Silke Hauf

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
36 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Silke Hauf is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Silke Hauf has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Molecular Biology, 27 papers in Cell Biology and 11 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Silke Hauf's work include Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (25 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (15 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (5 papers). Silke Hauf is often cited by papers focused on Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (25 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (15 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (5 papers). Silke Hauf collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Austria. Silke Hauf's co-authors include Jan‐Michael Peters, Irene C. Waizenegger, Andreas Meinke, Jan‐Michael Peters, Yoshinori Watanabe, Gisela Schnapp, Richard W. Cole, Armin Heckel, Jacques Van Meel and Christine L. Zimmer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Silke Hauf

35 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

The small molecule Hesperadin reveals a role for Aurora B in correcting kinetochore–microtubule attachment and in maintaining the spindle assembly checkpoint

2003 947 citations Silke Hauf et al. profile →
Two Distinct Pathways Remove Mammalian Cohesin from Chromosome Arms in Prophase and from Centromeres in Anaphase

2000 577 citations Irene C. Waizenegger, Silke Hauf et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Silke Hauf Germany	22	3.3k	2.6k	972	487	170	36	3.7k
Irene C. Waizenegger Austria	20	2.8k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	924 1.0×	417 0.9×	176 1.0×	31	3.4k
Marta Gálová Austria	13	3.9k 1.2×	2.4k 0.9×	1.0k 1.0×	347 0.7×	187 1.1×	15	4.2k
Wolfgang Zachariae Germany	25	4.5k 1.4×	2.9k 1.1×	850 0.9×	529 1.1×	224 1.3×	33	5.0k
Oliver J. Gruß Germany	29	3.1k 0.9×	2.1k 0.8×	372 0.4×	301 0.6×	240 1.4×	48	3.6k
Jesse Lipp Austria	14	2.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.4×	429 0.4×	419 0.9×	144 0.8×	20	2.8k
Régis Giet France	20	2.2k 0.7×	2.1k 0.8×	494 0.5×	762 1.6×	149 0.9×	40	2.8k
Gerben Vader Netherlands	17	1.9k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	389 0.4×	529 1.1×	118 0.7×	26	2.2k
Damien F. Hudson Australia	24	2.3k 0.7×	938 0.4×	749 0.8×	299 0.6×	235 1.4×	38	2.6k
Jill M. Schumacher United States	21	2.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	421 0.4×	1.2k 2.5×	211 1.2×	30	3.5k
Didier Fesquet France	27	2.5k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	313 0.3×	958 2.0×	207 1.2×	36	3.0k

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Brenna, Greta, et al.. (2026). Love-thy-neighbor: neural networks for tracking and lineage tracing in budding yeast. Bioinformatics Advances. 6(1).

Singh, Abhyudai, et al.. (2023). The minimal intrinsic stochasticity of constitutively expressed eukaryotic genes is sub-Poissonian. Science Advances. 9(32). eadh5138–eadh5138. 23 indexed citations

Hauf, Silke, et al.. (2023). Sock and Environmental Swabs as an Efficient, Non-Invasive Tool to Assess the Salmonella Status of Sow Farms. Animals. 13(6). 1031–1031. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Jing, et al.. (2022). Mitotic checkpoint gene expression is tuned by codon usage bias. The EMBO Journal. 41(15). e107896–e107896. 7 indexed citations

Xu, Zhengyao, et al.. (2021). Mutation and selection explain why many eukaryotic centromeric DNA sequences are often A + T rich. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(1). 579–596. 7 indexed citations

Hauf, Silke, et al.. (2020). Pomegranate: 2D segmentation and 3D reconstruction for fission yeast and other radially symmetric cells. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 16580–16580. 5 indexed citations

Groß, Fridolin, et al.. (2018). Implications of alternative routes to APC/C inhibition by the mitotic checkpoint complex. PLoS Computational Biology. 14(9). e1006449–e1006449. 10 indexed citations

Hauf, Silke, et al.. (2017). Different Functionality of Cdc20 Binding Sites within the Mitotic Checkpoint Complex. Current Biology. 27(8). 1213–1220. 21 indexed citations

Koch, André, et al.. (2017). Construction, Growth, and Harvesting of Fission Yeast Stable Isotope Labeling by Amino Acids in Cell Culture (SILAC) Strains. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2017(6). pdb.prot091678–pdb.prot091678. 4 indexed citations

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Kamenz, Julia & Silke Hauf. (2014). Slow Checkpoint Activation Kinetics as a Safety Device in Anaphase. Current Biology. 24(6). 646–651. 14 indexed citations

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Heinrich, Stephanie, Hanna Windecker, Maria Langegger, et al.. (2014). Mad1 contribution to spindle assembly checkpoint signalling goes beyond presenting M ad2 at kinetochores. EMBO Reports. 15(3). 291–298. 45 indexed citations

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Heinrich, Stephanie, Julia Kamenz, Susanne Trautmann, et al.. (2013). Determinants of robustness in spindle assembly checkpoint signalling. Nature Cell Biology. 15(11). 1328–1339. 83 indexed citations

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Heinrich, Stephanie, Hanna Windecker, Nicole Hustedt, & Silke Hauf. (2012). Mph1 kinetochore localization is crucial and upstream in the hierarchy of spindle assembly checkpoint protein recruitment to kinetochores. Journal of Cell Science. 125(Pt 20). 4720–7. 46 indexed citations

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Sakuno, Takeshi, Kōichi Tanaka, Silke Hauf, & Yoshinori Watanabe. (2011). Repositioning of Aurora B Promoted by Chiasmata Ensures Sister Chromatid Mono-Orientation in Meiosis I. Developmental Cell. 21(3). 534–545. 54 indexed citations

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Koch, André & Silke Hauf. (2010). Strategies for the identification of kinase substrates using analog-sensitive kinases. European Journal of Cell Biology. 89(2-3). 184–193. 24 indexed citations

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Kawashima, Shigehiro A., Tatsuya Tsukahara, Maria Langegger, et al.. (2007). Shugoshin enables tension-generating attachment of kinetochores by loading Aurora to centromeres. Genes & Development. 21(4). 420–435. 164 indexed citations

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Hauf, Silke, et al.. (2007). Aurora controls sister kinetochore mono-orientation and homolog bi-orientation in meiosis-I. The EMBO Journal. 26(21). 4475–4486. 73 indexed citations

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Kitajima, Tomoya S., Silke Hauf, Miho Ohsugi, Tadashi Yamamoto, & Yoshinori Watanabe. (2005). Human Bub1 Defines the Persistent Cohesion Site along the Mitotic Chromosome by Affecting Shugoshin Localization. Current Biology. 15(4). 353–359. 206 indexed citations

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Hauf, Silke & Yoshinori Watanabe. (2004). Kinetochore Orientation in Mitosis and Meiosis. Cell. 119(3). 317–327. 96 indexed citations

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Waizenegger, Irene C., Silke Hauf, Andreas Meinke, & Jan‐Michael Peters. (2000). Two Distinct Pathways Remove Mammalian Cohesin from Chromosome Arms in Prophase and from Centromeres in Anaphase. Cell. 103(3). 399–410. 577 indexed citations breakdown →

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