Alexandre Persat

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Alexandre Persat is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexandre Persat has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 10 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Alexandre Persat's work include Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (20 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (9 papers) and Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (7 papers). Alexandre Persat is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (20 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (9 papers) and Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (7 papers). Alexandre Persat collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Alexandre Persat's co-authors include Juan G. Santiago, Zemer Gitai, Howard A. Stone, Yves F. Dufrêne, Joanne N. Engel, Yuki F. Inclán, Carey D. Nadell, Knut Drescher, Minyoung Kevin Kim and Bonnie L. Bassler and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Alexandre Persat

36 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

The Mechanical World of Bacteria 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300
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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. The Mechanical World of Bacteria
    2015 385 citations Alexandre Persat, Carey D. Nadell et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexandre Persat Switzerland 21 1.2k 692 354 296 248 38 2.1k
Vernita Gordon United States 31 1.9k 1.6× 572 0.8× 279 0.8× 329 1.1× 272 1.1× 69 3.4k
Raimo Hartmann Germany 35 1.9k 1.5× 1.3k 1.8× 336 0.9× 456 1.5× 294 1.2× 59 4.4k
Stefano Pagliara United Kingdom 31 813 0.7× 1.3k 1.9× 289 0.8× 281 0.9× 163 0.7× 76 2.9k
Lars D. Renner Germany 24 1.1k 0.9× 504 0.7× 369 1.0× 247 0.8× 83 0.3× 44 2.0k
Albert Siryaporn United States 18 2.0k 1.6× 340 0.5× 814 2.3× 442 1.5× 293 1.2× 37 2.6k
Jing Yan United States 28 1.1k 0.9× 985 1.4× 191 0.5× 285 1.0× 256 1.0× 69 3.6k
Ferenc Vonderviszt Hungary 26 1.3k 1.0× 344 0.5× 653 1.8× 443 1.5× 199 0.8× 80 2.3k
Matthew T. Cabeen United States 16 1.1k 0.9× 185 0.3× 578 1.6× 377 1.3× 116 0.5× 31 1.7k
Munehiro Asally United Kingdom 19 1.4k 1.2× 397 0.6× 306 0.9× 231 0.8× 79 0.3× 33 2.3k
Adrien Ducret France 25 1.9k 1.6× 360 0.5× 1.0k 3.0× 638 2.2× 489 2.0× 39 3.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexandre Persat

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexandre Persat

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Meirelles, Lucas A. & Alexandre Persat. (2025). Decoding host-microbe interactions with engineered human organoids. The EMBO Journal. 44(6). 1569–1573. 2 indexed citations
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Meirelles, Lucas A., et al.. (2024). Pseudomonas aeruginosa faces a fitness trade-off between mucosal colonization and antibiotic tolerance during airway infection. Nature Microbiology. 9(12). 3284–3303. 10 indexed citations
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Zeeman, Samuel C., et al.. (2023). Fluid flow structures gut microbiota biofilm communities by distributing public goods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(25). e2217577120–e2217577120. 19 indexed citations
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Kühn, Marco J., Henriette Macmillan, Yuki F. Inclán, et al.. (2023). Two antagonistic response regulators control Pseudomonas aeruginosa polarization during mechanotaxis. The EMBO Journal. 42(7). e112165–e112165. 8 indexed citations
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Meirelles, Lucas A., Joern Pezoldt, Jaemin Kim, et al.. (2023). Pseudomonas aeruginosa type IV pili actively induce mucus contraction to form biofilms in tissue-engineered human airways. PLoS Biology. 21(8). e3002209–e3002209. 24 indexed citations
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Odermatt, Pascal D., et al.. (2023). Archaeal type IV pili stabilize Haloferax volcanii biofilms in flow. Current Biology. 33(15). 3265–3271.e4. 2 indexed citations
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Vidakovic, Lucia, Sofya Mikhaleva, Hannah Jeckel, et al.. (2023). Biofilm formation on human immune cells is a multicellular predation strategy of Vibrio cholerae. Cell. 186(12). 2690–2704.e20. 41 indexed citations
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Persat, Alexandre, et al.. (2022). Engineering Agrobacterium tumefaciens Adhesion to Target Cells. ACS Synthetic Biology. 11(8). 2662–2671. 3 indexed citations
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Iouranova, Alexandra, Delphine Grün, Julien Duc, et al.. (2022). KRAB zinc finger protein ZNF676 controls the transcriptional influence of LTR12-related endogenous retrovirus sequences. Mobile DNA. 13(1). 4–4. 21 indexed citations
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Persat, Alexandre, et al.. (2021). The Mammalian Membrane Microenvironment Regulates the Sequential Attachment of Bacteria to Host Cells. mBio. 12(4). e0139221–e0139221. 15 indexed citations
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Kühn, Marco J., Yuki F. Inclán, Ramiro Patino, et al.. (2021). Mechanotaxis directs Pseudomonas aeruginosa twitching motility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(30). 61 indexed citations
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Dufrêne, Yves F. & Alexandre Persat. (2020). Mechanomicrobiology: how bacteria sense and respond to forces. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 18(4). 227–240. 196 indexed citations
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Persat, Alexandre, et al.. (2020). Biofilms deform soft surfaces and disrupt epithelia. eLife. 9. 41 indexed citations
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Wucher, Benjamin R., et al.. (2019). Vibrio cholerae filamentation promotes chitin surface attachment at the expense of competition in biofilms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(28). 14216–14221. 39 indexed citations
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Nadell, Carey D., et al.. (2019). Cellular advective-diffusion drives the emergence of bacterial surface colonization patterns and heterogeneity. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2471–2471. 36 indexed citations
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Fineberg, Adam, et al.. (2019). Pseudomonas aeruginosa orchestrates twitching motility by sequential control of type IV pili movements. Nature Microbiology. 4(5). 774–780. 111 indexed citations
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Persat, Alexandre. (2017). Bacterial mechanotransduction. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 36. 1–6. 52 indexed citations
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Persat, Alexandre, Zemer Gitai, & Howard A. Stone. (2014). The curved shape of the bacterium \textit{Caulobacter crescentus} enhances colonization of surfaces in flow. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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Persat, Alexandre, Howard A. Stone, & Zemer Gitai. (2014). The curved shape of Caulobacter crescentus enhances surface colonization in flow. Nature Communications. 5(1). 3824–3824. 88 indexed citations
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Persat, Alexandre, Robert Chambers, & Juan G. Santiago. (2009). Basic principles of electrolyte chemistry for microfluidic electrokinetics. Part I: Acid–base equilibria and pH buffers. Lab on a Chip. 9(17). 2437–2437. 92 indexed citations

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