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2024

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117
Citations
58723
World Ranking
423
National Ranking
220

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 2007 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Carlos Bustamante is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Epidemiology, Immunology, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics including:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Forensic and Genetic Research
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

Bustamante has contributed to research articles published in multiple venues where they have been most frequently featured. These venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature
  • UNC Libraries
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement," Nature, 2020
  • "Clonal haematopoiesis and risk of chronic liver disease," Nature, 2023
  • "A high-resolution HLA reference panel capturing global population diversity enables multi-ancestry fine-mapping in HIV host response," Nature Genetics, 2021
  • "Paths and timings of the peopling of Polynesia inferred from genomic networks," Nature, 2021
  • "ClinGen Variant Curation Interface: a variant classification platform for the application of evidence criteria from ACMG/AMP guidelines," Genome Medicine, 2022

Frequent co-authors of Bustamante reflect ongoing collaborations in related areas of genetic and molecular research and include:

  • Alexander G. Ioannidis
  • Esteban G. Burchard
  • Daniel Mas Montserrat
  • Laura Almasy
  • Kathleen C. Barnes

Over the course of their career, Bustamante has received recognition including being named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 2010 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Overstretching B-DNA: The Elastic Response of Individual Double-Stranded and Single-Stranded DNA Molecules

    Steven B. Smith;Yujia Cui;Carlos Bustamante

  • Direct mechanical measurements of the elasticity of single DNA molecules by using magnetic beads

    Steven B. Smith;Laura Finzi;Carlos Bustamante

  • Ten years of tension: single-molecule DNA mechanics

    Carlos Bustamante;Zev Bryant;Steven B. Smith

  • Equilibrium information from nonequilibrium measurements in an experimental test of Jarzynski's equality.

    Jan Liphardt;Sophie Dumont;Steven B. Smith;Ignacio Tinoco

  • Folding-Unfolding Transitions in Single Titin Molecules Characterized with Laser Tweezers

    Miklós S. Z. Kellermayer;Steven B. Smith;Henk L. Granzier;Carlos Bustamante

  • How RNA folds.

    Ignacio Tinoco;Carlos Bustamante

  • Ionic effects on the elasticity of single DNA molecules

    Christoph G. Baumann;Steven B. Smith;Victor A. Bloomfield;Carlos Bustamante

  • Verification of the Crooks fluctuation theorem and recovery of RNA folding free energies

    D. Collin;F. Ritort;C. Jarzynski;S. B. Smith

  • The bacteriophage φ29 portal motor can package DNA against a large internal force

    Douglas E. Smith;Sander J. Tans;Steven B. Smith;Shelley N Grimes

  • Recent Advances in Optical Tweezers

    Jeffrey R. Moffitt;Yann R. Chemla;Steven B. Smith;Carlos Bustamante

  • Porphyrin Assemblies On DNA As Studied By A Resonance Light-Scattering Technique

    Robert F. Pasternack;Carlos Bustamante;Peter J. Collings;Antonino Giannetto

  • Reversible unfolding of single RNA molecules by mechanical force.

    Jan Liphardt;Bibiana Onoa;Steven B. Smith;Ignacio Tinoco

  • Single-molecule studies of DNA mechanics.

    Carlos Bustamante;Steven B Smith;Jan Liphardt;Doug Smith

  • Mechanical processes in biochemistry.

    Carlos Bustamante;Yann R. Chemla;Nancy R. Forde;David Izhaky

  • The Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Small Systems

    Carlos Bustamante;Jan Liphardt;Felix Ritort

  • Direct Observation of the Three-State Folding of a Single Protein Molecule

    Ciro Cecconi;Elizabeth A. Shank;Carlos Bustamante;Susan Marqusee

  • (Open Access) Supercapacitor and supercapattery as emerging electrochemical energy stores

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  • Rapid spontaneous accessibility of nucleosomal DNA.

    Gu Li;Marcia Levitus;Carlos Bustamante;Jonathan Widom

  • Structural transitions and elasticity from torque measurements on DNA

    Zev Bryant;Michael D. Stone;Jeff Gore;Steven B. Smith

  • Reproducible Imaging and Dissection of Plasmid DNA Under Liquid with the Atomic Force Microscope

    H. G. Hansma;J. Vesenka;C. Siegerist;G. Kelderman

Frequent Co-Authors

Ignacio Tinoco
Ignacio Tinoco University of California, Berkeley
Christopher R. Gignoux
Christopher R. Gignoux University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Eimear E. Kenny
Eimear E. Kenny Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ryan D. Hernandez
Ryan D. Hernandez McGill University
Rasmus Nielsen
Rasmus Nielsen University of California, Berkeley
Esteban G. Burchard
Esteban G. Burchard University of California, San Francisco
Susan Marqusee
Susan Marqusee University of California, Berkeley
Jeffrey M. Kidd
Jeffrey M. Kidd University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Celeste Eng
Celeste Eng University of California, San Francisco
andrew g clark
andrew g clark Cornell University

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