Prof. Dr. Dierk F. Reiff

geb. am 10.05.1970 in München

Oct 2011-to date Professor (W3) for Neurobiology/Animal Physiology,Faculty for Biology, Institute Biology I, University Freiburg Advanced Professional Degrees 03.05.2010 - Venia legendi in Neurobiology, LMU, Munich, Germany. 18.11.2009 - Habilitation in Neurobiology, Ludwigs-Maximilian-University (LMU) Munich, Germany. 2001–Sept 2011-Head of the Drosophila group, research assistant within Prof. A. Borst’s Dept. of Systems and Computational Neuroscience MPI for Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany. Postdoctoral Training 2001 - UC Berkeley, CA, USA, Post-Doc in the labs of Prof. U. Isacoff and Prof. A. Borst Academic Education 1997-2001- PhD Dissertation, University Tübingen, Prof. H. J. Schnitzler & Prof. F. Bonhoeffer; Prof. C. Schuster. 1990-1996 - Dipl. Biol., University Tübingen

Hauptforschungsgebiete

Neurobiology - Visual processing and neuronal control of behavior in Drosophila melanogaster.

Wichtige Publikationen

Eichner H, Joesch M, Schnell B, Reiff DF and Borst A (2011) Internal Structure of the Fly Elementary Motion Detector. Neuron, 70: 1155-1164. Joesch M, Schnell B, Raghu SV, Reiff DF and Borst A (2010) ON- and OFF- Pathways in Drosophila Motion Vision. Nature 468: 300-304. Reiff DF, Plett J, Mank M, Griesbeck O, Borst A (2010). Visualizing Retinotopic Half-Wave Rectified Input to the Motion Detection Circuitry of Drosophila. Nature Neuroscience 13: 967-972. Borst A, Haag J, Reiff DF (2010). Fly motion vision. Annual Reviews of Neuroscience 33: 49-70. Schnell B, Joesch M, Forstner F, Raghu SV, Otsuna H, Ito K, Borst A, Reiff DF (2010) Processing of horizontal optic flow in three visual interneurons of the Drosophila brain. J Neurophysiology 103: 1646-1657. Hendel T, Mank M, Schnell B, Griesbeck O, Borst A, Reiff DF (2008) Fluorescence changes of genetic calcium indicators and OGB-1 correlated with neural activity and calcium in vivo and in vitro. J Neuroscience 28: 7399-7411. Joesch M, Plett J, Borst A, Reiff DF (2008) Response properties of motion-sensitive visual interneurons in the lobula plate of Drosophila melanogaster. Current Biology 18: 1-7. Mank M, Santos AF, Direnberger S, Mrsic-Flogel TD, Hofer SB, Stein V, Hendel T, Reiff DF, Levelt C, Borst A, Bonhoeffer T, Huebener M, Griesbeck O (2008) A genetically encoded calcium indicator for chronic in vivo two-photon imaging. Nature Methods 5: 805-811. Reiff DF, Ihring A, Guerrero G, Isacoff EY, Joesch M, Nakai J, Borst A (2005) In vivo performance of genetically encoded indicators of neural activity in flies. J Neuroscience 25: 4766-4778. Guerrero G, Reiff DF, Agarwal G, Ball RW, Borst A, Goodman CS, Isacoff EY (2005) Heterogeneity in synaptic transmission along a Drosophila larval motor axon. Nat Neurosci 8: 1188-1196. Reiff DF, Thiel PR and Schuster CM (2002) Differential regulation of active zone density during long-term strengthening of Drosophila neuromuscluar junctions. J Neuroscience 22: 9399-9409. Sigrist SJ, Thiel PR, Reiff DF, Lachance PE, Lasko P, Schuster CM (2000) Postsynaptic translation affects the efficacy and morphology of neuromuscular junctions. Nature 405: 1062-1065.

Kontaktaufnahme

Tel: 0761/203-2576
Fax: 0761/203-2921
Email: dierk.reiff@biologie.uni-freiburg.de

Adresse / Postanschrift:
Institut für Biologie I
Professur für Zoologie/Tierphysiologie Schwerpunkt Neurophysiologie
Hauptstr. 1
79104 Freiburg i. Br.

Telefon: 0761/203-2539
Email: tierphys@biologie.uni-freiburg.de