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D-Index
61
Citations
13538
World Ranking
11335
National Ranking
4909

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Lingchong You is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and has a broad research profile centered on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with 130 publications contributing to this field. Their work notably spans subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Biomedical Engineering, and Molecular Medicine.

The scientist's research addresses key topics such as:

  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing

Lingchong You has published extensively, with frequent appearances in leading venues including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Chemical Biology
  • Molecular Systems Biology
  • Science Advances

Some of their recent significant papers include:

  • Engineering synthetic biomolecular condensates, 2023, Nature Reviews Bioengineering
  • Programmable synthetic biomolecular condensates for cellular control, 2023, Nature Chemical Biology
  • Interface of biomolecular condensates modulates redox reactions, 2023, Chem
  • Engineered microbial consortia: strategies and applications, 2021, Microbial Cell Factories
  • Intra- and interpopulation transposition of mobile genetic elements driven by antibiotic selection, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Their collaboration network includes frequent coauthors such as:

  • Helena Riuró
  • Kyeri Kim
  • Rohan Maddamsetti
  • Hye-In Son
  • Yifan Dai

In recognition of their contributions, Lingchong You was named a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Engineering microbial consortia: a new frontier in synthetic biology.

    Katie Brenner;Lingchong You;Frances H. Arnold

  • Programmed population control by cell-cell communication and regulated killing.

    Lingchong You;Robert Sidney Cox;Ron Weiss;Frances H. Arnold

  • Long-Term Monitoring of Bacteria Undergoing Programmed Population Control in a Microchemostat

    Frederick K. Balagaddé;Lingchong You;Carl L. Hansen;Frances H. Arnold

  • A synthetic Escherichia coli predator-prey ecosystem.

    Frederick K Balagaddé;Frederick K Balagaddé;Hao Song;Jun Ozaki;Cynthia H Collins

  • A bistable Rb-E2F switch underlies the restriction point.

    Guang Yao;Tae Jun Lee;Seiichi Mori;Joseph R. Nevins

  • Emergent bistability by a growth-modulating positive feedback circuit.

    Cheemeng Tan;Philippe Marguet;Lingchong You

  • Persistence and reversal of plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance

    Allison J. Lopatkin;Hannah R. Meredith;Jaydeep K. Srimani;Connor Pfeiffer

  • Stochastic vs. Deterministic Modeling of Intracellular Viral Kinetics

    R. Srivastava;L. You;J. Summers;J. Yin

  • Antibiotics as a selective driver for conjugation dynamics.

    Allison J. Lopatkin;Shuqiang Huang;Robert P. Smith;Jaydeep K. Srimani

  • Metabolic division of labor in microbial systems.

    Ryan Tsoi;Feilun Wu;Carolyn Zhang;Sharon Bewick

  • Bacterial metabolic state more accurately predicts antibiotic lethality than growth rate.

    Allison J. Lopatkin;Allison J. Lopatkin;Allison J. Lopatkin;Jonathan M. Stokes;Jonathan M. Stokes;Erica J. Zheng;Erica J. Zheng;Jason H. Yang;Jason H. Yang

  • Effects of Escherichia coli physiology on growth of phage T7 in vivo and in silico

    Lingchong You;Patrick F. Suthers;John Yin

  • A noisy linear map underlies oscillations in cell size and gene expression in bacteria

    Yu Tanouchi;Anand Pai;Heungwon Park;Shuqiang Huang

  • Prophage Hunter: an integrative hunting tool for active prophages.

    Wenchen Song;Hai Xi Sun;Carolyn Zhang;Li Cheng

  • Collective antibiotic tolerance: mechanisms, dynamics and intervention

    Hannah R Meredith;Jaydeep K Srimani;Anna J Lee;Allison J Lopatkin

  • Optimality and robustness in quorum sensing (QS)-mediated regulation of a costly public good enzyme

    Anand Pai;Yu Tanouchi;Lingchong You

  • Temporal control of self-organized pattern formation without morphogen gradients in bacteria.

    Stephen Payne;Bochong Li;Yangxiaolu Cao;David Schaeffer

  • Computation, prediction, and experimental tests of fitness for bacteriophage T7 mutants with permuted genomes

    Drew Endy;Lingchong You;John Yin;Ian J. Molineux

  • Robust, linear correlations between growth rates and β-lactam-mediated lysis rates.

    Anna J. Lee;Shangying Wang;Hannah R. Meredith;Bihan Zhuang

  • Image segmentation and dynamic lineage analysis in single-cell fluorescence microscopy

    Quanli Wang;Jarad Niemi;Chee-Meng Tan;Lingchong You

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph R. Nevins
Joseph R. Nevins Duke University
Stefan Zauscher
Stefan Zauscher Duke University
Frances H. Arnold
Frances H. Arnold California Institute of Technology
Mike West
Mike West Duke University
Kam W. Leong
Kam W. Leong Columbia University
Ashutosh Chilkoti
Ashutosh Chilkoti Duke University
Stephen R. Quake
Stephen R. Quake Stanford University
Sayan Mukherjee
Sayan Mukherjee Duke University
Katherine A. Heller
Katherine A. Heller Google (United States)
Vance G. Fowler
Vance G. Fowler Duke University

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