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63
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23521
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9985
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Susan Ferro-Novick publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Susan Ferro-Novick sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 118 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Susan Ferro-Novick D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Susan Ferro-Novick sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Susan Ferro-Novick is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine, with a focus on several key subfields including Cell Biology, Epidemiology, Physiology, Biochemistry, and Surgery.

The primary topics of their work cover Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease, Autophagy in Disease and Therapy, Cellular Transport and Secretion, Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research, Lipid Metabolism and Biosynthesis, Pancreatic Function and Diabetes, and Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Susan Ferro-Novick include Shuliang Chen, Smriti Parashar, Peter Novick, Ravi Chidambaram, and Fulvio Reggiori.

They have published multiple papers in reputable scientific venues. Key recent publications are:

  • ER-Phagy, ER Homeostasis, and ER Quality Control: Implications for Disease, 2021, Trends in Biochemical Sciences
  • Vps13 is required for the packaging of the ER into autophagosomes during ER-phagy, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Endoplasmic reticulum tubules limit the size of misfolded protein condensates, 2021, eLife
  • ER-phagy requires the assembly of actin at sites of contact between the cortical ER and endocytic pits, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • VPS13A and VPS13C Influence Lipid Droplet Abundance, 2022, Contact

The most frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Autophagy
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Contact
  • The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Susan Ferro-Novick has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2012.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Vesicle fusion from yeast to man.

    Susan Ferro-Novick;Reinhard Jahn

  • Coats, Tethers, Rabs, and SNAREs Work Together to Mediate the Intracellular Destination of a Transport Vesicle

    Huaqing Cai;Karin Reinisch;Susan Ferro-Novick

  • TRAPP, a highly conserved novel complex on the cis-Golgi that mediates vesicle docking and fusion

    Michael Sacher;Yu Jiang;Jemima Barrowman;Al Scarpa

  • TRAPP I Implicated in the Specificity of Tethering in ER-to-Golgi Transport

    Michael Sacher;Jemima Barrowman;Jemima Barrowman;Wei Wang;Wei Wang;Joe Horecka

  • Trs85 directs a Ypt1 GEF, TRAPPIII, to the phagophore to promote autophagy

    Molly A. Lynch-Day;Deepali Bhandari;Shekar Menon;Ju Huang

  • The GTP-binding protein Ypt1 is required for transport in vitro: the Golgi apparatus is defective in ypt1 mutants.

    Rebecca A. Bacon;Antti Salminen;Hannele Ruohola;Peter Novick

  • TRAPPI tethers COPII vesicles by binding the coat subunit Sec23

    Huaqing Cai;Sidney Yu;Sidney Yu;Shekar Menon;Shekar Menon;Yiying Cai

  • THE ROLE OF GTP-BINDING PROTEINS IN TRANSPORT ALONG THE EXOCYTIC PATHWAY

    Susan Ferro-Novick;Peter Novick

  • Ypt1p implicated in v-SNARE activation

    Jian P. Lian;Shelly Stone;Yu Jiang;Patrick Lyons

  • Myo4p and She3p are required for cortical ER inheritance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Paula Estrada;Jiwon Kim;Jeff Coleman;Lee Walker

  • Protein complexes in transport vesicle targeting

    Wei Guo;Michael Sacher;Jemima Barrowman;Susan Ferro-Novick

  • BiP/Kar2p serves as a molecular chaperone during carboxypeptidase Y folding in yeast.

    Jan Fredrik Simons;Susan Ferro-Novick;Mark D. Rose;Ari Helenius

  • Trapp Stimulates Guanine Nucleotide Exchange on Ypt1p

    Wei Wang;Michael Sacher;Susan Ferro-Novick

  • BET1, BOS1, and SEC22 are members of a group of interacting yeast genes required for transport from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi complex.

    A P Newman;J Shim;S Ferro-Novick

  • Reconstitution of protein transport from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi complex in yeast: the acceptor Golgi compartment is defective in the sec23 mutant.

    Hannele Ruohola;Alisa Kastan Kabcenell;Susan Ferro-Novick

  • TRAPP complexes in membrane traffic: convergence through a common Rab.

    Jemima Barrowman;Deepali Bhandari;Karin Reinisch;Susan Ferro-Novick

  • The Structural Basis for Activation of the Rab Ypt1p by the TRAPP Membrane-Tethering Complexes

    Yiying Cai;Harvey F. Chin;Darina Lazarova;Shekar Menon

  • ER structure and function

    Shuliang Chen;Peter Novick;Susan Ferro-Novick

  • Dynamics and inheritance of the endoplasmic reticulum

    Yunrui Du;Susan Ferro-Novick;Peter Novick

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Novick
Peter Novick University of California, San Diego
Marc Pypaert
Marc Pypaert Yale University
Fulvio Reggiori
Fulvio Reggiori University of Groningen
Randy Schekman
Randy Schekman University of California, Berkeley
John R. Yates
John R. Yates Scripps Research Institute
Jeffrey L. Brodsky
Jeffrey L. Brodsky University of Pittsburgh
Enrique M. De La Cruz
Enrique M. De La Cruz Yale University
Thomas Walz
Thomas Walz Rockefeller University
Jon Beckwith
Jon Beckwith Harvard University
John H. Brumell
John H. Brumell University of Toronto

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