Caleb J. Bashor

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Caleb J. Bashor is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Caleb J. Bashor has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Caleb J. Bashor's work include Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (14 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (4 papers). Caleb J. Bashor is often cited by papers focused on Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (14 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (4 papers). Caleb J. Bashor collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Denmark. Caleb J. Bashor's co-authors include James J. Collins, D. Ewen Cameron, Wendell A. Lim, Ahmad S. Khalil, N.C. Helman, Szilvia Kiriakov, Clement T. Y. Chan, Jeong Wook Lee, Hozefa S. Bandukwala and Omid Veiseh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Caleb J. Bashor

24 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A brief history of synthetic biology

2014 586 citations D. Ewen Cameron, Caleb J. Bashor et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
Engineering the next generation of cell-based therapeutics

2022 249 citations Caleb J. Bashor, Isaac B. Hilton et al. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Caleb J. Bashor United States	18	2.3k	455	386	191	166	25	2.8k
Karen M. Polizzi United Kingdom	32	2.6k 1.1×	775 1.7×	273 0.7×	142 0.7×	393 2.4×	105	3.4k
Xavier Rios United States	9	2.5k 1.1×	225 0.5×	380 1.0×	270 1.4×	97 0.6×	14	2.7k
Bryan S. Der United States	18	1.6k 0.7×	207 0.5×	233 0.6×	61 0.3×	97 0.6×	22	1.9k
Shaorong Chong United States	22	2.5k 1.1×	187 0.4×	376 1.0×	119 0.6×	125 0.8×	42	2.7k
Mark Isalan United Kingdom	30	2.3k 1.0×	189 0.4×	654 1.7×	186 1.0×	43 0.3×	80	2.7k
Jangir Selimkhanov United States	13	905 0.4×	435 1.0×	204 0.5×	72 0.4×	280 1.7×	19	1.5k
Søren L. Pedersen Denmark	28	1.3k 0.6×	367 0.8×	227 0.6×	214 1.1×	81 0.5×	81	2.3k
Anne S. Robinson United States	30	2.5k 1.1×	221 0.5×	219 0.6×	85 0.4×	435 2.6×	104	3.0k
Sriram Kosuri United States	22	5.2k 2.2×	324 0.7×	1.1k 2.9×	395 2.1×	108 0.7×	33	5.6k
Florian Richter Germany	26	2.4k 1.0×	112 0.2×	201 0.5×	193 1.0×	64 0.4×	51	3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Caleb J. Bashor

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Kille, Bryce, et al.. (2026). Ultra-high-throughput mapping of genetic design space. Nature. 650(8103). 1035–1044.

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Yang, Xiaoyu, Jason W. Rocks, Kaiyi Jiang, et al.. (2025). Engineering synthetic phosphorylation signaling networks in human cells. Science. 387(6729). 74–81. 8 indexed citations

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Patel, Ankit, et al.. (2024). Using machine learning to enhance and accelerate synthetic biology. Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering. 31. 100553–100553. 8 indexed citations

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Bashor, Caleb J., et al.. (2023). Tumor-associated macrophages induce inflammation and drug resistance in a mechanically tunable engineered model of osteosarcoma. Biomaterials. 296. 122076–122076. 25 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiaoyu, et al.. (2023). pYtags enable spatiotemporal measurements of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in living cells. eLife. 12. 8 indexed citations

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Bragdon, Meghan D. J., et al.. (2023). Cooperative assembly confers regulatory specificity and long-term genetic circuit stability. Cell. 186(18). 3810–3825.e18. 29 indexed citations

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Bashor, Caleb J., Isaac B. Hilton, Hozefa S. Bandukwala, Devyn M. Smith, & Omid Veiseh. (2022). Engineering the next generation of cell-based therapeutics. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 21(9). 655–675. 249 indexed citations breakdown →

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Becce, Michele, Anna Klöckner, Stuart G. Higgins, et al.. (2021). Assessing the impact of silicon nanowires on bacterial transformation and viability of Escherichia coli. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 9(24). 4906–4914. 10 indexed citations

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Heins, Zachary, Christopher P. Mancuso, Szilvia Kiriakov, et al.. (2019). Designing Automated, High-throughput, Continuous Cell Growth Experiments Using eVOLVER. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 3 indexed citations

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Heins, Zachary, Christopher P. Mancuso, Szilvia Kiriakov, et al.. (2019). Designing Automated, High-throughput, Continuous Cell Growth Experiments Using eVOLVER. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 8 indexed citations

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Wong, Brandon G., Christopher P. Mancuso, Szilvia Kiriakov, Caleb J. Bashor, & Ahmad S. Khalil. (2018). Precise, automated control of conditions for high-throughput growth of yeast and bacteria with eVOLVER. Nature Biotechnology. 36(7). 614–623. 161 indexed citations

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Bashor, Caleb J. & James J. Collins. (2018). Understanding Biological Regulation Through Synthetic Biology. Annual Review of Biophysics. 47(1). 399–423. 69 indexed citations

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Gordley, Russell M., et al.. (2016). Engineering dynamical control of cell fate switching using synthetic phospho-regulons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(47). 13528–13533. 39 indexed citations

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Chan, Clement T. Y., Jeong Wook Lee, D. Ewen Cameron, Caleb J. Bashor, & James J. Collins. (2015). 'Deadman' and 'Passcode' microbial kill switches for bacterial containment. Nature Chemical Biology. 12(2). 82–86. 263 indexed citations

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Keung, Albert J., Caleb J. Bashor, Szilvia Kiriakov, James J. Collins, & Ahmad S. Khalil. (2014). Using Targeted Chromatin Regulators to Engineer Combinatorial and Spatial Transcriptional Regulation. Cell. 158(1). 110–120. 106 indexed citations

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Cameron, D. Ewen, Caleb J. Bashor, & James J. Collins. (2014). A brief history of synthetic biology. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 12(5). 381–390. 586 indexed citations breakdown →

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Khalil, Ahmad S., Timothy K. Lu, Caleb J. Bashor, et al.. (2012). A Synthetic Biology Framework for Programming Eukaryotic Transcription Functions. Cell. 150(3). 647–658. 260 indexed citations

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Bhattacharyya, Roby P., Attila Reményi, Matthew C. Good, et al.. (2006). The Ste5 Scaffold Allosterically Modulates Signaling Output of the Yeast Mating Pathway. Science. 311(5762). 822–826. 221 indexed citations

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Schumacher, Maria A., Caleb J. Bashor, Shuren Zhu, et al.. (2002). The structural mechanism of GTP stabilized oligomerization and catalytic activation of the Toxoplasma gondii uracil phosphoribosyltransferase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(1). 78–83. 26 indexed citations

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Bashor, Caleb J. & David A. Dalton. (1999). Effects of exogenous application and stem infusion of ascorbate on soybean (Glycine max) root nodules. New Phytologist. 142(1). 19–26. 21 indexed citations

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