2026 Daniel J. Lew: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	68	1516	1359	769	675	129	16380

Research.com Recognitions

2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Daniel J. Lew is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant emphasis on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Cell Biology, Genetics, and Pharmacology.

The main topics explored in their work include:

Fungal and yeast genetics research
Plant Reproductive Biology
Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
Cellular transport and secretion
Fungal Biology and Applications

Daniel J. Lew has contributed to a variety of recent scientific papers across notable journals. Some of these are:

"Orientation of Cell Polarity by Chemical Gradients" (2022), published in Annual Review of Biophysics
"How cells determine the number of polarity sites" (2021), published in eLife
"Chemotropism and Cell-Cell Fusion in Fungi" (2022), published in Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
"Mechanistic insights into actin-driven polarity site movement in yeast" (2020), published in Molecular Biology of the Cell
"Chemotactic movement of a polarity site enables yeast cells to find their mates" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their frequent co-authors include:

Timothy C. Elston
Alison C.E. Wirshing
Amy S. Gladfelter
Claudia A. Petrucco
Kaiyun Guan

Daniel J. Lew has published extensively in several venues, with notable counts in:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory): 12 publications
UNC Libraries: 10 publications
Molecular Biology of the Cell: 7 publications
The Journal of Cell Biology: 4 publications
Current Biology: 3 publications

Among their recognized achievements is being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009.

Best Publications

Isolation of three novel human cyclins by rescue of G1 cyclin (cln) function in yeast

Daniel J. Lew;Vjekoslav Dulić;Steven I. Reed

1167
Citations
Morphogenesis in the yeast cell cycle: regulation by Cdc28 and cyclins.

Daniel J. Lew;Steven I. Reed

684
Citations
Involvement of an Actomyosin Contractile Ring in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cytokinesis

Erfei Bi;Paul Maddox;Daniel J. Lew;E.D. Salmon

524
Citations
Cytoplasmic activation of GAF, an IFN-gamma-regulated DNA-binding factor.

T Decker;DJ Lew;J Mirkovitch;Jr Je Darnell

476
Citations
REGULATORY ROLES OF CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE PHOSPHORYLATION IN CELL CYCLE CONTROL

Daniel J Lew;Sally Kornbluth

452
Citations
The septin cortex at the yeast mother-bud neck.

Amy S Gladfelter;John R Pringle;Daniel J Lew

422
Citations
Cyclin-B homologs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae function in S phase and in G2.

Helena Richardson;Daniel J. Lew;Martha Henze;Katsunori Sugimoto

400
Citations
A cyclin B homolog in S. cerevisiae: Chronic activation of the Cdc28 protein kinase by cyclin prevents exit from mitosis

Jayant B. Ghiara;Helena E. Richardson;Katsunori Sugimoto;Martha Henze

388
Citations
Overlapping elements in the guanylate-binding protein gene promoter mediate transcriptional induction by alpha and gamma interferons.

D J Lew;T Decker;I Strehlow;J E Darnell

385
Citations
A cell cycle checkpoint monitors cell morphogenesis in budding yeast.

Daniel J. Lew;Steven I. Reed

366
Citations
The Spindle Assembly and Spindle Position Checkpoints

Daniel J. Lew;Daniel J. Burke

359
Citations
Septin-Dependent Assembly of a Cell Cycle-Regulatory Module in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Mark S. Longtine;Chandra L. Theesfeld;John N. McMillan;Elizabeth Weaver

334
Citations
Scaffold-mediated symmetry breaking by Cdc42p.

Javier E. Irazoqui;Amy S. Gladfelter;Daniel J. Lew

328
Citations
Cell cycle control of morphogenesis in budding yeast

Daniel J. Lew;Steven I. Reed

310
Citations
Symmetry-Breaking Polarization Driven by a Cdc42p GEF-PAK Complex

Lukasz Kozubowski;Koji Saito;Jayme M. Johnson;Audrey S. Howell

282
Citations
Synergistic interaction between interferon‐alpha and interferon‐gamma through induced synthesis of one subunit of the transcription factor ISGF3.

D E Levy;D J Lew;T Decker;D S Kessler

270
Citations
Cell Polarity in Yeast.

Jian-geng Chiou;Mohan K. Balasubramanian;Daniel J. Lew

268
Citations
Assembly of scaffold-mediated complexes containing Cdc42p, the exchange factor Cdc24p, and the effector Cla4p required for cell cycle-regulated phosphorylation of Cdc24p.

Indrani Bose;Javier E. Irazoqui;John J. Moskow;Elaine S. G. Bardes

261
Citations
The Morphogenesis Checkpoint in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Cell Cycle Control of Swe1p Degradation by Hsl1p and Hsl7p

John N. McMillan;Mark S. Longtine;Rey A. L. Sia;Chandra L. Theesfeld

232
Citations
Negative Feedback Enhances Robustness in the Yeast Polarity Establishment Circuit

Audrey S. Howell;Meng Jin;Chi Fang Wu;Trevin R. Zyla

231
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven I. Reed Scripps Research Institute

Amy S. Gladfelter Duke University

Thomas Decker University of Vienna

John Clarke University of California, Berkeley

John R. Pringle Stanford University

James E. Darnell Rockefeller University

Helena E. Richardson La Trobe University

David E. Levy New York University

Erfei Bi University of Pennsylvania

James N Eckstein University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

External Links

Personal website of Daniel J. Lew

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