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Christina D. Smolke

Christina D. Smolke

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
13172
World Ranking
14301
National Ranking
6028

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 2012 - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award
  • 2008 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Christina D. Smolke is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a considerable emphasis on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, and Plant Science as subfields.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Plant Gene Expression Analysis
  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration

Christina D. Smolke has published extensively, contributing to a number of papers appearing in notable scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Communications (4 publications)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (4 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)
  • eLife (2 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (2 publications)

Recent significant papers include:

  • "Biosynthesis of medicinal tropane alkaloids in yeast," 2020, Nature
  • "Model-driven generation of artificial yeast promoters," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Engineering synthetic RNA devices for cell control," 2022, Nature Reviews Genetics
  • "Polymerase-guided base editing enables in vivo mutagenesis and rapid protein engineering," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "A computational workflow for the expansion of heterologous biosynthetic pathways to natural product derivatives," 2021, Nature Communications

Among frequent co-authors with whom Christina D. Smolke has collaborated are Deze Kong, Prashanth Srinivasan, James T. Payne, Brent Townshend, and Matias Kaplan. These collaborations represent multiple joint publications.

Christina D. Smolke has received several awards, including:

  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 2016
  • National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award, 2012
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2008

Best Publications

  • Complete biosynthesis of opioids in yeast

    Stephanie Galanie;Kate Thodey;Isis J. Trenchard;Maria Filsinger Interrante

  • Higher-Order Cellular Information Processing with Synthetic RNA Devices

    Maung Nyan Win;Christina D. Smolke

  • Combinatorial engineering of intergenic regions in operons tunes expression of multiple genes

    Brian F Pfleger;Douglas J Pitera;Christina D Smolke;Christina D Smolke;Jay D Keasling;Jay D Keasling

  • A modular and extensible RNA-based gene-regulatory platform for engineering cellular function

    Maung Nyan Win;Christina D. Smolke

  • Programmable ligand-controlled riboregulators of eukaryotic gene expression.

    Travis S Bayer;Christina D Smolke

  • Production of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Kristy M Hawkins;Christina D Smolke

  • Reprogramming Cellular Behavior with RNA Controllers Responsive to Endogenous Proteins

    Stephanie J. Culler;Kevin G. Hoff;Christina D. Smolke;Christina D. Smolke

  • Synthetic biology strategies for microbial biosynthesis of plant natural products

    Aaron Cravens;James Payne;Christina D. Smolke

  • Genetic control of mammalian T-cell proliferation with synthetic RNA regulatory systems

    Yvonne Y. Chen;Michael C. Jensen;Christina D. Smolke

  • A microbial biomanufacturing platform for natural and semisynthetic opioids

    Kate Thodey;Stephanie Galanie;Christina D Smolke

  • Realizing the potential of synthetic biology

    George M. Church;Michael B. Elowitz;Christina D. Smolke;Christopher A. Voigt

  • Biosynthesis of medicinal tropane alkaloids in yeast.

    Prashanth Srinivasan;Christina D. Smolke

  • Advancing secondary metabolite biosynthesis in yeast with synthetic biology tools.

    Michael S. Siddiqui;Kate Thodey;Isis Trenchard;Christina D. Smolke

  • Complete biosynthesis of noscapine and halogenated alkaloids in yeast.

    Yanran Li;Sijin Li;Kate Thodey;Isis Trenchard

  • Engineering life: building a fab for biology.

    David Baker;George Church;Jim Collins;Drew Endy

  • Building outside of the box: iGEM and the BioBricks Foundation.

    Christina D Smolke

  • Engineering Biological Systems with Synthetic RNA Molecules

    Joe C. Liang;Ryan J. Bloom;Christina D. Smolke

  • High-throughput enzyme evolution in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using a synthetic RNA switch

    Joshua K. Michener;Christina D. Smolke

  • Synthetic Biology: Advancing the Design of Diverse Genetic Systems

    Yen-Hsiang Wang;Kathy Y. Wei;Christina D. Smolke

  • Applications of genetically-encoded biosensors for the construction and control of biosynthetic pathways.

    Joshua K. Michener;Kate Thodey;Joe C. Liang;Christina D. Smolke

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay D. Keasling
Jay D. Keasling University of California, Berkeley
Chase L. Beisel
Chase L. Beisel University of Würzburg
Michael C. Jensen
Michael C. Jensen Seattle Children's Hospital
George M. Church
George M. Church Harvard University
David Baker
David Baker University of Washington
Paul Modrich
Paul Modrich Duke University
Jens Nielsen
Jens Nielsen Chalmers University of Technology
Pamela A. Silver
Pamela A. Silver Harvard University
Lei S. Qi
Lei S. Qi Stanford University

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