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Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
140
Citations
94464
World Ranking
235
National Ranking
148

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
141
Citations
85194
World Ranking
256
National Ranking
173

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz is affiliated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with 167 publications contributing to this major field of study.

Lippincott-Schwartz's work spans multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biophysics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Structural Biology. The breadth of these subfields reflects the interdisciplinary nature of their scientific investigations.

The main topics covered in Lippincott-Schwartz's research include:

  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
  • RNA Research and Splicing

Lippincott-Schwartz has published extensively, contributing frequently to several notable scientific venues. The top venues for their publications are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 26 publications
  • Nature with 8 publications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with 5 publications
  • The Journal of Cell Biology with 4 publications
  • Nature Communications with 4 publications

Selected recent papers by Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz demonstrate the range of their work and publication outlets:

  • "Correlative three-dimensional super-resolution and block-face electron microscopy of whole vitreously frozen cells," 2020, Science
  • "A general method to optimize and functionalize red-shifted rhodamine dyes," 2020, Nature Methods
  • "ER-to-Golgi protein delivery through an interwoven, tubular network extending from ER," 2021, Cell
  • "Whole-cell organelle segmentation in volume electron microscopy," 2021, Nature
  • "A General Method to Improve Fluorophores Using Deuterated Auxochromes," 2021, JACS Au

Frequent collaborators contributing to Lippincott-Schwartz's research corpus include:

  • C. Shan Xu
  • Harald F. Hess
  • Aubrey V. Weigel
  • H. Amalia Pasolli
  • Andrew S. Moore

The scientist has been recognized with several honors, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2019)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2008)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2008)

Best Publications

  • Imaging intracellular fluorescent proteins at nanometer resolution.

    Eric Betzig;George H. Patterson;Rachid Sougrat;O. Wolf Lindwasser

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Brefeldin A: insights into the control of membrane traffic and organelle structure.

    R D Klausner;J G Donaldson;J Lippincott-Schwartz

  • A Photoactivatable GFP for Selective Photolabeling of Proteins and Cells

    George H. Patterson;Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

  • Rapid redistribution of Golgi proteins into the ER in cells treated with brefeldin A: evidence for membrane cycling from Golgi to ER.

    Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz;Lydia C. Yuan;Juan S. Bonifacino;Richard D. Klausner

  • Lattice Light Sheet Microscopy: Imaging Molecules to Embryos at High Spatiotemporal Resolution

    Bi Chang Chen;Wesley R. Legant;Kai Wang;Lin Shao

  • Mitochondria Supply Membranes for Autophagosome Biogenesis during Starvation

    Dale W. Hailey;Angelika S. Rambold;Prasanna Satpute-Krishnan;Kasturi Mitra

  • Studying protein dynamics in living cells.

    Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz;Erik Snapp;Anne Kenworthy

  • Development and use of fluorescent protein markers in living cells.

    Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz;George H. Patterson

  • Tubular network formation protects mitochondria from autophagosomal degradation during nutrient starvation

    Angelika S. Rambold;Brenda Kostelecky;Natalie Elia;Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

  • ER-to-Golgi transport visualized in living cells

    John F. Presley;Nelson B. Cole;Trina A. Schroer;Koret Hirschberg

  • Microtubule-dependent retrograde transport of proteins into the ER in the presence of brefeldin A suggests an ER recycling pathway.

    Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz;Julie G. Donaldson;Anja Schweizer;Eric G. Berger

  • High-density mapping of single-molecule trajectories with photoactivated localization microscopy

    Suliana Manley;Jennifer M Gillette;George H Patterson;Hari Shroff

  • Brefeldin A's effects on endosomes, lysosomes, and the TGN suggest a general mechanism for regulating organelle structure and membrane traffic

    Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz;Lydia Yuan;Christopher Tipper;Myléne Amherdt

  • Interferometric fluorescent super-resolution microscopy resolves 3D cellular ultrastructure

    Gleb Shtengel;James A. Galbraith;Catherine G. Galbraith;Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

  • Principles and current strategies for targeting autophagy for cancer treatment.

    Ravi K. Amaravadi;Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz;Xiao Ming Yin;William A. Weiss

  • Starvation and ULK1-dependent cycling of mammalian Atg9 between the TGN and endosomes

    Andrew R. J. Young;Edmond Y. W. Chan;Xiao Wen Hu;Robert Köchl

  • Applying systems-level spectral imaging and analysis to reveal the organelle interactome

    Alex M. Valm;Sarah Cohen;Wesley R. Legant;Justin Melunis

  • 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

  • Fatty Acid Trafficking in Starved Cells: Regulation by Lipid Droplet Lipolysis, Autophagy, and Mitochondrial Fusion Dynamics

    Angelika S. Rambold;Sarah Cohen;Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

Frequent Co-Authors

Irwin M. Arias
Irwin M. Arias National Institutes of Health
Jan Ellenberg
Jan Ellenberg European Bioinformatics Institute
Juan S. Bonifacino
Juan S. Bonifacino National Institutes of Health
Julie G. Donaldson
Julie G. Donaldson National Institutes of Health
Michael W. Davidson
Michael W. Davidson Florida State University
Roman S. Polishchuk
Roman S. Polishchuk Telethon Institute Of Genetics And Medicine
Vladislav V. Verkhusha
Vladislav V. Verkhusha Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Lawrence E. Samelson
Lawrence E. Samelson National Institutes of Health
Andrea Ballabio
Andrea Ballabio Baylor College of Medicine

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