Benjamin E. Housden

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Benjamin E. Housden is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin E. Housden has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Benjamin E. Housden's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (17 papers), Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (13 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (6 papers). Benjamin E. Housden is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (17 papers), Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (13 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (6 papers). Benjamin E. Housden collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Benjamin E. Housden's co-authors include Norbert Perrimon, Alejandro Chavez, Benjamin W. Pruitt, Dmitry Ter‐Ovanesyan, Marcelle Tuttle, James J. Collins, George M. Church, Sarah J. Bray, Yanhui Hu and Christopher D. Guzman and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Nature Reviews Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin E. Housden

43 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Highly efficient Cas9-mediated transcriptional programming

2015 1.2k citations Benjamin E. Housden, Norbert Perrimon et al. profile →
Comparison of Cas9 activators in multiple species

2016 381 citations Benjamin E. Housden, Norbert Perrimon et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin E. Housden United States	22	2.8k	439	343	323	265	43	3.2k
Tessa G. Montague United States	12	2.8k 1.0×	570 1.3×	182 0.5×	188 0.6×	331 1.2×	16	3.5k
Yikang S. Rong United States	25	2.4k 0.9×	458 1.0×	290 0.8×	329 1.0×	811 3.1×	60	2.8k
Jian‐Quan Ni China	23	1.5k 0.5×	273 0.6×	223 0.7×	354 1.1×	258 1.0×	44	1.9k
Michael Buszczak United States	33	2.8k 1.0×	461 1.1×	216 0.6×	676 2.1×	357 1.3×	56	3.6k
Chikdu Shivalila United States	9	4.5k 1.6×	1.5k 3.4×	479 1.4×	245 0.8×	352 1.3×	14	5.0k
Mark M. Metzstein United States	16	1.9k 0.7×	252 0.6×	519 1.5×	252 0.8×	270 1.0×	24	2.5k
Alexandro E. Trevino United States	13	5.4k 2.0×	1.1k 2.4×	430 1.3×	327 1.0×	609 2.3×	30	6.0k
Jacques Montagne France	22	1.7k 0.6×	380 0.9×	292 0.9×	898 2.8×	163 0.6×	42	2.9k
Michaela Fellner Austria	10	1.9k 0.7×	401 0.9×	242 0.7×	1.1k 3.3×	246 0.9×	16	2.8k
Wu‐Min Deng United States	29	2.3k 0.8×	418 1.0×	198 0.6×	510 1.6×	420 1.6×	81	3.1k

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Housden, Benjamin E., et al.. (2025). Could immunotherapy and regulatory T cells be used therapeutically to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease?. Brain Communications. 7(2). fcaf092–fcaf092. 2 indexed citations

Łapińska, Urszula, Bing Zhang, Wanida Phetsang, et al.. (2025). Heterogeneous efflux pump expression underpins phenotypic resistance to antimicrobial peptides. eLife. 13. 1 indexed citations

Stevens, Megan, Yuanli Wang, Stephanie J. Bouley, et al.. (2024). Inhibition of autophagy as a novel treatment for neurofibromatosis type 1 tumors. Molecular Oncology. 19(3). 825–851. 3 indexed citations

Maguire, Finlay, Guy Leonard, Joshua D Eaton, et al.. (2021). Emergent RNA–RNA interactions can promote stability in a facultative phototrophic endosymbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(38). 9 indexed citations

Nicholson, Hilary E., Zeshan Tariq, Benjamin E. Housden, et al.. (2019). HIF-independent synthetic lethality between CDK4/6 inhibition and VHL loss across species. Science Signaling. 12(601). 57 indexed citations

Housden, Benjamin E., et al.. (2019). Notch signaling coordinates ommatidial rotation in the Drosophila eye via transcriptional regulation of the EGF-Receptor ligand Argos. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 18628–18628. 7 indexed citations

Housden, Benjamin E., et al.. (2018). Variable Dose Analysis: A Novel High-throughput RNAi Screening Method for Drosophila Cells. BIO-PROTOCOL. 8(24). e3112–e3112. 2 indexed citations

Housden, Benjamin E., Zhongchi Li, Colleen Kelley, et al.. (2017). Improved detection of synthetic lethal interactions in Drosophila cells using variable dose analysis (VDA). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(50). E10755–E10762. 5 indexed citations

Mohr, Stephanie E., Yanhui Hu, Wei Song, et al.. (2017). Zinc Detoxification: A Functional Genomics and Transcriptomics Analysis in Drosophila melanogaster Cultured Cells. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 8(2). 631–641. 14 indexed citations

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Rajan, Akhila, et al.. (2017). A Mechanism Coupling Systemic Energy Sensing to Adipokine Secretion. Developmental Cell. 43(1). 83–98.e6. 32 indexed citations

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Housden, Benjamin E., Hilary E. Nicholson, & Norbert Perrimon. (2017). Synthetic Lethality Screens Using RNAi in Combination with CRISPR-based Knockout in Drosophila Cells. BIO-PROTOCOL. 7(3). 10 indexed citations

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Housden, Benjamin E., et al.. (2016). Mapping signaling pathway cross-talk in Drosophila cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(35). 9940–9945. 34 indexed citations

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Housden, Benjamin E. & Norbert Perrimon. (2016). Detection of Indel Mutations in Drosophila by High-Resolution Melt Analysis (HRMA). Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2016(9). pdb.prot090795–pdb.prot090795. 10 indexed citations

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Housden, Benjamin E., Matthias Muhar, Matthew Gemberling, et al.. (2016). Loss-of-function genetic tools for animal models: cross-species and cross-platform differences. Nature Reviews Genetics. 18(1). 24–40. 126 indexed citations

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Housden, Benjamin E. & Norbert Perrimon. (2016). Cas9-Mediated Genome Engineering in Drosophila melanogaster. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2016(9). pdb.top086843–pdb.top086843. 15 indexed citations

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Housden, Benjamin E., et al.. (2014). Cas9-Based Genome Editing in Drosophila. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 546. 415–439. 31 indexed citations

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Li, Jinghua, Benjamin E. Housden, & Sarah J. Bray. (2014). Notch Signaling Assays in Drosophila Cultured Cell Lines. Methods in molecular biology. 1187. 131–141. 8 indexed citations

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Housden, Benjamin E., et al.. (2013). Deadpan Contributes to the Robustness of the Notch Response. PLoS ONE. 8(9). e75632–e75632. 13 indexed citations

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Housden, Benjamin E., et al.. (2010). The cytolinker Pigs is a direct target and a negative regulator of Notch signalling. Development. 137(6). 913–922. 21 indexed citations

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Krejčı́, Alena, et al.. (2009). Direct Response to Notch Activation: Signaling Crosstalk and Incoherent Logic. Science Signaling. 2(55). ra1–ra1. 133 indexed citations

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