Simona Bianco

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Simona Bianco is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Simona Bianco has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Plant Science and 3 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Simona Bianco's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (42 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (30 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers). Simona Bianco is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (42 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (30 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers). Simona Bianco collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United States. Simona Bianco's co-authors include Mario Nicodemi, Andrea M. Chiariello, Andrea Esposito, Carlo Annunziatella, Mattia Conte, Luca Fiorillo, Ana Pombo, Guillaume Andrey, Robert Schöpflin and Martin Vingron and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Simona Bianco

45 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Promoter-proximal CTCF binding promotes distal enhancer-dependent gene activation

2021 184 citations Naoki Kubo, Haruhiko Ishii et al. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology profile →

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Andrea J. Gossett United States

Hakan Özadam United States

David C. Zappulla United States

Erik Aznauryan United States

Karen Reddy United States

Guillermo A. Orsi France

Nahid Iglesias United States

Özgen Deniz United Kingdom

Paula Dobrinić United Kingdom

Tim Pollex Germany

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simona Bianco

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fontana, Andrea, Simona Bianco, Andrea Esposito, et al.. (2025). Loss of structural specificity in 3D genome organization upon viral infection is predicted by polymer physics. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 162(1). 3 indexed citations

Chiariello, Andrea M., Simona Bianco, Andrea Esposito, et al.. (2024). Multiscale modelling of chromatin 4D organization in SARS-CoV-2 infected cells. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4014–4014. 11 indexed citations

Chiariello, Andrea M., Andrea Esposito, Mattia Conte, et al.. (2024). A Multiscale Perspective on Chromatin Architecture through Polymer Physics. Physiology. 40(3). 291–300.

Conte, Mattia, et al.. (2023). Physics-Based Polymer Models to Probe Chromosome Structure in Single Molecules. Methods in molecular biology. 2655. 57–66. 2 indexed citations

Conte, Mattia, et al.. (2023). Unveiling the Machinery behind Chromosome Folding by Polymer Physics Modeling. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(4). 3660–3660. 4 indexed citations

Beagrie, Robert A., Christoph J. Thieme, Carlo Annunziatella, et al.. (2023). Multiplex-GAM: genome-wide identification of chromatin contacts yields insights overlooked by Hi-C. Nature Methods. 20(7). 1037–1047. 19 indexed citations

Conte, Mattia, Ehsan Irani, Andrea M. Chiariello, et al.. (2022). Loop-extrusion and polymer phase-separation can co-exist at the single-molecule level to shape chromatin folding. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4070–4070. 59 indexed citations

Malacarne, Michela, Maria Brigida Lioi, Andrea M. Chiariello, et al.. (2022). Further Delineation of Duplications of ARX Locus Detected in Male Patients with Varying Degrees of Intellectual Disability. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(6). 3084–3084. 3 indexed citations

Esposito, Andrea, et al.. (2022). The Physics of DNA Folding: Polymer Models and Phase-Separation. Polymers. 14(9). 1918–1918. 10 indexed citations

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Huang, Hui, Quan Zhu, Yuanyuan Han, et al.. (2021). CTCF mediates dosage- and sequence-context-dependent transcriptional insulation by forming local chromatin domains. Nature Genetics. 53(7). 1064–1074. 104 indexed citations

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Kubo, Naoki, Haruhiko Ishii, Xiong Xiong, et al.. (2021). Promoter-proximal CTCF binding promotes distal enhancer-dependent gene activation. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 28(2). 152–161. 184 indexed citations breakdown →

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Conte, Mattia, Luca Fiorillo, Carlo Annunziatella, et al.. (2021). Dynamic and equilibrium properties of finite-size polymer models of chromosome folding. Physical review. E. 104(5). 54402–54402. 8 indexed citations

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Fiorillo, Luca, Francesco Musella, Mattia Conte, et al.. (2021). Comparison of the Hi-C, GAM and SPRITE methods using polymer models of chromatin. Nature Methods. 18(5). 482–490. 37 indexed citations

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Conte, Mattia, Luca Fiorillo, Simona Bianco, et al.. (2020). Polymer physics indicates chromatin folding variability across single-cells results from state degeneracy in phase separation. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3289–3289. 83 indexed citations

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Bianco, Simona, Carlo Annunziatella, Guillaume Andrey, et al.. (2019). Modeling Single-Molecule Conformations of the HoxD Region in Mouse Embryonic Stem and Cortical Neuronal Cells. Cell Reports. 28(6). 1574–1583.e4. 17 indexed citations

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Paliou, Christina, Philine Guckelberger, Robert Schöpflin, et al.. (2019). Preformed chromatin topology assists transcriptional robustness of Shh during limb development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(25). 12390–12399. 122 indexed citations

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Dellino, Gaetano Ivan, Fernando Palluzzi, Andrea M. Chiariello, et al.. (2019). Release of paused RNA polymerase II at specific loci favors DNA double-strand-break formation and promotes cancer translocations. Nature Genetics. 51(6). 1011–1023. 70 indexed citations

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Bianco, Simona, Darío G. Lupiáñez, Andrea M. Chiariello, et al.. (2018). Polymer physics predicts the effects of structural variants on chromatin architecture. Nature Genetics. 50(5). 662–667. 140 indexed citations

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Oudelaar, A. Marieke, James Davies, Lars L. P. Hanssen, et al.. (2018). Single-allele chromatin interactions identify regulatory hubs in dynamic compartmentalized domains. Nature Genetics. 50(12). 1744–1751. 134 indexed citations

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Daidola, Germana, et al.. (2018). [Efficacy of SUPRA HFR in the treatment of acute renal damage during multiple myeloma].. PubMed. 35(6). 1 indexed citations

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