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Steven A. Wasserman publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Steven A. Wasserman sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 68 publications — 1st percentile

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Steven A. Wasserman D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Steven A. Wasserman sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Steven A. Wasserman is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, with significant work also contributing to Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Subfields of study associated with their work include Immunology, Insect Science, Microbiology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's research explores a range of topics centered around invertebrate immune response mechanisms and insect symbiosis and bacterial influences. Additional areas of focus include antimicrobial peptides and activities, neurobiology and insect physiology research, and mosquito-borne diseases and control.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Steven A. Wasserman include:

  • "Cecropins contribute to Drosophila host defense against a subset of fungal and Gram-negative bacterial infection" (2021, Genetics)
  • "The Daisho Peptides Mediate Drosophila Defense Against a Subset of Filamentous Fungi" (2020, Frontiers in Immunology)
  • "Bombardier Enables Delivery of Short-Form Bomanins in the Drosophila Toll Response" (2020, Frontiers in Immunology)
  • "The Drosophila Baramicin polypeptide gene protects against fungal infection" (2021, PLoS Pathogens)
  • "Effector specificity and function in Drosophila innate immunity: Getting AMPed and dropping Boms" (2020, PLoS Pathogens)

Frequent publication venues for Steven A. Wasserman's work include Frontiers in Immunology, PLoS Pathogens, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Genetics, and Revue de biologie médicale.

Collaborations have occurred with several coauthors, including Lianne B. Cohen, Mark A. Hanson, Bruno Lemaître, Scott A. Lindsay, and Samuel J. H. Lin.

Best Publications

  • Control of Male Sexual Behavior and Sexual Orientation in Drosophila by the fruitless Gene

    Lisa C Ryner;Stephen F Goodwin;Diego H Castrillon;Anuranjan Anand

  • diaphanous is required for cytokinesis in Drosophila and shares domains of similarity with the products of the limb deformity gene

    Diego H. Castrillon;Steven A. Wasserman

  • Biochemical topology: applications to DNA recombination and replication.

    Steven A. Wasserman;Nicholas R. Cozzarelli

  • Meiotic cell cycle requirement for a fly homologue of human deleted in Azoospermia

    Charles G. Eberhart;Jean Z. Maines;Steven A. Wasserman

  • Toward a Molecular Genetic Analysis of Spermatogenesis in Drosophila Melanogaster: Characterization of Male-Sterile Mutants Generated by Single P Element Mutagenesis

    D. H. Castrillon;P. Gönczy;S. Alexander;R. Rawson

  • Impaired Cytokine Signaling in Mice Lacking the IL-1 Receptor-Associated Kinase

    James A. Thomas;Jerry L. Allen;May Tsen;Todd Dubnicoff

  • Ordering gene function: the interpretation of epistasis in regulatory hierarchies

    Leon Avery;Steven Wasserman

  • Discovery of a predicted DNA knot substantiates a model for site-specific recombination

    Steven A. Wasserman;Jan M. Dungan;Nicholas R. Cozzarelli

  • A Xenopus DAZ-like gene encodes an RNA component of germ plasm and is a functional homologue of Drosophila boule

    Douglas W. Houston;Jian Zhang;Jean Z. Maines;Steven A. Wasserman

  • pelle encodes a protein kinase required to establish dorsoventral polarity in the Drosophila embryo

    Christopher A. Shelton;Steven A. Wasserman

  • FH proteins as cytoskeletal organizers.

    Steven Wasserman

  • Targeting of TAK1 by the NF-κB protein Relish regulates the JNK-mediated immune response in Drosophila

    Jin Mo Park;Helen Brady;Maria Grazia Ruocco;Huaiyu Sun

  • Functional analysis of the Drosophila diaphanous FH protein in early embryonic development.

    Katayoun Afshar;Bridget Stuart;Steven A. Wasserman

  • Post-transcriptional regulation of the meiotic Cdc25 protein Twine by the Dazl orthologue Boule.

    Jean Z. Maines;Steven A. Wasserman

  • Three-Dimensional Structure of a Complex between the Death Domains of Pelle and Tube

    Tsan Xiao;Par Towb;Steven A. Wasserman;Stephen R. Sprang

  • Starvation promotes concerted modulation of appetitive olfactory behavior via parallel neuromodulatory circuits

    Kang I Ko;Cory M Root;Scott A Lindsay;Orel A Zaninovich

  • A heterotrimeric death domain complex in Toll signaling

    Huaiyu Sun;Benjamin N. Bristow;Guowei Qu;Steven A. Wasserman

  • Conventional and non-conventional Drosophila Toll signaling.

    Scott A. Lindsay;Steven A. Wasserman

  • A gradient of cactus protein degradation establishes dorsoventral polarity in the Drosophila embryo.

    Michael Reach;Rene L. Galindo;Par Towb;Jerry L. Allen

  • Mutation of TweedleD, a member of an unconventional cuticle protein family, alters body shape in Drosophila.

    Xiao Guan;Brooke W. Middlebrooks;Sherry Alexander;Steven A. Wasserman

Frequent Co-Authors

Diego H. Castrillon
Diego H. Castrillon The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Charles G. Eberhart
Charles G. Eberhart Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Nicholas R. Cozzarelli
Nicholas R. Cozzarelli University of California, Berkeley
Maurizio Gatti
Maurizio Gatti Sapienza University of Rome
Michael Karin
Michael Karin University of California, San Diego
Pierre Gönczy
Pierre Gönczy École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Bruce S. Baker
Bruce S. Baker Stanford University
Michael E. Wechsler
Michael E. Wechsler National Jewish Health
Adam Godzik
Adam Godzik University of California, Riverside
Jeffrey C. Hall
Jeffrey C. Hall Brandeis University

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