Lisa-Maria Needham

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 623 citations indexed

About

Lisa-Maria Needham is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lisa-Maria Needham has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 623 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 4 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Lisa-Maria Needham's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (4 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (3 papers) and Cell Image Analysis Techniques (2 papers). Lisa-Maria Needham is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (4 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (3 papers) and Cell Image Analysis Techniques (2 papers). Lisa-Maria Needham collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Portugal. Lisa-Maria Needham's co-authors include Steven F. Lee, David Klenerman, Aleks Ponjavic, Marco Catalano, Marco Di Antonio, Shankar Balasubramanian, Rohan T. Ranasinghe, Xiaoyun Zhang, Jiazhen Shen and Christopher M. Dobson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Lisa-Maria Needham

15 papers receiving 618 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.

Single-molecule visualization of DNA G-quadruplex formation in live cells

2020 283 citations Marco Di Antonio, Aleks Ponjavic et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

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David Gnutt Germany

Jonas Schartner Germany

Marie N. Bongiovanni Australia

M. Julia Roberti Germany

Sara Bologna Italy

Olga Tcherkasskaya United States

Yazan Alhadid United States

John B. Warner United States

Jessica D. Flynn United States

Steven D. Quinn United Kingdom

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lisa-Maria Needham

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Wan, Sushu, et al.. (2025). The Origin of Single-Molecule Sensitivity in Label-Free Solution-Phase Optical Microcavity Detection. ACS Nano. 19(6). 6342–6356. 1 indexed citations

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Lenz, Martin O., Lucien E. Weiss, Lisa-Maria Needham, et al.. (2024). Vortex light field microscopy: 3D spectral single-molecule imaging with a twist. Optica. 11(11). 1519–1519. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Oumeng, Lisa-Maria Needham, Ruby Peters, et al.. (2024). POLCAM: instant molecular orientation microscopy for the life sciences. Nature Methods. 21(10). 1873–1883. 7 indexed citations

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Needham, Lisa-Maria, et al.. (2024). Label-free detection and profiling of individual solution-phase molecules. Nature. 629(8014). 1062–1068. 17 indexed citations

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Pearson, Colin M., Yu P. Zhang, Seth G. N. Grant, et al.. (2021). A Comparative Study of High-Contrast Fluorescence Lifetime Probes for Imaging Amyloid in Tissue. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 125(50). 13710–13717. 4 indexed citations

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Carr, Alexander R., Lisa-Maria Needham, Aleks Ponjavic, et al.. (2020). vLUME: 3D virtual reality for single-molecule localization microscopy. Nature Methods. 17(11). 1097–1099. 26 indexed citations

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Antonio, Marco Di, Aleks Ponjavic, Rohan T. Ranasinghe, et al.. (2020). Single-molecule visualization of DNA G-quadruplex formation in live cells. Nature Chemistry. 12(9). 832–837. 283 indexed citations breakdown →

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Needham, Lisa-Maria, Judith Weber, Colin M. Pearson, et al.. (2020). A Comparative Photophysical Study of Structural Modifications of Thioflavin T-Inspired Fluorophores. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 11(19). 8406–8416. 23 indexed citations

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Needham, Lisa-Maria, et al.. (2020). Single-molecule fluorescence detection of a tricyclic nucleoside analogue. Chemical Science. 12(7). 2623–2628. 25 indexed citations

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Aprile, Francesco A., Pietro Sormanni, Lisa-Maria Needham, et al.. (2020). Rational design of a conformation-specific antibody for the quantification of Aβ oligomers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(24). 13509–13518. 72 indexed citations

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Needham, Lisa-Maria, Judith Weber, Juan A. Varela, et al.. (2020). ThX – a next-generation probe for the early detection of amyloid aggregates. Chemical Science. 11(18). 4578–4583. 56 indexed citations

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Stern, Hannah L., Ruizhi Wang, Ye Fan, et al.. (2019). Spectrally Resolved Photodynamics of Individual Emitters in Large-Area Monolayers of Hexagonal Boron Nitride. ACS Nano. 13(4). 4538–4547. 54 indexed citations

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Basu, Srinjan, Lisa-Maria Needham, David Lando, et al.. (2018). FRET-enhanced photostability allows improved single-molecule tracking of proteins and protein complexes in live mammalian cells. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2520–2520. 29 indexed citations

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Needham, Lisa-Maria, Judith Weber, James W. B. Fyfe, et al.. (2018). Bifunctional fluorescent probes for detection of amyloid aggregates and reactive oxygen species. Royal Society Open Science. 5(2). 171399–171399. 10 indexed citations

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Evans, Corey J., Lisa-Maria Needham, Nicholas R. Walker, et al.. (2015). The pure rotational spectra of the open-shell diatomic molecules PbI and SnI. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 143(24). 11 indexed citations

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