Ilaria Testa

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Ilaria Testa is a scholar working on Biophysics, Structural Biology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ilaria Testa has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Biophysics, 18 papers in Structural Biology and 16 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ilaria Testa's work include Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (42 papers), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (18 papers) and Cell Image Analysis Techniques (14 papers). Ilaria Testa is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (42 papers), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (18 papers) and Cell Image Analysis Techniques (14 papers). Ilaria Testa collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Germany and Italy. Ilaria Testa's co-authors include Stefan Jakobs, Stefan W. Hell, Christian Eggeling, Tim Grotjohann, Jonatan Alvelid, Alberto Diaspro, Nicolai T. Urban, Mario Faretta, Katrin I. Willig and Marcel Leutenegger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ilaria Testa

54 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Diffraction-unlimited all-optical imaging and writing with a photochromic GFP
    2011 372 citations Tim Grotjohann, Ilaria Testa et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ilaria Testa Sweden 26 1.6k 1.2k 652 542 430 55 2.8k
Dirk Kamin Germany 16 1.1k 0.7× 854 0.7× 473 0.7× 409 0.8× 467 1.1× 19 2.2k
Graham T. Dempsey United States 15 2.2k 1.4× 1.6k 1.3× 1.0k 1.6× 868 1.6× 215 0.5× 28 3.7k
Benjamin Harke Germany 21 1.4k 0.9× 846 0.7× 922 1.4× 574 1.1× 318 0.7× 27 2.6k
Fedor V. Subach Russia 26 1.5k 1.0× 1.8k 1.5× 370 0.6× 285 0.5× 222 0.5× 64 2.8k
Birka Hein Germany 12 1.8k 1.1× 1.6k 1.3× 965 1.5× 584 1.1× 328 0.8× 14 3.2k
Jennifer M. Gillette United States 16 1.8k 1.2× 1.4k 1.2× 726 1.1× 726 1.3× 404 0.9× 32 3.2k
Steffen J. Sahl Germany 30 2.3k 1.4× 1.5k 1.2× 1.2k 1.9× 893 1.6× 353 0.8× 45 3.8k
Samuel J. Lord United States 19 1.1k 0.7× 835 0.7× 619 0.9× 371 0.7× 311 0.7× 27 2.5k
Marcel A. Lauterbach Germany 17 860 0.5× 1.5k 1.2× 486 0.7× 353 0.7× 385 0.9× 28 2.6k
Kiryl D. Piatkevich United States 28 1.4k 0.9× 1.8k 1.5× 560 0.9× 195 0.4× 237 0.6× 73 3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ilaria Testa

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ilaria Testa. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ilaria Testa 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 Ilaria Testa. Ilaria Testa is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pennacchietti, Francesca, et al.. (2025). All-optical strategies to minimize photobleaching in reversibly switchable fluorescent proteins. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10843–10843.
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Bodén, Andreas, et al.. (2024). Super-sectioning with multi-sheet reversible saturable optical fluorescence transitions (RESOLFT) microscopy. Nature Methods. 21(5). 882–888. 7 indexed citations
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Lukinavičius, Gražvydas, Jonatan Alvelid, Rūta Gerasimaitė, et al.. (2024). Stimulated emission depletion microscopy. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 4(1). 20 indexed citations
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Pennacchietti, Francesca, Jonatan Alvelid, Rodrigo A. Morales, et al.. (2023). Blue-shift photoconversion of near-infrared fluorescent proteins for labeling and tracking in living cells and organisms. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8402–8402. 9 indexed citations
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Fuhrmann, Martin, Misa Arizono, Yulia Dembitskaya, et al.. (2022). Super-Resolution Microscopy Opens New Doors to Life at the Nanoscale. Journal of Neuroscience. 42(45). 8488–8497. 22 indexed citations
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Alvelid, Jonatan, et al.. (2022). Event-triggered STED imaging. Nature Methods. 19(10). 1268–1275. 64 indexed citations
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Werner, J., Francesca Pennacchietti, Robert Janowski, et al.. (2021). Genetically encoded photo-switchable molecular sensors for optoacoustic and super-resolution imaging. Nature Biotechnology. 40(4). 598–605. 39 indexed citations
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Bodén, Andreas, et al.. (2021). Volumetric live cell imaging with three-dimensional parallelized RESOLFT microscopy. Nature Biotechnology. 39(5). 609–618. 47 indexed citations
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Gynnå, Arvid H., Prune Leroy, Jimmy Larsson, et al.. (2021). RecA finds homologous DNA by reduced dimensionality search. Nature. 597(7876). 426–429. 47 indexed citations
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Alvelid, Jonatan & Ilaria Testa. (2019). Stable stimulated emission depletion imaging of extended sample regions. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 53(2). 24001–24001. 11 indexed citations
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Alvelid, Jonatan, et al.. (2019). Growth‐driven displacement of protein aggregates along the cell length ensures partitioning to both daughter cells in Caulobacter crescentus. Molecular Microbiology. 111(6). 1430–1448. 23 indexed citations
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Dreier, Jes, Marco Castello, Giovanna Coceano, et al.. (2019). Smart scanning for low-illumination and fast RESOLFT nanoscopy in vivo. Nature Communications. 10(1). 556–556. 57 indexed citations
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Lavoie‐Cardinal, Flavie, Nickels Jensen, Volker Westphal, et al.. (2014). Two‐Color RESOLFT Nanoscopy with Green and Red Fluorescent Photochromic Proteins. ChemPhysChem. 15(4). 655–663. 42 indexed citations
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Brakemann, T., André C. Stiel, Gert Weber, et al.. (2012). Dreiklang - the one, two, three in photoswitching.. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 1 indexed citations
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Grotjohann, Tim, Ilaria Testa, Marcel Leutenegger, et al.. (2011). Diffraction-unlimited all-optical imaging and writing with a photochromic GFP. Nature. 478(7368). 204–208. 372 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brakemann, T., André C. Stiel, Gert Weber, et al.. (2011). A reversibly photoswitchable GFP-like protein with fluorescence excitation decoupled from switching. Nature Biotechnology. 29(10). 942–947. 222 indexed citations
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Testa, Ilaria, Andreas Schönle, Claas von Middendorff, et al.. (2008). Nanoscale separation of molecular species based on their rotational mobility. Optics Express. 16(25). 21093–21093. 33 indexed citations
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Testa, Ilaria, Dario Parazzoli, Sara Barozzi, et al.. (2008). Spatial control of pa‐GFP photoactivation in living cells. Journal of Microscopy. 230(1). 48–60. 14 indexed citations
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Testa, Ilaria, Massimiliano Garrè, Dario Parazzoli, et al.. (2008). Photoactivation of pa-GFP in 3D: optical tools for spatial confinement. European Biophysics Journal. 37(7). 1219–1227. 9 indexed citations
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Schneider, Marc, Sara Barozzi, Ilaria Testa, Mario Faretta, & Alberto Diaspro. (2005). Two-Photon Activation and Excitation Properties of PA-GFP in the 720–920-nm Region. Biophysical Journal. 89(2). 1346–1352. 80 indexed citations

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