Verena Ruprecht

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Verena Ruprecht is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Verena Ruprecht has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Cell Biology and 7 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Verena Ruprecht's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (14 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (7 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (5 papers). Verena Ruprecht is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (14 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (7 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (5 papers). Verena Ruprecht collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Spain and France. Verena Ruprecht's co-authors include Stefan Wieser, Carl‐Philipp Heisenberg, Raphaël Voituriez, Michael Sixt, Michael Smutny, Vanessa Barone, Keisuke Sako, Andrew Callan-Jones, Gerhard J. Schütz and Monika Ritsch‐Marte and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Verena Ruprecht

29 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

The nucleus measures shape changes for cellular proprioception to control dynamic cell behavior

2020 286 citations Valeria Venturini, Fabio Pezzano et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Verena Ruprecht Austria	17	912	731	504	228	146	30	1.7k
Erin L. Barnhart United States	14	1.4k 1.5×	503 0.7×	588 1.2×	182 0.8×	231 1.6×	16	1.9k
Greg M. Allen United States	11	841 0.9×	483 0.7×	485 1.0×	133 0.6×	129 0.9×	12	1.5k
Léo Valon France	13	1.2k 1.3×	425 0.6×	693 1.4×	105 0.5×	214 1.5×	19	1.7k
Jean‐Léon Maître France	19	1.3k 1.4×	1.0k 1.4×	548 1.1×	90 0.4×	109 0.7×	35	2.1k
Matteo Rauzi France	16	1.6k 1.8×	773 1.1×	522 1.0×	126 0.6×	126 0.9×	22	2.0k
Ruedi Meili United States	19	1.6k 1.7×	1.1k 1.5×	469 0.9×	219 1.0×	140 1.0×	29	2.3k
Stefan Wieser Austria	17	910 1.0×	902 1.2×	503 1.0×	345 1.5×	192 1.3×	52	2.0k
Jérôme Solon Spain	15	1.4k 1.5×	764 1.0×	706 1.4×	83 0.4×	216 1.5×	22	2.2k
Alexandra Jilkine United States	12	906 1.0×	650 0.9×	262 0.5×	129 0.6×	88 0.6×	18	1.5k
Julie Plastino France	23	1.6k 1.8×	976 1.3×	471 0.9×	284 1.2×	416 2.8×	41	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Verena Ruprecht

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Català-Castro, Frederic, Fabio Pezzano, Carla Garcia‐Cabau, et al.. (2025). Measuring age-dependent viscoelasticity of organelles, cells and organisms with time-shared optical tweezer microrheology. Nature Nanotechnology. 20(3). 411–420. 9 indexed citations

Flormann, Daniel, Johannes Rheinlaender, Fabio Pezzano, et al.. (2024). The structure and mechanics of the cell cortex depend on the location and adhesion state. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(31). e2320372121–e2320372121. 7 indexed citations

Venturini, Valeria, Adrià Cañellas‐Socias, Carme Cortina, et al.. (2024). Membrane to cortex attachment determines different mechanical phenotypes in LGR5+ and LGR5- colorectal cancer cells. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3363–3363. 12 indexed citations

ARCOS, Juan Manuel GARCIA, J. F. Ziegler, Silvia Grigolon, et al.. (2024). Rigidity percolation and active advection synergize in the actomyosin cortex to drive amoeboid cell motility. Developmental Cell. 59(22). 2990–3007.e7. 3 indexed citations

Porta-de-la-Riva, Montserrat, Laura Batlle‐Morera, Valeria Venturini, et al.. (2022). Volumetric imaging of fast cellular dynamics with deep learning enhanced bioluminescence microscopy. Communications Biology. 5(1). 1330–1330. 9 indexed citations

Mantica, Federica, Jon Permanyer, Jingjing Zang, et al.. (2022). Specialization of the photoreceptor transcriptome by Srrm3 -dependent microexons is required for outer segment maintenance and vision. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(29). e2117090119–e2117090119. 19 indexed citations

Jiménez‐Delgado, Senda, Carolina Segura-Morales, Carsten Janke, et al.. (2022). Chromosome segregation fidelity requires microtubule polyglutamylation by the cancer downregulated enzyme TTLL11. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7147–7147. 16 indexed citations

Català-Castro, Frederic, et al.. (2021). Direct Force Measurements of Subcellular Mechanics in Confinement using Optical Tweezers. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 1 indexed citations

Català-Castro, Frederic, et al.. (2021). Direct Force Measurements of Subcellular Mechanics in Confinement using Optical Tweezers. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 10 indexed citations

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Venturini, Valeria, Fabio Pezzano, Frederic Català-Castro, et al.. (2020). The nucleus measures shape changes for cellular proprioception to control dynamic cell behavior. Science. 370(6514). 286 indexed citations breakdown →

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Baumann, Sebastian, et al.. (2020). A reconstituted mammalian APC-kinesin complex selectively transports defined packages of axonal mRNAs. Science Advances. 6(11). eaaz1588–eaaz1588. 49 indexed citations

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Smutny, Michael, Zsuzsa Ákos, Silvia Grigolon, et al.. (2017). Friction forces position the neural anlage. Nature Cell Biology. 19(4). 306–317. 72 indexed citations

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Sako, Keisuke, Saurabh J. Pradhan, Vanessa Barone, et al.. (2016). Optogenetic Control of Nodal Signaling Reveals a Temporal Pattern of Nodal Signaling Regulating Cell Fate Specification during Gastrulation. Cell Reports. 16(3). 866–877. 91 indexed citations

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Callan-Jones, Andrew, Verena Ruprecht, Stefan Wieser, Carl‐Philipp Heisenberg, & Raphaël Voituriez. (2016). Cortical Flow-Driven Shapes of Nonadherent Cells. Physical Review Letters. 116(2). 28102–28102. 29 indexed citations

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Maiuri, Paolo, Jean-François Rupprecht, Stefan Wieser, et al.. (2015). Actin Flows Mediate a Universal Coupling between Cell Speed and Cell Persistence. Cell. 161(2). 374–386. 304 indexed citations

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Lamprecht, Constanze, Birgit Plochberger, Verena Ruprecht, et al.. (2014). A single-molecule approach to explore binding, uptake and transport of cancer cell targeting nanotubes. Nanotechnology. 25(12). 125704–125704. 14 indexed citations

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Smutny, Michael, Martin Behrndt, Pedro Campinho, Verena Ruprecht, & Carl‐Philipp Heisenberg. (2014). UV Laser Ablation to Measure Cell and Tissue-Generated Forces in the Zebrafish Embryo In Vivo and Ex Vivo. Methods in molecular biology. 1189. 219–235. 27 indexed citations

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Weghuber, Julian, Michael Aichinger, Mario Brameshuber, et al.. (2011). Cationic amphipathic peptides accumulate sialylated proteins and lipids in the plasma membrane of eukaryotic host cells. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1808(10). 2581–2590. 13 indexed citations

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Ruprecht, Verena, Stefan Wieser, Didier Marguet, & Gerhard J. Schütz. (2011). Spot Variation Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Allows for Superresolution Chronoscopy of Confinement Times in Membranes. Biophysical Journal. 100(11). 2839–2845. 44 indexed citations

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Weghuber, Julian, Michael Aichinger, Verena Ruprecht, et al.. (2010). Antimicrobial and immunostimulatory peptide, KLK, induces an increase in cytosolic Ca²⁺ concentration by mobilizing Ca²⁺ from intracellular stores. Cell Biology International. 34(11). 1109–1112. 2 indexed citations

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