2026 Orion D. Weiner: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	49	17855	16383	7307	6521	124	13979

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Biology and Biochemistry

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Biology and Biochemistry

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13979

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17855

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7307

Overview

Orion D. Weiner is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research falls primarily within the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Immunology, including the subfield of Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
Cell Adhesion Molecules Research
Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms
Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ
Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Cellular transport and secretion

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

"Cell protrusions and contractions generate long-range membrane tension propagation" (2023), published in Cell
"Molecular mechanism of GPCR spatial organization at the plasma membrane" (2023), published in Nature Chemical Biology
"Progressive enhancement of kinetic proofreading in T cell antigen discrimination from receptor activation to DAG generation" (2022), published in eLife
"The WAVE complex associates with sites of saddle membrane curvature" (2021), published in The Journal of Cell Biology
"WASP integrates substrate topology and cell polarity to guide neutrophil migration" (2021), published in The Journal of Cell Biology

Orion D. Weiner collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

Jason P. Town
Kirstin Meyer
Henry De Belly
Hervé Turlier
Shannon Yan

The scientist has published primarily in the following venues:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Biophysical Journal
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
The Journal of Cell Biology
eLife

Best Publications

Spatiotemporal control of cell signalling using a light-switchable protein interaction

Anselm Levskaya;Orion D. Weiner;Orion D. Weiner;Wendell A. Lim;Christopher A. Voigt

1168
Citations
Polarization of Chemoattractant Receptor Signaling During Neutrophil Chemotaxis

Guy Servant;Orion D. Weiner;Paul Herzmark;Tamás Balla

1075
Citations
Membrane tension maintains cell polarity by confining signals to the leading edge during neutrophil migration

Andrew R. Houk;Alexandra Jilkine;Cecile O. Mejean;Rostislav Boltyanskiy

649
Citations
A PtdInsP(3)- and Rho GTPase-mediated positive feedback loop regulates neutrophil polarity.

Orion D. Weiner;Paul O. Neilsen;Glenn D. Prestwich;Marc W. Kirschner

634
Citations
Use the force: membrane tension as an organizer of cell shape and motility.

Alba Diz-Muñoz;Daniel A. Fletcher;Daniel A. Fletcher;Orion D. Weiner

598
Citations
Lipid products of PI(3)Ks maintain persistent cell polarity and directed motility in neutrophils.

Fei Wang;Paul Herzmark;Orion D. Weiner;Supriya Srinivasan

570
Citations
Using Optogenetics to Interrogate the Dynamic Control of Signal Transmission by the Ras/Erk Module

Jared E. Toettcher;Orion D. Weiner;Wendell A. Lim

557
Citations
An actin-based wave generator organizes cell motility

Orion D Weiner;William A Marganski;Lani F Wu;Steven J Altschuler

459
Citations
Illuminating cell signalling with optogenetic tools

Doug Tischer;Orion D. Weiner

404
Citations
An optogenetic gene expression system with rapid activation and deactivation kinetics

Laura B Motta-Mena;Anna Reade;Michael J Mallory;Spencer Glantz

376
Citations
Leukocytes navigate by compass: roles of PI3Kγ and its lipid products

Paula Rickert;Orion D. Weiner;Fei Wang;Henry R. Bourne

362
Citations
Sequence-Dependent Sorting of Recycling Proteins by Actin-Stabilized Endosomal Microdomains

Manojkumar A. Puthenveedu;Benjamin Lauffer;Paul Temkin;Rachel Vistein

356
Citations
Spatial control of actin polymerization during neutrophil chemotaxis.

Orion D. Weiner;Guy Servant;Matthew D. Welch;Matthew D. Welch;Timothy J. Mitchison;Timothy J. Mitchison

325
Citations
Regulation of cell polarity during eukaryotic chemotaxis: the chemotactic compass

Orion D Weiner

324
Citations
Light-based feedback for controlling intracellular signaling dynamics

Jared E Toettcher;Delquin Gong;Wendell A Lim;Orion D Weiner

313
Citations
Dynamics of a chemoattractant receptor in living neutrophils during chemotaxis.

Guy Servant;Orion D. Weiner;Enid R. Neptune;John W. Sedat

294
Citations
The promise of optogenetics in cell biology: interrogating molecular circuits in space and time

Jared E Toettcher;Christopher A Voigt;Orion D Weiner;Wendell A Lim

281
Citations
Live-cell imaging reveals enhancer-dependent Sox2 transcription in the absence of enhancer proximity.

Jeffrey M Alexander;Juan Guan;Bingkun Li;Lenka Maliskova

278
Citations
Enteropathogenic E. coli acts through WASP and Arp2/3 complex to form actin pedestals.

Daniel Kalman;Orion D. Weiner;Danika L. Goosney;John W. Sedat

265
Citations
PIP3, PIP2, and Cell Movement—Similar Messages, Different Meanings?

Robert H. Insall;Orion D. Weiner

260
Citations