2026 Austin Burt: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	72	2098	1995	261	251	140	24270

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Austin Burt is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on medicine. Their research covers subfields including molecular biology, public health, environmental and occupational health, insect science, genetics, and ecology.

The scientist's research topics prominently feature CRISPR and genetic engineering, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, mosquito-borne diseases and control, insect resistance and genetics, malaria research and control, evolution and genetic dynamics, as well as insect behavior and control techniques.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Austin Burt include:

A male-biased sex-distorter gene drive for the human malaria vector Anopheles gambiae, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
Genome variation and population structure among 1142 mosquitoes of the African malaria vector species Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii, 2020, Genome Research
Regulating the expression of gene drives is key to increasing their invasive potential and the mitigation of resistance, 2021, PLoS Genetics
Modelling the suppression of a malaria vector using a CRISPR-Cas9 gene drive to reduce female fertility, 2020, BMC Biology
Resistance to a CRISPR-based gene drive at an evolutionarily conserved site is revealed by mimicking genotype fixation, 2021, PLoS Genetics

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Katie Willis, Andrea Crisanti, Tin-Yu J. Hui, Matthew O. Gribble, and Tony Nolan.

The venues where Austin Burt has most often published are:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Malaria Journal
PLoS Genetics
Nature Communications
Nature Biotechnology

Austin Burt has been recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea since 2020.

Best Publications

Population genomics of domestic and wild yeasts

Gianni Liti;David M. Carter;Alan M. Moses;Alan M. Moses;Jonas Warringer

1658
Citations
Indices of multilocus linkage disequilibrium

Paul-Michael Agapow;Austin Burt

1573
Citations
Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements

Austin Burt;Robert Trivers

1317
Citations
A CRISPR-Cas9 gene drive system targeting female reproduction in the malaria mosquito vector Anopheles gambiae

Andrew Hammond;Roberto Galizi;Kyros Kyrou;Alekos Simoni

1305
Citations
Site-specific selfish genes as tools for the control and genetic engineering of natural populations

Austin Burt

900
Citations
A CRISPR–Cas9 gene drive targeting doublesex causes complete population suppression in caged Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes

Kyros Kyrou;Andrew M Hammond;Roberto Galizi;Nace Kranjc

780
Citations
Highly evolvable malaria vectors: The genomes of 16 Anopheles mosquitoes

Daniel E. Neafsey;Robert M. Waterhouse;Mohammad R. Abai;Sergey S. Aganezov

604
Citations
Sex increases the efficacy of natural selection in experimental yeast populations

Matthew R. Goddard;Matthew R. Goddard;H. Charles J. Godfray;Austin Burt

554
Citations
Molecular markers reveal cryptic sex in the human pathogen Coccidioides immitis

Austin Burt;Deidre A. Carter;Gina L. Koenig;Thomas J. White

519
Citations
Long-term reinfection of the human genome by endogenous retroviruses.

Robert Belshaw;Vini Pereira;Aris Katzourakis;Gillian Talbot

509
Citations
Genetic diversity of the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae.

Alistair Miles;Alistair Miles;Nicholas J. Harding;Giordano Bottà;Giordano Bottà;Chris S. Clarkson;Chris S. Clarkson

508
Citations
PERSPECTIVE: SEX, RECOMBINATION, AND THE EFFICACY OF SELECTION—WAS WEISMANN RIGHT?

Austin Burt

476
Citations
The Evolutionary Biology and Population Genetics Underlying Fungal Strain Typing

John W. Taylor;David M. Geiser;Austin Burt;Vassiliki Koufopanou

424
Citations
A synthetic homing endonuclease-based gene drive system in the human malaria mosquito

Nikolai Windbichler;Miriam Menichelli;Philippos Aris Papathanos;Summer B. Thyme

412
Citations
A synthetic sex ratio distortion system for the control of the human malaria mosquito

Roberto Galizi;Lindsey A. Doyle;Miriam Menichelli;Federica Bernardini

385
Citations
Recurrent invasion and extinction of a selfish gene

Matthew R. Goddard;Austin Burt

374
Citations
Population genomics of the wild yeast Saccharomyces paradoxus: Quantifying the life cycle

Isheng J. Tsai;Douda Bensasson;Austin Burt;Vassiliki Koufopanou

349
Citations
Safeguarding gene drive experiments in the laboratory

Omar S. Akbari;Hugo J. Bellen;Ethan Bier;Simon L. Bullock

331
Citations
Natural selection in the wild

Austin Burt

17
Citations
Population genomics of domestic and wild yeasts

David M. Carter;Gianni Liti;Alan M. Moses;Leopold Parts

6
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Crisanti University of Padua

John W. Taylor University of California, Berkeley

H. Charles J. Godfray University of Oxford

Graham Bell McGill University

Martin J. Donnelly Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Abdoulaye Diabaté National Institutes of Health

Carlo Costantini University of Montpellier

Matthew W. Hahn Indiana University

Dominic P. Kwiatkowski University of Oxford

Daniel E. Neafsey Broad Institute

External Links

Personal website of Austin Burt

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