2026 Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	58	2059	1852	1025	909	135	18225

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado is affiliated with the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in the United States. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, predominantly within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as environmental science. The scientist's work covers a variety of subfields, including molecular biology, global and planetary change, plant science, genetics, and paleontology.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation
Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence Research
Fish Biology, Ecology, and Behavior
RNA Research and Splicing

Frequent publication venues for their work comprise:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Harvard Dataverse
Developmental Biology
Science
Nature

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their scientific contributions. These include:

"CRISPR-Cas13d Induces Efficient mRNA Knockdown in Animal Embryos" (2020, Developmental Cell)
"Changes in regeneration-responsive enhancers shape regenerative capacities in vertebrates" (2020, Science)
"Vertebrate diapause preserves organisms long term through Polycomb complex members" (2020, Science)
"Identification of rare, transient post-mitotic cell states that are induced by injury and required for whole-body regeneration in Schmidtea mediterranea" (2021, Nature Cell Biology)
"Enhanced lipogenesis through Pparγ helps cavefish adapt to food scarcity" (2022, Current Biology)

The scientist collaborates frequently with colleagues such as Eric J. Ross, Frederick G. Mann, Carlos Guerrero-Hernández, Sean McKinney, and Melainia McClain, with whom they have multiple joint publications.

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado has been recognized by their election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2018) and as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015).

Best Publications

MAKER: An easy-to-use annotation pipeline designed for emerging model organism genomes

Brandi L. Cantarel;Ian F Korf;Sofia M C Robb;Genis Parra

1886
Citations
FUNDAMENTALS OF PLANARIAN REGENERATION

Peter W. Reddien;Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

979
Citations
Double-stranded RNA specifically disrupts gene expression during planarian regeneration.

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado;Phillip A. Newmark

718
Citations
SMEDWI-2 Is a PIWI-Like Protein That Regulates Planarian Stem Cells

Peter W. Reddien;Néstor J. Oviedo;Joya R. Jennings;James C. Jenkin

669
Citations
Not your father's planarian: a classic model enters the era of functional genomics

Phillip A. Newmark;Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

625
Citations
Bridging the regeneration gap: genetic insights from diverse animal models

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado;Panagiotis A. Tsonis

619
Citations
Bromodeoxyuridine specifically labels the regenerative stem cells of planarians

Phillip A. Newmark;Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

559
Citations
β-Catenin Defines Head Versus Tail Identity During Planarian Regeneration and Homeostasis

Kyle A. Gurley;Jochen C. Rink;Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

508
Citations
Identification of Genes Needed for Regeneration, Stem Cell Function, and Tissue Homeostasis by Systematic Gene Perturbation in Planaria

Peter W. Reddien;Adam L. Bermange;Kenneth J. Murfitt;Joya R. Jennings

483
Citations
Slicing across Kingdoms: Regeneration in Plants and Animals

Kenneth D. Birnbaum;Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

459
Citations
Molecular Analysis of Stem Cells and Their Descendants during Cell Turnover and Regeneration in the Planarian Schmidtea mediterranea

George T. Eisenhoffer;Hara Kang;Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

443
Citations
Regeneration in the metazoans: why does it happen?

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

421
Citations
Cell death and tissue remodeling in planarian regeneration.

Jason Pellettieri;Patrick Fitzgerald;Shigeki Watanabe;Joel Mancuso

379
Citations
Formaldehyde-based whole-mount in situ hybridization method for planarians.

Bret J. Pearson;George T. Eisenhoffer;Kyle A. Gurley;Jochen C. Rink

359
Citations
Cell Turnover and Adult Tissue Homeostasis: From Humans to Planarians

Jason Pellettieri;Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

354
Citations
SmedGD: the Schmidtea mediterranea genome database

Sofia M.C. Robb;Eric Ross;Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

341
Citations
Ingestion of bacterially expressed double-stranded RNA inhibits gene expression in planarians

Phillip A. Newmark;Peter W. Reddien;Francesc Cebrià;Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

330
Citations
The Schmidtea mediterranea database as a molecular resource for studying platyhelminthes, stem cells and regeneration

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado;Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado;Phillip A. Newmark;Phillip A. Newmark;Sofia M. C. Robb;Sofia M. C. Robb;Réjeanne Juste

306
Citations
FGFR-related gene nou-darake restricts brain tissues to the head region of planarians

Francesc Cebrià;Chiyoko Kobayashi;Yoshihiko Umesono;Masumi Nakazawa

295
Citations
Rethinking Differentiation: Stem Cells, Regeneration, and Plasticity

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado;Shinya Yamanaka

283
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Phillip A. Newmark University of Wisconsin–Madison

Peter W. Reddien MIT

R. Scott Hawley Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Douglas R. Green St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Kiyokazu Agata National Institute for Basic Biology

Anne Brunet Stanford University

Nikolaus Rajewsky Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine

Takashi Gojobori King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Manfred Schartl University of Würzburg

Marco A. Marra University of British Columbia

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