1000 0.5×	913 0.8×	58	4.9k

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Keesey, Ian W., Sudeshna Das Chakraborty, Amelie Baschwitz, et al.. (2025). Neuroecology of alcohol risk and reward: Methanol boosts pheromones and courtship success in Drosophila melanogaster. Science Advances. 11(14). eadi9683–eadi9683. 1 indexed citations

Krieger, Jürgen, et al.. (2024). Females smell differently: characteristics and significance of the most common olfactory sensilla of female silkmoths. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2015). 20232578–20232578. 8 indexed citations

Grabe, Veit, Hetan Chang, Jonathan Gershenzon, et al.. (2024). Ring-shaped odor coding in the antennal lobe of migratory locusts. Cell. 187(15). 3973–3991.e24. 3 indexed citations

Sachse, Silke, et al.. (2023). Mixing things up! — how odor blends are processed in Drosophila. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 59. 101099–101099. 4 indexed citations

Depetris-Chauvin, Ana, et al.. (2023). Evolution at multiple processing levels underlies odor-guided behavior in the genus Drosophila. Current Biology. 33(22). 4771–4785.e7. 11 indexed citations

Sachse, Silke, et al.. (2023). Experience-dependent plasticity in the olfactory system of Drosophila melanogaster and other insects. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 17. 1130091–1130091. 12 indexed citations

Sachse, Silke, et al.. (2022). Multimodal Information Processing and Associative Learning in the Insect Brain. Insects. 13(4). 332–332. 15 indexed citations

Chakraborty, Sudeshna Das, Hetan Chang, Bill S. Hansson, & Silke Sachse. (2022). Higher-order olfactory neurons in the lateral horn support odor valence and odor identity coding in Drosophila. eLife. 11. 14 indexed citations

Sachse, Silke, et al.. (2022). Shedding Light on Inter-Individual Variability of Olfactory Circuits in Drosophila. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 16. 835680–835680. 8 indexed citations

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Khallaf, Mohammed A., Thomas O. Auer, Veit Grabe, et al.. (2020). Mate discrimination among subspecies through a conserved olfactory pathway. Science Advances. 6(25). eaba5279–eaba5279. 37 indexed citations

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Miazzi, Fabio, Carolin Hoyer, Silke Sachse, et al.. (2019). Optimization of Insect Odorant Receptor Trafficking and Functional Expression Via Transient Transfection in HEK293 Cells. Chemical Senses. 44(9). 673–682. 10 indexed citations

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Bisch-Knaden, Sonja, et al.. (2018). Spatial Representation of Feeding and Oviposition Odors in the Brain of a Hawkmoth. Cell Reports. 22(9). 2482–2492. 45 indexed citations

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Strube‐Bloss, Martin F., Veit Grabe, Bill S. Hansson, & Silke Sachse. (2017). Calcium imaging revealed no modulatory effect on odor-evoked responses of the Drosophila antennal lobe by two populations of inhibitory local interneurons. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 7854–7854. 5 indexed citations

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Grabe, Veit, Amelie Baschwitz, Hany K. M. Dweck, et al.. (2016). Elucidating the Neuronal Architecture of Olfactory Glomeruli in the Drosophila Antennal Lobe. Cell Reports. 16(12). 3401–3413. 113 indexed citations

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Lebreton, Sébastien, Federica Trona, Felipe Borrero‐Echeverry, et al.. (2015). Feeding regulates sex pheromone attraction and courtship in Drosophila females. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 13132–13132. 64 indexed citations

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Ebrahim, Shimaa A. M., Hany K. M. Dweck, Johannes Stökl, et al.. (2015). Drosophila Avoids Parasitoids by Sensing Their Semiochemicals via a Dedicated Olfactory Circuit. PLoS Biology. 13(12). e1002318–e1002318. 120 indexed citations

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Stensmyr, Marcus C., Hany K. M. Dweck, Abu Farhan, et al.. (2012). A Conserved Dedicated Olfactory Circuit for Detecting Harmful Microbes in Drosophila. Cell. 151(6). 1345–1357. 443 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stökl, Johannes, Antonia Strutz, Amots Dafni, et al.. (2010). A Deceptive Pollination System Targeting Drosophilids through Olfactory Mimicry of Yeast. Current Biology. 20(20). 1846–1852. 142 indexed citations

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Fiala, André, Sören Diegelmann, Silke Sachse, et al.. (2002). Genetically Expressed Cameleon in Drosophila melanogaster Is Used to Visualize Olfactory Information in Projection Neurons. Current Biology. 12(21). 1877–1884. 169 indexed citations

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Sachse, Silke, Angelika Rappert, & C. Giovanni Galizia. (1999). The spatial representation of chemical structures in the antennal lobe of honeybees: steps towards the olfactory code. European Journal of Neuroscience. 11(11). 3970–3982. 206 indexed citations

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