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11847
National Ranking
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Overview

Kit Pogliano is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States, primarily working within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Environmental Science. Their scholarly output spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Genetics, Plant Science, and Materials Chemistry.

Their research covers multiple main topics, notably:

  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis

The frequent venues where Kit Pogliano publishes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Science Advances
  • PLoS ONE
  • Nature Microbiology

Notable recent publications by Kit Pogliano encompass a range of topics and journals:

  • Bacterial-fungal interactions revealed by genome-wide analysis of bacterial mutant fitness, 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • Shaping an Endospore: Architectural Transformations During Bacillus subtilis Sporulation, 2020, Annual Review of Microbiology
  • Asymmetric localization of the cell division machinery during Bacillus subtilis sporulation, 2021, eLife
  • Identifying the core genome of the nucleus-forming bacteriophage family and characterization of Erwinia phage RAY, 2023, Cell Reports
  • Subcellular organization of viral particles during maturation of nucleus-forming jumbo phage, 2022, Science Advances

Among frequent co-authors collaborating with Kit Pogliano are:

  • Joe Pogliano
  • Elizabeth Villa
  • Eray Enüstün
  • Emily G. Armbruster
  • Joseph Sugie

Best Publications

  • Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking

    Mingxun Wang;Jeremy J Carver;Vanessa V Phelan;Laura M Sanchez

  • Mass spectral molecular networking of living microbial colonies

    Jeramie D. Watrous;Patrick J. Roach;Theodore Alexandrov;Theodore Alexandrov;Brandi S. Heath

  • Bacterial cytological profiling rapidly identifies the cellular pathways targeted by antibacterial molecules.

    Poochit Nonejuie;Michael Burkart;Kit Pogliano;Joe Pogliano

  • MS/MS networking guided analysis of molecule and gene cluster families

    [No Value] Don Duy Nguyen;Cheng-Hsuan Wu;Wilna J. Moree;Anne Lamsa

  • A vital stain for studying membrane dynamics in bacteria: a novel mechanism controlling septation during Bacillus subtilis sporulation

    Joe Pogliano;Nick Osborne;Marc D. Sharp;Angelica Abanes-De Mello

  • Inactivation of FtsI inhibits constriction of the FtsZ cytokinetic ring and delays the assembly of FtsZ rings at potential division sites

    Joe Pogliano;Kit Pogliano;David S. Weiss;Richard Losick

  • c-Jun Is Essential for Organization of the Epidermal Leading Edge

    Guochun Li;Cindy Gustafson-Brown;Steven K Hanks;Katie Nason

  • Microbial metabolic exchange—the chemotype-to-phenotype link

    Vanessa V Phelan;Wei-Ting Liu;Kit Pogliano;Pieter C Dorrestein;Pieter C Dorrestein

  • Assembly of a nucleus-like structure during viral replication in bacteria

    Vorrapon Chaikeeratisak;Katrina Nguyen;Kanika Khanna;Axel F. Brilot

  • Use of immunofluorescence to visualize cell-specific gene expression during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.

    E J Harry;K Pogliano;R Losick

  • Localization of protein implicated in establishment of cell type to sites of asymmetric division.

    Fabrizio Arigoni;Kit Pogliano;Chris D. Webb;Patrick Stragier

  • Imaging mass spectrometry of intraspecies metabolic exchange revealed the cannibalistic factors of Bacillus subtilis

    Wei-Ting Liu;Yu-Liang Yang;Yuquan Xu;Anne Lamsa

  • Visualization of the subcellular location of sporulation proteins in Bacillus subtilis using immunofluorescence microscopy

    Kit Pogliano;Elizabeth Harry;Richard Losick

  • An in vivo membrane fusion assay implicates SpoIIIE in the final stages of engulfment during Bacillus subtilis sporulation

    Marc D. Sharp;Kit Pogliano

  • Primer on Agar-Based Microbial Imaging Mass Spectrometry

    Jane Y. Yang;Vanessa V. Phelan;Ryan Simkovsky;Jeramie D. Watrous

  • Holin triggering in real time

    Rebecca White;Shinobu Chiba;Ting Pang;Jill S. Dewey

  • Expanding the Diversity of Mycobacteriophages: Insights into Genome Architecture and Evolution

    Welkin H. Pope;Deborah Jacobs-Sera;Daniel A. Russell;Craig L. Peebles

  • A cytoskeleton-like role for the bacterial cell wall during engulfment of the Bacillus subtilis forespore

    Angelica Abanes-De Mello;Ya-Lin Sun;Stefan Aung;Kit Pogliano

  • Divergent stalling sequences sense and control cellular physiology.

    Koreaki Ito;Shinobu Chiba;Kit Pogliano

  • Bacillus subtilis MinC destabilizes FtsZ-rings at new cell poles and contributes to the timing of cell division

    James A. Gregory;Eric C. Becker;Kit Pogliano

Frequent Co-Authors

Joe Pogliano
Joe Pogliano University of California, San Diego
Pieter C. Dorrestein
Pieter C. Dorrestein University of California, San Diego
Carlos Bustamante
Carlos Bustamante Stanford University
Richard Losick
Richard Losick Harvard University
Bradley S. Moore
Bradley S. Moore University of California, San Diego
David Gonzalez
David Gonzalez University of California, San Diego
Gerald L. Newton
Gerald L. Newton University of California, San Diego
Victor Nizet
Victor Nizet University of California, San Diego
Nuno Bandeira
Nuno Bandeira University of California, San Diego
William H. Gerwick
William H. Gerwick University of California, San Diego

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