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Michael Grunstein publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Grunstein sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 129 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Michael Grunstein D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Grunstein sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Gruber Prize in Genetics
  • 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Michael Grunstein is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their academic career is marked by contributions recognized through notable awards and memberships in scientific academies.

The scientist received the Gruber Prize in Genetics in 2016. They were also elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2008. Earlier, in 2001, they were named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The available data does not list recent publications, co-authors, or specific fields and subfields of study. However, the documented professional recognition suggests engagement with genetics and related biological sciences in an academic research context.

Best Publications

  • Colony hybridization: a method for the isolation of cloned DNAs that contain a specific gene.

    Michael Grunstein;David S. Hogness

  • Histone acetylation in chromatin structure and transcription

    Michael Grunstein

  • Functions of site-specific histone acetylation and deacetylation.

    Mona D. Shahbazian;Michael Grunstein

  • Global histone modification patterns predict risk of prostate cancer recurrence

    David B. Seligson;Steve Horvath;Tao Shi;Hong Yu

  • Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Embryonic Stem Cells Are Distinguished by Gene Expression Signatures

    Mark H. Chin;Mike J. Mason;Wei Xie;Stefano Volinia

  • Histone H3 and H4 N-termini interact with SIR3 and SIR4 proteins: A molecular model for the formation of heterochromatin in yeast

    Andreas Hecht;Thierry Laroche;Sabine Strahl-Bolsinger;Susan M Gasser

  • SIR2 and SIR4 interactions differ in core and extended telomeric heterochromatin in yeast.

    Sabine Strahl-Bolsinger;Andreas Hecht;Kunheng Luo;Michael Grunstein

  • Cotranscriptional set2 methylation of histone H3 lysine 36 recruits a repressive Rpd3 complex.

    Michael Christopher Keogh;Siavash K. Kurdistani;Stephanie A. Morris;Seong Hoon Ahn

  • HDA1 and RPD3 are members of distinct yeast histone deacetylase complexes that regulate silencing and transcription

    Stephen E. Rundlett;Andrew A. Carmen;Ryuji Kobayashi;Sergei Bavykin

  • Histone acetylation and deacetylation in yeast

    Siavash K Kurdistani;Michael Grunstein

  • Mapping Global Histone Acetylation Patterns to Gene Expression

    Siavash K Kurdistani;Saeed Tavazoie;Michael Grunstein

  • Spreading of transcriptional repressor SIR3 from telomeric heterochromatin

    Andreas Hecht;Sabine Strahl-Bolsinger;Michael Grunstein

  • Nucleosome loss activates yeast downstream promoters in vivo

    Min Han;Michael Grunstein

  • Highly specific antibodies determine histone acetylation site usage in yeast heterochromatin and euchromatin.

    Noriyuki Suka;Yuko Suka;Andrew A Carmen;Jiansheng Wu

  • Relocalization of telomeric Ku and SIR proteins in response to DNA strand breaks in yeast.

    Sophie G Martin;Thierry Laroche;Noriyuki Suka;Michael Grunstein

  • Transcriptional repression by UME6 involves deacetylation of lysine 5 of histone H4 by RPD3.

    Stephen E. Rundlett;Andrew A. Carmen;Noriyuki Suka;Bryan M. Turner

  • Sir2p and Sas2p opposingly regulate acetylation of yeast histone H4 lysine16 and spreading of heterochromatin

    Noriyuki Suka;Kunheng Luo;Michael Grunstein

  • Global histone acetylation and deacetylation in yeast

    Maria Vogelauer;Jiansheng Wu;Noriyuki Suka;Michael Grunstein

  • Microarray deacetylation maps determine genome-wide functions for yeast histone deacetylases.

    Daniel Robyr;Yuko Suka;Ioannis Xenarios;Siavash K. Kurdistani

  • Extremely conserved histone H4 N terminus is dispensable for growth but essential for repressing the silent mating loci in yeast

    Paul S. Kayne;Ung-Jin Kim;Min Han;Janet R. Mullen

Frequent Co-Authors

Min Han
Min Han University of Colorado Boulder
Susan M. Gasser
Susan M. Gasser Friedrich Miescher Institute
Michael Carey
Michael Carey University of California, Los Angeles
Karl Ekwall
Karl Ekwall Karolinska Institute
Amander T. Clark
Amander T. Clark University of California, Los Angeles
Benjamin A. Garcia
Benjamin A. Garcia Washington University in St. Louis
Kathrin Plath
Kathrin Plath University of California, Los Angeles
Bryan M. Turner
Bryan M. Turner University of Birmingham
Ryuji Kobayashi
Ryuji Kobayashi The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Saeed Tavazoie
Saeed Tavazoie Columbia University

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