2026 Talima Pearson: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	53	15871	14566	6590	5887	137	37363

Overview

Talima Pearson is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Infectious Diseases, Parasitology, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, and Clinical Biochemistry.

The scientist's work encompasses several main topics, including:

Leptospirosis research and findings
Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
Viral Infections and Vectors
Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections

Talima Pearson has contributed research articles to notable publication venues, frequently publishing in:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
PLoS ONE
PLoS neglected tropical diseases
BMC Microbiology
Microbiology Resource Announcements

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Talima Pearson include:

"Impact of Different Exercise Modalities on the Human Gut Microbiome," 2021, Sports
"Predicting the current and future distribution of the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus, across the Western US using citizen science collections," 2021, PLoS ONE
"Pathogen to commensal? Longitudinal within-host population dynamics, evolution, and adaptation during a chronic >16-year Burkholderia pseudomallei infection," 2020, PLoS Pathogens
"Leptospira in river and soil in a highly endemic area of Ecuador," 2021, BMC Microbiology
"Diverse lineages of pathogenic Leptospira species are widespread in the environment in Puerto Rico, USA," 2022, PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including:

Sara Maltinsky
Tara Furstenau
Viacheslav Y. Fofanov
Verónica Barragán
Colin Wood

Best Publications

Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

Evan Bolyen;Jai Ram Rideout;Matthew R. Dillon;Nicholas A. Bokulich

21851
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Author Correction: Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2.

Evan Bolyen;Jai Ram Rideout;Matthew R. Dillon;Nicholas A. Bokulich

4019
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QIIME 2: Reproducible, interactive, scalable, and extensible microbiome data science

Evan Bolyen;Jai Ram Rideout;Matthew R Dillon;Nicholas A Bokulich

992
Citations
Staphylococcus aureus CC398: Host Adaptation and Emergence of Methicillin Resistance in Livestock

Lance B. Price;Marc Stegger;Henrik Hasman;Maliha Aziz

876
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Yersinia pestis and the Plague of Justinian 541-543 AD: a genomic analysis

David M. Wagner;Jennifer Klunk;Michaela Harbeck;Alison Devault

552
Citations
The Epidemic of Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli ST131 Is Driven by a Single Highly Pathogenic Subclone, H30-Rx

Lance B. Price;Lance B. Price;James R. Johnson;Maliha Aziz;Maliha Aziz;Connie Clabots

504
Citations
Global Genetic Population Structure of Bacillus anthracis

Matthew N. Van Ert;W Ryan Easterday;Lynn Y Huynh;Richard T. Okinaka;Richard T. Okinaka

495
Citations
Anthrax molecular epidemiology and forensics: using the appropriate marker for different evolutionary scales.

Paul Keim;Matthew N. Van Ert;Talima Pearson;Amy J. Vogler

396
Citations
Population Genetics of Vibrio cholerae from Nepal in 2010: Evidence on the Origin of the Haitian Outbreak

Rene S. Hendriksen;Lance B. Price;James M. Schupp;John D. Gillece

347
Citations
Phylogenetic discovery bias in Bacillus anthracis using single-nucleotide polymorphisms from whole-genome sequencing.

Talima Pearson;Joseph D. Busch;Jacques Ravel;Timothy D. Read

324
Citations
Phylogeographic reconstruction of a bacterial species with high levels of lateral gene transfer

Talima Pearson;Philip Giffard;Philip Giffard;Stephen Beckstrom-Sternberg;Stephen Beckstrom-Sternberg;Raymond Auerbach;Raymond Auerbach

225
Citations
Whole-Genome-Based Phylogeny and Divergence of the Genus Brucella

Jeffrey T. Foster;Stephen M Beckstrom-Sternberg;Stephen M Beckstrom-Sternberg;Talima Ross Pearson;James S Beckstrom-Sternberg

217
Citations
Phylogeography of Francisella tularensis : Global Expansion of a Highly Fit Clone

Amy J. Vogler;Dawn Birdsell;Lance B. Price;Jolene R. Bowers

210
Citations
Strain-Specific Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Assays for the Bacillus anthracis Ames Strain

Matthew N. Van Ert;W. Ryan Easterday;Tatum S. Simonson;Jana M. U'Ren

155
Citations
A genomic survey of positive selection in Burkholderia pseudomallei provides insights into the evolution of accidental virulence.

Tannistha Nandi;Catherine Ong;Arvind Pratap Singh;Justin Andrew Boddey

153
Citations
In vitro selection and characterization of Bacillus anthracis mutants with high-level resistance to ciprofloxacin.

Lance B. Price;Lance B. Price;Amy Vogler;Talima Pearson;Joseph D. Busch

150
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Phylogenetic understanding of clonal populations in an era of whole genome sequencing

Talima Pearson;Richard T. Okinaka;Jeffrey T. Foster;Paul Keim;Paul Keim

149
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Continuing Evolution of Burkholderia mallei Through Genome Reduction and Large-Scale Rearrangements

Liliana Losada;Liliana Losada;Catherine M. Ronning;David DeShazer;Donald Woods

144
Citations
Within-Host Evolution of Burkholderia pseudomallei over a Twelve-Year Chronic Carriage Infection

Erin P. Price;Derek S. Sarovich;Mark Mayo;Apichai Tuanyok

142
Citations
Comparative Phylogenomics and Evolution of the Brucellae Reveal a Path to Virulence

Alice R. Wattam;Jeffrey T. Foster;Shrinivasrao P. Mane;Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg;Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg

139
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