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Sherwood R. Casjens

Sherwood R. Casjens

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
81
Citations
23215
World Ranking
1099
National Ranking
500

Genetics

D-Index
81
Citations
22598
World Ranking
1530
National Ranking
714

Overview

Sherwood R. Casjens is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research focuses on bacteriophages, microbial interactions, and genomics, contributing extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, environmental science, immunology, and microbiology.

The scientist has contributed notably to studies in molecular biology, ecology, infectious diseases, parasitology, and insect science. Their work spans various topics including bacteriophages and microbial interactions, genomics and phylogenetic studies, vector-borne infectious diseases, microbial infections and disease research, viral infections and vectors, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, as well as viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.

Frequent publication venues for Casjens' work include Microbiology Resource Announcements, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), mBio, Current Issues in Molecular Biology, and BMC Genomics.

  • Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • mBio
  • Current Issues in Molecular Biology
  • BMC Genomics

Co-authorship appears frequently with several researchers, demonstrating collaboration in their scientific community.

  • Eddie B. Gilcrease
  • Julianne H. Grose
  • Gabriele Margos
  • Justin C. Leavitt
  • Ruchira Sharma

Their recent papers include studies that analyze bacteriophage genomes, molecular machinery, and bacteria-phage interactions.

  • Multipartite Genome of Lyme Disease Borrelia: Structure, Variation and Prophages, 2020, Current Issues in Molecular Biology
  • A high fidelity approach to assembling the complex Borrelia genome, 2023, BMC Genomics
  • Molecular Architecture of Salmonella Typhimurium Virus P22 Genome Ejection Machinery, 2023, Journal of Molecular Biology
  • Genomic analysis of Anderson typing phages of Salmonella Typhimurium: towards understanding the basis of bacteria-phage interaction, 2023, Scientific Reports
  • Bacteriophage P22 SieA-mediated superinfection exclusion, 2024, mBio

Best Publications

  • Genomic sequence of a Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi

    Claire M. Fraser;Sherwood Casjens;Wai Mun Huang;Granger G. Sutton

  • Prophages and bacterial genomics: what have we learned so far?

    Sherwood Casjens

  • A bacterial genome in flux: the twelve linear and nine circular extrachromosomal DNAs in an infectious isolate of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi.

    Sherwood Casjens;Nanette Palmer;René Van Vugt;Wai Mun Huang

  • DNA packaging by the double-stranded DNA bacteriophages

    William C. Earnshaw;Sherwood R. Casjens

  • Expansion of bacteriophages is linked to aggravated intestinal inflammation and colitis

    Lasha Gogokhia;Lasha Gogokhia;Kate Buhrke;Rickesha Bell;Brenden Hoffman

  • Host participation in bacteriophage lambda head assembly.

    C.P. Georgopoulos;Roger W. Hendrix;Sherwood R. Casjens;A.D. Kaiser

  • The origins and ongoing evolution of viruses

    Roger W. Hendrix;Jeffrey G. Lawrence;Graham F. Hatfull;Sherwood Casjens

  • MLST of housekeeping genes captures geographic population structure and suggests a European origin of Borrelia burgdorferi

    Gabriele Margos;Anne G. Gatewood;David M. Aanensen;Klára Hanincová

  • Bacteriophage lambda: Early pioneer and still relevant.

    Sherwood R. Casjens;Roger W. Hendrix

  • Determining DNA packaging strategy by analysis of the termini of the chromosomes in tailed-bacteriophage virions.

    Sherwood R. Casjens;Eddie B. Gilcrease

  • The Structure of an Infectious P22 Virion Shows the Signal for Headful DNA Packaging

    Gabriel C. Lander;Liang Tang;Sherwood R. Casjens;Eddie B. Gilcrease

  • Profiling of Temperature-Induced Changes in Borrelia burgdorferi Gene Expression by Using Whole Genome Arrays

    Caroline Ojaimi;Chad Brooks;Sherwood Casjens;Patricia Rosa

  • Control Mechanisms in dsDNA Bacteriophage Assembly

    Sherwood Casjens;Roger Hendrix

  • The DNA-packaging nanomotor of tailed bacteriophages.

    Sherwood R. Casjens

  • Where are the pseudogenes in bacterial genomes

    Jeffrey G Lawrence;Roger W Hendrix;Sherwood Casjens

  • Understanding the enormous diversity of bacteriophages: the tailed phages that infect the bacterial family Enterobacteriaceae.

    Julianne H. Grose;Sherwood R. Casjens

  • Assembly of the head of bacteriophage P22: x-ray diffraction from heads, proheads and related structures.

    William Earnshaw;Sherwood Casjens;Stephen C. Harrison

  • Comparative genomics and evolution of the tailed-bacteriophages

    Sherwood R Casjens

  • The Generalized Transducing Salmonella Bacteriophage ES18: Complete Genome Sequence and DNA Packaging Strategy

    Sherwood R. Casjens;Sherwood R. Casjens;Eddie B. Gilcrease;Danella A. Winn-Stapley;Petra Schicklmaier

  • Bacteriophage Mu genome sequence: analysis and comparison with Mu-like prophages in Haemophilus, Neisseria and Deinococcus.

    Gregory J Morgan;Graham F Hatfull;Sherwood Casjens;Roger W Hendrix

  • Prophages and bacterial genomics: what have we learned so far?: what have we learned so far?

    Sherwood Casjens

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger W. Hendrix
Roger W. Hendrix University of Pittsburgh
Emmanuel F. Mongodin
Emmanuel F. Mongodin University of Maryland, Baltimore
Benjamin J. Luft
Benjamin J. Luft Stony Brook University
Claire M. Fraser
Claire M. Fraser University of Maryland, Baltimore
Graham F. Hatfull
Graham F. Hatfull University of Pittsburgh
John E. Johnson
John E. Johnson Scripps Research Institute
Peter E. Prevelige
Peter E. Prevelige University of Alabama at Birmingham
Brian Stevenson
Brian Stevenson University of Kentucky
Timothy S. Baker
Timothy S. Baker University of California, San Diego

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