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Michael Ibba 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 Michael Ibba sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 213 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael Ibba 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 Michael Ibba sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Michael Ibba is affiliated with Chapman University in the United States. Their research contributions primarily fall within the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focused engagement in Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Ecology among other subfields.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

Michael Ibba has co-authored publications with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Peter Brzezinski
  • M Bubb
  • L Huber
  • Diane C. Bassham
  • Mark J. Kiel

Scientific articles by Michael Ibba have been published in a range of venues, with multiple contributions appearing in:

  • FEBS Letters
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Genetics
  • Nucleic Acids Research

Key recent publications include:

  • "Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases," published in 2020 in RNA
  • "Translational regulation of environmental adaptation in bacteria," published in 2020 in the Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • "What is microbial dormancy?," published in 2023 in Trends in Microbiology
  • "The mechanism of β-N-methylamino-l-alanine inhibition of tRNA aminoacylation and its impact on misincorporation," published in 2020 in the Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • "At the Crossroad of Nucleotide Dynamics and Protein Synthesis in Bacteria," published in 2023 in Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Michael Ibba was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Aminoacyl-tRNA synthesis.

    Michael Ibba;Dieter Söll

  • Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases, the Genetic Code, and the Evolutionary Process

    Carl R. Woese;Gary J. Olsen;Michael Ibba;Dieter Söll

  • Aminoacyl-tRNA synthesis and translational quality control.

    Jiqiang Ling;Noah Reynolds;Michael Ibba

  • tRNAs as regulators of biological processes

    Medha Raina;Michael Ibba

  • Quality Control Mechanisms During Translation

    Michael Ibba;Dieter Soll

  • RNA-dependent cysteine biosynthesis in archaea.

    Anselm Sauerwald;Wenhong Zhu;Tiffany A. Major;Hervé Roy

  • A Euryarchaeal Lysyl-tRNA Synthetase: Resemblance to Class I Synthetases

    Michael Ibba;Susan Morgan;Alan W. Curnow;David R. Pridmore

  • Substrate specificity is determined by amino acid binding pocket size in Escherichia coli phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase.

    Michael Ibba;Peter Kast;Hauke Hennecke

  • Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases.

    Miguel Angel Rubio Gomez;Michael Ibba

  • Trans-editing of mischarged tRNAs.

    Ivan Ahel;Dragana Korencic;Michael Ibba;Dieter Söll

  • Aminoacyl-tRNAs: setting the limits of the genetic code

    Michael Ibba;Dieter Söll

  • Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Complexes: Molecular Multitasking Revealed

    Corinne D. Hausmann;Michael Ibba

  • tRNA-dependent asparagine formation

    Alan W. Curnow;Michael Ibba;Dieter Söll

  • How the Sequence of a Gene Can Tune Its Translation

    Kurt Fredrick;Michael Ibba

  • Relaxing the substrate specificity of an aminoacyl‐tRNA synthetase allows in vitro and in vivo synthesis of proteins containing unnatural amino acids

    Michael Ibba;Hauke Hennecke

  • Mitochondrial phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase mutations underlie fatal infantile Alpers encephalopathy

    Jenni M. Elo;Srujana S. Yadavalli;Liliya Euro;Pirjo Isohanni

  • PoxA, YjeK, and Elongation Factor P Coordinately Modulate Virulence and Drug Resistance in Salmonella enterica

    William Wiley Navarre;S. Betty Zou;Hervé Roy;Jinglin Lucy Xie

  • Post‐transfer editing in vitro and in vivo by the β subunit of phenylalanyl‐tRNA synthetase

    Hervé Roy;Jiqiang Ling;Michael Irnov;Michael Ibba

  • Aspartyl-tRNA synthetase is the target of peptide nucleotide antibiotic Microcin C.

    Anastasia Metlitskaya;Teymur Kazakov;Aigar Kommer;Olga Pavlova

  • RNA-Dependent Cysteine Biosynthesis in Archaea

    Jing Yuan;Anselm Sauerwald;Wenhong Zhu;Tiffany Major

Frequent Co-Authors

Dieter Söll
Dieter Söll Yale University
Kym F. Faull
Kym F. Faull University of California, Los Angeles
Peter E. Nielsen
Peter E. Nielsen University of Copenhagen
Ivan Ahel
Ivan Ahel University of Oxford
Osamu Nureki
Osamu Nureki University of Tokyo
Carl R. Woese
Carl R. Woese University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hauke Hennecke
Hauke Hennecke ETH Zurich
Ute C. Vothknecht
Ute C. Vothknecht University of Bonn
Melita A. Gordon
Melita A. Gordon University of Liverpool
Tina M. Henkin
Tina M. Henkin The Ohio State University

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