David A. Mead

6.1k citations

78 papers · 4.4k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 30

Co-authors: Byron Kemper Elzbieta Szczesna-Skorupa Forest Rohwer Joseph M. Mahaffy Mya Breitbart Anca M. Segall Peter Salamon Farooq Azam
Topics: Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (22 papers)Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers)Biofuel production and bioconversion (14 papers)
Cited by: Ecology Biotechnology Molecular Biology
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nucleic Acids Research Journal of Biological Chemistry
Partner nations: United States Australia Denmark

In The Last Decade

David A. Mead

74 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Single-stranded DNA ‘blue’ T7 promoter plasmids: a versatile tandem promoter system for cloning and protein engineering

1986 776 citations David A. Mead, Elzbieta Szczesna-Skorupa et al. Protein Engineering Design and Selection profile →
Genomic analysis of uncultured marine viral communities

2002 700 citations David A. Mead et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Developing coral seeding devices and rapid deployment methods to scale up reef restoration 2025 ·Restoration Ecology ·Blake D. Ramsby,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Carly J. Randall,Muhammad Azmi Abdul Wahab,David A. Mead,(unknown)	0
2	A Survey of Didemnin Depsipeptide Production in Tistrella 2023 ·Marine Drugs ·(unknown),Don H. Johnson,Brendan M. Duggan,David A. Mead,James J. La Clair	4
3	Correlative metabologenomics of 110 fungi reveals metabolite–gene cluster pairs 2023 ·Nature Chemical Biology ·Lindsay K. Caesar,Fatma Ayaloglu Butun,Matthew T. Robey,Navid J. Ayon,(unknown),(unknown),Jin Woo Bok,(unknown),(unknown),Don H. Johnson,David A. Mead,(unknown),(unknown),Huzefa A. Raja,Nicholas H. Oberlies,Nancy P. Keller,Neil L. Kelleher	29
4	Discovery of Novel Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Diversity From a Soil Metagenomic Library 2020 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·(unknown),Megan Sandoval-Powers,Scott Monsma,Jinglie Zhou,Scott R. Santos,David A. Mead,Mark R. Liles	18
5	Rapid counting and spectral sorting of live coral larvae using large-particle flow cytometry 2020 ·Scientific Reports ·Carly J. Randall,(unknown),Claire Lager,Mary Hagedorn,Lyndon Llewellyn,Rock Pulak,Julia Thompson,Line K. Bay,David A. Mead,Andrew Heyward,Andrew P. Negri	5
6	Complete genome of Staphylococcus aureus Tager 104 provides evidence of its relation to modern systemic hospital-acquired strains 2016 ·BMC Genomics ·Richard W. Davis,(unknown),Jahangir Hossain,Scott Monsma,Paul Bock,Matthias Nahrendorf,David A. Mead,Michael J. Lodes,Mark R. Liles,Peter Panizzi	4
7	Complete genome sequences of Geobacillus sp. WCH70, a thermophilic strain isolated from wood compost 2016 ·Standards in Genomic Sciences ·Phillip J. Brumm,Miriam Land,David A. Mead	7
8	LucY: A Versatile New Fluorescent Reporter Protein 2015 ·PLoS ONE ·M.E. Auldridge,Hongnan Cao,Saurabh Sen,(unknown),C.A. Bingman,Ragothaman M. Yennamalli,G.N. Phillips,David A. Mead,Eric J. Steinmetz	5
9	Comparative analysis of the Geobacillus hemicellulose utilization locus reveals a highly variable target for improved hemicellulolysis 2014 ·BMC Genomics ·Pieter De Maayer,Phillip J. Brumm,David A. Mead,Don A. Cowan	34
10	Lateral Gene Transfer of Family A DNA Polymerases between Thermophilic Viruses, Aquificae, and Apicomplexa 2013 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Thomas Schoenfeld,Senthil K. Murugapiran,Jeremy A. Dodsworth,(unknown),Michael J. Lodes,David A. Mead,Brian P. Hedlund	28
11	Genomic and Enzymatic Results Show Bacillus cellulosilyticus Uses a Novel Set of LPXTA Carbohydrases to Hydrolyze Polysaccharides 2013 ·PLoS ONE ·David A. Mead,(unknown),Phillip J. Brumm	10
12	The Complete Genome Sequence of Fibrobacter succinogenes S85 Reveals a Cellulolytic and Metabolic Specialist 2011 ·PLoS ONE ·Garret Suen,Paul J. Weimer,David M. Stevenson,Frank O. Aylward,(unknown),Jan Deneke,(unknown),Natalia Ivanova,Natalia Mikhailova,Olga Chertkov,Lynne Goodwin,Cameron R. Currie,David A. Mead,Phillip J. Brumm	173
13	Mining Dictyoglomus turgidum for Enzymatically Active Carbohydrases 2010 ·Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology ·Phillip J. Brumm,Spencer Hermanson,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Krishne Gowda,David A. Mead	19
14	Gram negative shuttle BAC vector for heterologous expression of metagenomic libraries 2010 ·Gene ·(unknown),Jadwiga Wild,Ronald Godiska,David A. Mead,(unknown),Robert M. Goodman,Waclaw Szybalski,Mark R. Liles	32
15	Thermal Cycle Labeling: Zeptomole Detection Sensitivity and Microgram Probe Amplification UsingCviJI* Restriction-Generated Oligonucleotides 1998 ·Analytical Biochemistry ·(unknown),(unknown),Piotr M. Skowron,David A. Mead	4
16	Cloning and applications of the two/three-base restriction endonuclease R·CviJI from IL-3A virus-infected chlorella 1995 ·Gene ·Piotr M. Skowron,(unknown),(unknown),David W. George,(unknown),David A. Mead	13
17	A Universal Method for the Direct Cloning of PCR Amplified Nucleic Acid 1991 ·Nature Biotechnology ·David A. Mead,(unknown),Corinna Herrnstadt,(unknown),Lloyd M. Smith	183
18	High speed DNA sequencing by capillary electrophoresis 1990 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·John A. Luckey,(unknown),(unknown),David A. Mead,Jonathan D’Cunha,Theodore B. Norris,Lloyd M. Smith	181
19	Purification and characterization of an isoschizomer of Asu II fromClostridium sporogenes 1989 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Thomas Schoenfeld,David A. Mead,(unknown)	2
20	Single-stranded DNA ‘blue’ T7 promoter plasmids: a versatile tandem promoter system for cloning and protein engineeringbreakdown → 1986 ·Protein Engineering Design and Selection ·David A. Mead,Elzbieta Szczesna-Skorupa,Byron Kemper	776

About David A. Mead

David A. Mead is a scholar working on Biotechnology, Ecology and Molecular Biology, having authored 78 papers that have together received 4.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (22 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (1.6k citations), Biotechnology (427 citations) and Molecular Biology (2.4k citations). David A. Mead has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Denmark. Frequent co-authors include Byron Kemper, Elzbieta Szczesna-Skorupa, Forest Rohwer, Joseph M. Mahaffy, Mya Breitbart, Anca M. Segall, Peter Salamon, Farooq Azam, Bjarne Andresen and Phillip J. Brumm. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

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