Brian P. Conlon

6.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
39 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Brian P. Conlon is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian P. Conlon has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Infectious Diseases, 24 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Molecular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Brian P. Conlon's work include Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (24 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (20 papers) and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (14 papers). Brian P. Conlon is often cited by papers focused on Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (24 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (20 papers) and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (14 papers). Brian P. Conlon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Germany. Brian P. Conlon's co-authors include Sarah E. Rowe, Kim Lewis, Autumn Brown Gandt, Joshua Adkins, Kim Lewis, Austin S. Nuxoll, Lauren C. Radlinski, Eliza A. Zalis, Gérémy Clair and James P. O’Gara and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Brian P. Conlon

36 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Activated ClpP kills persisters and eradicates a chronic biofilm infection

2013 520 citations Brian P. Conlon, Michael D. LaFleur et al. profile →
Persister formation in Staphylococcus aureus is associated with ATP depletion

2016 472 citations Brian P. Conlon, Sarah E. Rowe et al. Nature Microbiology profile →
ATP-Dependent Persister Formation in Escherichia coli

2017 332 citations Yue Shan, Autumn Brown Gandt et al. mBio profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian P. Conlon United States	21	1.7k	929	791	732	446	39	2.8k
Sarah E. Rowe United States	19	1.7k 1.0×	856 0.9×	579 0.7×	655 0.9×	337 0.8×	39	2.7k
Geoffrey A. McKay Canada	24	1.6k 0.9×	660 0.7×	918 1.2×	527 0.7×	271 0.6×	50	2.7k
Iris Keren United States	11	1.5k 0.9×	746 0.8×	937 1.2×	1.0k 1.4×	207 0.5×	11	2.8k
Vincent M. Isabella United States	19	1.7k 1.0×	394 0.4×	426 0.5×	542 0.7×	315 0.7×	31	2.8k
Timothy C. Meredith United States	26	1.4k 0.8×	571 0.6×	470 0.6×	623 0.9×	264 0.6×	46	2.5k
Niles P. Donegan United States	21	1.2k 0.7×	862 0.9×	353 0.4×	597 0.8×	231 0.5×	29	2.0k
Tobias A. Oelschlaeger Germany	33	1.6k 0.9×	541 0.6×	354 0.4×	544 0.7×	259 0.6×	61	3.6k
Shouguang Jin United States	40	3.0k 1.7×	304 0.3×	1.0k 1.3×	999 1.4×	447 1.0×	131	4.2k
Kyoko Kuwahara‐Arai Japan	29	1.7k 1.0×	1.6k 1.7×	494 0.6×	309 0.4×	341 0.8×	58	2.8k
Lindsey N. Shaw United States	35	2.9k 1.7×	2.0k 2.2×	359 0.5×	609 0.8×	871 2.0×	124	4.5k

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Parsons, Joshua B., Ahmad Mourad, Brian P. Conlon, Tammy Kielian, & Vance G. Fowler. (2025). Methicillin-resistant and susceptible Staphylococcus aureus: tolerance, immune evasion and treatment. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 24(2). 127–145.

Lu, Kuan‐Yi, Rui Sun, B Morris, et al.. (2025). A host-directed adjuvant sensitizes intracellular bacterial persisters to antibiotics. Nature Microbiology. 10(11). 3013–3025. 2 indexed citations

Conlon, Brian P., et al.. (2025). Flagellar motility and the mucus environment influence aggregation-mediated antibiotic tolerance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in chronic lung infection. mBio. 16(6). e0083125–e0083125. 1 indexed citations

Deng, Yu, Jianfeng Chen, David S. Umbaugh, et al.. (2025). cGAS Inhibits ALDH2 to Suppress Lipid Droplet Function and Regulate MASLD Progression. Advanced Science. 12(46). e08576–e08576.

Parsons, Joshua B., Blake Hanson, Felicia Ruffin, et al.. (2024). In-patient evolution of a high-persister Escherichia coli strain with reduced in vivo antibiotic susceptibility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(3). e2314514121–e2314514121. 15 indexed citations

Koch, J, Kimberly M. Brothers, William Li, et al.. (2023). Hydrogen Peroxide, Povidone-Iodine and Chlorhexidine Fail to Eradicate Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm from Infected Implant Materials. Life. 13(6). 1230–1230. 6 indexed citations

Kedziora, Katarzyna M., Stefania De Benedetti, Jenna E. Beam, et al.. (2023). Antibiotic-induced accumulation of lipid II synergizes with antimicrobial fatty acids to eradicate bacterial populations. eLife. 12. 11 indexed citations

Lu, Kuan‐Yi, et al.. (2022). Antibiotic Tolerance and Treatment Outcomes in Cystic Fibrosis Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(1). e0406122–e0406122. 7 indexed citations

Beam, Jenna E., et al.. (2022). The Use of Acute Immunosuppressive Therapy to Improve Antibiotic Efficacy against Intracellular Staphylococcus aureus. Microbiology Spectrum. 10(3). e0085822–e0085822. 7 indexed citations

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Paul, David S., Sarah E. Rowe, Jay L. Degen, et al.. (2022). Fibrin(ogen) engagement of S. aureus promotes the host antimicrobial response and suppression of microbe dissemination following peritoneal infection. PLoS Pathogens. 18(1). e1010227–e1010227. 14 indexed citations

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Durham, Phillip G., Jenna E. Beam, Katarzyna M. Kedziora, et al.. (2021). Harnessing ultrasound-stimulated phase change contrast agents to improve antibiotic efficacy against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus biofilms. Biofilm. 3. 100049–100049. 23 indexed citations

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Beam, Jenna E., Nikki J. Wagner, Edward Moreira Bahnson, et al.. (2021). Macrophage-Produced Peroxynitrite Induces Antibiotic Tolerance and Supersedes Intrinsic Mechanisms of Persister Formation. Infection and Immunity. 89(10). e0028621–e0028621. 25 indexed citations

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Beam, Jenna E., Sarah E. Rowe, & Brian P. Conlon. (2021). Shooting yourself in the foot: How immune cells induce antibiotic tolerance in microbial pathogens. PLoS Pathogens. 17(7). e1009660–e1009660. 13 indexed citations

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Rowe, Sarah E., Jenna E. Beam, & Brian P. Conlon. (2021). Recalcitrant Staphylococcus aureus Infections: Obstacles and Solutions. Infection and Immunity. 89(4). 27 indexed citations

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Radlinski, Lauren C., et al.. (2021). Stimulating Aminoglycoside Uptake to Kill Staphylococcus aureus Persisters. Methods in molecular biology. 2357. 223–236. 4 indexed citations

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Griffith, Elizabeth C., Ying Zhao, Aman Preet Singh, et al.. (2019). Ureadepsipeptides as ClpP Activators. ACS Infectious Diseases. 5(11). 1915–1925. 33 indexed citations

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Shan, Yue, Autumn Brown Gandt, Sarah E. Rowe, et al.. (2017). ATP-Dependent Persister Formation in Escherichia coli. mBio. 8(1). 332 indexed citations breakdown →

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Radlinski, Lauren C., Sarah E. Rowe, Laurel B. Kartchner, et al.. (2017). Pseudomonas aeruginosa exoproducts determine antibiotic efficacy against Staphylococcus aureus. PLoS Biology. 15(11). e2003981–e2003981. 135 indexed citations

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Conlon, Brian P., Sarah E. Rowe, Autumn Brown Gandt, et al.. (2016). Persister formation in Staphylococcus aureus is associated with ATP depletion. Nature Microbiology. 1(5). 16051–16051. 472 indexed citations breakdown →

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Waters, Elaine M., Sarah E. Rowe, James P. O’Gara, & Brian P. Conlon. (2016). Convergence of Staphylococcus aureus Persister and Biofilm Research: Can Biofilms Be Defined as Communities of Adherent Persister Cells?. PLoS Pathogens. 12(12). e1006012–e1006012. 120 indexed citations

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