Ahmad S. Khalil

8.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
67 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Ahmad S. Khalil is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ahmad S. Khalil has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Genetics and 12 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ahmad S. Khalil's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (19 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (17 papers) and Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects (6 papers). Ahmad S. Khalil is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (19 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (17 papers) and Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects (6 papers). Ahmad S. Khalil collaborates with scholars based in United States, Egypt and United Kingdom. Ahmad S. Khalil's co-authors include James J. Collins, Timothy K. Lu, Kyle R. Allison, Caleb J. Bashor, Michael A. Lobritz, Peter Belenky, Daniel J. Dwyer, Jason H. Yang, Szilvia Kiriakov and Nic M. Vega and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Ahmad S. Khalil

63 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Synthetic biology: applications come of age

2010 946 citations Ahmad S. Khalil, James J. Collins profile →
Antibiotics induce redox-related physiological alterations as part of their lethality

2014 695 citations Daniel J. Dwyer, Peter Belenky et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Antibiotic efficacy is linked to bacterial cellular respiration

2015 539 citations Michael A. Lobritz, Peter Belenky et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ahmad S. Khalil United States	33	3.9k	983	864	582	346	67	5.6k
Matteo Dal Peraro Switzerland	43	3.5k 0.9×	635 0.6×	585 0.7×	369 0.6×	376 1.1×	139	5.6k
Han Remaut Belgium	39	2.7k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	289 0.3×	388 0.7×	674 1.9×	93	4.6k
Bert van den Berg United Kingdom	40	3.8k 1.0×	1.9k 1.9×	534 0.6×	846 1.5×	701 2.0×	82	5.6k
Roman Jerala Slovenia	51	5.3k 1.4×	460 0.5×	358 0.4×	276 0.5×	464 1.3×	247	9.4k
Min Yao Japan	41	3.5k 0.9×	785 0.8×	495 0.6×	167 0.3×	408 1.2×	232	5.5k
Pei Zhou United States	50	4.3k 1.1×	712 0.7×	214 0.2×	565 1.0×	247 0.7×	217	6.5k
Eugene C. Yi United States	48	5.6k 1.4×	697 0.7×	248 0.3×	340 0.6×	315 0.9×	129	10.3k
Stephan A. Sieber Germany	50	4.9k 1.3×	479 0.5×	363 0.4×	315 0.5×	211 0.6×	236	7.8k
Punit Kaur India	35	2.7k 0.7×	826 0.8×	325 0.4×	221 0.4×	100 0.3×	244	5.5k
Stuart J. Cordwell Australia	49	4.0k 1.0×	650 0.7×	238 0.3×	331 0.6×	795 2.3×	137	6.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ahmad S. Khalil

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ahmad S. Khalil. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ahmad S. Khalil based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ahmad S. Khalil. Ahmad S. Khalil is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Tong, Kai, Thomas C. Day, Ahmad S. Khalil, et al.. (2025). Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment. Nature. 639(8055). 691–699. 2 indexed citations

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Taxiarchi, Chrysanthi, Marco Galardini, Roxana L. Minuz, et al.. (2024). Anti-CRISPR Anopheles mosquitoes inhibit gene drive spread under challenging behavioural conditions in large cages. Nature Communications. 15(1). 952–952. 12 indexed citations

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Bertozzi, Tessa M., John W. Harvey, Pamela P. Brauer, et al.. (2024). Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor. Science. 384(6703). ado7082–ado7082. 38 indexed citations

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Khalil, Ahmad S., et al.. (2023). Human herpesvirus 8 ORF57 protein is able to reduce TDP-43 pathology: network analysis identifies interacting pathways. Human Molecular Genetics. 32(20). 2966–2980. 1 indexed citations

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Ching, Carly, et al.. (2023). Effects of antibiotic interaction on antimicrobial resistance development in wastewater. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 7801–7801. 13 indexed citations

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Shaw, W. M., Ahmad S. Khalil, & Tom Ellis. (2023). A Multiplex MoClo Toolkit for Extensive and Flexible Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. ACS Synthetic Biology. 12(11). 3393–3405. 21 indexed citations

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Shaw, W. M., Yunfeng Zhang, Ahmad S. Khalil, et al.. (2022). Screening microbially produced Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol using a yeast biosensor workflow. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5509–5509. 15 indexed citations

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Li, Hui-Shan, Divya V. Israni, Keith A. Gagnon, et al.. (2022). Multidimensional control of therapeutic human cell function with synthetic gene circuits. Science. 378(6625). 1227–1234. 90 indexed citations

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Li, Hui-Shan, et al.. (2022). High-performance multiplex drug-gated CAR circuits. Cancer Cell. 40(11). 1294–1305.e4. 69 indexed citations

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Sun, Qing, Nic M. Vega, Bernardo Cervantes, et al.. (2022). Enhancing nutritional niche and host defenses by modifying the gut microbiome. Molecular Systems Biology. 18(11). e9933–e9933. 11 indexed citations

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Ching, Carly, et al.. (2021). Computational Model To Quantify the Growth of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Wastewater. mSystems. 6(3). e0036021–e0036021. 24 indexed citations

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Annas, George J., Chase L. Beisel, Kendell Clement, et al.. (2021). A Code of Ethics for Gene Drive Research. The CRISPR Journal. 4(1). 19–24. 29 indexed citations

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Wong, Brandon G., et al.. (2020). Automated Continuous Evolution of Proteins in Vivo. ACS Synthetic Biology. 9(6). 1270–1276. 40 indexed citations

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Heins, Zachary, Christopher P. Mancuso, Szilvia Kiriakov, et al.. (2019). Designing Automated, High-throughput, Continuous Cell Growth Experiments Using eVOLVER. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 3 indexed citations

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Lee, Henry H., et al.. (2019). Functional genomics of the rapidly replicating bacterium Vibrio natriegens by CRISPRi. Nature Microbiology. 4(7). 1105–1113. 153 indexed citations

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Heins, Zachary, Christopher P. Mancuso, Szilvia Kiriakov, et al.. (2019). Designing Automated, High-throughput, Continuous Cell Growth Experiments Using eVOLVER. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 8 indexed citations

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Lobritz, Michael A., Peter Belenky, Caroline Porter, et al.. (2015). Antibiotic efficacy is linked to bacterial cellular respiration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(27). 8173–8180. 539 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dwyer, Daniel J., Peter Belenky, Jason H. Yang, et al.. (2014). Antibiotics induce redox-related physiological alterations as part of their lethality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(20). E2100–9. 695 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vega, Nic M., Kyle R. Allison, Ahmad S. Khalil, & James J. Collins. (2012). Signaling-mediated bacterial persister formation. Nature Chemical Biology. 8(5). 431–433. 335 indexed citations

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Khalil, Ahmad S., et al.. (2010). Molecular studies and antibiotic resistance of E. coli isolated from different hosts.. Alexandria Journal of Veterinary Sciences. 31(1). 125–135. 1 indexed citations

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