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2026

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Microbiology

D-Index
110
Citations
84070
World Ranking
236
National Ranking
108

Genetics

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112
Citations
85269
World Ranking
488
National Ranking
250

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Adam P. Arkin is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science, with a particular focus on molecular biology, ecology, biomedical engineering, genetics, and plant science.

The scientist is active in the study of microbial communities and genetic systems, working on topics including:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation

Many of the recent publications by Adam P. Arkin highlight aspects of microbial ecology and metabolic processes. Notable papers include:

  • "A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Quantifying the local adaptive landscape of a nascent bacterial community," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Small and mighty: adaptation of superphylum Patescibacteria to groundwater environment drives their genome simplicity," 2020, Microbiome
  • "The ModelSEED Biochemistry Database for the integration of metabolic annotations and the reconstruction, comparison and analysis of metabolic models for plants, fungi and microbes," 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "High-throughput mapping of the phage resistance landscape in E. coli," 2020, PLoS Biology

Research outputs have frequently appeared in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), Frontiers in Microbiology, mSystems, and The ISME Journal.

Collaborations form a significant part of their work, with frequent co-authors including Adam M. Deutschbauer, Morgan N. Price, Lauren Michelle Lui, Torben Nielsen, and Terry C. Hazen. These partnerships reflect an extensive network that contributes to the prolific nature of their scientific output.

Adam P. Arkin has been recognized with the award of Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in 2013, acknowledging their contributions to engineering and scientific research.

Best Publications

  • FastTree 2--approximately maximum-likelihood trees for large alignments.

    Morgan N. Price;Paramvir S. Dehal;Adam P. Arkin;Adam P. Arkin

  • Repurposing CRISPR as an RNA-guided platform for sequence-specific control of gene expression.

    Lei S. Qi;Matthew H. Larson;Luke A. Gilbert;Jennifer A. Doudna

  • FastTree: Computing Large Minimum Evolution Trees with Profiles instead of a Distance Matrix

    Morgan N. Price;Paramvir S. Dehal;Adam P. Arkin;Adam P. Arkin

  • Functional profiling of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome.

    Guri Giaever;Angela M. Chu;Li Ni;Carla Connelly

  • The systems biology markup language (SBML): a medium for representation and exchange of biochemical network models.

    M. Hucka;A. Finney;H. M. Sauro;H. Bolouri;H. Bolouri

  • Stochastic mechanisms in gene expression

    Harley H. McAdams;Adam Arkin

  • STOCHASTIC KINETIC ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPMENTAL PATHWAY BIFURCATION IN PHAGE LAMBDA -INFECTED ESCHERICHIA COLI CELLS

    Adam Arkin;John Ross;Harley H. McAdams

  • KBase: The United States Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase.

    Adam P. Arkin;Adam P. Arkin;Robert W. Cottingham;Christopher S. Henry;Nomi L. Harris

  • Control, exploitation and tolerance of intracellular noise

    Christopher V. Rao;Denise M. Wolf;Adam P. Arkin

  • It’s a noisy business! Genetic regulation at the nanomolar scale

    Harley H McAdams;Adam Arkin

  • A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming.

    Daliang Ning;Daliang Ning;Mengting Yuan;Mengting Yuan;Linwei Wu;Ya Zhang

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Precise and reliable gene expression via standard transcription and translation initiation elements

    Vivek K Mutalik;Joao C Guimaraes;Joao C Guimaraes;Guillaume Cambray;Colin Lam

  • Stochasticity, succession, and environmental perturbations in a fluidic ecosystem

    Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Jizhong Zhou;Ye Deng;Ye Deng;Ping Zhang;Kai Xue

  • Stochastic chemical kinetics and the quasi-steady-state assumption: Application to the Gillespie algorithm

    Christopher V. Rao;Adam P. Arkin

  • Environmentally Controlled Invasion of Cancer Cells by Engineered Bacteria

    J. Christopher Anderson;Elizabeth J. Clarke;Adam P. Arkin;Adam P. Arkin;Christopher A. Voigt;Christopher A. Voigt

  • Stochastic Gene Expression in a Lentiviral Positive-Feedback Loop: HIV-1 Tat Fluctuations Drive Phenotypic Diversity

    Leor S. Weinberger;John C. Burnett;John C. Burnett;Jared E. Toettcher;Adam P. Arkin;Adam P. Arkin

  • MicrobesOnline: an integrated portal for comparative and functional genomics

    Paramvir S. Dehal;Marcin P. Joachimiak;Morgan N. Price;John T. Bates

  • Mutant phenotypes for thousands of bacterial genes of unknown function

    Morgan N. Price;Kelly M. Wetmore;R. Jordan Waters;Mark Callaghan

  • Environmental genomics reveals a single-species ecosystem deep within Earth.

    Dylan Chivian;Eoin L. Brodie;Eric J. Alm;David E. Culley

  • Chemogenomic profiling: Identifying the functional interactions of small molecules in yeast

    Guri Giaever;Patrick Flaherty;Jochen Kumm;Michael Proctor

Frequent Co-Authors

Terry C. Hazen
Terry C. Hazen University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Judy D. Wall
Judy D. Wall University of Missouri
Zhili He
Zhili He Sun Yat-sen University
Jay D. Keasling
Jay D. Keasling University of California, Berkeley
Matthew W. Fields
Matthew W. Fields Montana State University
Inna Dubchak
Inna Dubchak Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David V. Schaffer
David V. Schaffer University of California, Berkeley
Qiang He
Qiang He Swinburne University of Technology

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