Csilla Várnai

6.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
30 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Csilla Várnai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Csilla Várnai has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Plant Science and 3 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Csilla Várnai's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (7 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (4 papers). Csilla Várnai is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (7 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (4 papers). Csilla Várnai collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Austria. Csilla Várnai's co-authors include Peter Fraser, Steven Wingett, Stefan Schoenfelder, Takashi Nagano, Wing‐Kit Leung, Netta Mendelson Cohen, Carmel Dudley, Amos Tanay, Yaniv Lubling and Yael Baran and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

Csilla Várnai

30 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Topologically associating domains and chromatin loops depend on cohesin and are regulated by CTCF, WAPL, and PDS5 proteins

2017 545 citations Gordana Wutz, Csilla Várnai et al. The EMBO Journal profile →
Cell-cycle dynamics of chromosomal organization at single-cell resolution

2017 523 citations Takashi Nagano, Yaniv Lubling et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Csilla Várnai United Kingdom	17	1.8k	561	252	127	103	30	2.1k
Ibrahim I. Cissé United States	17	3.0k 1.6×	207 0.4×	155 0.6×	126 1.0×	54 0.5×	24	3.3k
Claire Dugast‐Darzacq United States	15	2.2k 1.2×	160 0.3×	151 0.6×	74 0.6×	77 0.7×	25	2.7k
Yolanda Markaki Germany	22	1.6k 0.8×	263 0.5×	227 0.9×	244 1.9×	60 0.6×	25	2.0k
Anders S. Hansen United States	28	3.9k 2.2×	672 1.2×	327 1.3×	142 1.1×	130 1.3×	49	4.4k
Gaku Mizuguchi United States	21	3.4k 1.8×	831 1.5×	194 0.8×	137 1.1×	240 2.3×	27	3.9k
Hideaki Takata Japan	21	1.3k 0.7×	267 0.5×	88 0.3×	74 0.6×	69 0.7×	43	1.5k
Jean‐Marc Victor France	24	1.6k 0.9×	208 0.4×	176 0.7×	51 0.4×	59 0.6×	51	2.0k
Jaco van der Torre Netherlands	19	1.3k 0.7×	114 0.2×	185 0.7×	47 0.4×	175 1.7×	29	1.6k
Uma M. Muthurajan United States	20	2.0k 1.1×	364 0.6×	104 0.4×	51 0.4×	394 3.8×	27	2.3k
Sara Sandin Singapore	21	1.4k 0.8×	115 0.2×	117 0.5×	102 0.8×	93 0.9×	32	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Csilla Várnai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Csilla Várnai

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20 of 20 papers shown

Harris, James Michael, Andrea Magrì, Roland Arnold, et al.. (2024). CTCF regulates hepatitis B virus cccDNA chromatin topology. Journal of General Virology. 105(1). 5 indexed citations

Mielczarek, Olga, Yinxiu Zhan, Louise S. Matheson, et al.. (2023). Intra- and interchromosomal contact mapping reveals the Igh locus has extensive conformational heterogeneity and interacts with B-lineage genes. Cell Reports. 42(9). 113074–113074. 5 indexed citations

Jessberger, Gregor, Csilla Várnai, Roman R. Stocsits, et al.. (2023). Cohesin and CTCF do not assemble TADs inXenopussperm and male pronuclei. Genome Research. 33(12). 2094–2107. 4 indexed citations

Panetti, Silvia, Livingstone Fultang, Sarah Booth, et al.. (2022). Engineering amino acid uptake or catabolism promotes CAR T-cell adaption to the tumor environment. Blood Advances. 7(9). 1754–1761. 28 indexed citations

Chovanec, Peter, Amanda J. Collier, Christel Krueger, et al.. (2021). Widespread reorganisation of pluripotent factor binding and gene regulatory interactions between human pluripotent states. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2098–2098. 23 indexed citations

Arnold, Roland, Jean‐Baptiste Cazier, Helen Curley, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 in children with haematological malignancies. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 107(2). 186–188. 14 indexed citations

Furlan-Magaril, Mayra, Masami Ando‐Kuri, Rodrigo G. Arzate‐Mejía, et al.. (2021). The global and promoter-centric 3D genome organization temporally resolved during a circadian cycle. Genome biology. 22(1). 162–162. 20 indexed citations

Groves, Ian J., Jack Monahan, Cinzia G. Scarpini, et al.. (2021). Short- and long-range cis interactions between integrated HPV genomes and cellular chromatin dysregulate host gene expression in early cervical carcinogenesis. PLoS Pathogens. 17(8). e1009875–e1009875. 24 indexed citations

Wutz, Gordana, René Ladurner, Brian Glenn St Hilaire, et al.. (2020). ESCO1 and CTCF enable formation of long chromatin loops by protecting cohesinSTAG1 from WAPL. eLife. 9. 111 indexed citations

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Collombet, Samuel, Noémie Ranisavljevic, Takashi Nagano, et al.. (2020). Parental-to-Embryo Switch of Chromosome Organization in Early Embryogenesis. Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey. 75(7). 414–415. 1 indexed citations

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Collombet, Samuel, Noémie Ranisavljevic, Takashi Nagano, et al.. (2020). Parental-to-embryo switch of chromosome organization in early embryogenesis. Nature. 580(7801). 142–146. 121 indexed citations

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Wutz, Gordana, Csilla Várnai, Kota Nagasaka, et al.. (2017). Topologically associating domains and chromatin loops depend on cohesin and are regulated by CTCF, WAPL, and PDS5 proteins. The EMBO Journal. 36(24). 3573–3599. 545 indexed citations breakdown →

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Várnai, Csilla, et al.. (2017). Improving protein-protein interaction prediction using evolutionary information from low-quality MSAs. PLoS ONE. 12(2). e0169356–e0169356. 5 indexed citations

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Nagano, Takashi, Yaniv Lubling, Csilla Várnai, et al.. (2017). Cell-cycle dynamics of chromosomal organization at single-cell resolution. Nature. 547(7661). 61–67. 523 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cairns, Jonathan, Paula Freire-Pritchett, Steven Wingett, et al.. (2016). CHiCAGO: robust detection of DNA looping interactions in Capture Hi-C data. Genome biology. 17(1). 127–127. 223 indexed citations

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Nagano, Takashi, Csilla Várnai, Stefan Schoenfelder, et al.. (2015). Comparison of Hi-C results using in-solution versus in-nucleus ligation. Genome biology. 16(1). 175–175. 121 indexed citations

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Furlan-Magaril, Mayra, Csilla Várnai, Takashi Nagano, & Peter Fraser. (2015). 3D genome architecture from populations to single cells. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 31. 36–41. 20 indexed citations

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Várnai, Csilla, Noam Bernstein, Letif Mones, & Gábor Cśanyi. (2013). Tests of an Adaptive QM/MM Calculation on Free Energy Profiles of Chemical Reactions in Solution. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 117(40). 12202–12211. 23 indexed citations

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Várnai, Csilla, et al.. (2012). Exploring the Energy Landscapes of Protein Folding Simulations with Bayesian Computation. Biophysical Journal. 102(3). 446a–446a. 2 indexed citations

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Bernstein, Noam, Csilla Várnai, M. C. Payne, et al.. (2011). QM/MM simulation of liquid water with an adaptive quantum region. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 14(2). 646–656. 69 indexed citations

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