Pierre‐François Lenne

9.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
88 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Pierre‐François Lenne is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Pierre‐François Lenne has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Cell Biology, 32 papers in Molecular Biology and 29 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Pierre‐François Lenne's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (34 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (18 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (16 papers). Pierre‐François Lenne is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (34 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (18 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (16 papers). Pierre‐François Lenne collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. Pierre‐François Lenne's co-authors include Thomas Lecuit, Matteo Rauzi, Hervé Rigneault, Didier Marguet, Edwin Munro, L. Wawrezinieck, Pascale Vérant, Hai‐Tao He, Claudio Collinet and Jérôme Wenger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Pierre‐François Lenne

85 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

Cell surface mechanics and the control of cell shape, tis... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2010 2008 2011 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Cell surface mechanics and the control of cell shape, tissue patterns and morphogenesis
    2007 947 citations Thomas Lecuit, Pierre‐François Lenne profile →
  2. Planar polarized actomyosin contractile flows control epithelial junction remodelling
    2010 479 citations Matteo Rauzi, Pierre‐François Lenne et al. Nature profile →
  3. Nature and anisotropy of cortical forces orienting Drosophila tissue morphogenesis
    2008 457 citations Matteo Rauzi, Thomas Lecuit et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →
  4. Force Generation, Transmission, and Integration during Cell and Tissue Morphogenesis
    2011 427 citations Thomas Lecuit, Pierre‐François Lenne et al. profile →

Peers

Pierre‐François Lenne
Gijsje H. Koenderink Netherlands
Cécile Sykes France
Zvi Kam Israel
Nir S. Gov Israel
Matthieu Piel France
Manuel Théry France
Grégory Giannone France
Kurt I. Anderson United Kingdom
Karsten Kruse Germany
Alan Rick Horwitz United States
Gijsje H. Koenderink Netherlands
Pierre‐François Lenne
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Fields of papers citing papers by Pierre‐François Lenne

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pierre‐François Lenne

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

All Works

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Gsell, Simon, Sham Tlili, Matthias Merkel, & Pierre‐François Lenne. (2025). Marangoni-like tissue flows enhance symmetry breaking of embryonic organoids. Nature Physics. 21(4). 644–653. 6 indexed citations
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Mangeol, Pierre, Dominique Massey‐Harroche, Michaël Sebbagh, et al.. (2024). The zonula adherens matura redefines the apical junction of intestinal epithelia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(9). e2316722121–e2316722121. 14 indexed citations
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Nishizawa, Kenji, et al.. (2023). Two-point optical manipulation reveals mechanosensitive remodeling of cell–cell contacts in vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(13). e2212389120–e2212389120. 13 indexed citations
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Nishizawa, Kenji, et al.. (2023). Two-Point Optical Manipulation of Cell Junctions in the Early Epithelium of the Drosophila Embryo. Methods in molecular biology. 2600. 107–118. 3 indexed citations
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Hashmi, Ali, Sham Tlili, Pierre Perrin, et al.. (2022). Cell-state transitions and collective cell movement generate an endoderm-like region in gastruloids. eLife. 11. 41 indexed citations
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Lenne, Pierre‐François & Vikas Trivedi. (2022). Sculpting tissues by phase transitions. Nature Communications. 13(1). 664–664. 58 indexed citations
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Toret, Christopher P., et al.. (2018). The ELMO-MBC complex and RhoGAP19D couple Rho family GTPases during mesenchymal-to-epithelial-like transitions. Development. 145(4). 7 indexed citations
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Clément, R, Benoît Dehapiot, Claudio Collinet, Thomas Lecuit, & Pierre‐François Lenne. (2017). Viscoelastic Dissipation Stabilizes Cell Shape Changes during Tissue Morphogenesis. Current Biology. 27(20). 3132–3142.e4. 110 indexed citations
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Sugimura, Kaoru, Pierre‐François Lenne, & François Graner. (2016). Measuring forces and stresses in situ in living tissues. Development. 143(2). 186–196. 148 indexed citations
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Clément, R, et al.. (2015). Direct laser manipulation reveals the mechanics of cell contacts in vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(5). 1416–1421. 163 indexed citations
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Collinet, Claudio, Matteo Rauzi, Pierre‐François Lenne, & Thomas Lecuit. (2015). Local and tissue-scale forces drive oriented junction growth during tissue extension. Nature Cell Biology. 17(10). 1247–1258. 203 indexed citations
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Mani, Madhav, et al.. (2013). Principles of E-Cadherin Supramolecular Organization In Vivo. Current Biology. 23(22). 2197–2207. 139 indexed citations
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Rauzi, Matteo, Pierre‐François Lenne, & Thomas Lecuit. (2010). Planar polarized actomyosin contractile flows control epithelial junction remodelling. Nature. 468(7327). 1110–1114. 479 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lasserre, Rémi, Xiaojun Guo, Fabien Conchonaud, et al.. (2008). Raft nanodomains contribute to Akt/PKB plasma membrane recruitment and activation. Nature Chemical Biology. 4(9). 538–547. 241 indexed citations
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Étienne, Émilien, Pierre‐François Lenne, James N. Sturgis, & Hervé Rigneault. (2006). Confined diffusion in tubular structures analyzed by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy on a mirror. Applied Optics. 45(18). 4497–4497. 8 indexed citations
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Popov, E., Nicolas Bonod, M. Nevière, et al.. (2005). Surface plasmon excitation on a single subwavelength hole in a metallic sheet. Applied Optics. 44(12). 2332–2332. 67 indexed citations
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Wawrezinieck, L., Pierre‐François Lenne, Didier Marguet, & Hervé Rigneault. (2004). Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy to determine diffusion laws: application to live cell membranes. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5462. 92–92. 21 indexed citations
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Altmann, Stephan, Raik Grünberg, Pierre‐François Lenne, et al.. (2002). Pathways and Intermediates in Forced Unfolding of Spectrin Repeats. Structure. 10(8). 1085–1096. 63 indexed citations
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Lenne, Pierre‐François, B. Berge, Anne Renault, et al.. (2000). Synchrotron Radiation Diffraction from Two-Dimensional Protein Crystals at the Air/Water Interface. Biophysical Journal. 79(1). 496–500. 28 indexed citations

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