Christian A. Combs

7.4k citations

75 papers · 5.5k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 30

Impact in

Biophysics top 0.2%
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
Structural Biology top 2%

Papers in

Biophysics 17
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques 16
- Cell Image Analysis Techniques 10
Aging 2

Co-authors: Daniela Malide Robert S. Balaban Toren Finkel Ilsa I. Rovira Hari Shroff Marı́a M. Fergusson Nuo Sun Brian Glancy
Journals: Journal of Microscopy (6 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (5 papers)Cell Reports (3 papers)Journal of Clinical Investigation (3 papers)The Journal of Cell Biology (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States France Cuba

In The Last Decade

Christian A. Combs

73 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Measuring In Vivo Mitophagy 2015 · 519 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2015 Molecular Cell
2006 The Journal of Experimental Medicine

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1	The transcription factors Tfeb and Tfe3 are required for survival and embryonic development of pancreas and liver in zebrafish PLoS Genetics ·Alberto Rissone, Martina La Spina, Erica Bresciani, Zulfeqhar A. Syed, Christian A. Combs, Martha Kirby, Abdel Elkahloun, Vicky Chen, Raman Sood, Shawn M. Burgess, Rosa Puertollano	2025	0
2	Effect of Load on Non‐Muscle Myosin 2 Paralog Filaments in a Biomimetic Contractile Actin Array Small ·Philip Bleicher, David Han, Neil Billington, Ryan Hart, Christian A. Combs, Shureed Qazi, Indra Chandrasekar, Jay R. Knutson, James R. Sellers	2025	0
3	Regional centromere configuration in the fungal pathogens of the Pneumocystis genus mBio ·Ousmane H. Cissé, Shelly J. Curran, H. Diego Folco, Yueqin Liu, Lisa Bishop, Honghui Wang, Elizabeth R. Fischer, A. Sally Davis, Christian A. Combs, Sabrina Thapar, John P. Dekker, Shiv I. S. Grewal, Melanie T. Cushion, Liang Ma, Joseph A. Kovacs	2024	1
4	Impact of capillary and sarcolemmal proximity on mitochondrial structure and energetic function in skeletal muscle The Journal of Physiology ·Hailey A. Parry, T. Bradley Willingham, Kevin A. Giordano, Yuho Kim, Shureed Qazi, Jay R. Knutson, Christian A. Combs, Brian Glancy	2024	9
5	Reorganization of mitochondria–organelle interactions during postnatal development in skeletal muscle The Journal of Physiology ·Yuho Kim, Hailey A. Parry, T. Bradley Willingham, Greg Alspaugh, Eric Lindberg, Christian A. Combs, Jay R. Knutson, Christopher K. E. Bleck, Brian Glancy	2024	8
6	Monitoring mitochondrial calcium in cardiomyocytes during coverslip hypoxia using a fluorescent lifetime indicator PubMed ·Yusuf Mastoor, Mikako Harata, Kavisha Silva, Chengyu Liu, Christian A. Combs, Bárbara Román, Elizabeth Murphy	2024	2
7	Convolutional neural network transformer (CNNT) for fluorescence microscopy image denoising with improved generalization and fast adaptation Scientific Reports ·Azaan Rehman, Alexander S. Zhovmer, Ryo Sato, Yoh‐suke Mukouyama, Jiji Chen, Alberto Rissone, Rosa Puertollano, Jiamin Liu, Harshad D. Vishwasrao, Hari Shroff, Christian A. Combs, Hui Xue	2024	5
8	Pericentrin interacts with Kinesin-1 to drive centriole motility The Journal of Cell Biology ·Matthew R. Hannaford, Rong Liu, Neil Billington, Zachary T. Swider, Brian J. Galletta, Carey J. Fagerstrom, Christian A. Combs, James R. Sellers, Nasser M. Rusan	2022	6
9	Monitoring mitochondrial calcium and metabolism in the beating MCU-KO heart Cell Reports ·Anna Kosmach, Bárbara Román, Junhui Sun, Armel N. Femnou, Fan Zhang, Chengyu Liu, Christian A. Combs, Robert S. Balaban, Elizabeth Murphy	2021	26
10	A Step-by-Step Guide to Instant Structured Illumination Microscopy (iSIM) Methods in molecular biology ·Alexander S. Zhovmer, Christian A. Combs	2021	2
11	Mitochondrial DNA segregation and replication restrict the transmission of detrimental mutation The Journal of Cell Biology ·Zhe Chen, Zongheng Wang, Guofeng Zhang, Christopher K. E. Bleck, Dillon J. Chung, Grey P. Madison, Eric Lindberg, Christian A. Combs, Robert S. Balaban, Hong Xu	2020	35
12	Resolution doubling in live, multicellular organisms via multifocal structured illumination microscopy Nature Methods ·Andrew G. York, Sapun H. Parekh, Damian Dalle Nogare, Robert Fischer, Kelsey Temprine, Marina Mione, Ajay Chitnis, Christian A. Combs, Hari Shroff	2012	336
13	Optimizing multiphoton fluorescence microscopy light collection from living tissue by noncontact total emission detection (epiTED) Journal of Microscopy ·Christian A. Combs, Alexander Yu. Smirnov, David J. Chess, Dorian B. McGavern, Jamie Schroeder, James J. Riley, Sungsam Kang, M. LUGAR-HAMMER, Amir Gandjbakhche, Jay R. Knutson, Robert S. Balaban	2010	21
14	Phospholipase D Promotes Lipid Microdomain-Associated Signaling Events in Mast Cells The Journal of Immunology ·Felipe Lisboa, Ze Peng, Christian A. Combs, Michael A. Beaven	2009	5
15	Human mesenchymal stem cells exert potent antitumorigenic effects in a model of Kaposi's sarcoma The Journal of Experimental Medicine ·Aarif Y. Khakoo, Shibani Pati, Stasia A. Anderson, William Reid, Mohamed F. Elshal, Ilsa I. Rovira, Ahn T. Nguyen, Daniela Malide, Christian A. Combs, Gentzon Hall, Jianhu Zhang, Mark Raffeld, Terry B. Rogers, William G. Stetler‐Stevenson, Joseph A. Frank, Marvin S. Reitz, Toren Finkel Hit paper breakdown →	2006	622
16	Skeletal Muscle NAD(P)H Two-Photon Fluorescence Microscopy In Vivo: Topology and Optical Inner Filters Biophysical Journal ·Emily C. Rothstein, Stefanie Carroll, Christian A. Combs, Paul D. Jöbsis, Robert S. Balaban	2005	63
17	Identification of ARTS-1 as a novel TNFR1-binding protein that promotes TNFR1 ectodomain shedding Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Xinle Cui, Feras Hawari, Sura Alsaaty, Marion Lawrence, Christian A. Combs, Weidong Geng, Farshid N. Rouhani, Dianne Miskinis, Stewart J. Levine	2002	152
18	Regulation of Cellular Oncosis by Uncoupling Protein 2 Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Edward Mills, Dong Xu, Marı́a M. Fergusson, Christian A. Combs, Yuhui Xu, Toren Finkel	2002	106
19	Phospholipases D1 and D2 Regulate Different Phases of Exocytosis in Mast Cells The Journal of Immunology ·Wahn Soo Choi, Young Mi Kim, Christian A. Combs, Michael A. Frohman, Michael A. Beaven	2002	110
20	Direct Imaging of Dehydrogenase Activity within Living Cells Using Enzyme-Dependent Fluorescence Recovery after Photobleaching (ED-FRAP) Biophysical Journal ·Christian A. Combs, Robert S. Balaban	2001	35

About Christian A. Combs

Christian A. Combs is a scholar working on Biophysics, Aging, Immunology, Cell Biology and Complementary and alternative medicine, having authored 75 papers that have together received 5.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (19 papers), Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (16 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (10 papers), Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (7 papers), ATP Synthase and ATPases Research (6 papers), Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (6 papers), Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism (6 papers) and Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biophysics (671 citations), Structural Biology (131 citations), Genetics (636 citations), Aging (102 citations) and Molecular Biology (2.6k citations). Christian A. Combs has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and Cuba. Frequent co-authors include Daniela Malide, Robert S. Balaban, Toren Finkel, Ilsa I. Rovira, Hari Shroff, Marı́a M. Fergusson, Nuo Sun, Brian Glancy, Patricia S. Connelly and Lisa M. Hartnell. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Microscopy, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Cell Reports, Journal of Clinical Investigation and The Journal of Cell Biology.

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