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117
Citations
43850
World Ranking
729
National Ranking
463

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
  • 2014 - Distinguished Scientist Award, Mineralogical Society of America
  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Wah Chiu is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several key subfields, including Molecular Biology, Structural Biology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's research primarily revolves around advanced electron microscopy techniques and applications, with significant focus areas including RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, enzyme structure and function, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, electron and X-ray spectroscopy techniques, genomics and phylogenetic studies, as well as cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Wah Chiu include Kaiming Zhang, Grigore Pintilie, Michael F. Schmid, Shanshan Li, and Rachael C. Kretsch, with several joint works reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Wah Chiu's works have been published in a variety of scientific venues. Notable publication platforms include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • EMPIAR dataset
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Methods

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Wah Chiu are:

  • Measurement of atom resolvability in cryo-EM maps with Q-scores, 2020, Nature Methods
  • Capturing the swelling of solid-electrolyte interphase in lithium metal batteries, 2022, Science
  • Cathode-Electrolyte Interphase in Lithium Batteries Revealed by Cryogenic Electron Microscopy, 2020, Matter
  • A Single Immunization with Spike-Functionalized Ferritin Vaccines Elicits Neutralizing Antibody Responses against SARS-CoV-2 in Mice, 2021, ACS Central Science
  • Accelerated cryo-EM-guided determination of three-dimensional RNA-only structures, 2020, Nature Methods

The scientist has received several awards throughout their career, including the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Mineralogical Society of America and fellowship status from the same society in 2014. They were inducted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2012 and were named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1986.

Best Publications

  • EMAN: semiautomated software for high-resolution single-particle reconstructions.

    Steven J. Ludtke;Philip R. Baldwin;Wah Chiu

  • Cofilin Changes the Twist of F-Actin: Implications for Actin Filament Dynamics and Cellular Function

    Amy McGough;Brian Pope;Wah Chiu;Alan Weeds

  • Paraneoplastic Thrombocytosis in Ovarian Cancer

    Rebecca L. Stone;Alpa M. Nick;Iain A. McNeish;Frances Balkwill

  • Structure of the AcrAB–TolC multidrug efflux pump

    Dijun Du;Zhao Wang;Nathan R. James;Jarrod E. Voss

  • Designer nanoscale DNA assemblies programmed from the top down.

    Rémi Veneziano;Sakul Ratanalert;Kaiming Zhang;Fei Zhang

  • Interbilayer-crosslinked multilamellar vesicles as synthetic vaccines for potent humoral and cellular immune responses

    James J. Moon;Heikyung Suh;Heikyung Suh;Anna Bershteyn;Matthias T. Stephan

  • Remotely triggered liposome release by near-infrared light absorption via hollow gold nanoshells.

    Guohui Wu;Alexander Mikhailovsky;Htet A. Khant;Caroline Fu

  • Outcome of the First Electron Microscopy Validation Task Force Meeting

    Richard Henderson;Andrej Sali;Matthew L. Baker;Bridget Carragher

  • The Structure of ClpB: A Molecular Chaperone that Rescues Proteins from an Aggregated State

    Sukyeong Lee;Mathew E. Sowa;Yo Hei Watanabe;Paul B. Sigler

  • Three-dimensional structure of rotavirus.

    B.V.Venkataram Prasad;G.J. Wang;John P.M. Clerx;Wah Chiu

  • Seeing the herpesvirus capsid at 8.5 A.

    Z. Hong Zhou;Matthew Dougherty;Joanita Jakana;Jing He

  • Quantitative analysis of cryo-EM density map segmentation by watershed and scale-space filtering, and fitting of structures by alignment to regions.

    Grigore D. Pintilie;Junjie Zhang;Thomas D. Goddard;Wah Chiu

  • Structural biology of viruses

    Wah Chiu;Roger M. Burnett;Robert L. Garcea

  • Protein structure fitting and refinement guided by cryo-EM density.

    Maya Topf;Keren Lasker;Keren Lasker;Ben Webb;Haim Wolfson

  • Superparamagnetic gadonanotubes are high-performance MRI contrast agents

    Balaji Sitharaman;Kyle R. Kissell;Keith B. Hartman;Lesa A. Tran

  • Visualization of tegument-capsid interactions and DNA in intact herpes simplex virus type 1 virions.

    Z. Hong Zhou;Dong Hua Chen;Joanita Jakana;Frazer J. Rixon

  • Convolutional neural networks for automated annotation of cellular cryo-electron tomograms

    Muyuan Chen;Wei Dai;Stella Y Sun;Darius Jonasch

  • Structure of epsilon15 bacteriophage reveals genome organization and DNA packaging/injection apparatus

    Wen Jiang;Juan Chang;Joanita Jakana;Peter Weigele

  • Bridging the information gap: computational tools for intermediate resolution structure interpretation.

    Wen Jiang;Matthew L. Baker;Steven J. Ludtke;Wah Chiu

  • Refinement of protein structures into low-resolution density maps using rosetta.

    Frank DiMaio;Michael D. Tyka;Matthew L. Baker;Wah Chiu

Frequent Co-Authors

Frazer J. Rixon
Frazer J. Rixon University of Glasgow
Judith Frydman
Judith Frydman Stanford University
Junjie Zhang
Junjie Zhang Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Tao Ju
Tao Ju Washington University in St. Louis
Z. Hong Zhou
Z. Hong Zhou University of California, Los Angeles
Helen M. Berman
Helen M. Berman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Paul D. Adams
Paul D. Adams Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Scott C. Weaver
Scott C. Weaver The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Paul Matsudaira
Paul Matsudaira National University of Singapore

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