Michael J. Ziller

16.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Michael J. Ziller is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael J. Ziller has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Michael J. Ziller's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (20 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (16 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (12 papers). Michael J. Ziller is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (20 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (16 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (12 papers). Michael J. Ziller collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. Michael J. Ziller's co-authors include Alexander Meissner, Hongcang Gu, Andreas Gnirke, Julie Donaghey, B Bernstein, Fabian Müller, Oliver Kohlbacher, Zachary D. Smith, Christoph Bock and Philip L. De Jager and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michael J. Ziller

55 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Charting a dynamic DNA methylation landscape of the human genome

2013 939 citations Michael J. Ziller, Hongcang Gu et al. profile →
Reference Maps of Human ES and iPS Cell Variation Enable High-Throughput Characterization of Pluripotent Cell Lines

2011 713 citations Evangelos Kiskinis, Hongcang Gu et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael J. Ziller Germany	28	4.0k	872	312	290	258	56	4.7k
Gabriella Ficz United Kingdom	21	4.7k 1.2×	956 1.1×	309 1.0×	477 1.6×	201 0.8×	36	5.2k
Meelad M. Dawlaty United States	21	5.3k 1.3×	1.4k 1.6×	264 0.8×	262 0.9×	118 0.5×	39	5.9k
Heather Lee Australia	31	4.3k 1.1×	770 0.9×	875 2.8×	293 1.0×	238 0.9×	64	5.9k
Joanna Poulton United Kingdom	51	6.1k 1.5×	789 0.9×	318 1.0×	431 1.5×	166 0.6×	197	7.9k
Seong‐Seng Tan Australia	38	3.3k 0.8×	1.0k 1.2×	617 2.0×	193 0.7×	120 0.5×	96	5.0k
Giuseppe Testa Italy	36	3.6k 0.9×	1.0k 1.2×	454 1.5×	172 0.6×	175 0.7×	132	5.4k
Shaorong Gao China	48	6.6k 1.6×	1.1k 1.3×	578 1.9×	447 1.5×	259 1.0×	221	7.7k
C Wirbelauer Germany	27	4.7k 1.2×	843 1.0×	584 1.9×	151 0.5×	125 0.5×	69	5.7k
Michael B. Gorin United States	40	3.0k 0.7×	781 0.9×	359 1.2×	141 0.5×	77 0.3×	147	5.5k
Menno P. Creyghton Netherlands	22	5.6k 1.4×	875 1.0×	621 2.0×	155 0.5×	201 0.8×	34	6.4k

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Matosin, Natalie, Miriam Gagliardi, Cristiana Cruceanu, et al.. (2025). Contrasting genetic predisposition and diagnosis in psychiatric disorders: A multi-omic single-nucleus analysis of the human OFC. Science Advances. 11(10). eadq2290–eadq2290. 2 indexed citations

Sandmann, Sarah, et al.. (2025). Role of genetics in the age-related testosterone decline in men: a UK Biobank study. European Journal of Endocrinology. 193(2). 197–203. 1 indexed citations

Smigielski, Lukasz, Michael J. Ziller, Moritz J. Rossner, et al.. (2025). Genetic Analysis of Retinal Cell Types in Neuropsychiatric Disorders. JAMA Psychiatry. 82(3). 285–285. 1 indexed citations

Gagliardi, Miriam, Maik Ködel, Natalie Matosin, et al.. (2024). Single-nucleus transcriptomic profiling of human orbitofrontal cortex reveals convergent effects of aging and psychiatric disease. Nature Neuroscience. 27(10). 2021–2032. 11 indexed citations

Gagliardi, Miriam, Ruhel Ahmad, Florian J. Raabe, et al.. (2023). Massively parallel functional dissection of schizophrenia-associated noncoding genetic variants. Cell. 186(23). 5165–5182.e33. 13 indexed citations

Chang, Simon, Chu Lan Lao, Mira Jakovcevski, et al.. (2022). Tripartite extended amygdala–basal ganglia CRH circuit drives locomotor activation and avoidance behavior. Science Advances. 8(46). eabo1023–eabo1023. 7 indexed citations

Raabe, Florian J., Nirmal Kannaiyan, Michael C. Wehr, et al.. (2022). Expression of Lineage Transcription Factors Identifies Differences in Transition States of Induced Human Oligodendrocyte Differentiation. Cells. 11(2). 241–241. 5 indexed citations

Yuan, Wen, Sai Ma, Juliana Brown, et al.. (2022). Temporally divergent regulatory mechanisms govern neuronal diversification and maturation in the mouse and marmoset neocortex. Nature Neuroscience. 25(8). 1049–1058. 20 indexed citations

Giulitti, Stefano, Marco Pellegrini, Paolo Martini, et al.. (2018). Direct generation of human naive induced pluripotent stem cells from somatic cells in microfluidics. Nature Cell Biology. 21(2). 275–286. 62 indexed citations

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Cacchiarelli, Davide, Xiaojie Qiu, Sanjay Srivatsan, et al.. (2018). Aligning Single-Cell Developmental and Reprogramming Trajectories Identifies Molecular Determinants of Myogenic Reprogramming Outcome. Cell Systems. 7(3). 258–268.e3. 47 indexed citations

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Charlton, Jocelyn, Timothy L. Downing, Zachary D. Smith, et al.. (2018). Global delay in nascent strand DNA methylation. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 25(4). 327–332. 61 indexed citations

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Hoffmann, Anke, et al.. (2017). Epigenomics of Major Depressive Disorders and Schizophrenia: Early Life Decides. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 18(8). 1711–1711. 39 indexed citations

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Libertini, Emanuele, Simon Heath, Rifat Hamoudi, et al.. (2016). Saturation analysis for whole-genome bisulfite sequencing data. Nature Biotechnology. 34(7). 691–693. 23 indexed citations

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Liao, Jing, Rahul Karnik, Hongcang Gu, et al.. (2015). Targeted disruption of DNMT1, DNMT3A and DNMT3B in human embryonic stem cells. Nature Genetics. 47(5). 469–478. 357 indexed citations

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Shea, Jeremy M., Ryan W. Serra, Benjamin R. Carone, et al.. (2015). Genetic and Epigenetic Variation, but Not Diet, Shape the Sperm Methylome. Developmental Cell. 35(6). 750–758. 103 indexed citations

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Cacchiarelli, Davide, Cole Trapnell, Michael J. Ziller, et al.. (2015). Integrative Analyses of Human Reprogramming Reveal Dynamic Nature of Induced Pluripotency. Cell. 162(2). 412–424. 151 indexed citations

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Keller, Roland, Akira Funahashi, Michael J. Ziller, et al.. (2013). The systems biology simulation core algorithm. BMC Systems Biology. 7(1). 55–55. 21 indexed citations

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Kearns, Nicola A., Ryan M. Genga, Michael J. Ziller, et al.. (2013). Generation of organized anterior foregut epithelia from pluripotent stem cells using small molecules. Stem Cell Research. 11(3). 1003–1012. 26 indexed citations

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Vollhardt, D. & Michael J. Ziller. (1993). Adsorption kinetic characterization of the effect of surface-active trace components in aqueous solutions of surfactants. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 76. 203–215. 4 indexed citations

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Ziller, Michael J. & R. Miller. (1986). On the solution of diffusion controlled adsorption kinetics by means of orthogonal collocation. Colloid & Polymer Science. 264(7). 611–615. 27 indexed citations

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