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Romain Koszul 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 Romain Koszul sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 121 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Romain Koszul 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 Romain Koszul sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Romain Koszul is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France and has developed a research profile focused on the molecular mechanisms underlying chromosome organization and genome dynamics. Their work spans various biological fields and topics, with a significant body of publications documenting advances in genetics, molecular biology, and chromatin dynamics.

Their research contributions are embedded primarily in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 163 publications, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, represented by 49 publications. Further specialization is evident in subfields such as Molecular Biology (131 publications), Plant Science (33), Genetics (23), Ecology (16), and Insect Science (8).

Major research themes include:

  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Bacteriophages and Microbial Interactions
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms

Recent publications from Romain Koszul illustrate the scope and impact of their work. These include:

  • Computer vision for pattern detection in chromosome contact maps, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Regulation of Cohesin-Mediated Chromosome Folding by Eco1 and Other Partners, 2020, Molecular Cell
  • Cohesin regulates homology search during recombinational DNA repair, 2021, Nature Cell Biology
  • MetaHiC phage-bacteria infection network reveals active cycling phages of the healthy human gut, 2021, eLife
  • Chromosome organization by a conserved condensin-ParB system in the actinobacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum, 2020, Nature Communications

The venues in which these and other works have been published reflect a pattern of publication in prominent journals and repositories, including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 37 publications, Nature Communications with 6, Cell Genomics with 4, Molecular Cell with 3, and eLife with 3 papers.

Romain Koszul collaborates frequently with a core group of coauthors who have contributed significantly to their research output. These frequent collaborators include Martial Marbouty, Agnès Thierry, Lyam Baudry, Nadège Guiglielmoni, and Jacques Serizay, each contributing to multiple coauthored publications.

Best Publications

  • Genome evolution in yeasts

    Bernard Dujon;David Sherman;Gilles Fischer;Pascal Durrens

  • Total Synthesis of a Functional Designer Eukaryotic Chromosome

    Narayana Annaluru;Héloïse Muller;Leslie A. Mitchell;Sivaprakash Ramalingam

  • Genomic evidence for ameiotic evolution in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga

    Jean François Flot;Boris Hespeels;Xiang Li;Benjamin Noel

  • Multiscale Structuring of the E. coli Chromosome by Nucleoid-Associated and Condensin Proteins

    Virginia S. Lioy;Axel Cournac;Martial Marbouty;Martial Marbouty;Stéphane Duigou

  • Condensin- and Replication-Mediated Bacterial Chromosome Folding and Origin Condensation Revealed by Hi-C and Super-resolution Imaging.

    Martial Marbouty;Martial Marbouty;Antoine Le Gall;Diego I. Cattoni;Axel Cournac;Axel Cournac

  • Eucaryotic genome evolution through the spontaneous duplication of large chromosomal segments.

    Romain Koszul;Sandrine Caburet;Bernard Dujon;Gilles Fischer

  • Normalization of a chromosomal contact map

    Axel Cournac;Hervé Marie-Nelly;Hervé Marie-Nelly;Hervé Marie-Nelly;Martial Marbouty;Martial Marbouty;Romain Koszul;Romain Koszul

  • Meiotic Chromosomes Move by Linkage to Dynamic Actin Cables with Transduction of Force through the Nuclear Envelope

    R. Koszul;K.P. Kim;M. Prentiss;N. Kleckner

  • Deep functional analysis of synII, a 770-kilobase synthetic yeast chromosome

    Yue Shen;Yun Wang;Tai Chen;Feng Gao

  • Segmental Duplications Arise from Pol32-Dependent Repair of Broken Forks through Two Alternative Replication-Based Mechanisms

    Celia Payen;Romain Koszul;Bernard Dujon;Gilles Fischer

  • A predictive computational model of the dynamic 3D interphase yeast nucleus.

    Hua Wong;Hervé Marie-Nelly;Sébastien Herbert;Pascal Carrivain

  • High-quality genome (re)assembly using chromosomal contact data

    Hervé H Marie-Nelly;Martial M Marbouty;Axel A Cournac;Axel A Cournac;Jean-François Flot

  • Metagenomic chromosome conformation capture (meta3C) unveils the diversity of chromosome organization in microorganisms

    Martial M Marbouty;Axel A Cournac;Axel A Cournac;Jean-François Flot;Hervé H Marie-Nelly;Hervé H Marie-Nelly

  • Dynamic chromosome movements during meiosis: a way to eliminate unwanted connections?

    Romain Koszul;Nancy Kleckner

  • Cohesins and condensins orchestrate the 4D dynamics of yeast chromosomes during the cell cycle.

    Luciana Lazar‐Stefanita;Vittore F Scolari;Vittore F Scolari;Guillaume Mercy;Héloise Muller;Héloise Muller

  • 3D organization of synthetic and scrambled chromosomes

    Guillaume Mercy;Guillaume Mercy;Guillaume Mercy;Julien Mozziconacci;Vittore F. Scolari;Vittore F. Scolari;Kun Yang

  • A checkpoint control orchestrates the replication of the two chromosomes of Vibrio cholerae

    Marie-Eve Val;Marie-Eve Val;Martial Marbouty;Martial Marbouty;Francisco De Lemos Martins;Francisco De Lemos Martins;Sean Patrick Kennedy

  • Csm4, in Collaboration with Ndj1, Mediates Telomere- Led Chromosome Dynamics and Recombination during Yeast Meiosis

    Jennifer J. Wanat;Keun P. Kim;Romain Koszul;Sarah Zanders

  • Scaffolding bacterial genomes and probing host-virus interactions in gut microbiome by proximity ligation (chromosome capture) assay.

    Martial Marbouty;Martial Marbouty;Lyam Baudry;Lyam Baudry;Axel Cournac;Axel Cournac;Romain Koszul;Romain Koszul

  • Genome Evolution in Yeasts

    Bernard Dujon

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Dujon
Bernard Dujon Institut Pasteur
Nancy Kleckner
Nancy Kleckner Harvard University
Joel S. Bader
Joel S. Bader Johns Hopkins University
Etienne G. J. Danchin
Etienne G. J. Danchin INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jef D. Boeke
Jef D. Boeke New York University
Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
Jean-Marc Aury
Jean-Marc Aury University of Paris-Saclay
Christiane Bouchier
Christiane Bouchier Institut Pasteur
Jean Weissenbach
Jean Weissenbach Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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