Adai Colom

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Adai Colom is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Adai Colom has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 10 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Adai Colom's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (22 papers), Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (12 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (6 papers). Adai Colom is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (22 papers), Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (12 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (6 papers). Adai Colom collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Spain and France. Adai Colom's co-authors include Aurélien Roux, Stefan Matile, Naomi Sakai, Simon Scheuring, Emmanuel Derivery, Marcos González‐Gaitán, Marta Dal Molin, Saeideh Soleimanpour, Nicolas Chiaruttini and Caterina Tomba and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Adai Colom

35 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

  1. A fluorescent membrane tension probe
    2018 381 citations Adai Colom, Emmanuel Derivery et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Adai Colom Switzerland 20 1.0k 530 366 265 228 35 1.8k
Mingjun Cai China 29 1.4k 1.3× 237 0.4× 354 1.0× 437 1.6× 433 1.9× 109 2.6k
John Manzi France 21 1.0k 1.0× 823 1.6× 264 0.7× 170 0.6× 304 1.3× 31 1.7k
Sophie Cribier France 26 1.7k 1.6× 453 0.9× 234 0.6× 119 0.4× 290 1.3× 47 2.2k
Vincent Mercier Switzerland 17 872 0.8× 424 0.8× 106 0.3× 118 0.4× 148 0.6× 32 1.5k
Raúl Pérez‐Jiménez Spain 26 1.5k 1.4× 1.1k 2.1× 911 2.5× 492 1.9× 442 1.9× 51 3.0k
Arun P. Wiita United States 27 2.0k 1.9× 495 0.9× 536 1.5× 160 0.6× 124 0.5× 80 3.3k
Christian Salesse Canada 29 1.9k 1.8× 366 0.7× 594 1.6× 207 0.8× 200 0.9× 119 2.8k
Marek Cebecauer Czechia 22 1.2k 1.1× 204 0.4× 123 0.3× 122 0.5× 156 0.7× 51 2.0k
Hongbin Sun China 21 1.0k 1.0× 218 0.4× 195 0.5× 423 1.6× 228 1.0× 54 1.9k
Christopher P. Toseland United Kingdom 19 1.2k 1.2× 416 0.8× 205 0.6× 97 0.4× 140 0.6× 48 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Adai Colom

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Fields of papers citing papers by Adai Colom

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Adai Colom

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Adai Colom. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Adai Colom based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Adai Colom. Adai Colom is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Vitali, Alberto, et al.. (2025). Bioinspired lipid coated porous particle as inhalable carrier with pulmonary surfactant adhesion and mucus penetration. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 697. 137967–137967. 2 indexed citations
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ARCOS, Juan Manuel GARCIA, Amine Mehidi, Pau Guillamat, et al.. (2025). Adherent cells sustain membrane tension gradients independently of migration. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10539–10539. 1 indexed citations
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Colom, Adai, Lorena Redondo‐Morata, Marina I. Giannotti, et al.. (2024). The surface charge of electroactive materials governs cell behaviour through its effect on protein deposition. Acta Biomaterialia. 184. 201–209. 3 indexed citations
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ARCOS, Juan Manuel GARCIA, Javier López‐Andarias, Falk Schneider, et al.. (2024). Tutorial: fluorescence lifetime microscopy of membrane mechanosensitive Flipper probes. Nature Protocols. 19(12). 3457–3469. 12 indexed citations
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Suja, Vineeth Chandran, et al.. (2023). Interfacial stresses on droplet interface bilayers using two photon fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 653(Pt B). 1196–1204. 2 indexed citations
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Gracia, Pablo, Adai Colom, José D. Camino, et al.. (2021). All-or-none amyloid disassembly via chaperone-triggered fibril unzipping favors clearance of α-synuclein toxic species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(36). 28 indexed citations
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Mahečić, Dora, Lina Carlini, Tatjana Kleele, et al.. (2021). Mitochondrial membrane tension governs fission. Cell Reports. 35(2). 108947–108947. 58 indexed citations
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Arada, Igor de la, Igor Tascón, Adai Colom, et al.. (2021). Conformational plasticity underlies membrane fusion induced by an HIV sequence juxtaposed to the lipid envelope. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 1278–1278. 4 indexed citations
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Colom, Adai, Stefan Matile, Frédérique Pompeo, et al.. (2020). High-speed atomic force microscopy highlights new molecular mechanism of daptomycin action. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6312–6312. 49 indexed citations
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Jiménez‐Rojo, Noemi, Manuel D. Leonetti, Valeria Zoni, et al.. (2020). Conserved Functions of Ether Lipids and Sphingolipids in the Early Secretory Pathway. Current Biology. 30(19). 3775–3787.e7. 45 indexed citations
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Colom, Adai, Antoine Goujon, Vanessa Lavallard, et al.. (2019). Palmitate and oleate modify membrane fluidity and kinase activities of INS-1E β-cells alongside altered metabolism-secretion coupling. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1867(2). 118619–118619. 22 indexed citations
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Colom, Adai, et al.. (2019). The tilted helix model of dynamin oligomers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(26). 12845–12850. 9 indexed citations
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Riggi, Margot, Nicolas Chiaruttini, Adai Colom, et al.. (2018). Decrease in plasma membrane tension triggers PtdIns(4,5)P2 phase separation to inactivate TORC2. Nature Cell Biology. 20(9). 1043–1051. 107 indexed citations
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Colom, Adai, Emmanuel Derivery, Saeideh Soleimanpour, et al.. (2018). A fluorescent membrane tension probe. Nature Chemistry. 10(11). 1118–1125. 381 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vicens‐Zygmunt, Vanesa, Adai Colom, Ana Montes‐Worboys, et al.. (2015). Fibroblast viability and phenotypic changes within glycated stiffened three-dimensional collagen matrices. Respiratory Research. 16(1). 136–136. 45 indexed citations
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Chiaruttini, Nicolas, Lorena Redondo‐Morata, Adai Colom, et al.. (2015). Relaxation of Loaded ESCRT-III Spiral Springs Drives Membrane Deformation. Cell. 163(4). 866–879. 244 indexed citations
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Colom, Adai, Ignacio Casuso, Félix Rico, & Simon Scheuring. (2013). A hybrid high-speed atomic force–optical microscope for visualizing single membrane proteins on eukaryotic cells. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2155–2155. 56 indexed citations
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Colom, Adai, Ignacio Casuso, Thomas Boudier, & Simon Scheuring. (2012). High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy: Cooperative Adhesion and Dynamic Equilibrium of Junctional Microdomain Membrane Proteins. Journal of Molecular Biology. 423(2). 249–256. 27 indexed citations

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