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Saeed Tavazoie 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 Saeed Tavazoie sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 78 publications — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Saeed Tavazoie 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 Saeed Tavazoie 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

Saeed Tavazoie is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and primarily conducts research in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their scholarly contributions focus on several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Aging, Food Science, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, with notable emphasis on:

  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms

Recent publications by Saeed Tavazoie include:

  • "Molecular topography of an entire nervous system," 2021, Cell
  • "Prokaryotic single-cell RNA sequencing by in situ combinatorial indexing," 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • "OxPhos defects cause hypermetabolism and reduce lifespan in cells and in patients with mitochondrial diseases," 2023, Communications Biology
  • "Comprehensive Genome-wide Perturbations via CRISPR Adaptation Reveal Complex Genetics of Antibiotic Sensitivity," 2020, Cell
  • "An inducible CRISPR interference library for genetic interrogation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae biology," 2020, Communications Biology

Saeed Tavazoie frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Panos Oikonomou, Wenyan Jiang, Balaji Santhanam, Sydney B. Blattman, and Sohail F. Tavazoie.

Key venues where Saeed Tavazoie's research has been published encompass:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell
  • Communications Biology
  • PLoS Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Systematic determination of genetic network architecture

    Saeed Tavazoie;Jason D. Hughes;Michael J. Campbell;Raymond J. Cho

  • Computational identification of Cis -regulatory elements associated with groups of functionally related genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Jason D Hughes;Preston W Estep;Saeed Tavazoie;George M Church

  • HNRNPA2B1 Is a Mediator of m6A-Dependent Nuclear RNA Processing Events

    Claudio R. Alarcón;Hani Goodarzi;Hyeseung Lee;Xuhang Liu

  • Mapping Global Histone Acetylation Patterns to Gene Expression

    Siavash K Kurdistani;Saeed Tavazoie;Michael Grunstein

  • Predicting Gene Expression from Sequence

    Michael A. Beer;Saeed Tavazoie

  • Molecular topography of an entire nervous system.

    Seth R. Taylor;Gabriel Santpere;Gabriel Santpere;Alexis Weinreb;Alec Barrett

  • A Neurodegeneration-Specific Gene-Expression Signature of Acutely Isolated Microglia from an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Mouse Model

    Isaac M. Chiu;Emiko T.A. Morimoto;Hani Goodarzi;Jennifer T. Liao

  • A Universal Framework for Regulatory Element Discovery across All Genomes and Data Types

    Olivier Elemento;Noam Slonim;Saeed Tavazoie

  • Genome-wide binding map of the histone deacetylase Rpd3 in yeast.

    Siavash K. Kurdistani;Daniel Robyr;Saeed Tavazoie;Michael Grunstein

  • Unmasking Activation of the Zygotic Genome Using Chromosomal Deletions in the Drosophila Embryo

    Stefano De Renzis;Olivier Elemento;Saeed Tavazoie;Eric Francis Wieschaus

  • A Comprehensive Genetic Characterization of Bacterial Motility

    Hany S Girgis;Yirchung Liu;William S Ryu;Saeed Tavazoie

  • Bacterial Adaptation through Loss of Function

    Alison K. Hottes;Peter L. Freddolino;Anupama Khare;Zachary N. Donnell

  • Revealing global regulatory perturbations across human cancers.

    Hani Goodarzi;Olivier Elemento;Saeed Tavazoie

  • Genetic Architecture of Intrinsic Antibiotic Susceptibility

    Hany S. Girgis;Alison K. Hottes;Saeed Tavazoie

  • Ras and Gpa2 Mediate One Branch of a Redundant Glucose Signaling Pathway in Yeast

    Ying Wang;Michael Pierce;Lisa Schneper;C. Gökçe Güldal

  • Selection analyses of insertional mutants using subgenic-resolution arrays

    Vasudeo Badarinarayana;Preston W. Estep;Jay Shendure;Jeremy Edwards

  • Systematic discovery of structural elements governing stability of mammalian messenger RNAs

    Hani Goodarzi;Hamed S. Najafabadi;Hamed S. Najafabadi;Panos Oikonomou;Panos Oikonomou;Todd M. Greco

  • Regulatory and metabolic rewiring during laboratory evolution of ethanol tolerance in E. coli

    Hani Goodarzi;Bryson D Bennett;Sasan Amini;Marshall L Reaves

  • Fast and systematic genome-wide discovery of conserved regulatory elements using a non-alignment based approach.

    Olivier Elemento;Saeed Tavazoie

  • Protein occupancy landscape of a bacterial genome.

    Tiffany Vora;Alison K. Hottes;Saeed Tavazoie

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Elemento
Olivier Elemento Cornell University
Oliver Hobert
Oliver Hobert Columbia University
Eric Wieschaus
Eric Wieschaus Princeton University
George M. Church
George M. Church Harvard University
David M. Miller
David M. Miller Vanderbilt University
Nenad Sestan
Nenad Sestan Yale University
Michael Grunstein
Michael Grunstein University of California, Los Angeles
James R. Broach
James R. Broach Pennsylvania State University
Leonid Kruglyak
Leonid Kruglyak University of California, Los Angeles
Tobias C. Walther
Tobias C. Walther Harvard University

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