2026 Christian Melander: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	57	13975	12860	5903	5290	191	10273

Overview

Christian Melander is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a particular focus on molecular biology, molecular medicine, pharmacology, epidemiology, and infectious diseases.

The scientist has contributed to a number of research topics, including:

Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
Cancer therapeutics and mechanisms
Phenothiazines and Benzothiazines Synthesis and Activities
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment

Frequent publication venues for Christian Melander include:

ACS Infectious Diseases
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
mBio
ChemMedChem
Antibiotics

Some of the recent published papers by Christian Melander are:

Natural products as inspiration for the development of bacterial antibiofilm agents, 2020, Natural Product Reports
Pyochelin biotransformation by Staphylococcus aureus shapes bacterial competition with Pseudomonas aeruginosa in polymicrobial infections, 2023, Cell Reports
Screening an Established Natural Product Library Identifies Secondary Metabolites That Potentiate Conventional Antibiotics, 2020, ACS Infectious Diseases
A Clerodane Diterpene from Callicarpa americana Resensitizes Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus to β-Lactam Antibiotics, 2020, ACS Infectious Diseases
Overcoming intrinsic resistance in gram-negative bacteria using small molecule adjuvants, 2022, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters

Christian Melander has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Roberta J. Melander
Michael J. Zeiler
Anne E. Mattingly
Ansley M. Nemeth

Best Publications

Combination approaches to combat multidrug-resistant bacteria

Roberta J. Worthington;Christian Melander

655
Citations
Inhibition of HIV Fusion with Multivalent Gold Nanoparticles

Mary Catherine Bowman;T. Eric Ballard;Christopher J. Ackerson;Daniel L. Feldheim

455
Citations
Small molecule control of bacterial biofilms

Roberta J. Worthington;Justin J. Richards;Christian Melander

331
Citations
Synergistic Effects between Conventional Antibiotics and 2-Aminoimidazole-Derived Antibiofilm Agents

Steven A. Rogers;Robert W. Huigens;John Cavanagh;Christian Melander

260
Citations
Controlling bacterial biofilms.

Justin J. Richards;Christian Melander

249
Citations
Overcoming Resistance to β-Lactam Antibiotics

Roberta J. Worthington;Christian Melander

248
Citations
The Challenge of Overcoming Antibiotic Resistance: An Adjuvant Approach?

Roberta J. Melander;Christian Melander

210
Citations
Crystal Structures of Nucleosome Core Particles in Complex with Minor Groove DNA-binding Ligands

Robert K. Suto;Rajeswari S. Edayathumangalam;Cindy L. White;Christian Melander

208
Citations
Narrow-Spectrum Antibacterial Agents.

Roberta J. Melander;Daniel V. Zurawski;Christian Melander

198
Citations
Inhibition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Formation with Bromoageliferin Analogues

Robert W. Huigens;Justin J. Richards;Gina Parise;T. Eric Ballard

198
Citations
Synthesis and screening of an oroidin library against Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms.

Justin J. Richards;T. Eric Ballard;Robert W. Huigens;Christian Melander

176
Citations
Sequence specific fluorescence detection of double strand DNA.

Victor C. Rucker;Shane Foister;Christian Melander;Peter B. Dervan

176
Citations
Biologically inspired strategies for combating bacterial biofilms

Meghan S Blackledge;Roberta J Worthington;Christian Melander

172
Citations
Construction and Screening of a 2‑Aminoimidazole Library Identifies a Small Molecule Capable of Inhibiting and Dispersing Bacterial Biofilms across Order, Class, and Phylum

Steven A. Rogers;Christian Melander

164
Citations
Sequence-specific recognition of DNA in the nucleosome by pyrrole-imidazole polyamides.

Joel M. Gottesfeld;Christian Melander;Christian Melander;Christian Melander;Robert K. Suto;Robert K. Suto;Robert K. Suto;Holger Raviol;Holger Raviol;Holger Raviol

163
Citations
DNA sequence-specific polyamides alleviate transcription inhibition associated with long GAA·TTC repeats in Friedreich's ataxia

Ryan Burnett;Christian Melander;James W. Puckett;Leslie S. Son

161
Citations
Anti-Biofilm Compounds Derived from Marine Sponges

Sean D. Stowe;Justin J. Richards;Ashley T. Tucker;Richele Thompson

155
Citations
Inhibition and dispersion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms with reverse amide 2-aminoimidazole oroidin analogues

Justin J. Richards;T. Eric Ballard;Christian Melander

141
Citations
Library-Based Lead Compound Discovery: Antioxidants by an Analogous Synthesis/Deconvolutive Assay Strategy

Mark J. Kurth;Lisa A. Ahlberg Randall;Chixu Chen;Christian Melander

126
Citations
Synthesis and Antibiofilm Activity of a Second-Generation Reverse-Amide Oroidin Library: A Structure–Activity Relationship Study

T. Eric Ballard;Justin J. Richards;Amanda L. Wolfe;Christian Melander

124
Citations