Alexandre Colavin

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Alexandre Colavin is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexandre Colavin has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Genetics, 10 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Alexandre Colavin's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (8 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (3 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (3 papers). Alexandre Colavin is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (8 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (3 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (3 papers). Alexandre Colavin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and United Kingdom. Alexandre Colavin's co-authors include Kerwyn Casey Huang, Handuo Shi, Russell D. Monds, Carol A. Gross, Tristan Ursell, Eric D. Brown, Matthew H. Larson, Jason M. Peters, Candy H. S. Lu and Anthony L. Shiver and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Alexandre Colavin

13 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

A Comprehensive, CRISPR-b... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. A Comprehensive, CRISPR-based Functional Analysis of Essential Genes in Bacteria
    2016 512 citations Jason M. Peters, Alexandre Colavin et al. Cell profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Alexandre Colavin 922 646 291 126 90 14 1.2k
Benjamin P. Bratton 830 0.9× 537 0.8× 310 1.1× 129 1.0× 104 1.2× 30 1.2k
Norbert S. Hill 884 1.0× 696 1.1× 280 1.0× 89 0.7× 59 0.7× 12 1.2k
Handuo Shi 1.2k 1.2× 709 1.1× 338 1.2× 183 1.5× 183 2.0× 40 1.6k
Carl W. Gunderson 1.4k 1.6× 743 1.2× 231 0.8× 83 0.7× 56 0.6× 7 1.7k
David Bates 1.1k 1.2× 883 1.4× 296 1.0× 98 0.8× 162 1.8× 27 1.3k
David W. Adams 695 0.8× 573 0.9× 411 1.4× 142 1.1× 171 1.9× 12 1.0k
Weihong Hsing 874 0.9× 479 0.7× 124 0.4× 87 0.7× 66 0.7× 9 1.1k
Ellen M. Quardokus 1.2k 1.3× 935 1.4× 475 1.6× 255 2.0× 136 1.5× 26 1.7k
Ignacio Aréchaga 1.3k 1.4× 415 0.6× 297 1.0× 184 1.5× 305 3.4× 44 2.2k
Jolanda Verheul 716 0.8× 742 1.1× 357 1.2× 183 1.5× 200 2.2× 20 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Alexandre Colavin

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexandre Colavin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexandre Colavin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexandre Colavin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexandre Colavin 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 Alexandre Colavin. Alexandre Colavin is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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Manders, Toby, Christopher Tan, Yuya Kobayashi, et al.. (2025). Harnessing genotype and phenotype data for population-scale variant classification using large language models and bayesian inference. Human Genetics. 144(6). 605–614.
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Aradhya, Swaroop, Flavia M. Facio, Toby Manders, et al.. (2023). Applications of artificial intelligence in clinical laboratory genomics. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical Genetics. 193(3). e32057–e32057. 28 indexed citations
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Truty, Rebecca, Karen Ouyang, Susan Rojahn, et al.. (2021). Spectrum of splicing variants in disease genes and the ability of RNA analysis to reduce uncertainty in clinical interpretation. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 108(4). 696–708. 38 indexed citations
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Shi, Handuo, et al.. (2019). Conservation of conformational dynamics across prokaryotic actins. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(4). e1006683–e1006683. 4 indexed citations
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Colavin, Alexandre, Handuo Shi, & Kerwyn Casey Huang. (2018). RodZ modulates geometric localization of the bacterial actin MreB to regulate cell shape. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1280–1280. 44 indexed citations
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Ursell, Tristan, Timothy K. Lee, Daisuke Shiomi, et al.. (2017). Rapid, precise quantification of bacterial cellular dimensions across a genomic-scale knockout library. BMC Biology. 15(1). 17–17. 91 indexed citations
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Shi, Handuo, Alexandre Colavin, Timothy K. Lee, & Kerwyn Casey Huang. (2017). Strain Library Imaging Protocol for high-throughput, automated single-cell microscopy of large bacterial collections arrayed on multiwell plates. Nature Protocols. 12(2). 429–438. 28 indexed citations
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Shi, Handuo, Alexandre Colavin, Marty Bigos, et al.. (2017). Deep Phenotypic Mapping of Bacterial Cytoskeletal Mutants Reveals Physiological Robustness to Cell Size. Current Biology. 27(22). 3419–3429.e4. 53 indexed citations
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Cunningham, Anna D., Alexandre Colavin, Kerwyn Casey Huang, & Daria Mochly‐Rosen. (2017). Coupling between Protein Stability and Catalytic Activity Determines Pathogenicity of G6PD Variants. Cell Reports. 18(11). 2592–2599. 32 indexed citations
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Peters, Jason M., Alexandre Colavin, Handuo Shi, et al.. (2016). A Comprehensive, CRISPR-based Functional Analysis of Essential Genes in Bacteria. Cell. 165(6). 1493–1506. 512 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gray, Andrew N., Alexander J. F. Egan, Jolanda Verheul, et al.. (2015). Coordination of peptidoglycan synthesis and outer membrane constriction during Escherichia coli cell division. eLife. 4. 145 indexed citations
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Ursell, Tristan, Jeffrey Nguyen, Russell D. Monds, et al.. (2014). Rod-like bacterial shape is maintained by feedback between cell curvature and cytoskeletal localization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(11). E1025–34. 178 indexed citations
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Monds, Russell D., Timothy K. Lee, Alexandre Colavin, et al.. (2014). Systematic Perturbation of Cytoskeletal Function Reveals a Linear Scaling Relationship between Cell Geometry and Fitness. Cell Reports. 9(4). 1528–1537. 46 indexed citations
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Colavin, Alexandre, Jen Hsin, & Kerwyn Casey Huang. (2014). Effects of polymerization and nucleotide identity on the conformational dynamics of the bacterial actin homolog MreB. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(9). 3585–3590. 30 indexed citations

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