Sandra Offner

6.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
37 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Sandra Offner is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sandra Offner has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Sandra Offner's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (10 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (8 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers). Sandra Offner is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (10 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (8 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers). Sandra Offner collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Sandra Offner's co-authors include Andreas Trumpp, William Blanco-Bose, Didier Trono, Marieke Essers, Zoe Waibler, Ulrich Kalinke, Michel A. Duchosal, Elisa Laurenti, Leonid Eshkind and Ernesto Bockamp and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Sandra Offner

35 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Hematopoietic Stem Cells Reversibly Switch from Dormancy to Self-Renewal during Homeostasis and Repair

2008 1.4k citations Anne Wilson, Elisa Laurenti et al. Cell profile →
IFNα activates dormant haematopoietic stem cells in vivo

2009 1.0k citations Marieke Essers, Sandra Offner et al. Nature profile →
In Embryonic Stem Cells, ZFP57/KAP1 Recognize a Methylated Hexanucleotide to Affect Chromatin and DNA Methylation of Imprinting Control Regions

2011 447 citations Andrea Corsinotti, Adamandia Kapopoulou et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sandra Offner Switzerland	25	2.7k	1.4k	1.2k	624	600	37	4.5k
Peter D. Aplan United States	48	4.4k 1.7×	2.3k 1.6×	1.1k 0.9×	564 0.9×	899 1.5×	155	6.4k
Toshiya Inaba Japan	37	2.6k 1.0×	1.7k 1.2×	653 0.5×	443 0.7×	799 1.3×	124	4.6k
Finbarr E. Cotter United Kingdom	38	2.6k 1.0×	848 0.6×	792 0.6×	505 0.8×	1.3k 2.1×	111	5.0k
Eric E. Bouhassira United States	41	3.7k 1.4×	1.7k 1.2×	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.8×	206 0.3×	106	6.5k
Marieke von Lindern Netherlands	43	3.9k 1.5×	1.4k 1.0×	618 0.5×	507 0.8×	633 1.1×	134	5.7k
John D. Crispino United States	52	5.0k 1.9×	3.2k 2.3×	985 0.8×	979 1.6×	698 1.2×	168	8.1k
Michael L. Mucenski United States	33	3.0k 1.1×	767 0.5×	1.3k 1.0×	830 1.3×	601 1.0×	47	5.0k
Jay L. Hess United States	50	7.4k 2.8×	3.2k 2.3×	719 0.6×	825 1.3×	1.1k 1.9×	120	9.9k
SH Orkin United States	32	3.4k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	1.5k 1.2×	992 1.6×	523 0.9×	50	6.0k
Alan J. Warren United Kingdom	34	3.8k 1.4×	1.9k 1.4×	910 0.7×	904 1.4×	660 1.1×	61	5.5k

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Forey, Romain, Alex R. Lederer, Joana Carlevaro-Fita, et al.. (2025). Evolutionarily recent transcription factors partake in human cell cycle regulation. Cell Genomics. 5(8). 100923–100923. 1 indexed citations

Martins, Filipe, Joana Carlevaro-Fita, Romain Forey, et al.. (2024). A Cluster of Evolutionarily Recent KRAB Zinc Finger Proteins Protects Cancer Cells from Replicative Stress–Induced Inflammation. Cancer Research. 84(6). 808–826. 9 indexed citations

Duc, Julien, et al.. (2024). Clusters of lineage-specific genes are anchored by ZNF274 in repressive perinucleolar compartments. Science Advances. 10(37). eado1662–eado1662. 3 indexed citations

Tribolet-Hardy, Jonas de, Christian W. Thorball, Romain Forey, et al.. (2023). Genetic features and genomic targets of human KRAB-zinc finger proteins. Genome Research. 33(8). 1409–1423. 28 indexed citations

Pontis, Julien, Christopher J. Playfoot, Evarist Planet, et al.. (2022). Primate-specific transposable elements shape transcriptional networks during human development. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7178–7178. 35 indexed citations

Simó‐Riudalbas, Laia, Sandra Offner, Evarist Planet, et al.. (2022). Transposon-activated POU5F1B promotes colorectal cancer growth and metastasis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4913–4913. 14 indexed citations

Iaco, Alberto De, Sonia Verp, Sandra Offner, Delphine Grün, & Didier Trono. (2019). DUX is a non-essential synchronizer of zygotic genome activation. Development. 147(2). 72 indexed citations

Pontis, Julien, Evarist Planet, Sandra Offner, et al.. (2019). Hominoid-Specific Transposable Elements and KZFPs Facilitate Human Embryonic Genome Activation and Control Transcription in Naive Human ESCs. Cell stem cell. 24(5). 724–735.e5. 164 indexed citations

Ecco, Gabriela, Marco Cassano, Annamaria Kauzlaric, et al.. (2016). Transposable Elements and Their KRAB-ZFP Controllers Regulate Gene Expression in Adult Tissues. Developmental Cell. 36(6). 611–623. 156 indexed citations

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Barde, Isabelle, Benjamin Rauwel, Andrea Corsinotti, et al.. (2014). Contrôle de la mitophagie par les microARN. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 2 indexed citations

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Barde, Isabelle, Benjamin Rauwel, Andrea Corsinotti, et al.. (2014). Contrôle de la mitophagie par les microARN. médecine/sciences. 30(1). 12–15. 2 indexed citations

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Rowe, Helen M., Marc Friedli, Sandra Offner, et al.. (2013). De novoDNA methylation of endogenous retroviruses is shaped by KRAB-ZFPs/KAP1 and ESET. Development. 140(3). 519–529. 134 indexed citations

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Bojkowska, Karolina, Francesca R. Santoni de Sio, Isabelle Barde, et al.. (2011). Measuring In Vivo Protein Half-Life. Chemistry & Biology. 18(6). 805–815. 65 indexed citations

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Barde, Isabelle, Elisa Laurenti, Sonia Verp, et al.. (2011). Lineage- and stage-restricted lentiviral vectors for the gene therapy of chronic granulomatous disease. Gene Therapy. 18(11). 1087–1097. 33 indexed citations

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Wilson, Anne, Elisa Laurenti, Gabriela Oser, et al.. (2009). Hematopoietic Stem Cells Reversibly Switch from Dormancy to Self-Renewal during Homeostasis and Repair. Cell. 138(1). 209–209. 6 indexed citations

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Essers, Marieke, Sandra Offner, William Blanco-Bose, et al.. (2009). IFNα activates dormant haematopoietic stem cells in vivo. Nature. 458(7240). 904–908. 1020 indexed citations breakdown →

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Essers, Marieke, Sandra Offner, William Blanco-Bose, et al.. (2008). IFN-alpha PROMOTES PROLIFERATION OF DORMANT HSCS IN VIVO, MAKING THEM SUSCEPTIBLE TO ELIMINATION BY CHEMOTHERAPY. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 93. 193–193.

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Blanco-Bose, William, Mark Murphy, Armin Ehninger, et al.. (2008). C‐Myc and its target FoxM1 are critical downstream effectors of constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) mediated direct liver hyperplasia†. Hepatology. 48(4). 1302–1311. 115 indexed citations

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Wilson, Anne, Elisa Laurenti, Gabriela Oser, et al.. (2008). Hematopoietic Stem Cells Reversibly Switch from Dormancy to Self-Renewal during Homeostasis and Repair. Cell. 135(6). 1118–1129. 1406 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bongfen, Silayuv E., Sandra Offner, Thomas A. Smith, et al.. (2008). The N-terminal domain of Plasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite protein represents a target of protective immunity. Vaccine. 27(2). 328–335. 65 indexed citations

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