Ian Meinertzhagen


Ian Anthony Meinertzhagen is a Canadian neurobiologist, a University Research Professor at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Senior Fellow at the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Ashburn, Virginia. He is a graduate of the Universities of Aberdeen and St. Andrews and undertook postdoctoral work at the Australian National University and Harvard University. 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:
2002-3 Guggenheim Fellow
2007-9 Killam Research Fellow of the Canada Council