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Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 135 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

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

  • FUNDAMENTALS OF PLANARIAN REGENERATION

    Peter W. Reddien;Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

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

    Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado;Phillip A. Newmark

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

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

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

    Phillip A. Newmark;Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

  • Bridging the regeneration gap: genetic insights from diverse animal models

    Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado;Panagiotis A. Tsonis

  • Bromodeoxyuridine specifically labels the regenerative stem cells of planarians

    Phillip A. Newmark;Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

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

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

  • 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

  • Slicing across Kingdoms: Regeneration in Plants and Animals

    Kenneth D. Birnbaum;Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

  • 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

  • Regeneration in the metazoans: why does it happen?

    Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

  • Cell death and tissue remodeling in planarian regeneration.

    Jason Pellettieri;Patrick Fitzgerald;Shigeki Watanabe;Joel Mancuso

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

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

  • Cell Turnover and Adult Tissue Homeostasis: From Humans to Planarians

    Jason Pellettieri;Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

  • SmedGD: the Schmidtea mediterranea genome database

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

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

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

  • 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

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

    Francesc Cebrià;Chiyoko Kobayashi;Yoshihiko Umesono;Masumi Nakazawa

  • Rethinking Differentiation: Stem Cells, Regeneration, and Plasticity

    Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado;Shinya Yamanaka

Frequent Co-Authors

Phillip A. Newmark
Phillip A. Newmark University of Wisconsin–Madison
R. Scott Hawley
R. Scott Hawley Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Douglas R. Green
Douglas R. Green St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Kiyokazu Agata
Kiyokazu Agata National Institute for Basic Biology
Anne Brunet
Anne Brunet Stanford University
Nikolaus Rajewsky
Nikolaus Rajewsky Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Takashi Gojobori
Takashi Gojobori King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Manfred Schartl
Manfred Schartl University of Würzburg
Marco A. Marra
Marco A. Marra University of British Columbia

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