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Joachim Wittbrodt

Joachim Wittbrodt

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
67
Citations
19443
World Ranking
1560
National Ranking
112

Overview

Joachim Wittbrodt is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a total of 118 publications. Within this broad area, Wittbrodt focuses significantly on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Biomedical Engineering, and Immunology.

The scientist's work covers several topics, notably:

  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
  • Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
  • Congenital heart defects research

Wittbrodt has collaborated extensively with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including Thomas Thumberger, Ewan Birney, Jakob Gierten, Tomas Fitzgerald, and Bettina Welz.

The scientist has contributed to multiple research papers published in prominent venues. Selected recent papers include:

  • Introducing Biomedisa as an open-source online platform for biomedical image segmentation, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Genetic and functional insights into the fractal structure of the heart, 2020, Nature
  • Deep learning-enhanced light-field imaging with continuous validation, 2021, Nature Methods
  • Automated high-throughput heartbeat quantification in medaka and zebrafish embryos under physiological conditions, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Precise in vivo functional analysis of DNA variants with base editing using ACEofBASEs target prediction, 2022, eLife

Their work appears frequently in publication venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Development, Scientific Reports, and eLife. Notably, Wittbrodt has published 30 papers in bioRxiv, 3 in Nature Communications, 3 in Development, 2 in Scientific Reports, and 2 in eLife.

Best Publications

  • Optical sectioning deep inside live embryos by selective plane illumination microscopy

    Jan Huisken;Jim Swoger;Filippo Del Bene;Joachim Wittbrodt

  • Reconstruction of zebrafish early embryonic development by scanned light sheet microscopy.

    Philipp J. Keller;Annette D. Schmidt;Joachim Wittbrodt;Ernst H.K. Stelzer

  • CCTop: An Intuitive, Flexible and Reliable CRISPR/Cas9 Target Prediction Tool

    Manuel Stemmer;Thomas Thumberger;Maria del Sol Keyer;Joachim Wittbrodt

  • Medaka — a model organism from the far east

    Joachim Wittbrodt;Akihiro Shima;Manfred Schartl

  • Fast, high-contrast imaging of animal development with scanned light sheet-based structured-illumination microscopy

    Philipp J Keller;Annette D Schmidt;Anthony Santella;Khaled Khairy

  • Ciliary photoreceptors with a vertebrate-type opsin in an invertebrate brain

    D. Arendt;K. Tessmar-Raible;H. Snyman;A.W. Dorresteijn

  • More genes in fish

    Joachim Wittbrodt;Axel Meyer;Manfred Schartl

  • Novel putative receptor tyrosine kinase encoded by the melanoma-inducing Tu locus in Xiphophorus

    Joachim Wittbrodt;Dieter Adam;Barbara Malitschek;Winfried Mäueler

  • Direct interaction of geminin and Six3 in eye development

    Filippo Del Bene;Kristin Tessmar-Raible;Joachim Wittbrodt

  • SIX3 OVEREXPRESSION INITIATES THE FORMATION OF ECTOPIC RETINA

    Felix Loosli;Sylke Winkler;Joachim Wittbrodt

  • Evolution of the bilaterian larval foregut

    Detlev Arendt;Ulrich Technau;Joachim Wittbrodt

  • Medaka and zebrafish, an evolutionary twin study.

    Makoto Furutani-Seiki;Joachim Wittbrodt

  • Reconstructing the eyes of Urbilateria.

    Detlev Arendt;Joachim Wittbrodt

  • Loss of eyes in zebrafish caused by mutation of chokh/rx3.

    Felix Loosli;Wendy Staub;Karin C Finger-Baier;Elke A Ober

  • Differentiation of the Vertebrate Retina Is Coordinated by an FGF Signaling Center

    Juan-Ramon Martinez-Morales;Juan-Ramon Martinez-Morales;Filippo Del Bene;Gabriela Nica;Matthias Hammerschmidt

  • Development of pigment-cup eyes in the polychaete Platynereis dumerilii and evolutionary conservation of larval eyes in Bilateria

    Detlev Arendt;Kristin Tessmar;Maria-Ines Medeiros de Campos-Baptista;Adriaan Dorresteijn

  • Epigenomic enhancer annotation reveals a key role for NFIX in neural stem cell quiescence

    Ben Martynoga;Juan L. Mateo;Bo Zhou;Jimena Andersen

  • Ectopic lens induction in fish in response to the murine homeobox gene Six3

    Guillermo Oliver;Felix Loosli;Reinhard Köster;Joachim Wittbrodt

  • One for all--a highly efficient and versatile method for fluorescent immunostaining in fish embryos.

    Daigo Inoue;Joachim Wittbrodt;Joachim Wittbrodt

  • Six3 inactivation reveals its essential role for the formation and patterning of the vertebrate eye.

    Matthias Carl;Felix Loosli;Joachim Wittbrodt

Frequent Co-Authors

Manfred Schartl
Manfred Schartl University of Würzburg
Detlev Arendt
Detlev Arendt Heidelberg University
Makoto Furutani-Seiki
Makoto Furutani-Seiki Yamaguchi University
Hisato Kondoh
Hisato Kondoh Kyoto Sangyo University
Ewan Birney
Ewan Birney European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Christoph Winkler
Christoph Winkler National University of Singapore
Kiyoshi Naruse
Kiyoshi Naruse National Institute for Basic Biology
Heinz Himmelbauer
Heinz Himmelbauer BOKU University
Akihiro Shima
Akihiro Shima University of Tokyo
Herwig Baier
Herwig Baier Max Planck Society

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