2026 Lois L. Hoyer: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	43	19351	17731	7901	7041	76	11843

Overview

Lois L. Hoyer is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on subfields such as Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Oncology, and Cell Biology.

Their scientific contributions cover a range of topics including:

Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
Fungal infections and studies
Peptidase inhibition and analysis
Genomics and phylogenetic studies
Nail diseases and treatments
Plant pathogens and fungal diseases
Microbial community ecology and physiology

Lois L. Hoyer has a notable record of publications appearing frequently in these venues:

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology (6 publications)
Microbiology Resource Announcements (4 publications)
Fungal Diversity
Nature Communications
Frontiers in Microbiology

Some of their recent papers include:

"Resolving the taxonomy of emerging zoonotic pathogens in the Trichophyton benhamiae complex" (2020), published in Fungal Diversity
"Candida albicans evades NK cell elimination via binding of Agglutinin-Like Sequence proteins to the checkpoint receptor TIGIT" (2022), published in Nature Communications
"Pursuing Advances in DNA Sequencing Technology to Solve a Complex Genomic Jigsaw Puzzle: The Agglutinin-Like Sequence (ALS) Genes of Candida tropicalis" (2021), published in Frontiers in Microbiology
"Using Genomics to Shape the Definition of the Agglutinin-Like Sequence (ALS) Family in the Saccharomycetales" (2021), published in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
"Peering Into Candida albicans Pir Protein Function and Comparative Genomics of the Pir Family" (2022), published in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Frequent collaborators with whom they have coauthored multiple papers include Soon-Hwan Oh, Elizabeth K. Hogan, Álvaro González Hernández, Brian A. Freeman, and Vít Hubka.

Best Publications

Biofilm formation by the fungal pathogen Candida albicans: development, architecture, and drug resistance.

Jyotsna Chandra;Duncan M. Kuhn;Pranab K. Mukherjee;Lois L. Hoyer

2210
Citations
Evolution of pathogenicity and sexual reproduction in eight Candida genomes.

Geraldine Butler;Matthew D. Rasmussen;Michael F. Lin;Michael F. Lin;Manuel A. S. Santos

1227
Citations
Antifungal Resistance of Candidal Biofilms Formed on Denture Acrylic in vitro

J. Chandra;Pranab Kumar Mukherjee;S. D. Leidich;F. F. Faddoul

767
Citations
The ALS gene family of Candida albicans

Lois L Hoyer

736
Citations
Discovering the Secrets of the Candida albicans Agglutinin-Like Sequence (ALS) Gene Family—a Sticky Pursuit

Lois L. Hoyer;Clayton B. Green;Soon Hwan Oh;Xiaomin Zhao

465
Citations
The cell wall architecture of Candida albicans wild-type cells and cell wall-defective mutants

J. C. Kapteyn;L. L. Hoyer;J. E. Hecht;W. H. Müller

424
Citations
A Human-Curated Annotation of the Candida albicans Genome

Burkhard R Braun;Marco van het Hoog;Christophe d'Enfert;Mikhail Martchenko

415
Citations
ALS3 and ALS8 represent a single locus that encodes a Candida albicans adhesin; functional comparisons between Als3p and Als1p

Xiaomin Zhao;Soon Hwan Oh;Georgina Cheng;Clayton B. Green

320
Citations
Candida albicans ALS3 and insights into the nature of the ALS gene family

Lois L. Hoyer;Tracie L. Payne;Maren Bell;Alan M. Myers

320
Citations
Staphylococcus aureus adherence to Candida albicans hyphae is mediated by the hyphal adhesin Als3p

Brian M. Peters;Ekaterina S. Ovchinnikova;Bastiaan P. Krom;Bastiaan P. Krom;Lisa Marie Schlecht

265
Citations
The sialidase superfamily and its spread by horizontal gene transfer

Peter Roggentin;Roland Schauer;Lois L. Hoyer;Eric R. Vimr

247
Citations
Candida albicans ALS1: domains related to a Saccharomyces cerevisiae sexual agglutinin separated by a repeating motif

L. L. Hoyer;S. Scherer;A. R. Shatzman;G. P. Livi

208
Citations
Candida albicans Als3p is required for wild-type biofilm formation on silicone elastomer surfaces.

Xiaomin Zhao;Karla J. Daniels;Soon Hwan Oh;Clayton B. Green

207
Citations
RT-PCR detection of Candida albicans ALS gene expression in the reconstituted human epithelium (RHE) model of oral candidiasis and in model biofilms.

Clayton B. Green;Georgina Cheng;Jyotsna Chandra;Pranab Mukherjee

196
Citations
Analysis of the Candida albicans Als2p and Als4p adhesins suggests the potential for compensatory function within the Als family.

X. Zhao;S. H. Oh;K. M. Yeater;Lois L. Hoyer

192
Citations
Heterogeneity of Vaginal Microbial Communities within Individuals

Tae Kyung Kim;Susan M. Thomas;Mengfei Ho;Shobha Sharma

181
Citations
Evaluation of the Role of Candida albicans Agglutinin-Like Sequence (Als) Proteins in Human Oral Epithelial Cell Interactions

Celia Murciano;David L Moyes;Manohursingh Runglall;Priscila L. Tobouti

178
Citations
Temporal analysis of Candida albicans gene expression during biofilm development.

Kathleen M. Yeater;Jyotsna Chandra;Georgina Cheng;Pranab Kumar Mukherjee

176
Citations
Candida albicans agglutinin-like sequence (Als) family vignettes: A review of als protein structure and function

Lois L. Hoyer;Ernesto Cota

176
Citations
Functional specificity of Candida albicans Als3p proteins and clade specificity of ALS3 alleles discriminated by the number of copies of the tandem repeat sequence in the central domain

Soon Hwan Oh;Georgina Cheng;Jennifer A. Nuessen;Robert Jajko

157
Citations