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Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis

Last updated June 1, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Wen‐Yong Lou
Key Laboratory of Guangdong Province
99
2
Jay D. Keasling
QB3
98
3
Aimé J. Messiga
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
98
4
Yelena Oleinikova
Global Health Research Center of Central Asia
80
5
Jiazhang Lian
Ministry of Education
72
6
Ke Xing
Jiangsu Normal University
68
7
Sunil Kumar Meena
Banaras Hindu University
68
8
Lei Du
Shandong University
67
9
Ákos T. Kovács
Leiden University
60
10
Haitao Wang
Dalian Polytechnic University
59

Rising Stars Papers

1
Neurospora intermedia from a traditional fermented food enables waste-to-food conversion
Nature Microbiology|2024
65 cit.
2
Verazine biosynthesis from simple sugars in engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Metabolic Engineering|2024
17 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Sarah H. Klass
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
99
2
Justin L. Eagan
University of Wisconsin–Madison
95
3
Kamalesh Kumar Meena
Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology
91
4
Leah B. Bushin
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
86
5
Arjan Draisma
Wageningen University & Research
80
6
Jonas Henrique Costa-Martini
Baylor College of Medicine
71
7
Donghui Yan
Carnegie Mellon University
69
8
Lei Qin
Beijing Proteome Research Center
67
9
Jingfang Sun
China Pharmaceutical University
66
10
Daoguang Tian
Tianjin University
64

Emerging Leaders Papers

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All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Jillian F. Banfield
Planetary Science Institute
99
2
Yongjin J. Zhou
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
99
3
Michelle C. Y. Chang
University of California, Berkeley
92
4
Jens Nielsen
Novo Nordisk Foundation
87
5
Emily P. Balskus
Harvard University
87
6
Amy C. Rosenzweig
Northwestern University
83
7
Roger G. Linington
Simon Fraser University
81
8
Christopher A. Voigt
Broad Institute
81
9
Nathan A. Magarvey
McMaster University
80
10
Christina D. Smolke
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (United States)
75

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
A new view of the tree of life
Nature Microbiology|2016
2.1k cit.
2
Symptomatic atherosclerosis is associated with an altered gut metagenome
Nature Communications|2012
1.4k cit.
3
Genome-Scale Reconstruction of the <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i> Metabolic Network
Genome Research|2003
1.1k cit.
4
Microbial conversion of choline to trimethylamine requires a glycyl radical enzyme
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2012
695 cit.
5
Community genomic analyses constrain the distribution of metabolic traits across the Chloroflexi phylum and indicate roles in sediment carbon cycling
Microbiome|2013
668 cit.
6
Community-wide analysis of microbial genome sequence signatures
Genome biology|2009
576 cit.
7
Reconstruction of Genome-Scale Active Metabolic Networks for 69 Human Cell Types and 16 Cancer Types Using INIT
PLoS Computational Biology|2012
459 cit.
8
Production of fatty acid-derived oleochemicals and biofuels by synthetic yeast cell factories
Nature Communications|2016
436 cit.
9
Genome-scale analysis of <i>Streptomyces coelicolor</i> A3(2) metabolism
Genome Research|2005
236 cit.
10
Engineered dCas9 with reduced toxicity in bacteria: implications for genetic circuit design
Nucleic Acids Research|2018
187 cit.

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