Prof. Dr. Troy Zars

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-2 und Äquivalente
FachgebietAllgemeine Genetik und funktionelle Genomforschung,Molekulare und zelluläre Neurologie und Neuropathologie
KeywordsGenetics, Learning / Memory, Systems Neurobiology

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandUSA
OrtColumbia
Universität/InstitutionUniversity of Missouri-Columbia
Institut/AbteilungDivision of Biological Sciences

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Martin HeisenbergLehrstuhl für Genetik und Neurobiologie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.07.1997

Programm(e)

1996Humboldt-Forschungsstipendien-Programm

Publikationen (Auswahl)

2008Laferriere, H, Guarnieri, D., Sitaraman, D., Diegelman, S., Heberlein, U., and Zars, T.: Genetic dissociation of ethanol sensitivity and learning in Drosophila melanogaster. In: Genetics, 2008,
2008Hoyer, S.C., Eckart, A., Herrel, A., Zars, T., Fischer, S., Hardie, S.L., and Heisenberg, M. Octopamine in Drosophila male aggression. In: Current Biology, 2008, 159-167
2008Sitaraman, D., Zars, M., LaFerriere, H., Chen, Y., Sable-Smith, A., Kitamoto, T., Rottinghaus, G., and T. Zars. Serotonin is necessary for place memory in Drosophila. In: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2008,
2007Sitaraman, D., Zars, M, and T. Zars: Reinforcement pre-exposure enhances spatial memory formation in Drosophila. In: J. Comp. Physiol. A, 2007, 903-908
2006Liu, G., H. Seiler, A. Wen, T. Zars, K. Ito, R. Wolf, M. Heisenberg, L. Liu: Distinct memory traces for two visual features in the Drosophila brain. In: Nature, 2006, 551-556
2006Diegelmann, S., M. Zars, and T. Zars Genetic dissociation of acquisition and memory strength in the heat-box spatial learning paradigm in Drosophila. In: Learning and Memory, 2006, 72-83
2006Zars, M., and T. Zars High and low temperatures have unequal reinforcing properties in Drosophila spatial learning. In: J. Comp. Physiol. A, 2006, 727-735
2006Diegelmann, S., V. Nieratschker, U. Werner, J. Hoppe, T. Zars and E. Buchner The conserved protein kinase-A target motif in synapsin of Drosophila is effectively modified by pre-mRNA editing. In: BMC Neuroscience , 2006, 76-76
2004Godenschwege, T., D. Reisch, S. Diegelmann, K. Eberle, N. Funk, M. Heisenberg, V. Hoppe, J. Hoppe, B. Klagges, J-R. Martin, E. Nikitina, G. Putz, R. Reifegerste, N. Reisch, J. Rister, M. Schaupp, H. Scholz, M. Schwärzel, U. Werner, T. Zars, S. Buchner, E. Buchner Flies lacking all synapsins are unexpectedly healthy but are impaired in complex behaviour. . In: Eur. J. Neurosci., 2004, 611-622
2004Iakhine, R., I. Chorna-Ornan, T. Zars, N. Elia, Y. Cheng, Z. Selinger, B. Minke, and D. R. Hyde: Novel Dominant Rhodopsin Mutation Triggers Two Mechanisms of Retinal Degeneration and Photoreceptor Desensitization. In: J. Neurosci., 2004, 2516-2526
2004Putz, G. F. Bertolucci, T. Raabe, T. Zars, M. Heisenberg The S6KII (rsk) gene of Drosophila melanogaster differentially affects an operant and a classical learning task. In: J. Neurosci., 2004, 9745-9751
2003Troy Zars: Hot and cold in Drosophila larvae. In: Trends in Neuroscience, 2003, 575-577
2003Kosloff, M., N. Elia, T. Joel-Almagor, R. Timberg, T. Zars, D. R. Hyde, B. Minke, and Z. Selinger Regulation of light-dependent Gqalpha translocation and morphological changes in fly photoreceptors. In: EMBO J, 2003, 459-468
2002M. Schwaerzel, M. Heisenberg, T. Zars: Extinction antagonizes olfactory memory at the sub-cellular level. In: Neuron, 2002, 951-960
2002Keller, A, S.T. Sweeney, T. Zars, C. J. O'Kane, M. Heisenberg Targeted expression of tetanus neurotoxin interferes with behavioral responses to sensory input in Drosophila. In: J. Neurobiol., 2002, 221-233
2001Troy Zars: Two thermosensors in Drosophila have different behavioral functions. In: J. Comp. Physiol. A, 2001, 235-242
2000Troy Zars: Behavioral functions of the insect mushroom bodies. In: Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2000, 790-795