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64
Citations
21056
World Ranking
9479
National Ranking
82

Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Michael Sixt is affiliated with the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in Austria. Their research spans several fields, primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with 55 publications, and Medicine, with 26 publications. Subfields of study include Cell Biology, Immunology, Biomedical Engineering, Oncology, and Molecular Biology.

Their work covers a range of topics including Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, 3D Printing in Biomedical Research, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Microtubule and Mitosis Dynamics, Micro and Nano Robotics, and Cell Adhesion Molecules Research.

Michael Sixt has contributed to multiple research articles published in various scientific venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • Cellular locomotion using environmental topography (2020, Nature)
  • Microtubules control cellular shape and coherence in amoeboid migrating cells (2020, The Journal of Cell Biology)
  • Loss of Ena/VASP interferes with lamellipodium architecture, motility and integrin-dependent adhesion (2020, eLife)
  • WASp triggers mechanosensitive actin patches to facilitate immune cell migration in dense tissues (2021, Developmental Cell)
  • Multitier mechanics control stromal adaptations in the swelling lymph node (2022, Nature Immunology)

Their research has appeared frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 16 publications, The Journal of Cell Biology with 5, Nature Immunology with 3, Nature and eLife each with 2 publications.

Co-authorship is a significant aspect of Michael Sixt's work, with frequent collaborators including Robert Hauschild (16 joint publications), Jack Merrin (12), Florian Gaertner (8), Klemens Rottner (7), and Michael Riedl (7).

Michael Sixt holds membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Lifeact: a versatile marker to visualize F-actin

    Julia Riedl;Alvaro H. Crevenna;Kai Kessenbrock;Jerry Haochen Yu

  • Rapid leukocyte migration by integrin-independent flowing and squeezing

    Tim Lämmermann;Bernhard L. Bader;Susan J. Monkley;Tim Worbs

  • The Conduit System Transports Soluble Antigens from the Afferent Lymph to Resident Dendritic Cells in the T Cell Area of the Lymph Node

    Michael Sixt;Nobuo Kanazawa;Manuel Selg;Thomas Samson

  • Mechanical modes of 'amoeboid' cell migration.

    Tim Lämmermann;Michael Sixt

  • Mechanisms of 3D cell migration.

    Kenneth M Yamada;Michael Sixt

  • Breaching multiple barriers : Leukocyte motility through venular walls and the interstitium

    Sussan Nourshargh;Peter L. Hordijk;Michael Sixt

  • Interstitial dendritic cell guidance by haptotactic chemokine gradients.

    Michele Weber;Robert Hauschild;Jan Schwarz;Christine Moussion

  • Endothelial Cell Laminin Isoforms, Laminins 8 and 10, Play Decisive Roles in T Cell Recruitment across the Blood–Brain Barrier in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis

    Michael Sixt;Britta Engelhardt;Friederike Pausch;Rupert Hallmann

  • Actin Flows Mediate a Universal Coupling between Cell Speed and Cell Persistence

    Paolo Maiuri;Jean-François Rupprecht;Stefan Wieser;Verena Ruprecht

  • Proteinase 3 and neutrophil elastase enhance inflammation in mice by inactivating antiinflammatory progranulin

    Kai Kessenbrock;Leopold Fröhlich;Michael Sixt;Tim Lämmermann

  • Cortical contractility triggers a stochastic switch to fast amoeboid cell motility.

    Verena Ruprecht;Stefan Wieser;Stefan Wieser;Andrew Callan-Jones;Michael Smutny

  • Lymph node blood vessels provide exit routes for metastatic tumor cell dissemination in mice

    M. Brown;M. Brown;F. P. Assen;A. Leithner;J. Abe

  • Lymph node chemokines promote sustained T lymphocyte motility without triggering stable integrin adhesiveness in the absence of shear forces.

    Eilon Woolf;Irina Grigorova;Adi Sagiv;Valentin Grabovsky

  • Immobilized chemokine fields and soluble chemokine gradients cooperatively shape migration patterns of dendritic cells

    Kathrin Schumann;Tim Lämmermann;Markus Bruckner;Daniel F. Legler

  • Kindlin-3 is required for β2 integrin-mediated leukocyte adhesion to endothelial cells

    Markus Moser;Martina Bauer;Stephan Schmid;Raphael Ruppert

  • Lifeact mice for studying F-actin dynamics

    Julia Riedl;Kevin C Flynn;Aurelia Raducanu;Florian Gärtner

  • Preformed portals facilitate dendritic cell entry into afferent lymphatic vessels

    H. Pflicke;M. Sixt

  • Migrating Platelets Are Mechano-scavengers that Collect and Bundle Bacteria.

    Florian Gaertner;Zerkah Ahmad;Gerhild Rosenberger;Shuxia Fan

  • Focal Adhesion–Independent Cell Migration

    Ewa K. Paluch;Irene M. Aspalter;Michael Sixt

  • Adaptive force transmission in amoeboid cell migration

    Jörg Renkawitz;Kathrin Schumann;Michele Weber;Tim Lämmermann

Frequent Co-Authors

Klemens Rottner
Klemens Rottner Technische Universität Braunschweig
Jan Faix
Jan Faix Hannover Medical School
Matthieu Piel
Matthieu Piel Institute Curie
Laurent Blanchoin
Laurent Blanchoin Grenoble Alpes University
Reinhard Fässler
Reinhard Fässler Max Planck Society
Lydia Sorokin
Lydia Sorokin University of Münster
Dontscho Kerjaschki
Dontscho Kerjaschki Medical University of Vienna
Theresia E. B. Stradal
Theresia E. B. Stradal Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Cord Brakebusch
Cord Brakebusch University of Copenhagen
Markus Sperandio
Markus Sperandio Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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