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Biology and Biochemistry
Switzerland
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
121
Citations
42321
World Ranking
615
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2011 - Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
  • 2011 - Distinguished Scientist Award, Mineralogical Society of America
  • 1999 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Ueli Aebi is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland, focusing on research within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work encompasses several subfields including Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Cell Biology.

Their research addresses key topics such as Nuclear Structure and Function, Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Structural Analysis and Optimization, and Skin and Cellular Biology Research.

Among recent publications, Ueli Aebi has contributed to:

  • Nonlinear mechanics of lamin filaments and the meshwork topology build an emergent nuclear lamina, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Vimentin organization modulates the formation of lamellipodia, 2020, UNC Libraries

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ueli Aebi include:

  • K. Tanuj Sapra
  • Zhao Qin
  • Anna Dubrovsky-Gaupp
  • Daniel J. Müller
  • Markus J. Buehler

The scientist has published primarily in venues such as Nature Communications and UNC Libraries.

Ueli Aebi has been recognized with distinctions including being named a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America in 2011, receiving the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Mineralogical Society of America in the same year, and being elected as a Member of Academia Europaea in 1999.

Best Publications

  • The nuclear lamina is a meshwork of intermediate-type filaments.

    Ueli Aebi;Ueli Aebi;Julie Cohn;Loren Buhle;Loren Buhle;Larry Gerace

  • The nanomechanical signature of breast cancer

    Marija Plodinec;Marko Loparic;Christophe A. Monnier;Ellen C. Obermann

  • Nuclear Lamins: Their Structure, Assembly, and Interactions

    Nico Stuurman;Susanne Heins;Ueli Aebi

  • Identification of different roles for RanGDP and RanGTP in nuclear protein import.

    D. Görlich;N. Panté;U. Kutay;U. Aebi

  • Intermediate filaments: from cell architecture to nanomechanics

    Harald Herrmann;Harald Bär;Harald Bär;Laurent Kreplak;Sergei V. Strelkov

  • INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS: Molecular Structure, Assembly Mechanism, and Integration Into Functionally Distinct Intracellular Scaffolds

    Harald Herrmann;Ueli Aebi

  • Correlation between structure and mass distribution of the nuclear pore complex and of distinct pore complex components.

    R. Reichelt;A. Holzenburg;E. L. Buhle;M. Jarnik

  • Intermediate filaments and their associates: multi-talented structural elements specifying cytoarchitecture and cytodynamics.

    Harald Herrmann;Ueli Aebi

  • A giant nucleopore protein that binds Ran/TC4.

    N. Yokoyama;N. Hayashi;T. Seki;N. Panté

  • Dynamic Elastic Modulus of Porcine Articular Cartilage Determined at Two Different Levels of Tissue Organization by Indentation-Type Atomic Force Microscopy

    Martin Stolz;Roberto Raiteri;A.U. Daniels;Mark R. VanLandingham

  • The nuclear pore complex: nucleocytoplasmic transport and beyond.

    Birthe Fahrenkrog;Ueli Aebi

  • Early detection of aging cartilage and osteoarthritis in mice and patient samples using atomic force microscopy

    Martin Stolz;Riccardo Gottardi;Roberto Raiteri;Sylvie Miot

  • The nuclear pore complex: from molecular architecture to functional dynamics.

    Daniel Stoffler;Birthe Fahrenkrog;Ueli Aebi

  • Watching amyloid fibrils grow by time-lapse atomic force microscopy

    Claire Goldsbury;Joerg Kistler;Ueli Aebi;Tudor Arvinte

  • Amyloid fibril formation from full-length and fragments of amylin.

    C. Goldsbury;K. Goldie;J. Pellaud;J. Seelig

  • Multiple Assembly Pathways Underlie Amyloid-β Fibril Polymorphisms

    Claire Goldsbury;Peter Frey;Vesna Olivieri;Ueli Aebi

  • Intermediate filaments: primary determinants of cell architecture and plasticity

    Harald Herrmann;Sergei V. Strelkov;Peter Burkhard;Ueli Aebi

  • Structure and Assembly Properties of the Intermediate Filament Protein Vimentin: The Role of its Head, Rod and Tail Domains

    Harald Herrmann;Markus Häner;Monika Brettel;Shirley A. Müller

  • Bundling of actin filaments by alpha-actinin depends on its molecular length.

    R K Meyer;U Aebi

  • Mammalian uroplakins. A group of highly conserved urothelial differentiation-related membrane proteins.

    Xue-Ru Wu;Jun-Hsiang Lin;T. Walz;M. Häner

Frequent Co-Authors

Harald Herrmann
Harald Herrmann German Cancer Research Center
Andreas Engel
Andreas Engel University of Basel
Shirley A. Müller
Shirley A. Müller University of Basel
Michel O. Steinmetz
Michel O. Steinmetz Paul Scherrer Institute
Ariel Lustig
Ariel Lustig University of Basel
Nelly Panté
Nelly Panté University of British Columbia
Richard A. Kammerer
Richard A. Kammerer Paul Scherrer Institute
Thomas D. Pollard
Thomas D. Pollard Yale University
Ed Hurt
Ed Hurt Heidelberg University
Tung-Tien Sun
Tung-Tien Sun New York University

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