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Andrew S. Belmont 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 Andrew S. Belmont sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 141 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Andrew S. Belmont 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 Andrew S. Belmont sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Andrew S. Belmont is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Molecular Biology as a subfield.

The scientist's scholarly output spans several key topics, including:

  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Nuclear Structure and Function

Andrew S. Belmont's publication record includes contributions to a variety of journals and venues, with the most frequent being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Cell
  • Current Opinion in Cell Biology
  • ACS Synthetic Biology
  • eLife

Recent publications provide insight into Belmont's research interests over the past years. Notable papers include:

  • "TSA-seq reveals a largely conserved genome organization relative to nuclear speckles with small position changes tightly correlated with gene expression changes," 2020, Genome Research
  • "SPIN reveals genome-wide landscape of nuclear compartmentalization," 2021, Genome biology
  • "p53 mediates target gene association with nuclear speckles for amplified RNA expression," 2021, Molecular Cell
  • "Nuclear Compartments: An Incomplete Primer to Nuclear Compartments, Bodies, and Genome Organization Relative to Nuclear Architecture," 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology
  • "Spatial and temporal organization of the genome: Current state and future aims of the 4D nucleome project," 2023, Molecular Cell

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Andrew S. Belmont include:

  • Liguo Zhang
  • Jian Ma
  • Yang Zhang
  • David M. Gilbert
  • Yuchuan Wang

Best Publications

  • Lamina-Associated Domains: Links with Chromosome Architecture, Heterochromatin, and Gene Repression

    Bas van Steensel;Bas van Steensel;Andrew S. Belmont

  • In vivo localization of DNA sequences and visualization of large-scale chromatin organization using lac operator/repressor recognition.

    Carmen C. Robinett;Aaron Straight;Gang Li;Carol Willhelm

  • Interphase chromosomes undergo constrained diffusional motion in living cells.

    W.F Marshall;A Straight;J.F Marko;J Swedlow

  • GFP tagging of budding yeast chromosomes reveals that protein–protein interactions can mediate sister chromatid cohesion

    Aaron F. Straight;Andrew S. Belmont;Carmen C. Robinett;Andrew W. Murray

  • The 4D nucleome project

    Job Dekker;Andrew S. Belmont;Mitchell Guttman;Victor O. Leshyk

  • Long-range directional movement of an interphase chromosome site.

    Chien Hui Chuang;Anne E. Carpenter;Beata Fuchsova;Terezina Johnson

  • Transcription upregulation via force-induced direct stretching of chromatin.

    Arash Tajik;Yuejin Zhang;Fuxiang Wei;Jian Sun

  • Visualization of G1 chromosomes: a folded, twisted, supercoiled chromonema model of interphase chromatid structure.

    Andrew S Belmont;Kathy Bruce

  • Large-Scale Chromatin Unfolding and Remodeling Induced by VP16 Acidic Activation Domain

    Tudorita Tumbar;Gail Sudlow;Andrew S. Belmont

  • Bipolar Localization of the Replication Origin Regions of Chromosomes in Vegetative and Sporulating Cells of B. subtilis

    Chris D. Webb;Aurelio Teleman;Scott Gordon;Aaron Straight

  • Mapping 3D genome organization relative to nuclear compartments using TSA-Seq as a cytological ruler

    Yu Chen;Yang Zhang;Yang Zhang;Yuchuan Wang;Liguo Zhang

  • Visualization of gene activity in living cells

    Toshiro Tsukamoto;Noriyo Hashiguchi;Susan M. Janicki;Tudorita Tumbar

  • Chromatin dynamics in interphase cells revealed by tracking in a two-photon excitation microscope.

    Valeria Levi;Qiao Qiao Ruan;Matthew Plutz;Andrew S. Belmont

  • Multiple regimes of constrained chromosome motion are regulated in the interphase Drosophila nucleus

    Julio Vazquez;Andrew S. Belmont;John W. Sedat

  • Interphase movements of a DNA chromosome region modulated by VP16 transcriptional activator.

    Tudorita Tumbar;Andrew S. Belmont

  • BRCA1-induced large-scale chromatin unfolding and allele-specific effects of cancer-predisposing mutations.

    Qinong Ye;Yan Fen Hu;Hongjun Zhong;Anne C. Nye

  • Large-scale chromatin structural domains within mitotic and interphase chromosomes in vivo and in vitro.

    Andrew S. Belmont;Michael B. Braunfeld;John W. Sedat;David A. Agard

  • A three-dimensional approach to mitotic chromosome structure: evidence for a complex hierarchical organization

    A S Belmont;J W Sedat;D A Agard

  • Visualization of early chromosome condensation: a hierarchical folding, axial glue model of chromosome structure

    Natashe Kireeva;Margot Lakonishok;Igor Kireev;Igor Kireev;Tatsuya Hirano

  • Mitotic chromosome structure and condensation

    Andrew S Belmont

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudio Nicolini
Claudio Nicolini University of Genoa
Bas van Steensel
Bas van Steensel Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
John W. Sedat
John W. Sedat University of California, San Francisco
Aaron F. Straight
Aaron F. Straight Stanford University
David A. Agard
David A. Agard University of California, San Francisco
Mitchell Guttman
Mitchell Guttman California Institute of Technology
Job Dekker
Job Dekker University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Peter J. Park
Peter J. Park Harvard University
Jay Shendure
Jay Shendure University of Washington

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