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Esther T. Stoeckli

Esther T. Stoeckli

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Neuroscience

D-Index
47
Citations
8826
World Ranking
6421
National Ranking
152

Esther T. Stoeckli publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Esther T. Stoeckli sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 134 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Esther T. Stoeckli D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Esther T. Stoeckli sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Esther T. Stoeckli is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience. Their scientific work spans across multiple subfields, including molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, biophysics, and developmental neuroscience.

Their research topics cover a range of specialized areas such as axon guidance and neuronal signaling, genetic and kidney cyst diseases, advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, nerve injury and regeneration, hedgehog signaling pathway studies, and cell image analysis techniques.

Esther T. Stoeckli has authored several papers, notable among them:

  • Isotropic imaging across spatial scales with axially swept light-sheet microscopy, 2022, Nature Protocols
  • Benchtop mesoSPIM: a next-generation open-source light-sheet microscope for cleared samples, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Reflective multi-immersion microscope objectives inspired by the Schmidt telescope, 2023, Nature Biotechnology
  • Axon guidance at the spinal cord midline-A live imaging perspective, 2021, The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  • The Nogo-66 Receptors NgR1 and NgR3 Are Required for Commissural Axon Pathfinding, 2022, Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)

Their frequent coauthors include Alexandre Dumoulin, Martina Schaettin, Fabian F. Voigt, Fritjof Helmchen, and Nikole R. Zuñiga.

In terms of publication venues, their work appears most often in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with additional publications in Development, SSRN Electronic Journal, Nature Protocols, and Nature Communications.

Best Publications

  • Phenotype of mice lacking functional Deleted in colorectal cancer (Dcc) gene.

    Amin Fazeli;Stephanie L. Dickinson;Michelle L. Hermiston;Robert V. Tighe

  • Squeezing Axons Out of the Gray Matter: A Role for Slit and Semaphorin Proteins from Midline and Ventral Spinal Cord

    Yimin Zou;Esther Stoeckli;Hang Chen;Marc Tessier-Lavigne

  • Neuropilin-2 Regulates the Development of Select Cranial and Sensory Nerves and Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Projections

    Hang Chen;Anil Bagri;Joel A Zupicich;Yimin Zou

  • AXONIN-1, NR-CAM, AND NG-CAM PLAY DIFFERENT ROLES IN THE IN VIVO GUIDANCE OF CHICK COMMISSURAL NEURONS

    Esther T Stoeckli;Lynn T Landmesser

  • Hereditary sensory neuropathy type 1 is caused by the accumulation of two neurotoxic sphingolipids.

    Anke Penno;Anke Penno;Mary M. Reilly;Henry Houlden;Matilde Laura

  • The mesoSPIM initiative: open-source light-sheet microscopes for imaging cleared tissue

    Fabian F Voigt;Daniel Kirschenbaum;Evgenia Platonova;Stéphane Pagès

  • Neurite outgrowth on immobilized axonin-1 is mediated by a heterophilic interaction with L1(G4).

    T B Kuhn;E T Stoeckli;M A Condrau;F G Rathjen

  • Understanding axon guidance: are we nearly there yet?

    Esther T. Stoeckli

  • Sonic Hedgehog Guides Commissural Axons Along the Longitudinal Axis of the Spinal Cord

    Dimitris Bourikas;Vladimir Pekarik;Thomas Baeriswyl;Åsa Grunditz

  • Interference with Axonin-1 and NrCAM Interactions Unmasks a Floor-Plate Activity Inhibitory for Commissural Axons

    Esther T. Stoeckli;Peter Sonderegger;G.Elisabeth Pollerberg;Lynn T. Landmesser

  • Neuroserpin, an axonally secreted serine protease inhibitor

    T. Osterwalder;J. Contartese;E. T. Stoeckli;T. B. Kuhn

  • Axon guidance at choice points

    Esther T Stoeckli;Lynn T Landmesser

  • The axonally secreted protein axonin-1 is a potent substratum for neurite growth.

    E T Stoeckli;T B Kuhn;C O Duc;M A Ruegg

  • Distribution of TAG-1/axonin-1 in fibre tracts and migratory streams of the developing mouse nervous system.

    David P. Wolfer;Anne Henehan-Beatty;Esther T. Stoeckli;Peter Sonderegger

  • Plexin-B2, But Not Plexin-B1, Critically Modulates Neuronal Migration and Patterning of the Developing Nervous System In Vivo

    Suhua Deng;Alexandra Hirschberg;Thomas Worzfeld;Junia Y. Penachioni

  • F-Spondin is required for accurate pathfinding of commissural axons at the floor plate.

    Tal Burstyn-Cohen;Vered Tzarfaty;Ayala Frumkin;Yael Feinstein

  • Distinct Subpopulations of Sensory Afferents Require F11 or Axonin-1 for Growth to Their Target Layers within the Spinal Cord of the Chick

    Florence E Perrin;Fritz G Rathjen;Esther T Stoeckli

  • Endothelial cell-derived semaphorin 3A inhibits filopodia formation by blood vascular tip cells

    Alexandra M. Ochsenbein;Sinem Karaman;Steven T. Proulx;Michaela Berchtold

  • The axonally secreted cell adhesion molecule, axonin-1. Primary structure, immunoglobulin-like and fibronectin-type-III-like domains and glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol anchorage.

    Richard A. Zuellig;Christoph Rader;Annelies Schroeder;Markus B. Kalousek

  • Sonic Hedgehog Regulates Its Own Receptor on Postcrossing Commissural Axons in a Glypican1-Dependent Manner

    Nicole H. Wilson;Esther T. Stoeckli

  • A direct interaction of axonin-1 with NgCAM-related cell adhesion molecule (NrCAM) results in guidance, but not growth of commissural axons.

    Dora Fitzli;Esther T. Stoeckli;Stefan Kunz;Kingsley Siribour

  • Semaphorin6A acts as a gate keeper between the central and the peripheral nervous system

    Olivier Mauti;Elena Domanitskaya;Irwin Andermatt;Rejina Sadhu;Rejina Sadhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Sonderegger
Peter Sonderegger University of Zurich
Christoph Rader
Christoph Rader Scripps Research Institute
Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Marc Tessier-Lavigne Xaira Therapeutics
Urs Ziegler
Urs Ziegler University of Zurich
Stefan Kunz
Stefan Kunz University of Lausanne
Christian Lüscher
Christian Lüscher University of Geneva
Markus A. Rüegg
Markus A. Rüegg University of Basel
Martin E. Schwab
Martin E. Schwab University of Zurich
Lynn T. Landmesser
Lynn T. Landmesser Case Western Reserve University

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