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Biology and Biochemistry
Israel
2026

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
138
Citations
76559
World Ranking
296
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Israel Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Benjamin Geiger is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these broad areas, their work focuses on subfields such as Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Oncology, Immunology and Allergy, and Biophysics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, Cell Adhesion Molecules Research, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Skin and Cellular Biology Research, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Bone Metabolism and Diseases, and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques.

Their recent notable publications include:

  • ERBB2 drives YAP activation and EMT-like processes during cardiac regeneration, 2020, Nature Cell Biology
  • High-Throughput Screen Identifies Host and Microbiota Regulators of Intestinal Barrier Function, 2020, Gastroenterology
  • A framework for identifying regional outbreak and spread of COVID-19 from one-minute population-wide surveys, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Biomechanical regulation of focal adhesion and invadopodia formation, 2020, Journal of Cell Science
  • Talin-activated vinculin interacts with branched actin networks to initiate bundles, 2020, eLife

Frequent co-authors in Benjamin Geiger's collaborations include Sabina Winograd-Katz, Ohad Medalia, Hagai Rossman, Ayya Keshet, and Smadar Shilo.

Their work has appeared in multiple publication venues, with the largest number of contributions in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), followed by F1000Research, Nature Medicine, Journal of Cell Science, and Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.

Throughout their career, Benjamin Geiger has received distinctions such as being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 and membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • The catalog of human cytokeratins: Patterns of expression in normal epithelia, tumors and cultured cells

    Roland Moll;Werner W. Franke;Dorothea L. Schiller;Benjamin Geiger

  • Transmembrane crosstalk between the extracellular matrix--cytoskeleton crosstalk.

    Benjamin Geiger;Alexander Bershadsky;Roumen Pankov;Kenneth M. Yamada

  • Environmental sensing through focal adhesions

    Benjamin Geiger;Joachim P. Spatz;Alexander D. Bershadsky

  • Force and focal adhesion assembly: a close relationship studied using elastic micropatterned substrates

    Nathalie Q. Balaban;Ulrich S. Schwarz;Daniel Riveline;Polina Goichberg

  • Focal Contacts as Mechanosensors Externally Applied Local Mechanical Force Induces Growth of Focal Contacts by an Mdia1-Dependent and Rock-Independent Mechanism

    Daniel Riveline;Daniel Riveline;Eli Zamir;Nathalie Q. Balaban;Ulrich S. Schwarz

  • Molecular complexity and dynamics of cell-matrix adhesions

    Eli Zamir;Benjamin Geiger

  • Functional atlas of the integrin adhesome

    Ronen Zaidel-Bar;Shalev Itzkovitz;Avi Ma'ayan;Ravi Iyengar

  • c-Cbl/Sli-1 regulates endocytic sorting and ubiquitination of the epidermal growth factor receptor

    Gil Levkowitz;Hadassa Waterman;Eli Zamir;Zvi Kam

  • Cell Spreading and Focal Adhesion Dynamics Are Regulated by Spacing of Integrin Ligands

    Elisabetta Ada Cavalcanti-Adam;Tova Volberg;Alexandre Micoulet;Horst Kessler

  • Adhesion-dependent cell mechanosensitivity.

    Alexander D. Bershadsky;Nathalie Q. Balaban;Benjamin Geiger

  • Vinculin controls focal adhesion formation by direct interactions with talin and actin

    Jonathan D. Humphries;Pengbo Wang;Charles H Streuli;Benny Geiger

  • Early molecular events in the assembly of matrix adhesions at the leading edge of migrating cells

    Ronen Zaidel-Bar;Christoph Ballestrem;Zvi Kam;Benjamin Geiger

  • The molecular organization of endothelial cell to cell junctions: differential association of plakoglobin, beta-catenin, and alpha-catenin with vascular endothelial cadherin (VE-cadherin).

    M G Lampugnani;M Corada;L Caveda;F Breviario

  • Molecular interactions in cell adhesion complexes

    Kenneth M Yamada;Benjamin Geiger

  • Hyperglycemia drives intestinal barrier dysfunction and risk for enteric infection.

    Christoph A. Thaiss;Maayan Levy;Inna Grosheva;Danping Zheng

  • The integrin adhesome: from genes and proteins to human disease.

    Sabina E. Winograd-Katz;Reinhard Fässler;Benjamin Geiger;Kyle R. Legate

  • Dynamics and segregation of cell-matrix adhesions in cultured fibroblasts

    Eli Zamir;Menachem Katz;Yehudit Posen;Noam Erez

  • Assembly and mechanosensory function of focal contacts.

    Benjamin Geiger;Alexander Bershadsky

  • Hierarchical assembly of cell-matrix adhesion complexes.

    R. Zaidel-Bar;M. Cohen;L. Addadi;B. Geiger

  • Hyperglycemia drives intestinal barrier dysfunction and risk for enteric infection

    Thaiss Ca;Levy M;Grosheva I;Zheng D

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander D. Bershadsky
Alexander D. Bershadsky National University of Singapore
Paul L. Kaufman
Paul L. Kaufman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lia Addadi
Lia Addadi Weizmann Institute of Science
Avri Ben-Ze'ev
Avri Ben-Ze'ev Weizmann Institute of Science
Joachim P. Spatz
Joachim P. Spatz Max Planck Society
Ruth Arnon
Ruth Arnon Weizmann Institute of Science
Werner W. Franke
Werner W. Franke German Cancer Research Center
Talila Volk
Talila Volk Weizmann Institute of Science
Kenneth M. Yamada
Kenneth M. Yamada National Institutes of Health
Horst Kessler
Horst Kessler Technical University of Munich

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