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2026
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Molecular Biology

D-Index
131
Citations
53577
World Ranking
187
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in China Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Eric Lam is affiliated with Sun Yat-sen University in China and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work intersects several subfields including Plant Science, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

Lam's research focuses on topics such as coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment, polysaccharides and plant cell walls, peatlands and wetlands ecology, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, and plant molecular biology research.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Plants
  • Nature Communications
  • BioEnergy Research
  • Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Eric Lam include:

  • Return of the Lemnaceae: duckweed as a model plant system in the genomics and postgenomics era, 2021, The Plant Cell
  • Classification and Nomenclature of Metacaspases and Paracaspases: No More Confusion with Caspases, 2020, Molecular Cell
  • Genome and time-of-day transcriptome of Wolffia australiana link morphological minimization with gene loss and less growth control, 2020, Genome Research
  • Duckweed hosts a taxonomically similar bacterial assemblage as the terrestrial leaf microbiome, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Structural basis for Ca2+-dependent activation of a plant metacaspase, 2020, Nature Communications

Among their frequent coauthors, Eric Lam has collaborated extensively with Todd P. Michael, Kenneth Acosta, Klaus-J. Appenroth, Ingo Schubert, and K. Sowjanya Sree.

Best Publications

  • Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells induce division arrest anergy of activated T cells.

    Sarah Glennie;Inês Soeiro;Peter J. Dyson;Eric W.-F. Lam

  • The emerging roles of forkhead box (Fox) proteins in cancer

    Stephen S. Myatt;Eric W. F. Lam

  • Programmed cell death, mitochondria and the plant hypersensitive response

    Eric Lam;Naohiro Kato;Michael Lawton

  • Nitric oxide and salicylic acid signaling in plant defense.

    Daniel F. Klessig;Jörg Durner;Robert Noad;Duroy A. Navarre

  • Forkhead transcription factor FKHR-L1 modulates cytokine-dependent transcriptional regulation of p27(KIP1).

    P.F. Dijkers;R.H. Medema;C. Pals;L. Banerji

  • Forkhead box proteins: tuning forks for transcriptional harmony

    Eric W.-F. Lam;Jan J. Brosens;Ana R. Gomes;Chuay-Yeng Koo

  • Controlled cell death, plant survival and development

    Eric Lam;Eric Lam

  • Cell Cycle Inhibition by FoxO Forkhead Transcription Factors Involves Downregulation of Cyclin D

    Marc Schmidt;Sylvia Fernandez de Mattos;Armando van der Horst;Rob Klompmaker

  • Morphological classification of plant cell deaths.

    W G van Doorn;E P Beers;J L Dangl;V E Franklin-Tong

  • NPR1 differentially interacts with members of the TGA/OBF family of transcription factors that bind an element of the PR-1 gene required for induction by salicylic acid.

    Jun-Ma Zhou;Youssef Trifa;Herman Silva;Dominique Pontier

  • Mesenchymal stem cells inhibit dendritic cell differentiation and function by preventing entry into the cell cycle.

    Rajesh Ramasamy;Henrietta Fazekasova;Eric W.-F. Lam;In s Soeiro

  • FoxO3a transcriptional regulation of Bim controls apoptosis in paclitaxel-treated breast cancer cell lines

    Andrew Sunters;Silvia Fernández de Mattos;Marie Stahl;Jan J. Brosens

  • Control of Cell Cycle Exit and Entry by Protein Kinase B-Regulated Forkhead Transcription Factors

    Geert J. P. L. Kops;Rene H. Medema;Janet Glassford;Marieke A. G. Essers

  • Caspases and programmed cell death in the hypersensitive response of plants to pathogens

    Olga del Pozo;Eric Lam

  • Two tobacco DNA-binding proteins with homology to the nuclear factor CREB

    Fumiaki Katagiri;Eric Lam;Nam Hai Chua

  • Mesenchymal stem cells inhibit proliferation and apoptosis of tumor cells: impact on in vivo tumor growth.

    R Ramasamy;E. W. F. Lam;I. Soeiro;Veronica Tisato

  • Electron Transfer at Electrodes through Conjugated “Molecular Wire” Bridges

    Stephen Creager;C. J. Yu;Cindy Bamdad;Steve O'Connor

  • Site-specific mutations alter in vitro factor binding and change promoter expression pattern in transgenic plants

    Eric Lam;Philip N. Benfey;Philip M. Gilmartin;Rong-Xiang Fang

  • SIRT Inhibitors Induce Cell Death and p53 Acetylation through Targeting Both SIRT1 and SIRT2

    Barrie Peck;Chun-Yuan Chen;Ka-Kei Ho;Paolo Di Fruscia

  • FKHR-L1 can act as a critical effector of cell death induced by cytokine withdrawal: protein kinase B–enhanced cell survival through maintenance of mitochondrial integrity

    Pascale F. Dijkers;Kim U. Birkenkamp;Eric W.-F. Lam;N. Shaun B. Thomas

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan J. Brosens
Jan J. Brosens University of Warwick
R. Charles Coombes
R. Charles Coombes Imperial College London
Richard Malkin
Richard Malkin University of California, Berkeley
Nam-Hai Chua
Nam-Hai Chua National University of Singapore
Ron Mittler
Ron Mittler University of Missouri
Paul J. Coffer
Paul J. Coffer Utrecht University
Karin Dahlman-Wright
Karin Dahlman-Wright Karolinska Institute
Wyeth W. Wasserman
Wyeth W. Wasserman University of British Columbia
Reiner A. Veitia
Reiner A. Veitia Université Paris Cité
Peggy J. Farnham
Peggy J. Farnham University of Southern California

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