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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award

Overview

Jon Clardy is a researcher affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their scientific work primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology as a major subfield. Additional areas of specialization include Insect Science, Materials Chemistry, Immunology, and Organic Chemistry.

Their research topics cover a diverse range of subjects, such as Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Gut Microbiota and Health, Insect Symbiosis and Bacterial Influences, and Immune Response and Inflammation.

Jon Clardy's frequent co-authors include:

  • Ramnik J. Xavier
  • Munhyung Bae
  • Chelsi D. Cassilly
  • Sunghee Bang
  • Yern-Hyerk Shin

They have been published multiple times in prominent venues, with the most frequent publication targets being:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Cell Host & Microbe
  • Nature

Selected recent papers by Jon Clardy include:

  • "Akkermansia muciniphila phospholipid induces homeostatic immune responses" (2022, Nature)
  • "Gut microbiome lipid metabolism and its impact on host physiology" (2023, Cell Host & Microbe)
  • "Enteroendocrine cells sense bacterial tryptophan catabolites to activate enteric and vagal neuronal pathways" (2020, Cell Host & Microbe)
  • "Total synthesis reveals atypical atropisomerism in a small-molecule natural product, tryptorubin A" (2020, Science)
  • "Capsular polysaccharide correlates with immune response to the human gut microbe Ruminococcus gnavus" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Best Publications

  • Molecular biological access to the chemistry of unknown soil microbes: a new frontier for natural products

    Jo Handelsman;Michelle R. Rondon;Sean F. Brady;Jon Clardy

  • Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide natural products: Overview and recommendations for a universal nomenclature

    Paul G. Arnison;Mervyn J. Bibb;Gabriele Bierbaum;Albert Alexander Bowers

  • Cloning the soil metagenome: a strategy for accessing the genetic and functional diversity of uncultured microorganisms.

    Michelle R. Rondon;Paul R. August;Alan D. Bettermann;Sean F. Brady

  • Lessons from natural molecules

    Jon Clardy;Christopher Walsh

  • Atomic Structures of the Human Immunophilin FKBP-12 Complexes with FK506 and Rapamycin

    Gregory D. Van Duyne;Robert F. Standaert;P.Andrew Karplus;Stuart L. Schreiber

  • Structure of the FKBP12-rapamycin complex interacting with the binding domain of human FRAP.

    Jungwon Choi;Jie Chen;Stuart L. Schreiber;Jon Clardy

  • Target identification using drug affinity responsive target stability (DARTS)

    Brett Lomenick;Rui Hao;Nao Jonai;Randall M. Chin

  • GABA-modulating bacteria of the human gut microbiota

    Philip Strandwitz;Ki Hyun Kim;Darya Terekhova;Joanne K. Liu

  • D-amino acids trigger biofilm disassembly.

    Illana Kolodkin-Gal;Diego Romero;Shugeng Cao;Jon Clardy

  • Okadaic acid, a cytotoxic polyether from two marine sponges of the genus Halichondria

    Kazuo Tachibana;Paul J. Scheuer;Yasumasa Tsukitani;Hiroyuki Kikuchi

  • Insights into secondary metabolism from a global analysis of prokaryotic biosynthetic gene clusters.

    Peter Cimermancic;Marnix H. Medema;Jan Claesen;Kenji Kurita

  • ISOLATION AND STRUCTURE OF BRYOSTATIN 1

    George R. Pettit;Cherry L. Herald;Dennis L. Doubek;Delbert L. Herald

  • Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.

    Marnix H. Medema;Marnix H. Medema;Renzo Kottmann;Pelin Yilmaz;Matthew Cummings

  • Diarrhetic shellfish toxins

    T. Yasumoto;M. Murata;Y. Oshima;M. Sano

  • Ruminococcus gnavus , a member of the human gut microbiome associated with Crohn's disease, produces an inflammatory polysaccharide.

    Matthew T. Henke;Douglas J. Kenny;Chelsi D. Cassilly;Hera Vlamakis

  • Atomic structure of FKBP-FK506, an immunophilin-immunosuppressant complex

    GD Van Duyne;RF Standaert;PA Karplus;SL Schreiber

  • New antibiotics from bacterial natural products.

    Jon Clardy;Michael A Fischbach;Christopher T Walsh

  • A systematic analysis of biosynthetic gene clusters in the human microbiome reveals a common family of antibiotics

    Mohamed S. Donia;Peter Cimermancic;Christopher J. Schulze;Laura C. Wieland Brown

  • Isolation and structure of brevetoxin B from the "red tide" dinoflagellate Ptychodiscus brevis (Gymnodinium breve)

    Yong-Yeng Lin;Martin Risk;Sammy M. Ray;Donna Van Engen

  • Gene expression signature-based chemical genomic prediction identifies a novel class of HSP90 pathway modulators

    Haley Hieronymus;Justin Lamb;Kenneth N. Ross;Xiao P. Peng;Xiao P. Peng

  • Isolation of antibiotics turbomycin a and B from a metagenomic library of soil microbial DNA.

    Doreen E. Gillespie;Sean F. Brady;Alan D. Bettermann;Nicholas P. Cianciotto

Frequent Co-Authors

William Fenical
William Fenical University of California, San Diego
Cameron R. Currie
Cameron R. Currie University of Wisconsin–Madison
Emil B. Lobkovsky
Emil B. Lobkovsky Cornell University
D. John Faulkner
D. John Faulkner University of California, San Diego
Roberto Kolter
Roberto Kolter Harvard University
Gary A. Strobel
Gary A. Strobel Montana State University
Paul J. Scheuer
Paul J. Scheuer University of Hawaii at Manoa
Raymond J. Andersen
Raymond J. Andersen University of British Columbia
Ralph Mazitschek
Ralph Mazitschek Harvard University
Dyann F. Wirth
Dyann F. Wirth Harvard University

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