Barbara Treutlein

13.4k total citations · 9 hit papers
73 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Barbara Treutlein is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara Treutlein has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Cancer Research and 7 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Barbara Treutlein's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (39 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (19 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (11 papers). Barbara Treutlein is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (39 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (19 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (11 papers). Barbara Treutlein collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Barbara Treutlein's co-authors include J. Gray Camp, Stephen R. Quake, Norma Neff, Gary L. Mantalas, Angela Ruohao Wu, Douglas Brownfield, Sabina Kanton, Tobias Gerber, Tushar Desai and F. Hernán Espinoza and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Barbara Treutlein

70 papers receiving 7.4k 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.

Reconstructing lineage hierarchies of the distal lung epithelium using single-cell RNA-seq

2014 934 citations Barbara Treutlein, Norma Neff et al. Nature profile →
Human cerebral organoids recapitulate gene expression programs of fetal neocortex development

2015 767 citations J. Gray Camp, Marta Florio et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Quantitative assessment of single-cell RNA-sequencing methods

2013 535 citations Norma Neff, Barbara Treutlein et al. profile →
Lineage-negative progenitors mobilize to regenerate lung epithelium after major injury

2014 455 citations Barbara Treutlein et al. Nature profile →
Organoid single-cell genomic atlas uncovers human-specific features of brain development

2019 445 citations Sabina Kanton, Zhisong He et al. Nature profile →
Multilineage communication regulates human liver bud development from pluripotency

2017 424 citations J. Gray Camp, Tobias Gerber et al. Nature profile →
A nomenclature consensus for nervous system organoids and assembloids

2022 171 citations Sergiu P. Pașca, Paola Arlotta et al. Nature profile →
Inferring and perturbing cell fate regulomes in human brain organoids

2022 145 citations Jonas Simon Fleck, Sophie Jansen et al. Nature profile →
Single-cell brain organoid screening identifies developmental defects in autism

2023 122 citations Chong Li, Jonas Simon Fleck et al. Nature profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Barbara Treutlein	5.6k	903	818	742	715	73	7.4k
Sandrine Etienne‐Manneville	7.6k 1.4×	855 0.9×	668 0.8×	411 0.6×	654 0.9×	102	13.2k
Shankar Srinivas	4.1k 0.7×	430 0.5×	363 0.4×	362 0.5×	774 1.1×	57	6.1k
Toshimasa Ishizaki	9.6k 1.7×	906 1.0×	669 0.8×	431 0.6×	526 0.7×	76	15.4k
Anna‐Katerina Hadjantonakis	11.7k 2.1×	1.1k 1.2×	663 0.8×	456 0.6×	1.3k 1.9×	203	14.4k
Makoto Asashima	9.8k 1.8×	649 0.7×	582 0.7×	505 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	383	12.6k
Hiroshi Kiyonari	7.7k 1.4×	505 0.6×	941 1.2×	405 0.5×	1.1k 1.6×	251	13.0k
Takaya Abe	3.9k 0.7×	333 0.4×	561 0.7×	307 0.4×	699 1.0×	170	7.3k
Roberto Mayor	7.9k 1.4×	1.8k 2.0×	798 1.0×	248 0.3×	574 0.8×	143	12.1k
Jeanne F. Loring	7.1k 1.3×	710 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	174 0.2×	589 0.8×	121	9.9k
Tomoko Watanabe	3.1k 0.6×	472 0.5×	287 0.4×	355 0.5×	653 0.9×	115	6.0k

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Jain, Akanksha, Fátima Sanchís-Calleja, Zhisong He, et al.. (2025). Morphodynamics of human early brain organoid development. Nature. 644(8078). 1010–1019. 8 indexed citations

Blair, John D., Austin Hartman, Fides Zenk, et al.. (2025). Phospho-seq: integrated, multi-modal profiling of intracellular protein dynamics in single cells. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1346–1346. 3 indexed citations

He, Zhisong, et al.. (2025). Single-cell profiling of penta- and tetradactyl mouse limb buds identifies mesenchymal progenitors controlling digit numbers and identities. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1226–1226. 1 indexed citations

Li, Qing, Marina Nikolova, Gangyu Zhang, et al.. (2025). Macro-scale, scaffold-assisted model of the human bone marrow endosteal niche using hiPSC-vascularized osteoblastic organoids. Cell stem cell. 32(12). 1941–1958.e8.

Brazovskaja, Agnieska, Tomás Gomes, René Holtackers, et al.. (2024). Cell atlas of the regenerating human liver after portal vein embolization. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5827–5827. 5 indexed citations

Li, Chong, Jonas Simon Fleck, Thomas R. Burkard, et al.. (2023). Single-cell brain organoid screening identifies developmental defects in autism. Nature. 621(7978). 373–380. 122 indexed citations breakdown →

Wahle, Philipp, Giovanna Brancati, Zhisong He, et al.. (2023). Multi-modal spatiotemporal phenotyping of human retinal organoid development. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

Snapyan, Marina, Francesco Di Matteo, Stephen P. Robertson, et al.. (2023). Metformin rescues migratory deficits of cells derived from patients with periventricular heterotopia. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 15(10). e16908–e16908. 1 indexed citations

Pașca, Sergiu P., Paola Arlotta, Helen S. Bateup, et al.. (2022). A nomenclature consensus for nervous system organoids and assembloids. Nature. 609(7929). 907–910. 171 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wollny, Damian, Benjamin Vernot, Jie Wang, et al.. (2022). Characterization of RNA content in individual phase-separated coacervate microdroplets. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2626–2626. 20 indexed citations

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Born, Gordian, Marina Nikolova, Arnaud Scherberich, et al.. (2021). Engineering of fully humanized and vascularized 3D bone marrow niches sustaining undifferentiated human cord blood hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Journal of Tissue Engineering. 12. 1758535159–1758535159. 13 indexed citations

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Ju, Xiang-Chun, Anne Weigert, Sabina Kanton, et al.. (2021). Comparison of induced neurons reveals slower structural and functional maturation in humans than in apes. eLife. 10. 38 indexed citations

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Parra, R. Gonzalo, et al.. (2019). Reconstructing complex lineage trees from scRNA-seq data using MERLoT. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(17). 8961–8974. 12 indexed citations

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Gerber, Tobias, Prayag Murawala, Dunja Knapp, et al.. (2018). Single-cell analysis uncovers convergence of cell identities during axolotl limb regeneration. Science. 362(6413). 259 indexed citations

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Vaid, Samir, J. Gray Camp, Lena Hersemann, et al.. (2018). A novel population of Hopx-dependent basal radial glial cells in the developing mouse neocortex. Development. 145(20). 66 indexed citations

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Karow, Marisa, J. Gray Camp, Sven Falk, et al.. (2018). Direct pericyte-to-neuron reprogramming via unfolding of a neural stem cell-like program. Nature Neuroscience. 21(7). 932–940. 94 indexed citations

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Mora‐Bermúdez, Felipe, Sabina Kanton, J. Gray Camp, et al.. (2016). Differences and similarities between human and chimpanzee neural progenitors during cerebral cortex development. eLife. 5. 165 indexed citations

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Treutlein, Barbara, Qian Yi Lee, J. Gray Camp, et al.. (2016). Dissecting direct reprogramming from fibroblast to neuron using single-cell RNA-seq. Nature. 534(7607). 391–395. 321 indexed citations

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Camp, J. Gray, Marta Florio, Sabina Kanton, et al.. (2015). Human cerebral organoids recapitulate gene expression programs of fetal neocortex development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(51). 15672–15677. 767 indexed citations breakdown →

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Treutlein, Barbara, Adam Muschielok, Joanna Andrecka, et al.. (2011). Nano-Positioning-System Reveals Structure of the RNA Polymerase II Initially Transcribing Complex (ITC). Biophysical Journal. 100(3). 475a–476a. 1 indexed citations

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