2026 Rolf Bodmer: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	74	1233	1097	637	553	220	18649

Overview

Rolf Bodmer is affiliated with the Discovery Institute in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on medicine. Their scholarly work prominently intersects molecular biology and cardiology, evidenced by numerous publications in these fields.

The main fields of study for Bodmer include:

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Medicine

Within these, the scientist has specialized subfields encompassing:

Molecular Biology
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Epidemiology
Aging
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

The principal research topics they have addressed are:

Congenital heart defects research
Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
Congenital Heart Disease Studies
Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
RNA modifications and cancer

Frequent publication venues include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
eLife
Disease Models & Mechanisms
Cell Reports
iScience

Notable recent papers by Bodmer encompass a range of topics and were published in established journals:

"Fly Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult fruit fly," 2022, Science
"Patient-specific genomics and cross-species functional analysis implicate LRP2 in hypoplastic left heart syndrome," 2020, eLife
"De Novo Variants in CNOT1, a Central Component of the CCR4-NOT Complex Involved in Gene Expression and RNA and Protein Stability, Cause Neurodevelopmental Delay," 2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics
"Prolonged Exposure to Microgravity Reduces Cardiac Contractility and Initiates Remodeling in Drosophila," 2020, Cell Reports
"Identification of MYOM2 as a candidate gene in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and Tetralogy of Fallot, and its functional evaluation in the Drosophila heart," 2020, Disease Models & Mechanisms

Bodmer has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Georg Vogler
Karen Ocorr
Alexandre R. Colas
Anaïs Kervadec
Stanley M. Walls

Best Publications

The gene tinman is required for specification of the heart and visceral muscles in Drosophila

R. Bodmer

997
Citations
Sestrin as a feedback inhibitor of TOR that prevents age-related pathologies

Jun Hee Lee;Andrei V. Budanov;Eek Joong Park;Ryan Birse

616
Citations
SIP1, a novel zinc finger/homeodomain repressor, interacts with Smad proteins and binds to 5'-CACCT sequences in candidate target genes.

Kristin Verschueren;Jacques E. Remacle;Clara Collart;Clara Collart;Harry Kraft;Harry Kraft

582
Citations
Drosophila MEF2, a transcription factor that is essential for myogenesis.

Barbara A. Bour;Martha A. O'Brien;Wendy L. Lockwood;Elliott S. Goldstein

530
Citations
High-fat-diet-induced obesity and heart dysfunction are regulated by the TOR pathway in Drosophila.

Ryan T. Birse;Joan Choi;Kathryn Reardon;Jessica Rodriguez

409
Citations
Primary structure and expression of a product from cut, a locus involved in specifying sensory organ identity in Drosophila.

Karen Blochlinger;Rolf Bodmer;Joseph Jack;Lily Yeh Jan

358
Citations
Transformation of sensory organs by Mutations of the cut locus of D. melanogaster

Rolf Bodmer;Sandra Barbel;Susan Sheperd;Joseph W. Jack

337
Citations
Insulin regulation of heart function in aging fruit flies

Robert J Wessells;Erin Fitzgerald;James R Cypser;Marc Tatar

329
Citations
Patterns of expression of cut, a protein required for external sensory organ development in wild-type and cut mutant Drosophila embryos.

K Blochlinger;R Bodmer;L Y Jan;Y N Jan

324
Citations
A new homeobox-containing gene, msh-2, is transiently expressed early during mesoderm formation of Drosophila.

R. Bodmer;L. Y. Jan;Yuh Nung Jan

305
Citations
A new method for detection and quantification of heartbeat parameters in Drosophila, zebrafish, and embryonic mouse hearts

Martin Fink;Carles Callol-Massot;Angela Chu;Pilar Ruiz-Lozano

301
Citations
Morphological differentiation of the embryonic peripheral neurons in Drosophila

Rolf Bodmer;Yuh Nung Jan

295
Citations
APJ acts as a dual receptor in cardiac hypertrophy

Maria Cecilia Scimia;Cecilia Hurtado;Saugata Ray;Scott Metzler

288
Citations
Neurogenesis of the peripheral nervous system in Drosophila embryos: DNA replication patterns and cell lineages

R. Bodmer;R. Carretto;Y.N. Jan

286
Citations
Dynamics of Cux2 expression suggests that an early pool of SVZ precursors is fated to become upper cortical layer neurons.

Céline Zimmer;Marie-Catherine Tiveron;Rolf Bodmer;Harold Cremer

285
Citations
KCNQ potassium channel mutations cause cardiac arrhythmias in Drosophila that mimic the effects of aging.

Karen Ocorr;Nick L. Reeves;Nick L. Reeves;Robert J. Wessells;Robert J. Wessells;Martin Fink;Martin Fink

278
Citations
Heart development in Drosophila requires the segment polarity gene wingless.

Xiushan Wu;Krista Golden;Rolf Bodmer

276
Citations
Heart development in Drosophila and vertebrates: conservation of molecular mechanisms.

Rolf Bodmer;Tyamagondlu V. Venkatesh

266
Citations
A Drosophila Model of High Sugar Diet-Induced Cardiomyopathy

Jianbo Na;Laura Palanker Musselman;Jay Pendse;Thomas J. Baranski

263
Citations
Antioxidants protect PINK1-dependent dopaminergic neurons in Drosophila

Danling Wang;Li Qian;Hui Xiong;Jiandong Liu

247
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam J. Engler University of California, San Diego

Yuh Nung Jan University of California, San Francisco

Lily Yeh Jan University of California, San Francisco

Peter P. Pramstaller University of Lübeck

Andrew A. Hicks University of Lübeck

Gabriel G. Haddad University of California, San Diego

Ethan Bier University of California, San Diego

Axel Visel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Peter Igarashi University of Minnesota

Corinne Antignac Institut Imagine

External Links

Personal website of Rolf Bodmer

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