2026 Rosalind A. Coleman: 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	85	3178	2925	1603	1442	243	23800

Overview

Rosalind A. Coleman is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to medicine as well.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Medicine

Within these broader fields, the subfields of particular focus are:

Molecular Biology
Biochemistry
Physiology
Clinical Biochemistry
Cancer Research

The topics of work undertaken cover a range of biological and metabolic processes, including:

Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis
Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors
Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
Metabolism and Genetic Disorders
Diet, Metabolism, and Disease

Rosalind A. Coleman has published extensively, with notable papers including:

PLIN5 interacts with FATP4 at membrane contact sites to promote lipid droplet-to-mitochondria fatty acid transport, 2023, Developmental Cell
The "discovery" of lipid droplets: A brief history of organelles hidden in plain sight, 2020, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids
Unique Regulation of Adipose Triglyceride Lipase (ATGL) by Perilipin 5, a Lipid Droplet-associated Protein, 2020, UNC Libraries
Expression and Characterization of Recombinant Rat Acyl-CoA Synthetases 1, 4, and 5: SELECTIVE INHIBITION BY TRIACSIN C AND THIAZOLIDINEDIONES, 2021, UNC Libraries
Triacylglycerol synthesis directed by glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferases −3 and −4 is required for lipid droplet formation and the modulation of the inflammatory response during macrophage to foam cell transition, 2020, Atherosclerosis

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Eric L. Klett
Tal M. Lewin
Lei O. Li
Deborah M. Muoio
Trisha J. Grevengoed

Rosalind A. Coleman has contributed a substantial body of work published in a variety of venues, most notably:

UNC Libraries
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Developmental Cell
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids
Atherosclerosis

Best Publications

Enzymes of triacylglycerol synthesis and their regulation

Rosalind A Coleman;Douglas P Lee

1259
Citations
Enzymes of glycerolipid synthesis in eukaryotes.

Robert M Bell;Rosalind A. Coleman

915
Citations
Triacylglycerol Synthesis Enzymes Mediate Lipid Droplet Growth by Relocalizing from the ER to Lipid Droplets

Florian Wilfling;Huajin Wang;Joel T. Haas;Natalie Krahmer

876
Citations
The role of lipid droplets in metabolic disease in rodents and humans

Andrew S. Greenberg;Rosalind A. Coleman;Fredric B. Kraemer;James L. McManaman

702
Citations
AMP-activated kinase reciprocally regulates triacylglycerol synthesis and fatty acid oxidation in liver and muscle: evidence that sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase is a novel target.

Deborah M. Muoio;Kimberly Seefeld;Lee A. Witters;Rosalind A. Coleman

586
Citations
Physiological and nutritional regulation of enzymes of triacylglycerol synthesis.

Rosalind A. Coleman;Tal M. Lewin;Deborah M. Muoio

432
Citations
Acyl-CoA metabolism and partitioning.

Trisha J. Grevengoed;Eric Leighton Klett;Rosalind A Coleman

389
Citations
Analysis of amino acid motifs diagnostic for the sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase reaction.

Tal M. Lewin;Ping Wang;Rosalind A. Coleman

388
Citations
Acyl-CoA synthetase isoforms 1, 4, and 5 are present in different subcellular membranes in rat liver and can be inhibited independently.

Tal M. Lewin;Ji Hyeon Kim;Deborah A. Granger;Jean E. Vance

369
Citations
Do Long-Chain Acyl-CoA Synthetases Regulate Fatty Acid Entry into Synthetic Versus Degradative Pathways?

Rosalind A. Coleman;Tal M. Lewin;Cynthia G. Van Horn;Maria R. Gonzalez-Baró

367
Citations
Adipose Acyl-CoA Synthetase-1 Directs Fatty Acids toward β-Oxidation and Is Required for Cold Thermogenesis

Jessica M. Ellis;Lei O. Li;Pei Chi Wu;Timothy R. Koves

355
Citations
Prevention of hepatic steatosis and hepatic insulin resistance in mitochondrial acyl-CoA:glycerol-sn-3-phosphate acyltransferase 1 knockout mice.

Susanne Neschen;Katsutaro Morino;Linda E. Hammond;Dongyan Zhang

348
Citations
Glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferases: Rate limiting enzymes of triacylglycerol biosynthesis

Angela A. Wendel;Tal M. Lewin;Rosalind A. Coleman

346
Citations
Hepatic triacylglycerol accumulation and insulin resistance

Cynthia A. Nagle;Eric Leighton Klett;Rosalind A Coleman

331
Citations
Expression and Characterization of Recombinant Rat Acyl-CoA Synthetases 1, 4, and 5 SELECTIVE INHIBITION BY TRIACSIN C AND THIAZOLIDINEDIONES

Ji Hyeon Kim;Tal M. Lewin;Rosalind A. Coleman

315
Citations
Diabetes promotes an inflammatory macrophage phenotype and atherosclerosis through acyl-CoA synthetase 1

Jenny E. Kanter;Farah Kramer;Shelley Barnhart;Michelle M. Averill

315
Citations
Unique Regulation of Adipose Triglyceride Lipase (ATGL) by Perilipin 5, a Lipid Droplet-associated Protein

Hong Wang;Ming Bell;Urmilla Sreenevasan;Hong Hu

307
Citations
Mammalian triacylglycerol metabolism: synthesis, lipolysis, and signaling

Rosalind A. Coleman;Douglas G. Mashek

305
Citations
Acyl-CoA synthesis, lipid metabolism and lipotoxicity.

Lei O. Li;Eric Leighton Klett;Rosalind A Coleman

292
Citations
Glycogen Storage Disease in Adults

Gregg M. Talente;Rosalind A Coleman;Craig Alter;Lester Baker

285
Citations