Fides Zenk

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 670 citations indexed

About

Fides Zenk is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Fides Zenk has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 670 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Plant Science and 2 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Fides Zenk's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (9 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (8 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (7 papers). Fides Zenk is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (9 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (8 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (7 papers). Fides Zenk collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Fides Zenk's co-authors include Nicola Iovino, Fabian Kilpert, Ozren Bogdanović, Eva Loeser, Barbara Treutlein, Jonas Simon Fleck, Sophie Jansen, J. Gray Camp, Małgorzata Santel and Akanksha Jain and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Fides Zenk

19 papers receiving 665 citations

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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.

Inferring and perturbing cell fate regulomes in human brain organoids

2022 145 citations Jonas Simon Fleck, Sophie Jansen 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
Fides Zenk Germany	10	573	118	62	51	35	19	670
Meilín Fernández García United States	7	842 1.5×	169 1.4×	80 1.3×	41 0.8×	34 1.0×	9	931
Petko Fiziev United States	5	680 1.2×	132 1.1×	104 1.7×	51 1.0×	31 0.9×	9	781
Katherine M. Lelli United States	7	874 1.5×	76 0.6×	170 2.7×	55 1.1×	28 0.8×	8	967
Inma González France	15	721 1.3×	110 0.9×	47 0.8×	192 3.8×	33 0.9×	26	837
Carsten Stuckenholz United States	14	481 0.8×	49 0.4×	138 2.2×	70 1.4×	21 0.6×	20	697
Shelby A. Blythe United States	15	920 1.6×	152 1.3×	105 1.7×	35 0.7×	12 0.3×	18	977
Martin Radolf Austria	8	905 1.6×	196 1.7×	197 3.2×	70 1.4×	43 1.2×	8	1.0k
Kohta Ikegami United States	14	825 1.4×	106 0.9×	100 1.6×	34 0.7×	16 0.5×	24	1.0k
Katharine N. Schulz United States	6	752 1.3×	160 1.4×	120 1.9×	60 1.2×	11 0.3×	7	839
Bryan J. Pavlovic United States	10	525 0.9×	52 0.4×	91 1.5×	49 1.0×	17 0.5×	13	612

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fides Zenk

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19 of 19 papers shown

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

Eichenberger, Bastian, Fides Zenk, Nina Cabezas‐Wallscheid, et al.. (2025). Chromatin landscape at cis-regulatory elements orchestrates cell fate decisions in early embryogenesis. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3007–3007. 7 indexed citations

Zenk, Fides, Eva Loeser, Piergiuseppe Quarato, et al.. (2024). Inheritance of H3K9 methylation regulates genome architecture in Drosophila early embryos. The EMBO Journal. 43(13). 2685–2714. 8 indexed citations

Zenk, Fides, Jonas Simon Fleck, Sophie Jansen, et al.. (2024). Single-cell epigenomic reconstruction of developmental trajectories from pluripotency in human neural organoid systems. Nature Neuroscience. 27(7). 1376–1386. 15 indexed citations

Ciabrelli, Filippo, et al.. (2023). CBP and Gcn5 drive zygotic genome activation independently of their catalytic activity. Science Advances. 9(16). eadf2687–eadf2687. 28 indexed citations

Zenk, Fides, et al.. (2023). Analyzing the Genome-Wide Distribution of Histone Marks by CUT&Tag in Drosophila Embryos. Methods in molecular biology. 2655. 1–17. 3 indexed citations

Zhan, Yinxiu, et al.. (2023). Chromosome Conformation Capture Followed by Genome-Wide Sequencing (Hi-C) in Drosophila Embryos. Methods in molecular biology. 2655. 41–55. 2 indexed citations

Fleck, Jonas Simon, Sophie Jansen, Damian Wollny, et al.. (2022). Inferring and perturbing cell fate regulomes in human brain organoids. Nature. 621(7978). 365–372. 145 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cardoso, Maira Arruda, et al.. (2021). Transovarial transmission of a core virome in the Chagas disease vector Rhodnius prolixus. PLoS Pathogens. 17(8). e1009780–e1009780. 10 indexed citations

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Zenk, Fides, Yinxiu Zhan, Pavel Kos, et al.. (2021). HP1 drives de novo 3D genome reorganization in early Drosophila embryos. Nature. 593(7858). 289–293. 97 indexed citations

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Quarato, Piergiuseppe, Leily Rabbani, Fides Zenk, et al.. (2021). Histone variant H2A.Z regulates zygotic genome activation. Nature Communications. 12(1). 7002–7002. 40 indexed citations

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Richard, Gautier, Plamen Georgiev, Johannes Nuebler, et al.. (2020). Intergenerationally Maintained Histone H4 Lysine 16 Acetylation Is Instructive for Future Gene Activation. Cell. 182(1). 127–144.e23. 66 indexed citations

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Zenk, Fides, et al.. (2018). Development of 15 nuclear microsatellite markers in Deuterocohnia (Pitcairnioideae; Bromeliaceae) using 454 pyrosequencing. Applications in Plant Sciences. 6(4). e1147–e1147. 4 indexed citations

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Metzger, Eric, Sylvia Urban, Dominica Willmann, et al.. (2017). KDM4 Inhibition Targets Breast Cancer Stem–like Cells. Cancer Research. 77(21). 5900–5912. 73 indexed citations

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Zenk, Fides, et al.. (2017). Germ line–inherited H3K27me3 restricts enhancer function during maternal-to-zygotic transition. Science. 357(6347). 212–216. 136 indexed citations

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Zenk, Fides, et al.. (2017). Cellular analysis of the action of epigenetic drugs and probes. Epigenetics. 12(5). 308–322. 4 indexed citations

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Friedrich, Michael W., et al.. (2016). Analysis of the Microprocessor in Dictyostelium: The Role of RbdB, a dsRNA Binding Protein. PLoS Genetics. 12(6). e1006057–e1006057. 12 indexed citations

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Zenk, Fides, et al.. (2016). The protein domains of the Dictyostelium microprocessor that are required for correct subcellular localization and for microRNA maturation. RNA Biology. 13(10). 1000–1010. 9 indexed citations

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