2026 Saeed Tavazoie: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	45	2832	2572	1356	1217	78	16178

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

3289
Citations
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

1365
Citations
HNRNPA2B1 Is a Mediator of m6A-Dependent Nuclear RNA Processing Events

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

1312
Citations
Mapping Global Histone Acetylation Patterns to Gene Expression

Siavash K Kurdistani;Saeed Tavazoie;Michael Grunstein

799
Citations
Predicting Gene Expression from Sequence

Michael A. Beer;Saeed Tavazoie

781
Citations
Molecular topography of an entire nervous system.

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

736
Citations
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

727
Citations
A Universal Framework for Regulatory Element Discovery across All Genomes and Data Types

Olivier Elemento;Noam Slonim;Saeed Tavazoie

402
Citations
Genome-wide binding map of the histone deacetylase Rpd3 in yeast.

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

363
Citations
Unmasking Activation of the Zygotic Genome Using Chromosomal Deletions in the Drosophila Embryo

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

314
Citations
A Comprehensive Genetic Characterization of Bacterial Motility

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

286
Citations
Bacterial Adaptation through Loss of Function

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

280
Citations
Revealing global regulatory perturbations across human cancers.

Hani Goodarzi;Olivier Elemento;Saeed Tavazoie

233
Citations
Genetic Architecture of Intrinsic Antibiotic Susceptibility

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

218
Citations
Ras and Gpa2 Mediate One Branch of a Redundant Glucose Signaling Pathway in Yeast

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

213
Citations
Selection analyses of insertional mutants using subgenic-resolution arrays

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

208
Citations
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

203
Citations
Regulatory and metabolic rewiring during laboratory evolution of ethanol tolerance in E. coli

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

191
Citations
Fast and systematic genome-wide discovery of conserved regulatory elements using a non-alignment based approach.

Olivier Elemento;Saeed Tavazoie

186
Citations
Protein occupancy landscape of a bacterial genome.

Tiffany Vora;Alison K. Hottes;Saeed Tavazoie

167
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Elemento Cornell University

Oliver Hobert Columbia University

Eric Wieschaus Princeton University

George M. Church Harvard University

David M. Miller Vanderbilt University

Nenad Sestan Yale University

Michael Grunstein University of California, Los Angeles

James R. Broach Pennsylvania State University

Leonid Kruglyak University of California, Los Angeles

Tobias C. Walther Harvard University

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