Amin Zargar

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 898 citations indexed

About

Amin Zargar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Amin Zargar has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 898 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 6 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Amin Zargar's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (6 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (6 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (4 papers). Amin Zargar is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (6 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (6 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (4 papers). Amin Zargar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and China. Amin Zargar's co-authors include Jay D. Keasling, William E. Bentley, Gregory F. Payne, Bo Pang, David N. Quan, Hsuan‐Chen Wu, Elias Englund, Yuzhong Liu, Kevin Yin and Michael S. Belcher and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Amin Zargar

25 papers receiving 892 citations

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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.

Biofuels for a sustainable future

2021 243 citations Yuzhong Liu, Pablo Cruz‐Morales et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amin Zargar United States	14	488	347	85	77	75	25	898
В. Г. Дебабов Russia	20	804 1.6×	284 0.8×	123 1.4×	47 0.6×	107 1.4×	143	1.4k
Yi-Chun Yeh Taiwan	19	778 1.6×	448 1.3×	86 1.0×	126 1.6×	24 0.3×	46	1.5k
Raghav Shroff United States	11	711 1.5×	212 0.6×	189 2.2×	54 0.7×	55 0.7×	15	1.5k
Yamei Ding China	20	546 1.1×	381 1.1×	68 0.8×	39 0.5×	22 0.3×	41	1.0k
Tanya Tschirhart United States	13	402 0.8×	229 0.7×	57 0.7×	15 0.2×	136 1.8×	17	740
Jiahua Pu China	14	404 0.8×	313 0.9×	20 0.2×	153 2.0×	42 0.6×	17	892
Bo Pang China	18	430 0.9×	248 0.7×	42 0.5×	69 0.9×	13 0.2×	52	975
Pei Kun R. Tay United States	8	412 0.8×	270 0.8×	47 0.6×	27 0.4×	24 0.3×	9	771
Jiaofang Huang China	13	375 0.8×	266 0.8×	73 0.9×	28 0.4×	18 0.2×	24	722
Bennett Addison United States	21	403 0.8×	201 0.6×	52 0.6×	97 1.3×	57 0.8×	41	1.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liu, Yuzhong, Pablo Cruz‐Morales, Amin Zargar, et al.. (2021). Biofuels for a sustainable future. Cell. 184(6). 1636–1647. 243 indexed citations breakdown →

Zargar, Amin, et al.. (2020). A bimodular PKS platform that expands the biological design space. Metabolic Engineering. 61. 389–396. 6 indexed citations

Rond, Tristan de, Jian Gao, Amin Zargar, et al.. (2019). A High‐Throughput Mass Spectrometric Enzyme Activity Assay Enabling the Discovery of Cytochrome P450 Biocatalysts. Angewandte Chemie. 131(30). 10220–10225. 8 indexed citations

Pang, Bo, et al.. (2019). Technical Advances to Accelerate Modular Type I Polyketide Synthase Engineering towards a Retro-biosynthetic Platform. Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering. 24(3). 413–423. 18 indexed citations

Stephens, Kristina, Amin Zargar, Nadia O. Abutaleb, et al.. (2019). Engineering Escherichia coli for enhanced sensitivity to the autoinducer‐2 quorum sensing signal. Biotechnology Progress. 35(6). 11 indexed citations

Yuzawa, Satoshi, Amin Zargar, Bo Pang, Leonard Katz, & Jay D. Keasling. (2018). Commodity Chemicals From Engineered Modular Type I Polyketide Synthases. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 608. 393–415. 9 indexed citations

Tschirhart, Tanya, Eunkyoung Kim, Ryan T. McKay, et al.. (2017). Electronic control of gene expression and cell behaviour in Escherichia coli through redox signalling. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14030–14030. 131 indexed citations

Zargar, Amin, Constance B. Bailey, Robert W. Haushalter, et al.. (2017). Leveraging microbial biosynthetic pathways for the generation of ‘drop-in’ biofuels. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 45. 156–163. 49 indexed citations

Zargar, Amin, David N. Quan, & William E. Bentley. (2016). Enhancing Intercellular Coordination: Rewiring Quorum Sensing Networks for Increased Protein Expression through Autonomous Induction. ACS Synthetic Biology. 5(9). 923–928. 17 indexed citations

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Zargar, Amin, David N. Quan, Nadia O. Abutaleb, et al.. (2016). Constructing “quantized quorums” to guide emergent phenotypes through quorum quenching capsules. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 114(2). 407–415. 10 indexed citations

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Servinsky, Matthew D., Jessica L. Terrell, Chen‐Yu Tsao, et al.. (2015). Directed assembly of a bacterial quorum. The ISME Journal. 10(1). 158–169. 47 indexed citations

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Zargar, Amin, Gregory F. Payne, & William E. Bentley. (2015). A ‘bioproduction breadboard’: programming, assembling, and actuating cellular networks. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 36. 154–160. 9 indexed citations

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Zargar, Amin, et al.. (2015). Rational design of ‘controller cells’ to manipulate protein and phenotype expression. Metabolic Engineering. 30. 61–68. 18 indexed citations

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Zargar, Amin, David N. Quan, Min Guo, et al.. (2015). Bacterial Secretions of Nonpathogenic Escherichia coli Elicit Inflammatory Pathways: a Closer Investigation of Interkingdom Signaling. mBio. 6(2). e00025–e00025. 66 indexed citations

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Zargar, Amin, et al.. (2013). Using Baggase Ash in Concrete as Pozzolan. Middle East journal of scientific research. 13(6). 716–719. 10 indexed citations

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Betz, Jordan, Yi Cheng, Chen‐Yu Tsao, et al.. (2013). Optically clear alginate hydrogels for spatially controlled cell entrapment and culture at microfluidic electrode surfaces. Lab on a Chip. 13(10). 1854–1854. 37 indexed citations

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Wu, Hsuan‐Chen, Chen‐Yu Tsao, David N. Quan, et al.. (2013). Autonomous bacterial localization and gene expression based on nearby cell receptor density. Molecular Systems Biology. 9(1). 636–636. 61 indexed citations

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Zargar, Amin, et al.. (2011). Mathematical Modeling of Hyperbranched Water‐soluble Polymers with Applications in Drug Delivery. Macromolecular Reaction Engineering. 5(9-10). 373–384. 10 indexed citations

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Zargar, Amin & F. Joseph Schork. (2009). Copolymer Sequence Distributions in Controlled Radical Polymerization. Macromolecular Reaction Engineering. 3(2-3). 118–130. 27 indexed citations

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Zargar, Amin & F. Joseph Schork. (2009). Design of Copolymer Molecular Architecture via Design of Continuous Reactor Systems for Controlled Radical Polymerization. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 48(9). 4245–4253. 22 indexed citations

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