Christiane Haffner

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Christiane Haffner is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Developmental Neuroscience and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Christiane Haffner has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Developmental Neuroscience and 5 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Christiane Haffner's work include Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (12 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (7 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (5 papers). Christiane Haffner is often cited by papers focused on Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (12 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (7 papers) and MicroRNA in disease regulation (5 papers). Christiane Haffner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Japan. Christiane Haffner's co-authors include Wieland Β. Huttner, Federico Calegari, Jeremy N. Pulvers, Wulf Haubensak, Ina Nüsslein, Elena Taverna, Elizabeth P. Murchison, Yoko Arai, Gregory J. Hannon and Davide De Pietri Tonelli and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Christiane Haffner

19 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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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.

Human-specific gene ARHGAP11B promotes basal progenitor amplification and neocortex expansion

2015 408 citations Marta Florio, Mareike Albert et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christiane Haffner Germany	16	1.5k	800	423	355	301	20	2.0k
Ben Martynoga United Kingdom	19	2.1k 1.4×	901 1.1×	348 0.8×	428 1.2×	434 1.4×	21	2.6k
Marta Florio Germany	16	1.9k 1.3×	833 1.0×	253 0.6×	441 1.2×	417 1.4×	17	2.5k
Weihong Ge United States	13	1.7k 1.2×	621 0.8×	342 0.8×	496 1.4×	455 1.5×	16	2.4k
Camino de Juan Romero Spain	17	1.2k 0.8×	810 1.0×	271 0.6×	267 0.8×	448 1.5×	34	2.0k
Gregor-Alexander Pilz Germany	15	949 0.6×	697 0.9×	215 0.5×	162 0.5×	337 1.1×	18	1.6k
Thomas Pratt United Kingdom	22	1.3k 0.9×	490 0.6×	213 0.5×	250 0.7×	675 2.2×	39	1.9k
Branden R. Nelson United States	26	1.5k 1.0×	600 0.8×	144 0.3×	295 0.8×	537 1.8×	33	2.1k
Jan M. Stenman Sweden	9	1.0k 0.7×	668 0.8×	168 0.4×	201 0.6×	520 1.7×	9	1.6k
Kenneth Y. Kwan United States	18	1.5k 1.0×	831 1.0×	228 0.5×	477 1.3×	695 2.3×	29	2.3k
Nelle Lambert Belgium	11	1.5k 1.0×	328 0.4×	250 0.6×	504 1.4×	319 1.1×	14	2.0k

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Haffner, Christiane, et al.. (2025). A dyad of human-specific NBPF14 and NOTCH2NLB orchestrates cortical progenitor abundance crucial for human neocortex expansion. Science Advances. 11(13). eads7543–eads7543. 2 indexed citations

Mora‐Bermúdez, Felipe, Philipp Kanis, Jula Peters, et al.. (2022). Longer metaphase and fewer chromosome segregation errors in modern human than Neanderthal brain development. Science Advances. 8(30). eabn7702–eabn7702. 30 indexed citations

Haffner, Christiane, et al.. (2021). Manipulation of Single Neural Stem Cells and Neurons in Brain Slices using Robotic Microinjection. Journal of Visualized Experiments.

Haffner, Christiane, et al.. (2021). Manipulation of Single Neural Stem Cells and Neurons in Brain Slices using Robotic Microinjection. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 3 indexed citations

Namba, Takashi, Christiane Haffner, & Wieland Β. Huttner. (2021). Ex vivo Tissue Culture Protocols for Studying the Developing Neocortex. BIO-PROTOCOL. 11(10). e4031–e4031. 2 indexed citations

Heide, Michael, Christiane Haffner, Ayako Murayama, et al.. (2020). Human-specific ARHGAP11B increases size and folding of primate neocortex in the fetal marmoset. Science. 369(6503). 546–550. 119 indexed citations

Haffner, Christiane, et al.. (2019). Robotic platform for microinjection into single cells in brain tissue. EMBO Reports. 20(10). e47880–e47880. 19 indexed citations

Taverna, Elena, Nereo Kalebic, Christiane Haffner, et al.. (2018). Insm1 Induces Neural Progenitor Delamination in Developing Neocortex via Downregulation of the Adherens Junction Belt-Specific Protein Plekha7. Neuron. 97(6). 1299–1314.e8. 58 indexed citations

Albert, Mareike, Nereo Kalebic, Marta Florio, et al.. (2017). Epigenome profiling and editing of neocortical progenitor cells during development. The EMBO Journal. 36(17). 2642–2658. 78 indexed citations

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Taverna, Elena, Felipe Mora‐Bermúdez, Paulina Strzyz, et al.. (2016). Non-canonical features of the Golgi apparatus in bipolar epithelial neural stem cells. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 21206–21206. 47 indexed citations

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Florio, Marta, Mareike Albert, Elena Taverna, et al.. (2015). Human-specific gene ARHGAP11B promotes basal progenitor amplification and neocortex expansion. Science. 347(6229). 1465–1470. 408 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wong, Fong Kuan, Ji‐Feng Fei, Felipe Mora‐Bermúdez, et al.. (2015). Sustained Pax6 Expression Generates Primate-like Basal Radial Glia in Developing Mouse Neocortex. PLoS Biology. 13(8). e1002217–e1002217. 72 indexed citations

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Arai, Yoko, Júlio L. Sampaio, Michaela Wilsch‐Bräuninger, et al.. (2015). Lipidome of midbody released from neural stem and progenitor cells during mammalian cortical neurogenesis. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 9. 325–325. 26 indexed citations

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Wong, Fong Kuan, Christiane Haffner, Wieland Β. Huttner, & Elena Taverna. (2014). Microinjection of membrane-impermeable molecules into single neural stem cells in brain tissue. Nature Protocols. 9(5). 1170–1182. 30 indexed citations

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Fei, Ji‐Feng, Christiane Haffner, & Wieland Β. Huttner. (2014). 3′ UTR-Dependent, miR-92-Mediated Restriction of Tis21 Expression Maintains Asymmetric Neural Stem Cell Division to Ensure Proper Neocortex Size. Cell Reports. 7(2). 398–411. 35 indexed citations

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Taverna, Elena, Christiane Haffner, Rainer Pepperkok, & Wieland Β. Huttner. (2011). A new approach to manipulate the fate of single neural stem cells in tissue. Nature Neuroscience. 15(2). 329–337. 29 indexed citations

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Arai, Yoko, Jeremy N. Pulvers, Christiane Haffner, et al.. (2011). Neural stem and progenitor cells shorten S-phase on commitment to neuron production. Nature Communications. 2(1). 154–154. 294 indexed citations

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Tonelli, Davide De Pietri, Jeremy N. Pulvers, Christiane Haffner, et al.. (2008). miRNAs are essential for survival and differentiation of newborn neurons but not for expansion of neural progenitors during early neurogenesis in the mouse embryonic neocortex. Development. 135(23). 3911–3921. 278 indexed citations

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Farkas, Lilla, Christiane Haffner, Thomas Giger, et al.. (2008). Insulinoma-Associated 1 Has a Panneurogenic Role and Promotes the Generation and Expansion of Basal Progenitors in the Developing Mouse Neocortex. Neuron. 60(1). 40–55. 130 indexed citations

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Calegari, Federico, Wulf Haubensak, Christiane Haffner, & Wieland Β. Huttner. (2005). Selective Lengthening of the Cell Cycle in the Neurogenic Subpopulation of Neural Progenitor Cells during Mouse Brain Development. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(28). 6533–6538. 301 indexed citations

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