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Parasites and Host Interactions

Last updated June 1, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Sebastian Lourido
IIT@MIT
99
2
Eduardo P. C. Rocha
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
99
3
Fang Tang
Nanjing Agricultural University
93
4
Johan Ankarklev
Stockholm University
85
5
Matthew J. Ballinger
Mississippi State University
81
6
Qijun Chen
Shenyang Agricultural University
79
7
Adam M. Siepielski
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
76
8
Elissa A. Hallem
University of California, Los Angeles
70
9
Jin‐Lei Wang
Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute
67
10
Alireza Najafi
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
66

Rising Stars Papers

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Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
H. H. Flor
Unknown
99
2
Aline Sardinha-Silva
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
73
3
Yifan Zhou
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
71
4
Suzana Zaković
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
70
5
Julia D. Romano
Johns Hopkins University
67
6
Marco Valerio Rossi Stacconi
Fondazione Edmund Mach
66
7
Chahat Mehra
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing
65
8
Paula Meneghetti
Instituto de Ciências Farmacêuticas
65
9
Brooke A. McPhail
University of Alberta
61
10
Eduardo Martínez
University of the Americas
56

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
<i>Toxoplasma gondii</i> scavenges mammalian host organelles through the usurpation of host ESCRT-III and Vps4A
Journal of Cell Science|2023
11 cit.

All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Thor G. Theander
Rigshospitalet
99
2
José Garcia-Bustos
GlaxoSmithKline (Spain)
99
3
Bart Barrell
J. Craig Venter Institute
93
4
Matthew Berriman
Wellcome Sanger Institute
82
5
Luc De Meester
KU Leuven
80
6
Dominique Gravel
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
77
7
Lindsay A. Turnbull
University of Zurich
76
8
Vivek Kapur
Tufts University
74
9
John C. Boothroyd
Stanford University
73
10
Jay D. Evans
Agricultural Research Service
71

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
The genome of the blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni
Nature|2009
1.1k cit.
2
Egg banks in freshwater zooplankton: evolutionary and ecological archives in the sediment
Hydrobiologia|2003
554 cit.
3
Identification of the Moving Junction Complex of Toxoplasma gondii: A Collaboration between Distinct Secretory Organelles
PLoS Pathogens|2005
410 cit.
4
Comparing species interaction networks along environmental gradients
Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society|2017
303 cit.
5
Toxoplasma Rhoptry Protein 16 (ROP16) Subverts Host Function by Direct Tyrosine Phosphorylation of STAT6
Journal of Biological Chemistry|2010
223 cit.
6
The meaning of functional trait composition of food webs for ecosystem functioning
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences|2016
199 cit.
7
A Novel Secreted Protein, MYR1, Is Central to <i>Toxoplasma</i> ’s Manipulation of Host Cells
mBio|2016
187 cit.
8
Toxoplasma Co-opts Host Cells It Does Not Invade
PLoS Pathogens|2012
185 cit.
9
Recent spread of Varroa destructor virus-1, a honey bee pathogen, in the United States
Scientific Reports|2017
152 cit.
10
<i>Toxoplasma gondii</i> Dysregulates IFN-γ-Inducible Gene Expression in Human Fibroblasts: Insights from a Genome-Wide Transcriptional Profiling
The Journal of Immunology|2007
141 cit.

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