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Christopher A. Voigt

Christopher A. Voigt

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
80
Citations
27454
World Ranking
4025
National Ranking
1988

Christopher A. Voigt publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christopher A. Voigt sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 197 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Christopher A. Voigt D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christopher A. Voigt sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Christopher A. Voigt is affiliated with MIT in the United States and primarily conducts research in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a specialized focus on Molecular Biology.

The scientist's published works cover various topics, including Academic Writing and Publishing, Gene Regulatory Network Analysis, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, and Health Sciences Research and Education.

Christopher A. Voigt has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors such as Cynthia J. Burrows, Shu Wang, Hyun Jae Kim, Gerald J. Meyer, and Kirk S. Schanze.

The main venues where this researcher disseminates findings include ACS Synthetic Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Nature Microbiology, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Among notable papers published recently are:

  • "Synthetic biology 2020-2030: six commercially-available products that are changing our world," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Genetic circuit design automation for yeast," 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • "Engineering living and regenerative fungal-bacterial biocomposite structures," 2021, Nature Materials
  • "Primary Human Colonic Mucosal Barrier Crosstalk with Super Oxygen-Sensitive Faecalibacterium prausnitzii in Continuous Culture," 2020, Med
  • "Genetic circuit design automation for the gut resident species Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron," 2020, Nature Biotechnology

Christopher A. Voigt was awarded the title of Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Automated design of synthetic ribosome binding sites to control protein expression

    Howard M Salis;Ethan A Mirsky;Christopher A Voigt

  • Spatiotemporal control of cell signalling using a light-switchable protein interaction

    Anselm Levskaya;Orion D. Weiner;Orion D. Weiner;Wendell A. Lim;Christopher A. Voigt

  • Genetic circuit design automation

    Alec A. K. Nielsen;Bryan S. Der;Bryan S. Der;Jonghyeon Shin;Prashant Vaidyanathan

  • Principles of genetic circuit design

    Jennifer A N Brophy;Christopher A Voigt

  • Robust multicellular computing using genetically encoded NOR gates and chemical ‘wires’

    Alvin Tamsir;Jeffrey J. Tabor;Christopher A. Voigt

  • Engineering Escherichia coli to see light

    Anselm Levskaya;Aaron A. Chevalier;Jeffrey J. Tabor;Zachary Booth Simpson

  • Environmentally Controlled Invasion of Cancer Cells by Engineered Bacteria

    J. Christopher Anderson;Elizabeth J. Clarke;Adam P. Arkin;Adam P. Arkin;Christopher A. Voigt;Christopher A. Voigt

  • Genetic programs constructed from layered logic gates in single cells

    Tae Seok Moon;Chunbo Lou;Alvin Tamsir;Brynne Christine Stanton

  • Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation and the Challenges to Its Extension to Nonlegumes

    Florence Mus;Matthew B. Crook;Kevin Garcia;Amaya Garcia Costas

  • A synthetic genetic edge detection program.

    Jeffrey J. Tabor;Howard M. Salis;Zachary Booth Simpson;Aaron A. Chevalier

  • Characterization of 582 natural and synthetic terminators and quantification of their design constraints

    Ying-Ja Chen;Peng Liu;Alec A K Nielsen;Jennifer A N Brophy

  • Synthetic biology to access and expand nature's chemical diversity.

    Michael J. Smanski;Hui Zhou;Jan Claesen;Ben Shen

  • Environmental signal integration by a modular AND gate

    J Christopher Anderson;J Christopher Anderson;Christopher A Voigt;Adam P Arkin

  • Ribozyme-based insulator parts buffer synthetic circuits from genetic context

    Chunbo Lou;Brynne Stanton;Ying-Ja Chen;Brian Munsky

  • Refactoring the nitrogen fixation gene cluster from Klebsiella oxytoca

    Karsten Temme;Dehua Zhao;Christopher A. Voigt

  • Synthesis of three advanced biofuels from ionic liquid-pretreated switchgrass using engineered Escherichia coli

    Gregory Bokinsky;Pamela P. Peralta-Yahya;Pamela P. Peralta-Yahya;Anthe George;Anthe George;Bradley M. Holmes;Bradley M. Holmes

  • Genomic mining of prokaryotic repressors for orthogonal logic gates.

    Brynne C Stanton;Alec A K Nielsen;Alvin Tamsir;Kevin Clancy

  • Escherichia coli "Marionette" strains with 12 highly optimized small-molecule sensors.

    Adam J. Meyer;Thomas H. Segall-Shapiro;Emerson Glassey;Jing Zhang

  • Protein building blocks preserved by recombination.

    Christopher A. Voigt;Carlos Martinez;Zhen-Gang Wang;Stephen L. Mayo

  • Synthetic biology to access and expand nature's chemical diversity

    Jan Claesen;Ben Shen;Michael A. Fischbach;Hui Zhou

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory D. Scholes
Gregory D. Scholes Princeton University
Paul S. Weiss
Paul S. Weiss University of California, Los Angeles
Shu Wang
Shu Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gilbert C. Walker
Gilbert C. Walker University of Toronto
Stuart J. Rowan
Stuart J. Rowan University of Chicago
Prashant V. Kamat
Prashant V. Kamat University of Notre Dame
Marc A. Hillmyer
Marc A. Hillmyer University of Minnesota
Vincent M. Rotello
Vincent M. Rotello University of Massachusetts Amherst
J. Justin Gooding
J. Justin Gooding University of New South Wales

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