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1628
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908

Howard C. Berg 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 Howard C. Berg sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 229 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Howard C. Berg 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 Howard C. Berg sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 98 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% 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

  • 2000 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1990 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the elucidation of complex biological phenomena, particularly chemotaxis and bacterial locomotion, through simple but penetrating physical theories and brilliant experiments
  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1984 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Howard C. Berg is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their primary areas of research span Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Physics and Astronomy. Within these, they have contributed significantly to multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Condensed Matter Physics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of subjects relevant to biology and physics. Key topics include:

  • Micro and Nano Robotics
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny

Howard C. Berg has published extensively across various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
  • Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Cell

The scientist's recent papers demonstrate a focus on bacterial motility and flagellar motor structure and function. Notable publications include:

  • "Bacterial motility: machinery and mechanisms" (2021) in Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "Structure and Function of Stator Units of the Bacterial Flagellar Motor" (2020) in Cell
  • "Structural basis of torque generation in the bi-directional bacterial flagellar motor" (2021) in Trends in Biochemical Sciences
  • "A molecular rack and pinion actuates a cell-surface adhesin and enables bacterial gliding motility" (2020) in Science Advances
  • "Mechanosensitive remodeling of the bacterial flagellar motor is independent of direction of rotation" (2021) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Collaborative work features a number of frequent co-authors, including:

  • Navish Wadhwa
  • Mònica Santiveri
  • Marc Erhardt
  • Nicholas M. I. Taylor
  • Yuhai Tu

Howard C. Berg has also contributed to book literature, with a publication by Princeton University Press titled Random Walks in Biology, anticipated for 2025.

Recognition by the scientific community includes election to several prestigious bodies and fellowships:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1984)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1985)
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) (1990), cited for elucidating complex biological phenomena through physical theories and experiments
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2000)

Best Publications

  • Random walks in biology

    Howard C. Berg

  • Chemotaxis in Escherichia coli analysed by Three-dimensional Tracking

    Howard C. Berg;Douglas A. Brown

  • Physics of chemoreception

    Howard Curtis Berg;E.M. Purcell

  • The Rotary Motor of Bacterial Flagella

    Howard C. Berg

  • Bacteria Swim by Rotating their Flagellar Filaments

    Howard C. Berg;Robert A. Anderson

  • Hydrodynamic attraction of swimming microorganisms by surfaces

    Allison P. Berke;Linda Turner;Howard C. Berg;Eric Lauga

  • Real-Time Imaging of Fluorescent Flagellar Filaments

    Linda Turner;William S. Ryu;Howard C. Berg

  • Direct observation of extension and retraction of type IV pili

    Jeffrey M. Skerker;Howard C. Berg

  • E. coli in Motion

    Howard C. Berg

  • Complex patterns formed by motile cells of Escherichia coli

    Elena O. Budrene;Howard C. Berg;Howard C. Berg

  • Dynamics of formation of symmetrical patterns by chemotactic bacteria

    Elena O. Budrene;Howard C. Berg;Howard C. Berg

  • Receptor sensitivity in bacterial chemotaxis.

    Victor Sourjik;Howard C. Berg

  • Temporal comparisons in bacterial chemotaxis.

    Jeffrey E. Segall;Steven M. Block;Howard C. Berg

  • Compliance of bacterial flagella measured with optical tweezers.

    Steven M. Block;Steven M. Block;David F. Blair;Howard C. Berg;Howard C. Berg

  • On Torque and Tumbling in Swimming Escherichia coli

    Nicholas C. Darnton;Linda Turner;Svetlana Rojevsky;Howard C. Berg

  • A protonmotive force drives bacterial flagella

    M D Manson;P Tedesco;H C Berg;F M Harold

  • Escherichia coli swim on the right-hand side

    Willow R. DiLuzio;Linda Turner;Michael Mayer;Piotr Garstecki

  • Functional interactions between receptors in bacterial chemotaxis

    Victor Sourjik;Howard C. Berg

  • Motile Behavior of Bacteria

    Howard C. Berg

  • Migration of bacteria in semisolid agar

    Alan J. Wolfe;Howard C. Berg

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven M. Block
Steven M. Block Stanford University
Aravinthan D. T. Samuel
Aravinthan D. T. Samuel Harvard University
Victor Sourjik
Victor Sourjik Max Planck Society
Jeffrey E. Segall
Jeffrey E. Segall Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Alan J. Wolfe
Alan J. Wolfe Loyola University Chicago
Markus Meister
Markus Meister California Institute of Technology
Eric Lauga
Eric Lauga University of Cambridge
George M. Church
George M. Church Harvard University
George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides Harvard University

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