Ian Anthony Meinertzhagen (born 1944, in

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) is a

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, a University Research Professor at

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, in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Senior Fellow at the

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of the

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. He is a graduate of the Universities of Aberdeen (BSc) and St. Andrews (PhD, DSc) and undertook postdoctoral work at the

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and

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. His research has pioneered studies on simple nervous systems of invertebrate species, especially the ''Drosophila'' visual system and the diminutive chordate nervous system of the ascidian tadpole larva,.

Publications

His most cited publications are: *R.Steven Stowers, Laura J. Megeath, Jolanta Górska-Andrzejak, Ian A. Meinertzhagen, Thomas L. Schwarz "Axonal Transport of Mitochondria to Synapses Depends on Milton, a Novel Drosophila Protein" ''Nature'' Volume 36, Issue 6, p1063–1077, 19 December 2002. According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 381 times. *Wenbo Xu* M. H. Jericho, I. A. Meinertzhagen, and H. J. Kreuzer "Digital in-line holography for biological applications" ''PNAS'' vol. 98 no. 20 11301–11305 doi: 10.1073/pnas.191361398 According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 351 times.

Awards

2002-3

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

2007-9 Killam Research Fellow of the Canada Council

References

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* http://www.janelia.org/people/scientist/ian-meinertzhagen {{DEFAULTSORT:Meinertzhagen, Ian 1944 births Living people Canadian neuroscientists Scientists from Kent Academic staff of Dalhousie University Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Alumni of the University of St Andrews