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73
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18692
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2050
National Ranking
936

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Susan S. Golden is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and agricultural and biological sciences. Key subfields include molecular biology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, endocrine and autonomic systems, and plant science.

Their scholarly output includes a diverse range of topics related to photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, biocrusts and microbial ecology, circadian rhythm and melatonin, microbial community ecology and physiology, algal biology and biofuel production, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, and protist diversity and phylogeny.

Some recent publications that illustrate the scope of their work are:

  • The circadian clock and darkness control natural competence in cyanobacteria (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Reconstitution of an intact clock reveals mechanisms of circadian timekeeping (2021, Science)
  • Phenotypically complex living materials containing engineered cyanobacteria (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Comparative Genomics of Synechococcus elongatus Explains the Phenotypic Diversity of the Strains (2022, mBio)
  • A Cyanobacterial Component Required for Pilus Biogenesis Affects the Exoproteome (2021, mBio)

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated on multiple projects include:

  • Andy LiWang
  • Mingxu Fang
  • Carrie L. Partch
  • Eleonora Sendersky
  • Dustin C. Ernst

Their work has appeared in multiple publication venues, with several papers published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, mBio, Journal of Biological Rhythms, and Biophysical Journal.

Susan S. Golden was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2010, reflecting engagement with the scientific community at a national level.

Best Publications

  • CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS FROM MULTIPLE OSCILLATORS: LESSONS FROM DIVERSE ORGANISMS

    Deborah Bell-Pedersen;Vincent M. Cassone;David J. Earnest;David J. Earnest;Susan S. Golden

  • Resonating circadian clocks enhance fitness in cyanobacteria

    Yan Ouyang;Carol R. Andersson;Takao Kondo;Susan S. Golden

  • Expression of a gene cluster kaiABC as a circadian feedback process in cyanobacteria.

    Masahiro Ishiura;Shinsuke Kutsuna;Setsuyuki Aoki;Hideo Iwasaki

  • Circadian rhythms in prokaryotes: luciferase as a reporter of circadian gene expression in cyanobacteria

    Takao Kondo;Carl A. Strayer;Resham D. Kulkarni;Walter Taylor

  • Genetic engineering of the cyanobacterial chromosome

    Susan S. Golden;Judy Brusslan;Robert Haselkorn

  • Circadian orchestration of gene expression in cyanobacteria.

    Yi Liu;Nicholas F. Tsinoremas;Carl Hirschie Johnson;Nadya V. Lebedeva

  • Circadian clock mutants of cyanobacteria

    Takao Kondo;Nicholas F. Tsinoremas;Susan S. Golden;Carl Hirschie Johnson

  • Expression of a family of psbA genes encoding a photosystem II polypeptide in the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans R2.

    S S Golden;J Brusslan;R Haselkorn

  • CikA, a Bacteriophytochrome That Resets the Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock

    Oliver Schmitz;Mitsunori Katayama;Mitsunori Katayama;Stanly B. Williams;Takao Kondo

  • A kaiC-interacting sensory histidine kinase, SasA, necessary to sustain robust circadian oscillation in cyanobacteria

    Hideo Iwasaki;Stanly B Williams;Yohko Kitayama;Masahiro Ishiura

  • Guidelines for Genome-Scale Analysis of Biological Rhythms

    Michael E. Hughes;Katherine C. Abruzzi;Ravi Allada;Ron Anafi

  • Independent evolution of the prochlorophyte and green plant chlorophyll a/b light-harvesting proteins.

    G. W. M. van der Staay;F. Partensky;A. Ducret

  • Circadian Rhythms in Cyanobacteria

    Susan E. Cohen;Susan S. Golden

  • CYANOBACTERIAL CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS.

    Susan S. Golden;Masahiro Ishiura;Carl Hirschie Johnson;Takao Kondo

  • Light-Driven Changes in Energy Metabolism Directly Entrain the Cyanobacterial Circadian Oscillator

    Michael J. Rust;Susan S. Golden;Erin K. O’Shea

  • Structure and Function from the Circadian Clock Protein KaiA of Synechococcus elongatus: A potential Clock Input Mechanism

    Stanly B. Williams;Ioannis Vakonakis;Susan S. Golden;Andy C. LiWang

  • Optimal conditions for genetic transformation of the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans R2.

    S S Golden;L A Sherman

  • Circadian Gating of the Cell Cycle Revealed in Single Cyanobacterial Cells

    Qiong Yang;Bernardo F. Pando;Guogang Dong;Susan S. Golden

  • Circadian Rhythms in Rapidly Dividing Cyanobacteria

    Takao Kondo;Tetsuya Mori;Nadya V. Lebedeva;Setsuyuki Aoki

  • Circadian rhythms in cyanobacteria.

    S. S. Golden;M. Ishiura;C. H. Johnson;T. Kondo

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl Hirschie Johnson
Carl Hirschie Johnson Vanderbilt University
Takao Kondo
Takao Kondo Nagoya University
James W. Golden
James W. Golden University of California, San Diego
Robert Haselkorn
Robert Haselkorn University of Chicago
Clifford W. Morden
Clifford W. Morden University of Hawaii at Manoa
Alexander van Oudenaarden
Alexander van Oudenaarden University Medical Center Utrecht
Jeff Hasty
Jeff Hasty University of California, San Diego
Ralph J. Greenspan
Ralph J. Greenspan University of California, San Diego
Adam P. Arkin
Adam P. Arkin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Bernhard O. Palsson
Bernhard O. Palsson University of California, San Diego

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