Aaron Ponti

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Aaron Ponti is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron Ponti has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Biophysics and 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Aaron Ponti's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (6 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (6 papers) and Cell Image Analysis Techniques (5 papers). Aaron Ponti is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (6 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (6 papers) and Cell Image Analysis Techniques (5 papers). Aaron Ponti collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Aaron Ponti's co-authors include Clare M. Waterman, Gaudenz Danuser, Stephanie L. Gupton, Matthias Macháček, Susan M. Gasser, Peter Meister, Brietta L. Pike, Benjamin D. Towbin, Pascal Vallotton and Michael Dauner and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Aaron Ponti

20 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Two Distinct Actin Networks Drive the Protrusion of Migrating Cells

2004 626 citations Aaron Ponti, Matthias Macháček et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aaron Ponti Switzerland	14	925	876	362	312	200	21	1.8k
Guenter P. Resch Austria	18	970 1.0×	576 0.7×	175 0.5×	216 0.7×	171 0.9×	29	1.6k
Shin‐ichiro Kojima United States	8	1.4k 1.5×	922 1.1×	222 0.6×	190 0.6×	257 1.3×	8	2.2k
Ruedi Meili United States	19	1.6k 1.7×	1.1k 1.3×	469 1.3×	219 0.7×	274 1.4×	29	2.3k
James Monypenny United Kingdom	19	796 0.9×	555 0.6×	293 0.8×	577 1.8×	236 1.2×	26	1.6k
Jason M. Haugh United States	30	1.2k 1.3×	1.6k 1.8×	367 1.0×	224 0.7×	284 1.4×	81	2.7k
Kathryn T. Applegate United States	7	962 1.0×	448 0.5×	237 0.7×	167 0.5×	184 0.9×	8	1.2k
Ivan V. Maly United States	13	1.1k 1.2×	698 0.8×	170 0.5×	141 0.5×	182 0.9×	37	1.7k
Jury M. Vasiliev Russia	14	1.1k 1.2×	609 0.7×	276 0.8×	105 0.3×	257 1.3×	20	1.7k
Dirk Dormann United Kingdom	24	762 0.8×	837 1.0×	294 0.8×	166 0.5×	120 0.6×	36	1.7k
Christophe Guérin France	23	1.6k 1.8×	1.0k 1.2×	318 0.9×	443 1.4×	86 0.4×	34	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aaron Ponti

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fläschner, Gotthold, et al.. (2024). Monitoring the mass, eigenfrequency, and quality factor of mammalian cells. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1751–1751. 3 indexed citations

Ponti, Aaron, et al.. (2022). Cell region fingerprints enable highly precise single-cell tracking and lineage reconstruction. Nature Methods. 19(10). 1276–1285. 12 indexed citations

Duncombe, Todd A., Aaron Ponti, & Petra S. Dittrich. (2022). SpectraSorter: Ocean Insight spectrometer software application for high-throughput full-spectrum UV–VIS analysis and triggered sorting. SoftwareX. 19. 101160–101160.

Rudolf, Fabian, et al.. (2021). pyPOCQuant — A tool to automatically quantify Point-Of-Care Tests from images. SoftwareX. 15. 100710–100710. 3 indexed citations

Duncombe, Todd A., Aaron Ponti, Florian P. Seebeck, & Petra S. Dittrich. (2021). UV–Vis Spectra-Activated Droplet Sorting for Label-Free Chemical Identification and Collection of Droplets. Analytical Chemistry. 93(38). 13008–13013. 35 indexed citations

Welling, Maaike, Manuel Mohr, Aaron Ponti, et al.. (2019). Primed Track, high-fidelity lineage tracing in mouse pre-implantation embryos using primed conversion of photoconvertible proteins. eLife. 8. 4 indexed citations

Tastanova, Aizhan, Marc Folcher, Marius Müller, et al.. (2018). Synthetic biology-based cellular biomedical tattoo for detection of hypercalcemia associated with cancer. Science Translational Medicine. 10(437). 42 indexed citations

Schubert, Rajib, Stuart Trenholm, Kamill Bálint, et al.. (2017). Virus stamping for targeted single-cell infection in vitro and in vivo. Nature Biotechnology. 36(1). 81–88. 35 indexed citations

Nugraha, Bramasta, Manuel Mohr, Aaron Ponti, et al.. (2017). Monitoring and manipulating cellular crosstalk during kidney fibrosis inside a 3D in vitro co-culture. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 14490–14490. 19 indexed citations

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Dempsey, William P., Nathan O. Hodas, Aaron Ponti, & Periklis Pantazis. (2015). Determination of the source of SHG verniers in zebrafish skeletal muscle. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 18119–18119. 4 indexed citations

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Welling, Maaike, Aaron Ponti, & Periklis Pantazis. (2015). Symmetry breaking in the early mammalian embryo: the case for quantitative single-cell imaging analysis. Molecular Human Reproduction. 22(3). 172–181. 3 indexed citations

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Meister, Peter, Benjamin D. Towbin, Brietta L. Pike, Aaron Ponti, & Susan M. Gasser. (2010). The spatial dynamics of tissue-specific promoters during C. elegans development. Genes & Development. 24(8). 766–782. 164 indexed citations

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Emmenlauer, Mario, Olaf Ronneberger, Aaron Ponti, et al.. (2009). XuvTools: free, fast and reliable stitching of large 3D datasets. Journal of Microscopy. 233(1). 42–60. 108 indexed citations

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Meister, Peter, Angela Taddei, Aaron Ponti, Giuseppe Baldacci, & Susan M. Gasser. (2007). Replication foci dynamics: replication patterns are modulated by S‐phase checkpoint kinases in fission yeast. The EMBO Journal. 26(5). 1315–1326. 62 indexed citations

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Ponti, Aaron, et al.. (2007). Huygens Remote Manager. 9(2). 57–58. 28 indexed citations

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Ponti, Aaron, Alexandre Matov, Michael C. Adams, et al.. (2005). Periodic Patterns of Actin Turnover in Lamellipodia and Lamellae of Migrating Epithelial Cells Analyzed by Quantitative Fluorescent Speckle Microscopy. Biophysical Journal. 89(5). 3456–3469. 81 indexed citations

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Ponti, Aaron, Matthias Macháček, Stephanie L. Gupton, Clare M. Waterman, & Gaudenz Danuser. (2004). Two Distinct Actin Networks Drive the Protrusion of Migrating Cells. Science. 305(5691). 1782–1786. 626 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vallotton, Pascal, Aaron Ponti, Clare M. Waterman, Edward D. Salmon, & Gaudenz Danuser. (2003). Recovery, Visualization, and Analysis of Actin and Tubulin Polymer Flow in Live Cells: A Fluorescent Speckle Microscopy Study. Biophysical Journal. 85(2). 1289–1306. 87 indexed citations

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Ponti, Aaron, Pascal Vallotton, Wendy C. Salmon, Clare M. Waterman, & Gaudenz Danuser. (2003). Computational Analysis of F-Actin Turnover in Cortical Actin Meshworks Using Fluorescent Speckle Microscopy. Biophysical Journal. 84(5). 3336–3352. 71 indexed citations

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Dauner, Michael, Aaron Ponti, Jocelyne Fiaux, et al.. (2002). Metabolic Flux Responses to Pyruvate Kinase Knockout in Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology. 184(1). 152–164. 215 indexed citations

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