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Randolf Menzel
Institute of Neurobiology, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Faculty Member: NEUROSCIENCE > Behavioural neuroscience [ since 11 July 2001 ]
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Biography

*7.6.1940 Marienbad/CSR
School education in Gernsheim/Germany
University studies in Biology, Chemistry and Physics at the universities in Frankfurt/main and Tuebingen
PhD 1967 Frankfurt in Zoology
Habilitation 1972 Technical University Darmstadt
Postdoc RSBS at ANU Canberry/Australia
Professor C2 Darmstadt 1973
Professor and Head of Department Neurobiology Freie University Berlin from 1976 on
1991 Leibniz Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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http://www.neurobiologie.fu-berlin.de

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Evaluations

Innate versus learned odour processing in the mouse olfactory bulb.
Kobayakawa K, Kobayakawa R, …, Mori K, Sakano H
Nature 2007 Nov 22 450(7169):503-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel / Venkatesh Murthy
Evaluated 30 Nov 2007

Segregation of odor identity and intensity during odor discrimination in Drosophila mushroom body.
Xia S, Tully T
PLoS Biol 2007 Oct 2 5(10):e264 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 27 Nov 2007

The scent of the waggle dance.
Thom C, Gilley DC, Hooper J, Esch HE
PLoS Biol 2007 5:1862 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 9 Oct 2007

An energy budget for the olfactory glomerulus.
Nawroth JC, Greer CA, …, Laughlin SB, Shepherd GM
J Neurosci 2007 Sep 5 27(36):9790-800 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 9 Oct 2007

Queen pheromone blocks aversive learning in young worker bees.
Vergoz V, Schreurs HA, Mercer AR
Science 2007 Jul 20 317(5836):384-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Martin Giurfa / Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 1 Aug 2007

Fly photoreceptors demonstrate energy-information trade-offs in neural coding.
Niven JE, Anderson JC, Laughlin SB
PLoS Biol 2007 Apr 5(4):e116 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 2 May 2007

Excitatory local circuits and their implications for olfactory processing in the fly antennal lobe.
Shang Y, Claridge-Chang A, …, Pypaert M, Miesenböck G
Cell 2007 Feb 9 128(3):601-12 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 12 Mar 2007

Sequential use of mushroom body neuron subsets during drosophila odor memory processing.
Krashes MJ, Keene AC, …, Armstrong JD, Waddell S
Neuron 2007 Jan 4 53(1):103-15 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 7 Feb 2007

Drosophila alpha/beta mushroom body neurons form a branch-specific, long-term cellular memory trace after spaced olfactory conditioning.
Yu D, Akalal DB, Davis RL
Neuron 2006 Dec 7 52(5):845-55 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Martin Giurfa / Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 2 Feb 2007

Roles of octopaminergic and dopaminergic neurons in mediating reward and punishment signals in insect visual learning.
Unoki S, Matsumoto Y, Mizunami M
Eur J Neurosci 2006 Oct 24(7):2031-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel / Martin Giurfa
Evaluated 7 Nov 2006

Neural representation of olfactory mixtures in the honeybee antennal lobe.
Deisig N, Giurfa M, Lachnit H, Sandoz JC
Eur J Neurosci 2006 Aug 24(4):1161-74 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 25 Sep 2006

Role of delayed nonsynaptic neuronal plasticity in long-term associative memory.
Kemenes I, Straub VA, …, Kemenes G, Benjamin PR
Curr Biol 2006 Jul 11 16(13):1269-79 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 7 Sep 2006

Drosophila dorsal paired medial neurons provide a general mechanism for memory consolidation.
Keene AC, Krashes MJ, …, Bernard JA, Waddell S
Curr Biol 2006 Aug 8 16(15):1524-30 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 31 Aug 2006

Pheromone-sensitive glomeruli in the primary olfactory centre of ants.
Yamagata N, Nishino H, Mizunami M
Proc Biol Sci 2006 Sep 7 273(1598):2219-25 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 31 Aug 2006

Distinct memory traces for two visual features in the Drosophila brain.
Liu G, Seiler H, …, Heisenberg M, Liu L
Nature 2006 Feb 2 439(7076):551-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Thomas S. Collett / Martin Giurfa / Randolf Menzel / David P. Wolfer / William Kristan
Evaluated 8 Feb 2006

Genetic dissociation of acquisition and memory strength in the heat-box spatial learning paradigm in Drosophila.
Diegelmann S, Zars M, Zars T
Learn Mem 2006 Jan-Feb 13(1):72-83 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 1 Feb 2006

Drosophila DPM neurons form a delayed and branch-specific memory trace after olfactory classical conditioning.
Yu D, Keene AC, …, Waddell S, Davis RL
Cell 2005 Dec 2 123(5):945-57 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 5 Jan 2006

Global versus local adaptation in fly motion-sensitive neurons.
Neri P, Laughlin SB
Proc Biol Sci 2005 Nov 7 272(1578):2243-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 7 Oct 2005

Chemosensory coding by neurons in the coeloconic sensilla of the Drosophila antenna.
Yao CA, Ignell R, Carlson JR
J Neurosci 2005 Sep 14 25(37):8359-67 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 7 Oct 2005

Central localization of plasticity involved in appetitive conditioning in Lymnaea.
Straub VA, Styles BJ, …, O'Shea M, Benjamin PR
Learn Mem 2004 Nov-Dec 11(6):787-93 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 6 Oct 2005

Molecular, anatomical, and functional organization of the Drosophila olfactory system.
Couto A, Alenius M, Dickson BJ
Curr Biol 2005 Sep 6 15(17):1535-47 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 6 Oct 2005

Linking new information to a reactivated memory requires consolidation and not reconsolidation mechanisms.
Tronel S, Milekic MH, Alberini CM
PLoS Biol 2005 Sep 3(9):e293 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Karl-Peter Giese / Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 6 Oct 2005

Exclusive consolidated memory phases in Drosophila.
Isabel G, Pascual A, Preat T
Science 2004 May 14 304(5673):1024-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Martin Giurfa / Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 6 Oct 2005

Spatio-temporal Ca2+ dynamics of moth olfactory projection neurones.
Carlsson MA, Knüsel P, Verschure PF, Hansson BS
Eur J Neurosci 2005 Aug 22(3):647-57 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 9 Sep 2005

Crossmodal interactions between olfactory and visual learning in Drosophila.
Guo J, Guo A
Science 2005 Jul 8 309(5732):307-10 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 21 Jul 2005

The molecular basis of odor coding in the Drosophila larva.
Kreher SA, Kwon JY, Carlson JR
Neuron 2005 May 5 46(3):445-56 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 21 Jun 2005

A role for Synapsin in associative learning: the Drosophila larva as a study case.
Michels B, Diegelmann S, …, Buchner E, Gerber B
Learn Mem 2005 May-Jun 12(3):224-31 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 20 Jun 2005

Olfactory blocking and odorant similarity in the honeybee.
Guerrieri F, Lachnit H, Gerber B, Giurfa M
Learn Mem 2005 Mar-Apr 12(2):86-95 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 13 Jun 2005

Learning at different satiation levels reveals parallel functions for the cAMP-protein kinase A cascade in formation of long-term memory.
Friedrich A, Thomas U, Müller U
J Neurosci 2004 May 5 24(18):4460-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Martin Giurfa / Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 25 Apr 2005

Insect sex-pheromone signals mediated by specific combinations of olfactory receptors.
Nakagawa T, Sakurai T, Nishioka T, Touhara K
Science 2005 Mar 11 307(5715):1638-42 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | John Ngai / Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 5 Apr 2005

Diverse odor-conditioned memories require uniquely timed dorsal paired medial neuron output.
Keene AC, Stratmann M, …, Vosshall LB, Waddell S
Neuron 2004 Oct 28 44(3):521-33 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 1 Apr 2005

Drosophila OBP LUSH is required for activity of pheromone-sensitive neurons.
Xu P, Atkinson R, Jones DN, Smith DP
Neuron 2005 Jan 20 45(2):193-200 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 10 Feb 2005

Maintaining accuracy at the expense of speed: stimulus similarity defines odor discrimination time in mice.
Abraham NM, Spors H, …, Kuner T, Schaefer AT
Neuron 2004 Dec 2 44(5):865-76 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 21 Jan 2005

Spontaneous recovery after extinction of the conditioned proboscis extension response in the honeybee.
Sandoz JC, Pham-Delègue MH
Learn Mem 2004 Sep-Oct 11(5):586-97 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 18 Nov 2004

A clock gene, period, plays a key role in long-term memory formation in Drosophila.
Sakai T, Tamura T, Kitamoto T, Kidokoro Y
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004 Nov 9 101(45):16058-63 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Ralph Greenspan / Louis Ptacek / Randolf Menzel / Seth J Davis
Evaluated 17 Nov 2004

Local and global chemotopic organization: general features of the glomerular representations of aliphatic odorants differing in carbon number.
Johnson BA, Farahbod H, …, Saber S, Leon M
J Comp Neurol 2004 Dec 6 480(2):234-49 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 17 Nov 2004

Role for a cortical input to hippocampal area CA1 in the consolidation of a long-term memory.
Remondes M, Schuman EM
Nature 2004 Oct 7 431(7009):699-703 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Howard Eichenbaum / Randolf Menzel / Karl-Peter Giese / David P. Wolfer
Evaluated 8 Oct 2004

Spatial representation in the entorhinal cortex.
Fyhn M, Molden S, …, Moser EI, Moser MB
Science 2004 Aug 27 305(5688):1258-64 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Wendy Suzuki / James Knierim / Mayank Mehta / Randolf Menzel / John Lisman
Evaluated 8 Oct 2004

Stereotyped odor-evoked activity in the mushroom body of Drosophila revealed by green fluorescent protein-based Ca2+ imaging.
Wang Y, Guo HF, …, Svoboda K, Zhong Y
J Neurosci 2004 Jul 21 24(29):6507-14 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Martin Giurfa / Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 18 Aug 2004

Local-feature assembling in visual pattern recognition and generalization in honeybees.
Stach S, Benard J, Giurfa M
Nature 2004 Jun 17 429(6993):758-61 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 29 Jun 2004

Altered representation of the spatial code for odors after olfactory classical conditioning; memory trace formation by synaptic recruitment.
Yu D, Ponomarev A, Davis RL
Neuron 2004 May 13 42(3):437-49 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | Martin Giurfa / Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 7 Jun 2004

Behavioral impairments caused by injections of the protein synthesis inhibitor anisomycin after contextual retrieval reverse with time.
Lattal KM, Abel T
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004 Mar 30 101(13):4667-72 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | James Knierim / David P. Wolfer / Randolf Menzel / Richard Paylor
Evaluated 28 Apr 2004

Transformation of olfactory representations in the Drosophila antennal lobe.
Wilson RI, Turner GC, Laurent G
Science 2004 Jan 16 303(5656):366-70 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | John Ngai / Lawrence C. Katz / Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 1 Mar 2004

In vitro analog of classical conditioning of feeding behavior in aplysia.
Mozzachiodi R, Lechner HA, Baxter DA, Byrne JH
Learn Mem 2003 Nov-Dec 10(6):478-94 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 20 Jan 2004

Suppression of adult neurogenesis impairs olfactory learning and memory in an adult insect.
Scotto-Lomassese S, Strambi C, …, Rougon G, Cayre M
J Neurosci 2003 Oct 15 23(28):9289-96 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Martin Giurfa / Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 17 Dec 2003

A putative Drosophila pheromone receptor expressed in male-specific taste neurons is required for efficient courtship.
Bray S, Amrein H
Neuron 2003 Sep 11 39(6):1019-29 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 11 Nov 2003

Presynaptic activation of silent synapses and growth of new synapses contribute to intermediate and long-term facilitation in Aplysia.
Kim JH, Udo H, …, Kandel ER, Bailey CH
Neuron 2003 Sep 25 40(1):151-65 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 11 Nov 2003

Cellular networks underlying human spatial navigation.
Ekstrom AD, Kahana MJ, …, Newman EL, Fried I
Nature 2003 Sep 11 425(6954):184-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Peter Rapp / Edvard I. Moser / Howard Eichenbaum / James Knierim / Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 3 Nov 2003

Inducible enhancement of memory storage and synaptic plasticity in transgenic mice expressing an inhibitor of ATF4 (CREB-2) and C/EBP proteins.
Chen A, Muzzio IA, …, Gilliam TC, Kandel ER
Neuron 2003 Aug 14 39(4):655-69 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | Mark Mayford / Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 17 Sep 2003

Glutamate-receptor-mediated encoding and retrieval of paired-associate learning.
Day M, Langston R, Morris RG
Nature 2003 Jul 10 424(6945):205-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Edvard I. Moser / Howard Eichenbaum / Wolf Singer / Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 17 Sep 2003

A novel social polymorphism in a primitively eusocial bee.
Richards MH, von Wettberg EJ, Rutgers AC
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003 Jun 10 100(12):7175-80 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 2 Sep 2003

Salience modulates 20-30 Hz brain activity in Drosophila.
van Swinderen B, Greenspan RJ
Nat Neurosci 2003 Jun 6(6):579-86 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel / Martin Giurfa
Evaluated 18 Jul 2003

Ultrastructural analysis of a putative magnetoreceptor in the beak of homing pigeons.
Fleissner G, Holtkamp-Rötzler E, …, Petersen N, Wiltschko W
J Comp Neurol 2003 Apr 14 458(4):350-60 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 30 Apr 2003

Two-photon calcium imaging reveals an odor-evoked map of activity in the fly brain.
Wang JW, Wong AM, …, Vosshall LB, Axel R
Cell 2003 Jan 24 112(2):271-82 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | Martin Giurfa / Randolf Menzel / Gordon Fishell
Evaluated 25 Feb 2003

Olfactory discrimination of structurally similar alcohols by cockroaches.
Sakura M, Okada R, Mizunami M
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 2002 Nov 188(10):787-97 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 28 Jan 2003

Genetically expressed cameleon in Drosophila melanogaster is used to visualize olfactory information in projection neurons.
Fiala A, Spall T, …, Buchner E, Galizia CG
Curr Biol 2002 Oct 29 12(21):1877-84 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel / Martin Giurfa
Evaluated 28 Jan 2003

The cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase EGL-4 regulates olfactory adaptation in C. elegans.
L'Etoile ND, Coburn CM, …, Gallegos G, Bargmann CI
Neuron 2002 Dec 19 36(6):1079-89 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 21 Jan 2003

Regulation of body size and behavioral state of C. elegans by sensory perception and the EGL-4 cGMP-dependent protein kinase.
Fujiwara M, Sengupta P, McIntire SL
Neuron 2002 Dec 19 36(6):1091-102 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 21 Jan 2003

Robust judgement of inter-object distance by an arthropod.
Hemmi JM, Zeil J
Nature 2003 Jan 9 421(6919):160-3 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel / Thomas S. Collett
Evaluated 16 Jan 2003

Serotonin mediates food-odor associative learning in the nematode Caenorhabditiselegans.
Nuttley WM, Atkinson-Leadbeater KP, Van Der Kooy D
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002 Sep 17 99(19):12449-54 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 16 Jan 2003

Memories in drosophila heat-box learning.
Putz G, Heisenberg M
Learn Mem 2002 Sep-Oct 9(5):349-59 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 20 Nov 2002

Temporally graded requirement for protein synthesis following memory reactivation.
Milekic MH, Alberini CM
Neuron 2002 Oct 24 36(3):521-5 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel / Richard Paylor
Evaluated 20 Nov 2002

Transmission of olfactory information between three populations of neurons in the antennal lobe of the fly.
Ng M, Roorda RD, …, Morcillo P, Miesenböck G
Neuron 2002 Oct 24 36(3):463-74 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | Claude Desplan / Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 19 Nov 2002

Representations of odors in the rat orbitofrontal cortex change during and after learning.
Alvarez P, Eichenbaum H
Behav Neurosci 2002 Jun 116(3):421-33 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 11 Sep 2002

Operant reward learning in Aplysia: neuronal correlates and mechanisms.
Brembs B, Lorenzetti FD, …, Baxter DA, Byrne JH
Science 2002 May 31 296(5573):1706-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Wolfram Schultz / Randolf Menzel
Evaluated 11 Sep 2002