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Luke A. Gilbert publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Luke A. Gilbert sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 87 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Luke A. Gilbert D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Luke A. Gilbert sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Overview

Luke A. Gilbert is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research spans broadly within the domains of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant focus also on Medicine. The scientist's work addresses specific subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Oncology.

Luke A. Gilbert's research topics include:

  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • RNA Research and Splicing

Their recent papers illustrate the scope and progression of their research interests:

  • "Genome-wide programmable transcriptional memory by CRISPR-based epigenome editing," 2021, Cell
  • "The DNA methylation landscape of advanced prostate cancer," 2020, Nature Genetics
  • "A new era in functional genomics screens," 2021, Nature Reviews Genetics
  • "Improving prime editing with an endogenous small RNA-binding protein," 2024, Nature
  • "Repurposing CRISPR as an RNA-guided platform for sequence-specific control of gene expression," 2021, Cell

Frequent publication venues for Luke A. Gilbert include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Neuro-Oncology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications

Collaboration is evident through frequent co-authors, who appear repeatedly alongside Gilbert's contributions, and include:

  • Hani Goodarzi
  • Felix Y. Feng
  • David A. Quigley
  • David R. Raleigh
  • Lisa N. Chesner

Best Publications

  • Repurposing CRISPR as an RNA-guided platform for sequence-specific control of gene expression.

    Lei S. Qi;Matthew H. Larson;Luke A. Gilbert;Jennifer A. Doudna

  • CRISPR-Mediated Modular RNA-Guided Regulation of Transcription in Eukaryotes

    Luke A. Gilbert;Matthew H. Larson;Leonardo Morsut;Zairan Liu

  • Genome-Scale CRISPR-Mediated Control of Gene Repression and Activation

    Luke A. Gilbert;Max A. Horlbeck;Britt Adamson;Jacqueline E. Villalta

  • Dynamic Imaging of Genomic Loci in Living Human Cells by an Optimized CRISPR/Cas System

    Baohui Chen;Luke A. Gilbert;Beth A. Cimini;Joerg Schnitzbauer

  • A Protein-Tagging System for Signal Amplification in Gene Expression and Fluorescence Imaging

    Marvin E. Tanenbaum;Luke A. Gilbert;Lei S. Qi;Jonathan S. Weissman

  • CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) for sequence-specific control of gene expression

    Matthew H Larson;Luke A Gilbert;Luke A Gilbert;Xiaowo Wang;Wendell A Lim

  • A Multiplexed Single-Cell CRISPR Screening Platform Enables Systematic Dissection of the Unfolded Protein Response.

    Britt Adamson;Thomas M. Norman;Marco Jost;Min Y. Cho

  • Engineering Complex Synthetic Transcriptional Programs with CRISPR RNA Scaffolds

    Jesse G. Zalatan;Michael E. Lee;Ricardo Almeida;Luke A. Gilbert;Luke A. Gilbert

  • Compact and highly active next-generation libraries for CRISPR-mediated gene repression and activation

    Max A. Horlbeck;Luke A. Gilbert;Jacqueline E. Villalta;Brittany Susan Adamson

  • CRISPRi-based genome-scale identification of functional long noncoding RNA loci in human cells

    S. John Liu;Max A. Horlbeck;Seung Woo Cho;Harjus S. Birk

  • Genomic Hallmarks and Structural Variation in Metastatic Prostate Cancer.

    David A. Quigley;Ha X. Dang;Shuang G. Zhao;Paul Lloyd

  • CRISPR Interference Efficiently Induces Specific and Reversible Gene Silencing in Human iPSCs

    Mohammad A. Mandegar;Nathaniel Huebsch;Ekaterina B. Frolov;Edward Shin

  • DNA damage-mediated induction of a chemoresistant niche.

    Luke A. Gilbert;Michael T. Hemann

  • Genome-wide programmable transcriptional memory by CRISPR-based epigenome editing.

    James K. Nuñez;Jin Chen;Greg C. Pommier;J. Zachery Cogan

  • Versatile protein tagging in cells with split fluorescent protein.

    Daichi Kamiyama;Sayaka Sekine;Benjamin Barsi-Rhyne;Jeffrey Hu

  • Nucleosomes impede Cas9 access to DNA in vivo and in vitro

    Max A Horlbeck;Lea B Witkowsky;Benjamin Guglielmi;Joseph M Replogle

  • Mapping the Genetic Landscape of Human Cells

    Max A. Horlbeck;Albert Xu;Min Wang;Neal K. Bennett

  • The DNA methylation landscape of advanced prostate cancer

    Shuang G. Zhao;Shuang G. Zhao;William S. Chen;William S. Chen;Haolong Li;Adam Foye

  • Combined CRISPRi/a-Based Chemical Genetic Screens Reveal that Rigosertib Is a Microtubule-Destabilizing Agent.

    Marco Jost;Yuwen Chen;Luke A. Gilbert;Max A. Horlbeck

  • A Multiplexed Single-Cell CRISPR Screening Platform Enables Systematic Dissection of the Unfolded Protein Response

    Britt Adamson;Thomas M. Norman;Marco Jost;Min Y. Cho

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Kampmann
Martin Kampmann University of California, San Francisco
Lei S. Qi
Lei S. Qi Stanford University
Housheng Hansen He
Housheng Hansen He University of Toronto
Alan Ashworth
Alan Ashworth University of California, San Francisco
Michael C. Bassik
Michael C. Bassik Stanford University
Bruce R. Conklin
Bruce R. Conklin University of California, San Francisco
Michel O. Steinmetz
Michel O. Steinmetz Paul Scherrer Institute
Wendell A. Lim
Wendell A. Lim University of California, San Francisco

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