Amy H.Y. Tong

18.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
73 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Amy H.Y. Tong is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Aging. According to data from OpenAlex, Amy H.Y. Tong has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Cell Biology and 6 papers in Aging. Recurrent topics in Amy H.Y. Tong's work include Fungal and yeast genetics research (16 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (10 papers). Amy H.Y. Tong is often cited by papers focused on Fungal and yeast genetics research (16 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (10 papers). Amy H.Y. Tong collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Hong Kong. Amy H.Y. Tong's co-authors include Charles Boone, Ainslie B. Parsons, Marie Evangelista, Gary D. Bader, Christopher W.V. Hogue, Si Lok, Brenda Andrews, Howard Bussey, Mike Tyers and Mark D. Robinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Amy H.Y. Tong

70 papers receiving 8.4k 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.

Systematic Genetic Analysis with Ordered Arrays of Yeast Deletion Mutants

2001 1.6k citations Amy H.Y. Tong, Marie Evangelista et al. Science profile →
Navigating the Chaperone Network: An Integrative Map of Physical and Genetic Interactions Mediated by the Hsp90 Chaperone

2005 662 citations Amy H.Y. Tong, Ainslie B. Parsons et al. profile →
A Combined Experimental and Computational Strategy to Define Protein Interaction Networks for Peptide Recognition Modules

2002 553 citations Amy H.Y. Tong, Gary D. Bader et al. Science profile →
Methylation of Histone H3 by Set2 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Is Linked to Transcriptional Elongation by RNA Polymerase II

2003 538 citations Nevan J. Krogan, Amy H.Y. Tong et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amy H.Y. Tong Canada	41	7.0k	1.3k	712	546	429	73	8.5k
Yun Zhang China	44	3.6k 0.5×	602 0.5×	503 0.7×	1.5k 2.7×	307 0.7×	250	7.5k
Andrew J. Link United States	40	6.9k 1.0×	817 0.6×	695 1.0×	1.1k 2.0×	534 1.2×	110	9.3k
Dick D. Mosser Canada	38	6.4k 0.9×	1.8k 1.4×	259 0.4×	430 0.8×	349 0.8×	64	8.1k
Tom Sargent United States	5	4.5k 0.6×	613 0.5×	1.1k 1.5×	1.1k 2.1×	469 1.1×	7	6.9k
Attila Csordás United Kingdom	17	4.0k 0.6×	509 0.4×	565 0.8×	496 0.9×	430 1.0×	24	6.3k
Daniel E. Gottschling United States	48	11.1k 1.6×	719 0.5×	1.9k 2.7×	943 1.7×	375 0.9×	74	12.6k
Florian Reisinger United Kingdom	26	5.2k 0.7×	580 0.4×	553 0.8×	477 0.9×	669 1.6×	44	8.0k
Christoph Eckerskorn Germany	48	4.7k 0.7×	696 0.5×	751 1.1×	425 0.8×	439 1.0×	116	6.6k
David M. Creasy United Kingdom	10	5.6k 0.8×	490 0.4×	489 0.7×	383 0.7×	392 0.9×	13	7.5k
Johannes Griss Austria	25	4.1k 0.6×	494 0.4×	520 0.7×	438 0.8×	592 1.4×	61	6.5k

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Jahangiri, Arman, Fadi Jacob, Ali Alawieh, et al.. (2025). Patient-Derived Meningioma Organoids: A Reliable Model for Studying Human Tumor Pathophysiology. Cancers. 17(3). 526–526. 1 indexed citations

Ni, Zuyao, Syed Nabeel‐Shah, Xinghua Guo, et al.. (2024). Identifying human pre-mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation factors by genome-wide CRISPR screens using a dual fluorescence readthrough reporter. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(8). 4483–4501. 10 indexed citations

Tang, Wenshu, et al.. (2024). Revealing the role of SPP1+ macrophages in glioma prognosis and therapeutic targeting by investigating tumor-associated macrophage landscape in grade 2 and 3 gliomas. Cell & Bioscience. 14(1). 37–37. 14 indexed citations

Friese‐Hamim, Manja, Olga Bogatyrova, Felix Rohdich, et al.. (2023). Novel Methionine Aminopeptidase 2 Inhibitor M8891 Synergizes with VEGF Receptor Inhibitors to Inhibit Tumor Growth of Renal Cell Carcinoma Models. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 23(2). 159–173. 1 indexed citations

Chu, Annie, et al.. (2023). The Hong Kong genome project: building genome sequencing capacity and capability for advancing genomic science in Hong Kong. The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong). 7(4). 196–212. 2 indexed citations

Lin, Peter, Corey Lourenco, Jennifer Cruickshank, et al.. (2023). Topoisomerase 1 Inhibition in MYC-Driven Cancer Promotes Aberrant R-Loop Accumulation to Induce Synthetic Lethality. Cancer Research. 83(24). 4015–4029. 18 indexed citations

Bailey, Melanie L., David Tieu, Andrea Habsid, et al.. (2021). Paralogous synthetic lethality underlies genetic dependencies of the cancer-mutated gene STAG2. Life Science Alliance. 4(11). e202101083–e202101083. 12 indexed citations

Hauswirth, Anna G., Kevin Ford, Tingting Wang, et al.. (2018). A postsynaptic PI3K-cII dependent signaling controller for presynaptic homeostatic plasticity. eLife. 7. 20 indexed citations

Genç, Özgür, Dion Dickman, Wenpei Ma, et al.. (2017). MCTP is an ER-resident calcium sensor that stabilizes synaptic transmission and homeostatic plasticity. eLife. 6. 30 indexed citations

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Harris, Nathan, et al.. (2015). The Innate Immune Receptor PGRP-LC Controls Presynaptic Homeostatic Plasticity. Neuron. 88(6). 1157–1164. 41 indexed citations

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Younger, Meg A., Martin Müller, Amy H.Y. Tong, Edward C.G. Pym, & Graeme W. Davis. (2013). A Presynaptic ENaC Channel Drives Homeostatic Plasticity. Neuron. 79(6). 1183–1196. 79 indexed citations

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Kwok, Hin, Amy H.Y. Tong, Si Lok, et al.. (2012). Genomic Sequencing and Comparative Analysis of Epstein-Barr Virus Genome Isolated from Primary Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Biopsy. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e36939–e36939. 75 indexed citations

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Ye, Lin, Mingfei Shao, Tong Zhang, Amy H.Y. Tong, & Si Lok. (2011). Analysis of the bacterial community in a laboratory-scale nitrification reactor and a wastewater treatment plant by 454-pyrosequencing. Water Research. 45(15). 4390–4398. 221 indexed citations

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Tong, Amy H.Y., Daniel Wong, Sarah Moseley, et al.. (2009). Negative regulation of Caenorhabditis elegans epidermal damage responses by death-associated protein kinase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(5). 1457–1461. 62 indexed citations

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Anand, Jaswinder, Nancy Raper, & Amy H.Y. Tong. (2006). Quality assurance during data processing of food and nutrient intakes. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis. 19. S86–S90. 25 indexed citations

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Lesage, Guillaume, Charles A. Specht, Anne‐Marie Sdicu, et al.. (2005). An interactional network of genes involved in chitin synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. BMC Genetics. 6(1). 8–8. 101 indexed citations

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Setty, Subba Rao Gangi, Todd I. Strochlic, Amy H.Y. Tong, Charles Boone, & Christopher G. Burd. (2004). Golgi targeting of ARF-like GTPase Arl3p requires its Nα-acetylation and the integral membrane protein Sys1p. Nature Cell Biology. 6(5). 414–419. 154 indexed citations

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Krogan, Nevan J., Michael‐Christopher Keogh, Nira Datta, et al.. (2003). A Snf2 Family ATPase Complex Required for Recruitment of the Histone H2A Variant Htz1. Molecular Cell. 12(6). 1565–1576. 471 indexed citations

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Béven, Laure, et al.. (2003). Interaction between a Ras and a Rho GTPase Couples Selection of a Growth Site to the Development of Cell Polarity in Yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 14(12). 4958–4970. 65 indexed citations

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Tong, Amy H.Y., Marie Evangelista, Ainslie B. Parsons, et al.. (2001). Systematic Genetic Analysis with Ordered Arrays of Yeast Deletion Mutants. Science. 294(5550). 2364–2368. 1620 indexed citations breakdown →

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