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Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Sarfraz-ur- Rahman
University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences
2
Florian Tesson
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
3
Alexander Astashyn
National Institutes of Health
4
Alfred Ferrer Florensa
Technical University of Denmark
5
Jasmine Cubuk
Washington University in St. Louis
6
Fernando Gordillo Altamirano
Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research centre
7
Luis F. Camarillo-Guerrero
Wellcome Sanger Institute
8
Fredrik Tegenfeldt
University of Geneva
9
Mantas Sereika
Aalborg University
10
Jim Shaw
Harvard University

Papers

1
Publication in Genome biology (2024) [405 citations, W4392155646]
Genome biology|2024
405 cit.
2
Publication in Nucleic Acids Research (2024) [253 citations, W4404328264]
Nucleic Acids Research|2024
253 cit.
3
Publication in Nature Biotechnology (2024) [90 citations, W4403228370]
Nature Biotechnology|2024
90 cit.
4
A Comprehensive Resource for Exploring Antiphage Defense: DefenseFinder Webservice,Wiki and Databases
Peer Community Journal|2024
82 cit.
5
Exploring the diversity of anti-defense systems across prokaryotes, phages and mobile genetic elements
Nucleic Acids Research|2024
56 cit.
6
Genome-resolved long-read sequencing expands known microbial diversity across terrestrial habitats
Nature Microbiology|2025
30 cit.
7
Publication in Bioinformatics (2024) [16 citations, W4400140691]
Bioinformatics|2024
16 cit.
8
Publication in Microbiome (2024) [14 citations, W4401587896]
Microbiome|2024
14 cit.
9
The dimerization domain of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein is partially disordered and forms a dynamic high-affinity dimer
Cell Reports Physical Science|2025
8 cit.
10
SpanSeq:similarity-based sequence data splitting method for improved development and assessment of deep learning projects
Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU)|2024
6 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2
Ryan Davis
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
3
Karthik Anantharaman
University of Wisconsin–Madison
4
Evelien M. Adriaenssens
Norwich Research Park
5
Joel D. Allen
University of Southampton
6
Jeremy J. Barr
Monash University
7
Joseph Bondy‐Denomy
QB3
8
William Klimke
National Institutes of Health
9
Neil P. King
University of Washington
10
Theron Hamilton
Naval Hospital Jacksonville

Papers

1
METABOLIC: high-throughput profiling of microbial genomes for functional traits, metabolism, biogeochemistry, and community-scale functional networks
Microbiome|2022
632 cit.
2
Abolishment of morphology-based taxa and change to binomial species names: 2022 taxonomy update of the ICTV bacterial viruses subcommittee
Archives of Virology|2023
467 cit.
3
Phage-antibiotic combination is a superior treatment against Acinetobacter baumannii in a preclinical study
EBioMedicine|2022
144 cit.
4
Bacteriophages inhibit and evade cGAS-like immune function in bacteria
Cell|2023
133 cit.
5
Diversity and distribution of sulfur metabolic genes in the human gut microbiome and their association with colorectal cancer
Microbiome|2022
119 cit.
6
vRhyme enables binning of viral genomes from metagenomes
Nucleic Acids Research|2022
119 cit.
7
Bacteriophage genome engineering with CRISPR–Cas13a
Nature Microbiology|2022
102 cit.
8
Deciphering Active Prophages from Metagenomes
mSystems|2022
75 cit.
9
Core defense hotspots within <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> are a consistent and rich source of anti-phage defense systems
Nucleic Acids Research|2023
65 cit.
10
Curation of the AMRFinderPlus databases: applications, functionality and impact
Microbial Genomics|2022
58 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Bernard Moss
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
2
Joachim Messing
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
3
Richard Losick
Harvard University
4
Peter A. Kollman
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
5
Graham F. Hatfull
University of Pittsburgh
6
Matthew B. Sullivan
The Ohio State University
7
Jeff Errington
The University of Sydney
8
J. Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter Institute
9
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
10
Forest Rohwer
San Diego State University

Papers

1
Improved M13 phage cloning vectors and host strains: nucleotide sequences of the M13mpl8 and pUC19 vectors
Gene|1985
15.2k cit.
2
The Sequence of the Human Genome
Science|2001
13.7k cit.
3
A Second Generation Force Field for the Simulation of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Organic Molecules
Journal of the American Chemical Society|1995
13.1k cit.
4
A well-behaved electrostatic potential based method using charge restraints for deriving atomic charges: the RESP model
The Journal of Physical Chemistry|1993
8.1k cit.
5
Settle: An analytical version of the SHAKE and RATTLE algorithm for rigid water models
Journal of Computational Chemistry|1992
7.6k cit.
6
THE weighted histogram analysis method for free‐energy calculations on biomolecules. I. The method
Journal of Computational Chemistry|1992
6.9k cit.
7
The pUC plasmids, an M13mp7-derived system for insertion mutagenesis and sequencing with synthetic universal primers
Gene|1982
6.1k cit.
8
The Genome Sequence of <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
Science|2000
6k cit.
9
Whole-Genome Random Sequencing and Assembly of <i>Haemophilus influenzae</i> Rd
Science|1995
5.6k cit.
10
[2] New M13 vectors for cloning
Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology|1983
5.4k cit.

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