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2026

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World Ranking
1588
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2017 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Jan Ellenberg is affiliated with the European Bioinformatics Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Structural Biology.

The scientist's main research topics include RNA Research and Splicing, Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, Nuclear Structure and Function, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, Cell Image Analysis Techniques, Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications, and Cellular Mechanics and Interactions.

Jan Ellenberg has contributed to several recent publications. Notable papers include:

  • MINFLUX nanoscopy delivers 3D multicolor nanometer resolution in cells (2020, Nature Methods)
  • LifeTime and improving European healthcare through cell-based interceptive medicine (2020, Nature)
  • REMBI: Recommended Metadata for Biological Images-enabling reuse of microscopy data in biology (2021, Nature Methods)
  • High-resolution line-scan Brillouin microscopy for live imaging of mechanical properties during embryo development (2023, Nature Methods)
  • Chemogenetic Control of Nanobodies (2020, Nature Methods)

Frequent co-authors include Natalia Rosalía Morero, Andreas Brunner, M. Julius Hossain, Jonas Ries, and Kai Sandvold Beckwith.

The most common venues for Jan Ellenberg's publications are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 16 publications, Nature Methods with 10, Nature with 3, The Journal of Cell Biology with 2, and arXiv (Cornell University) with 2 publications.

Jan Ellenberg was recognized as a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2017.

Best Publications

  • RNF168 Binds and Amplifies Ubiquitin Conjugates on Damaged Chromosomes to Allow Accumulation of Repair Proteins

    Carsten Doil;Niels Mailand;Simon Bekker-Jensen;Patrice Menard

  • Phenotypic profiling of the human genome by time-lapse microscopy reveals cell division genes

    Beate Neumann;Thomas Walter;Jean Karim Hériché;Jutta Bulkescher

  • Cyclic, Proteasome-Mediated Turnover of Unliganded and Liganded ERα on Responsive Promoters Is an Integral Feature of Estrogen Signaling

    George Reid;Michael R. Hübner;Raphaël Métivier;Heike Brand

  • The quantitative proteome of a human cell line

    Martin Beck;Alexander Schmidt;Johan Malmstroem;Manfred Claassen

  • Nuclear Membrane Dynamics and Reassembly in Living Cells: Targeting of an Inner Nuclear Membrane Protein in Interphase and Mitosis

    Jan Ellenberg;Eric D. Siggia;Jorge E. Moreira;Carolyn L. Smith

  • Topologically associating domains and chromatin loops depend on cohesin and are regulated by CTCF, WAPL, and PDS5 proteins

    Gordana Wutz;Csilla Várnai;Kota Nagasaka;David A Cisneros

  • Kinetic Analysis of Secretory Protein Traffic and Characterization of Golgi to Plasma Membrane Transport Intermediates in Living Cells

    Koret Hirschberg;Chad M. Miller;Jan Ellenberg;John F. Presley

  • Self-Organization of MTOCs Replaces Centrosome Function during Acentrosomal Spindle Assembly in Live Mouse Oocytes

    Melina Schuh;Jan Ellenberg

  • Minimizing the risk of reporting false positives in large-scale RNAi screens

    Christophe J Echeverri;Philip A Beachy;Buzz Baum;Michael Boutros

  • Systematic analysis of human protein complexes identifies chromosome segregation proteins.

    James R. A. Hutchins;Yusuke Toyoda;Björn Hegemann;Ina Poser

  • Nuclear envelope breakdown proceeds by microtubule-induced tearing of the lamina.

    Joël Beaudouin;Daniel Gerlich;Nathalie Daigle;Roland Eils

  • A proposal for validation of antibodies

    Mathias Uhlen;Anita Bandrowski;Steven Carr;Aled Edwards

  • Mapping the dynamic organization of the nuclear pore complex inside single living cells

    Gwénaël Rabut;Valérie Doye;Jan Ellenberg

  • Ki-67 acts as a biological surfactant to disperse mitotic chromosomes

    Sara Cuylen;Claudia Blaukopf;Antonio Z. Politi;Thomas Müller-Reichert

  • High-throughput fluorescence microscopy for systems biology

    Rainer Pepperkok;Jan Ellenberg

  • Nuclear pore scaffold structure analyzed by super-resolution microscopy and particle averaging.

    Anna Szymborska;Alex de Marco;Nathalie Daigle;Volker C. Cordes

  • Nuclear pore complexes form immobile networks and have a very low turnover in live mammalian cells

    Nathalie Daigle;Joël Beaudouin;Lisa Hartnell;Gabriela Imreh

  • Molecular crowding affects diffusion and binding of nuclear proteins in heterochromatin and reveals the fractal organization of chromatin

    Aurélien Bancaud;Sébastien Huet;Nathalie Daigle;Julien Mozziconacci

  • Visualization of image data from cells to organisms

    Thomas Walter;David W Shattuck;Richard Baldock;Mark E Bastin

  • Erratum: Visualization of image data from cells to organisms

    Thomas Walter;David W. Shattuck;Richard Baldock;Mark E. Bastin

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan-Michael Peters
Jan-Michael Peters Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Daniel W. Gerlich
Daniel W. Gerlich Austrian Academy of Sciences
Rainer Pepperkok
Rainer Pepperkok European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Roland Eils
Roland Eils Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Michael Held
Michael Held Ohio University
Ralf Jungmann
Ralf Jungmann Max Planck Society
Karl Rohr
Karl Rohr Heidelberg University
Kai Johnsson
Kai Johnsson Max Planck Society
Karl Mechtler
Karl Mechtler Research Institute of Molecular Pathology

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