Christopher E. Lawson

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Christopher E. Lawson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher E. Lawson has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Ecology and 11 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Christopher E. Lawson's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (10 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (10 papers). Christopher E. Lawson is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (10 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (10 papers). Christopher E. Lawson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Netherlands. Christopher E. Lawson's co-authors include Daniel R. Noguera, Katherine D. McMahon, Joshua J. Hamilton, Ramesh Goel, Ananda S. Bhattacharjee, Sha Wu, Sebastian Lücker, Héctor García Martín, Michelle O’Malley and Roland Hatzenpichler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Christopher E. Lawson

24 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Metabolic network analysis reveals microbial community interactions in anammox granules

2017 613 citations Christopher E. Lawson, Sha Wu et al. Nature Communications profile →
Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes

2019 398 citations Christopher E. Lawson, William R. Harcombe et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher E. Lawson United States	15	1.0k	755	631	409	274	25	2.1k
Yoshiteru Aoi Japan	21	660 0.6×	369 0.5×	431 0.7×	368 0.9×	239 0.9×	62	1.5k
Joshua J. Hamilton United States	15	545 0.5×	549 0.7×	352 0.6×	197 0.5×	160 0.6×	15	1.2k
Dongdong Xu China	29	893 0.9×	440 0.6×	404 0.6×	266 0.7×	84 0.3×	143	2.5k
Siyan Zhao Singapore	28	1.4k 1.4×	159 0.2×	673 1.1×	332 0.8×	255 0.9×	52	2.1k
Marta Nierychlo Denmark	30	1.9k 1.8×	558 0.7×	1.0k 1.7×	643 1.6×	245 0.9×	50	2.8k
Simon Jon McIlroy Australia	35	2.5k 2.4×	896 1.2×	1.5k 2.3×	1.0k 2.5×	279 1.0×	77	4.0k
Qiang An China	28	1.0k 1.0×	291 0.4×	440 0.7×	417 1.0×	239 0.9×	96	2.2k
Guomin Ai China	21	900 0.9×	546 0.7×	535 0.8×	350 0.9×	108 0.4×	49	1.7k
Hebe M. Dionisi Argentina	21	1.1k 1.1×	400 0.5×	731 1.2×	235 0.6×	83 0.3×	43	1.7k

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Kleinsteuber, Sabine, et al.. (2025). Carbon-efficient waste upcycling: combining syngas fermentation and chain elongation with synthetic consortia. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 94. 103321–103321. 1 indexed citations

Strachan, Cameron, Viktoria Neubauer, Anna J. Mueller, et al.. (2025). Distinct lactate utilization strategies drive niche differentiation between two co-existing Megasphaera species in the rumen microbiome. The ISME Journal. 19(1). 2 indexed citations

Mahadevan, Radhakrishnan, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the feasibility of medium-chain oleochemical synthesis using microbial chain elongation. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. 51. 3 indexed citations

Lawson, Christopher E., et al.. (2024). Impact of cathodic pH and bioaugmentation on acetate and CH₄ production in a microbial electrosynthesis cell. RSC Advances. 14(32). 22962–22973. 5 indexed citations

Lawson, Christopher E., et al.. (2024). Advancing environmental biotechnology with microbial community modeling rooted in functional ‘omics. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 88. 103165–103165. 4 indexed citations

Venturelli, Ophelia S., Harris H. Wang, Sylvie Estrela, et al.. (2023). What is the key challenge in engineering microbiomes?. Cell Systems. 14(2). 85–90. 2 indexed citations

Pabst, Martin, Denis S. Grouzdev, Christopher E. Lawson, et al.. (2021). A general approach to explore prokaryotic protein glycosylation reveals the unique surface layer modulation of an anammox bacterium. The ISME Journal. 16(2). 346–357. 19 indexed citations

Wilken, St. Elmo, Jonathan M. Monk, Christopher E. Lawson, et al.. (2021). Experimentally Validated Reconstruction and Analysis of a Genome-Scale Metabolic Model of an Anaerobic Neocallimastigomycota Fungus. mSystems. 6(1). 45 indexed citations

Lawson, Christopher E., Hanna Koch, Tyler B. Jacobson, et al.. (2021). Investigating the Chemolithoautotrophic and Formate Metabolism of Nitrospira moscoviensis by Constraint-Based Metabolic Modeling and ¹³ C-Tracer Analysis. mSystems. 6(4). e0017321–e0017321. 12 indexed citations

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Scarborough, Matthew, et al.. (2021). Microbiomes for sustainable biomanufacturing. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 65. 8–14. 9 indexed citations

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Lawson, Christopher E., Rob M. de Graaf, Tyler B. Jacobson, et al.. (2020). Autotrophic and mixotrophic metabolism of an anammox bacterium revealed by in vivo 13C and 2H metabolic network mapping. The ISME Journal. 15(3). 673–687. 98 indexed citations

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Lawson, Christopher E., Jose Manuel Martí, Tijana Radivojević, et al.. (2020). Machine learning for metabolic engineering: A review. Metabolic Engineering. 63. 34–60. 191 indexed citations

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Sánchez‐Andrea, Irene, Iamê Alves Guedes, Bastian Hornung, et al.. (2020). The reductive glycine pathway allows autotrophic growth of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5090–5090. 197 indexed citations

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Lawson, Christopher E., William R. Harcombe, Roland Hatzenpichler, et al.. (2019). Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 17(12). 725–741. 398 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lawson, Christopher E., et al.. (2019). Cultivation and Transcriptional Analysis of a Canonical Nitrospira Under Stable Growth Conditions. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 1325–1325. 31 indexed citations

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Lawson, Christopher E. & Sebastian Lücker. (2018). Complete ammonia oxidation: an important control on nitrification in engineered ecosystems?. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 50. 158–165. 119 indexed citations

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Bhattacharjee, Ananda S., Sha Wu, Christopher E. Lawson, et al.. (2017). Whole-Community Metagenomics in Two Different Anammox Configurations: Process Performance and Community Structure. Environmental Science & Technology. 51(8). 4317–4327. 105 indexed citations

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Lawson, Christopher E., Sha Wu, Ananda S. Bhattacharjee, et al.. (2017). Metabolic network analysis reveals microbial community interactions in anammox granules. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15416–15416. 613 indexed citations breakdown →

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Oyserman, Ben O., et al.. (2016). Ancestral genome reconstruction identifies the evolutionary basis for trait acquisition in polyphosphate accumulating bacteria. The ISME Journal. 10(12). 2931–2945. 32 indexed citations

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Lawson, Christopher E.. (2014). Population dynamics and metabolic potential of a pilot-scale microbial community performing enhanced biological phosphorus removal. Open Collections. 1 indexed citations

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