2026 Michael T. Madigan: 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	53	16072	14753	6663	5953	197	11396

Overview

Michael T. Madigan is affiliated with Southern Illinois University Carbondale in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines with a strong focus on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, complemented by significant work in environmental science.

The scientist's primary fields of study include:

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Environmental Science

Key subfields of their work encompass:

Molecular Biology
Ecology
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Materials Chemistry

The main topics addressed in their research are:

Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research
Protist Diversity and Phylogeny
Polar Research and Ecology
Algal Biology and Biofuel Production

Frequent collaborators in their published work include:

Zheng-Yu Wang-Otomo
Yukihiro Kimura
Long-Jiang Yu
Kazutoshi Tani
Malgorzata Hall

Michael T. Madigan has contributed articles to several publication venues multiple times, with notable frequency in:

Nature Communications
Biochemistry
Communications Biology
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Selected recent papers authored include:

Cryo-EM structure of a Ca2+-bound photosynthetic LH1-RC complex containing multiple αβ-polypeptides, 2020, Nature Communications
Cryo-EM Structure of the Photosynthetic LH1-RC Complex from Rhodospirillum rubrum, 2021, Biochemistry
Advances in the Spectroscopic and Structural Characterization of Core Light-Harvesting Complexes from Purple Phototrophic Bacteria, 2023, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
A previously unrecognized membrane protein in the Rhodobacter sphaeroides LH1-RC photocomplex, 2021, Nature Communications
Asymmetric structure of the native Rhodobacter sphaeroides dimeric LH1-RC complex, 2022, Nature Communications

Best Publications

Anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria

Robert E. Blankenship;Michael T. Madigan;Carl E. Bauer

1564
Citations
The phylogeny of purple bacteria: the alpha subdivision.

C.R. Woese;E. Stackebrandt;W.G. Weisburg;B.J. Paster

503
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A thermophilic green sulfur bacterium from New Zealand hot springs, Chlorobium tepidum sp. nov.

Thomas M. Wahlund;Carl R. Woese;Richard W. Castenholz;Michael T. Madigan

449
Citations
Brock biology of microorganisms

Michael T Madigan;Kelly S Bender;Daniel Hezekiah Buckley;W. Matthew Sattley

389
Citations
Arsenic(III) fuels anoxygenic photosynthesis in hot spring biofilms from Mono Lake, California.

T. R. Kulp;S. E. Hoeft;M. Asao;M. T. Madigan

296
Citations
Photosynthetic and phylogenetic primers for detection of anoxygenic phototrophs in natural environments

Laurie A. Achenbach;Jennifer Carey;Michael T. Madigan

212
Citations
Abiotic nitrous oxide emission from the hypersaline Don Juan Pond in Antarctica

Vladimir A. Samarkin;Michael T. Madigan;Marshall W. Bowles;Karen L. Casciotti

190
Citations
An Overview of Purple Bacteria: Systematics, Physiology, and Habitats

Michael T. Madigan;Deborah O. Jung

178
Citations
Remarkable diversity of phototrophic purple bacteria in a permanently frozen Antarctic lake.

Elizabeth A. Karr;W. Matthew Sattley;Deborah O. Jung;Michael T. Madigan

178
Citations
Nitrogen fixation and nitrogenase activities in members of the family Rhodospirillaceae.

M Madigan;S S Cox;R A Stegeman

177
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THERMOPHILIC AND HALOPHILIC EXTREMOPHILES

Michael T Madigan;Aharon Oren

177
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Syntrophic anaerobic photosynthesis via direct interspecies electron transfer.

Phuc T. Ha;Stephen R. Lindemann;Liang Shi;Alice C. Dohnalkova

172
Citations
A Novel Photosynthetic Purple Bacterium Isolated from a Yellowstone Hot Spring

Michael T. Madigan

170
Citations
Heliobacterium modesticaldum, sp. nov., a thermophilic heliobacterium of hot springs and volcanic soils

Linda K. Kimble;Linda Mandelco;Carl R. Woese;Michael T. Madigan

150
Citations
Rhodoferax antarcticus sp. nov., a moderately psychrophilic purple nonsulfur bacterium isolated from an Antarctic microbial mat

Michael T. Madigan;Deborah O. Jung;Carl R. Woese;Laurie A. Achenbach

138
Citations
Rhodobaca bogoriensis gen. nov. and sp. nov., an alkaliphilic purple nonsulfur bacterium from African Rift Valley soda lakes.

Amy D. Milford;Laurie A. Achenbach;Deborah O. Jung;Michael T. Madigan

131
Citations
Diversity and Distribution of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in Permanently Frozen Lake Fryxell, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Elizabeth A. Karr;W. Matthew Sattley;Melissa R. Rice;Deborah O. Jung

127
Citations
Nutritional studies on Chloroflexus, a filamentous photosynthetic, gliding bacterium

Michael T. Madigan;Sandra R. Petersen;Thomas D. Brock

125
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Chromatium tepidum sp. nov. a Thermophilic Photosynthetic Bacterium of the Family Chromatiaceae

Michael T. Madigan

123
Citations
Biodiversity of methanogenic and other archaea in the permanently frozen Lake Fryxell, Antarctica.

Elizabeth A. Karr;Joshua M. Ng;Sara M. Belchik;W. Matthew Sattley

123
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