Austen Terwilliger

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 907 citations indexed

About

Austen Terwilliger is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Austen Terwilliger has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 907 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Ecology, 14 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Austen Terwilliger's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (15 papers), Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research (6 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers). Austen Terwilliger is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (15 papers), Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research (6 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers). Austen Terwilliger collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Austen Terwilliger's co-authors include Anthony W. Maresso, Justin R. Clark, Sabrina I. Green, Barbara W. Trautner, Keiko C. Salazar, Carmen Gu Liu, Robert F. Ramig, Heidi B. Kaplan, Li Ma and Saima Aslam and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Austen Terwilliger

27 papers receiving 887 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.

Phage-Antibiotic Synergy Is Driven by a Unique Combination of Antibacterial Mechanism of Action and Stoichiometry

2020 244 citations Carmen Gu Liu, Sabrina I. Green et al. mBio profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Austen Terwilliger United States	14	490	353	225	196	139	28	907
Sabrina I. Green United States	15	606 1.2×	297 0.8×	111 0.5×	231 1.2×	170 1.2×	24	823
Gunther Verween Belgium	8	609 1.2×	334 0.9×	122 0.5×	259 1.3×	129 0.9×	11	852
Patrick A. de Jonge Netherlands	7	714 1.5×	433 1.2×	131 0.6×	188 1.0×	47 0.3×	14	865
Tomasz Olszak Poland	14	651 1.3×	368 1.0×	71 0.3×	285 1.5×	113 0.8×	18	811
Katrina Ford United Kingdom	3	752 1.5×	316 0.9×	191 0.8×	265 1.4×	109 0.8×	5	926
Derek Pickard United Kingdom	13	265 0.5×	344 1.0×	142 0.6×	108 0.6×	155 1.1×	17	770
Aa Haeruman Azam Japan	15	484 1.0×	409 1.2×	155 0.7×	217 1.1×	87 0.6×	23	769
Theron Hamilton United States	14	517 1.1×	272 0.8×	165 0.7×	244 1.2×	136 1.0×	15	739
Marina Goderdzishvili Georgia	12	617 1.3×	237 0.7×	98 0.4×	294 1.5×	175 1.3×	22	830
Cédric Lood Belgium	18	798 1.6×	506 1.4×	111 0.5×	292 1.5×	204 1.5×	42	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Austen Terwilliger

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20 of 20 papers shown

Terwilliger, Austen, et al.. (2025). Phage-induced protection against lethal bacterial reinfection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(22). e2423286122–e2423286122. 1 indexed citations

Cook, Jonathan D., Keiko C. Salazar, Justin R. Clark, et al.. (2025). Results of TOR001: An open-label single patient study using targeted bacteriophage therapy for the treatment of chronic urinary tract infection. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 66(6). 107613–107613.

Terwilliger, Austen, et al.. (2025). Present and future of microbiome-targeting therapeutics. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 135(11). 3 indexed citations

Clark, Justin R., Austen Terwilliger, Vasanthi Avadhanula, et al.. (2023). Wastewater pandemic preparedness: Toward an end-to-end pathogen monitoring program. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1137881–1137881. 12 indexed citations

Clark, Justin R., et al.. (2023). Class-Driven Synergy and Antagonism between a Pseudomonas Phage and Antibiotics. Infection and Immunity. 91(8). e0006523–e0006523. 18 indexed citations

Gitter, Anna, Cici Bauer, Fuqing Wu, et al.. (2023). Assessment of a SARS-CoV-2 wastewater monitoring program in El Paso, Texas, from November 2020 to June 2022. International Journal of Environmental Health Research. 34(1). 564–574. 5 indexed citations

Green, Sabrina I., Justin R. Clark, Keiko C. Salazar, et al.. (2023). A Retrospective, Observational Study of 12 Cases of Expanded-Access Customized Phage Therapy: Production, Characteristics, and Clinical Outcomes. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 77(8). 1079–1091. 56 indexed citations

Clark, Justin R., et al.. (2022). Discovery of the First Lytic Staphylococcus pseudintermedius / Staphylococcus aureus Polyvalent Bacteriophages. PubMed. 3(2). 116–124. 5 indexed citations

Salazar, Keiko C., Li Ma, Sabrina I. Green, et al.. (2021). Antiviral Resistance and Phage Counter Adaptation to Antibiotic-Resistant Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli. mBio. 12(2). 32 indexed citations

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Lamba, Harveen K., Kenneth K. Liao, Kenneth L. Muldrew, et al.. (2021). Identifying Causative Microorganisms in Left Ventricular Assist Device Infections as a Guide for Developing Bacteriophage Therapy. Journal of Surgical Research. 271. 73–81. 6 indexed citations

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Chang, James D., et al.. (2021). Metabolic profiling reveals nutrient preferences during carbon utilization in Bacillus species. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 23917–23917. 6 indexed citations

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Zong, David M., Prashant Kalvapalle, Austen Terwilliger, et al.. (2021). Evaluating recovery, cost, and throughput of different concentration methods for SARS-CoV-2 wastewater-based epidemiology. Water Research. 197. 117043–117043. 128 indexed citations

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Terwilliger, Austen, et al.. (2021). Loss of Dihydroxyacid Dehydratase Induces Auxotrophy in Bacillus anthracis. Journal of Bacteriology. 203(24). e0041521–e0041521. 3 indexed citations

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Terwilliger, Austen, Carmen Gu Liu, Sabrina I. Green, et al.. (2020). Tailored Antibacterials and Innovative Laboratories for Phage (Φ) Research: Personalized Infectious Disease Medicine for the Most Vulnerable At-Risk Patients. PubMed. 1(2). 66–74. 23 indexed citations

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Terwilliger, Austen, et al.. (2020). Progress towards the Development of a NEAT Vaccine for Anthrax II: Immunogen Specificity and Alum Effectiveness in an Inhalational Model. Infection and Immunity. 88(8). 10 indexed citations

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Green, Sabrina I., Carmen Gu Liu, Keiko C. Salazar, et al.. (2019). Constructing and Characterizing Bacteriophage Libraries for Phage Therapy of Human Infections. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 2537–2537. 68 indexed citations

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Chan, Albert H., Sung Wook Yi, Austen Terwilliger, et al.. (2015). Structure of the Bacillus anthracis Sortase A Enzyme Bound to Its Sorting Signal. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(42). 25461–25474. 19 indexed citations

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Loo, Johannes C.M. van der, William Swaney, Elke Grassman, et al.. (2012). Critical Variables affecting clinical-grade production of the self-inactivating gamma-retroviral vector for the treatment of X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency. Gene Therapy. 19(8). 872–876. 8 indexed citations

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Loo, Johannes C.M. van der, William Swaney, Elke Grassman, et al.. (2011). Scale-up and manufacturing of clinical-grade self-inactivating γ-retroviral vectors by transient transfection. Gene Therapy. 19(3). 246–254. 30 indexed citations

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Kiselyov, Kirill, et al.. (2011). TRPML: Transporters of metals in lysosomes essential for cell survival?. Cell Calcium. 50(3). 288–294. 54 indexed citations

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