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Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 231 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 88 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Overview

Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis is affiliated with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Molecular Biology. Additional areas of study include Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cell Biology, Oncology, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their work addresses a variety of topics related to cellular function and development. Key research themes include:

  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Renal and related cancers
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Reproductive Biology and Fertility

Publications by Hadjantonakis are frequently found in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Developmental Cell, eLife, Nature Cell Biology, and Development. They have contributed extensively to the literature, with multiple papers in these journals.

Recent papers include:

  • Guidelines and definitions for research on epithelial-mesenchymal transition, 2020, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • TGF-β orchestrates fibrogenic and developmental EMTs via the RAS effector RREB1, 2020, Nature
  • Integration of spatial and single-cell transcriptomic data elucidates mouse organogenesis, 2021, Nature Biotechnology
  • Mouse gastrulation: Coordination of tissue patterning, specification and diversification of cell fate, 2020, Mechanisms of Development
  • RNA polymerase II dynamics shape enhancer-promoter interactions, 2023, Nature Genetics

Hadjantonakis has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Vidur Garg (14 collaborations)
  • Ying-Yi Kuo (13 collaborations)
  • Joan Massagué (10 collaborations)
  • Abderhman Abuhashem (9 collaborations)
  • Sonja Nowotschin (9 collaborations)

The body of Hadjantonakis's work contributes to molecular understanding in stem cell biology, genomic regulation, and cancer biology. The publications exhibit a broad integration of developmental biology techniques and genomic approaches, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to research questions.

Best Publications

  • Promotion of Trophoblast Stem Cell Proliferation by FGF4

    Satoshi Tanaka;Tilo Kunath;Anna Katerina Hadjantonakis;Andras Nagy

  • Guidelines and definitions for research on epithelial–mesenchymal transition

    Jing Yang;Parker Antin;Geert Berx;Cédric Blanpain

  • Generating green fluorescent mice by germline transmission of green fluorescent ES cells

    Anna Katerina Hadjantonakis;Marina Gertsenstein;Masahito Ikawa;Masaru Okabe

  • Mice lacking both presenilin genes exhibit early embryonic patterning defects.

    Dorit B. Donoviel;Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis;Masaki Ikeda;Hui Zheng

  • Distinct sequential cell behaviours direct primitive endoderm formation in the mouse blastocyst.

    Berenika Plusa;Anna Piliszek;Stephen Frankenberg;Stephen Frankenberg;Jérôme Artus

  • The orderly allocation of mesodermal cells to the extraembryonic structures and the anteroposterior axis during gastrulation of the mouse embryo

    Simon J. Kinder;Tania E. Tsang;Gabriel A. Quinlan;Anna Katerina Hadjantonakis

  • Symmetry breaking, germ layer specification and axial organisation in aggregates of mouse embryonic stem cells

    Susanne C. van den Brink;Peter Baillie-Johnson;Tina Balayo;Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis

  • The endoderm of the mouse embryo arises by dynamic widespread intercalation of embryonic and extraembryonic lineages.

    Gloria S. Kwon;Manuel Viotti;Manuel Viotti;Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis

  • Tbr2 Directs Conversion of Radial Glia into Basal Precursors and Guides Neuronal Amplification by Indirect Neurogenesis in the Developing Neocortex

    Alessandro Sessa;Chai an Mao;Anna Katerina Hadjantonakis;William H. Klein

  • A sensitive and bright single-cell resolution live imaging reporter of Wnt/ß-catenin signaling in the mouse

    Anna Ferrer-Vaquer;Anna Piliszek;Guangnan Tian;Robert J Aho

  • TGF-β orchestrates fibrogenic and developmental EMTs via the RAS effector RREB1.

    Jie Su;Sophie M. Morgani;Charles J. David;Charles J. David;Qiong Wang;Qiong Wang

  • The emergent landscape of the mouse gut endoderm at single-cell resolution.

    Sonja Nowotschin;Manu Setty;Ying-Yi Kuo;Vincent Liu

  • Distinct functions for Wnt/β-catenin in hair follicle stem cell proliferation and survival and interfollicular epidermal homeostasis

    Yeon Sook Choi;Yuhang Zhang;Yuhang Zhang;Mingang Xu;Yongguang Yang

  • Cell-to-cell expression variability followed by signal reinforcement progressively segregates early mouse lineages

    Yusuke Ohnishi;Wolfgang Huber;Akiko Tsumura;Minjung Kang

  • Downregulation of Par3 and aPKC function directs cells towards the ICM in the preimplantation mouse embryo

    Berenika Plusa;Stephen Frankenberg;Andrew Chalmers;Andrew Chalmers;Anna Katerina Hadjantonakis

  • Embryonic stem cells and mice expressing different GFP variants for multiple non-invasive reporter usage within a single animal

    Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis;Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis;Suzanne Macmaster;András D Nagy;András D Nagy

  • FGF4 is required for lineage restriction and salt-and-pepper distribution of primitive endoderm factors but not their initial expression in the mouse

    Minjung Kang;Anna Piliszek;Jérôme Artus;Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis

  • Dynamic in vivo imaging and cell tracking using a histone fluorescent protein fusion in mice

    Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis;Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis;Virginia E Papaioannou

  • Crucial role for DNA ligase III in mitochondria but not in Xrcc1-dependent repair

    Deniz Simsek;Deniz Simsek;Amy Furda;Yankun Gao;Jérôme Artus

  • Dissecting the role of N-myc in development using a single targeting vector to generate a series of alleles

    A. Nagy;C. Moens;E. Ivanyi;J. Pawling

Frequent Co-Authors

Andras Nagy
Andras Nagy Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Virginia E. Papaioannou
Virginia E. Papaioannou Columbia University Medical Center
Jennifer Nichols
Jennifer Nichols University of Cambridge
Pamela A. Hoodless
Pamela A. Hoodless University of British Columbia
Joan Massagué
Joan Massagué Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Alfonso Martinez Arias
Alfonso Martinez Arias University of Cambridge
Dana Pe'er
Dana Pe'er Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Deanna M. Church
Deanna M. Church National Institutes of Health
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz California Institute of Technology
William H. Klein
William H. Klein The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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