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Cecilia B. Moens publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cecilia B. Moens sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 139 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Cecilia B. Moens D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cecilia B. Moens sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Cecilia B. Moens is affiliated with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the United States. Their research spans biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience, with particular contributions in molecular biology, cell biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, immunology, and developmental neuroscience.

Their main scientific topics include single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, zebrafish biomedical research applications, congenital heart defects research, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, tuberculosis research and epidemiology, interferon and immune responses, and sphingolipid metabolism and signaling.

Cecilia B. Moens has published extensively in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Development
  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Nature Genetics

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Systematic reconstruction of cellular trajectories across mouse embryogenesis, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • A single-cell time-lapse of mouse prenatal development from gastrula to birth, 2024, Nature
  • mTOR-regulated mitochondrial metabolism limits mycobacterium-induced cytotoxicity, 2022, Cell
  • Embryo-scale reverse genetics at single-cell resolution, 2023, Nature
  • Retinoic Acid Organizes the Zebrafish Vagus Motor Topographic Map via Spatiotemporal Coordination of Hgf/Met Signaling, 2020, Developmental Cell

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Adam J. Isabella
  • Sanjay Srivatsan
  • Cole Trapnell
  • Jay Shendure
  • Chengxiang Qiu

Best Publications

  • A Role for Piwi and piRNAs in Germ Cell Maintenance and Transposon Silencing in Zebrafish

    Saskia Houwing;Leonie M. Kamminga;Eugene Berezikov;Daniela Cronembold

  • Hox cofactors in vertebrate development.

    Cecilia B. Moens;Licia Selleri

  • The lta4h Locus Modulates Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Infection in Zebrafish and Humans

    David M. Tobin;Jay C. Vary;John P. Ray;Gregory S. Walsh

  • A G Protein-Coupled Receptor is Essential for Schwann Cells to Initiate Myelination

    Kelly R. Monk;Stephen G. Naylor;Thomas D. Glenn;Sara Mercurio

  • Rapid Reverse Genetic Screening Using CRISPR in Zebrafish

    Arish N Shah;Crystal F Davey;Alex C Whitebirch;Adam C Miller

  • Zebrafish hox genes: expression in the hindbrain region of wild-type and mutants of the segmentation gene, valentino

    Victoria E. Prince;Cecilia B. Moens;Charles B. Kimmel;Robert K. Ho

  • Defects in heart and lung development in compound heterozygotes for two different targeted mutations at the N-myc locus

    Cecilia B. Moens;Brian R. Stanton;Luis F. Parada;Janet Rossant

  • Guidelines for morpholino use in zebrafish

    Didier Y. R. Stainier;Erez Raz;Nathan D. Lawson;Stephen C. Ekker

  • valentino: a zebrafish gene required for normal hindbrain segmentation.

    Cecilia B. Moens;Yi-Lin Yan;Bruce Appel;Allan G. Force

  • CC2D2A Is Mutated in Joubert Syndrome and Interacts with the Ciliopathy-Associated Basal Body Protein CEP290

    Nicholas T. Gorden;Heleen H. Arts;Melissa A. Parisi;Karlien L.M. Coene

  • Equivalence in the genetic control of hindbrain segmentation in fish and mouse

    C.B. Moens;S.P. Cordes;M.W. Giorgianni;G.S. Barsh

  • Cyp26 enzymes generate the retinoic acid response pattern necessary for hindbrain development

    Rafael E. Hernandez;Aaron P. Putzke;Jonathan P. Myers;Lilyana Margaretha

  • 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

  • Constructing the hindbrain: insights from the zebrafish.

    Cecilia B. Moens;Victoria E. Prince

  • EphA4 Is Required for Cell Adhesion and Rhombomere-Boundary Formation in the Zebrafish

    Julie E. Cooke;Hilary A. Kemp;Cecilia B. Moens

  • Reverse genetics in zebrafish by TILLING

    Cecilia B. Moens;Thomas M. Donn;Emma R. Wolf-Saxon;Taylur P. Ma

  • A targeted mutation reveals a role for N-myc in branching morphogenesis in the embryonic mouse lung.

    Cecilia Bernelot Moens;Anna B. Auerbach;Ronald A. Conlon;Alexandra L. Joyner

  • nanos1 is required to maintain oocyte production in adult zebrafish

    Bruce W. Draper;Claire M. McCallum;Cecilia B. Moens

  • Notch3 establishes brain vascular integrity by regulating pericyte number

    Yuying Wang;Luyuan Pan;Cecilia B. Moens;Bruce Appel

  • Specification and morphogenesis of the zebrafish larval head skeleton

    Charles B. Kimmel;Craig T. Miller;Cecilia B. Moens

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles B. Kimmel
Charles B. Kimmel University of Oregon
Michael Granato
Michael Granato University of Pennsylvania
Lalita Ramakrishnan
Lalita Ramakrishnan University of Cambridge
Didier Y. R. Stainier
Didier Y. R. Stainier Max Planck Society
Philip W. Ingham
Philip W. Ingham University of Bath
Nathan D. Lawson
Nathan D. Lawson University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Eugene Berezikov
Eugene Berezikov University Medical Center Groningen
René F. Ketting
René F. Ketting Institute of Molecular Biology
Ronald Roepman
Ronald Roepman Radboud University
Stephen J. Tapscott
Stephen J. Tapscott Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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