Dawen Cai

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
54 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Dawen Cai is a scholar working on Biophysics, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dawen Cai has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Biophysics, 17 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Dawen Cai's work include Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (16 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (12 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (11 papers). Dawen Cai is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (16 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (12 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (11 papers). Dawen Cai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and China. Dawen Cai's co-authors include Kristen J. Verhey, Edgar Meyhöfer, T. Lynne Blasius, Jennetta W. Hammond, Gloria Jih, Jacek Gaertig, Nathan Reed, Jeff W. Lichtman, Joshua R. Sanes and Tuanlian Luo and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Dawen Cai

53 papers receiving 3.7k citations

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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.

Microtubule Acetylation Promotes Kinesin-1 Binding and Transport

2006 722 citations Nathan Reed, Dawen Cai et al. Current Biology profile →
Protein-retention expansion microscopy of cells and tissues labeled using standard fluorescent proteins and antibodies

2016 419 citations Paul W. Tillberg, Fei Chen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dawen Cai United States	23	1.9k	1.5k	715	580	376	54	3.8k
Helge Ewers Germany	33	2.3k 1.2×	790 0.5×	1.3k 1.8×	525 0.9×	602 1.6×	75	4.2k
Marcel Mettlen United States	27	2.9k 1.5×	1.8k 1.2×	646 0.9×	332 0.6×	323 0.9×	43	4.5k
Michelle A. Baird United States	29	2.8k 1.4×	1.5k 1.0×	1.9k 2.7×	556 1.0×	852 2.3×	51	5.3k
Thorsten Lang Germany	32	3.7k 1.9×	2.9k 2.0×	537 0.8×	809 1.4×	310 0.8×	68	5.2k
Jay R. Unruh United States	38	3.1k 1.6×	1.4k 1.0×	453 0.6×	268 0.5×	429 1.1×	111	4.4k
Khuloud Jaqaman United States	22	2.4k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	800 1.1×	196 0.3×	329 0.9×	42	3.6k
Roland Wedlich‐Söldner Germany	33	3.6k 1.8×	3.0k 2.0×	598 0.8×	523 0.9×	599 1.6×	60	6.3k
Ilan Davis United Kingdom	38	3.2k 1.7×	956 0.6×	581 0.8×	346 0.6×	209 0.6×	99	4.3k
Dirk Wenzel Germany	33	5.3k 2.7×	1.2k 0.8×	469 0.7×	408 0.7×	395 1.1×	61	6.7k
Chikara Sato Japan	38	2.5k 1.3×	934 0.6×	176 0.2×	508 0.9×	329 0.9×	162	4.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dawen Cai

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Adem, Bárbara, Carolina F. Ruivo, Inês A. Batista, et al.. (2024). Exosomes define a local and systemic communication network in healthy pancreas and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1496–1496. 21 indexed citations

Patel, Paras R., et al.. (2023). Post-explant profiling of subcellular-scale carbon fiber intracortical electrodes and surrounding neurons enables modeling of recorded electrophysiology. Journal of Neural Engineering. 20(2). 26019–26019. 9 indexed citations

Li, Ye, et al.. (2023). Input density tunes Kenyon cell sensory responses in the Drosophila mushroom body. Current Biology. 33(13). 2742–2760.e12. 8 indexed citations

Patel, Paras R., Elissa Welle, Hao Shen, et al.. (2022). Utah array characterization and histological analysis of a multi-year implant in non-human primate motor and sensory cortices. Journal of Neural Engineering. 20(1). 14001–14001. 22 indexed citations

Walker, Logan A., et al.. (2022). nGauge: Integrated and Extensible Neuron Morphology Analysis in Python. Neuroinformatics. 20(3). 755–764. 2 indexed citations

Li, Ye, et al.. (2021). The molecular landscape of neural differentiation in the developing Drosophila brain revealed by targeted scRNA-seq and multi-informatic analysis. Cell Reports. 35(4). 109039–109039. 21 indexed citations

Pettibone, Jeffrey R., Paras R. Patel, Dawen Cai, et al.. (2020). Cellular-scale silicon probes for high-density, precisely localized neurophysiology. Journal of Neurophysiology. 124(6). 1578–1587. 14 indexed citations

Welle, Elissa, Paras R. Patel, Artin Petrossians, et al.. (2020). Ultra-small carbon fiber electrode recording site optimization and improved in vivo chronic recording yield. Journal of Neural Engineering. 17(2). 26037–26037. 50 indexed citations

Patel, Paras R., Elissa Welle, Jeffrey R. Pettibone, et al.. (2020). High density carbon fiber arrays for chronic electrophysiology, fast scan cyclic voltammetry, and correlative anatomy. Journal of Neural Engineering. 17(5). 56029–56029. 36 indexed citations

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Walker, Logan A., et al.. (2020). Light microscopy based approach for mapping connectivity with molecular specificity. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4632–4632. 27 indexed citations

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Roossien, Douglas H., Yan Yan, Cristina Mazuski, et al.. (2019). Multispectral tracing in densely labeled mouse brain with nTracer. Bioinformatics. 35(18). 3544–3546. 14 indexed citations

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Li, Ye, et al.. (2019). Identification of Neuronal Lineages in the Drosophila Peripheral Nervous System with a “Digital” Multi-spectral Lineage Tracing System. Cell Reports. 29(10). 3303–3312.e3. 11 indexed citations

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Roossien, Douglas H., et al.. (2018). Quantitative simulation of extracellular single unit recording from the surface of cortex. Journal of Neural Engineering. 15(5). 56007–56007. 13 indexed citations

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Chang, Jae‐Byum, Fei Chen, Young‐Gyu Yoon, et al.. (2017). Iterative expansion microscopy. Nature Methods. 14(6). 593–599. 255 indexed citations

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Tillberg, Paul W., Fei Chen, Kiryl D. Piatkevich, et al.. (2016). Protein-retention expansion microscopy of cells and tissues labeled using standard fluorescent proteins and antibodies. PMC. 2 indexed citations

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Cai, Dawen, et al.. (2013). Two-photon imaging of multiple fluorescent proteins by phase-shaping and linear unmixing with a single broadband laser. Optics Express. 21(14). 17256–17256. 14 indexed citations

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Tao, Qing, et al.. (2011). Optical switch based on cascaded SOI nonlinear directional coupler. Optica Applicata. 41. 4 indexed citations

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Cai, Dawen, et al.. (2010). Recording Single Motor Proteins in the Cytoplasm of Mammalian Cells. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 475. 81–107. 6 indexed citations

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Cai, Dawen, et al.. (2009). Single Molecule Imaging Reveals Differences in Microtubule Track Selection Between Kinesin Motors. PLoS Biology. 7(10). e1000216–e1000216. 234 indexed citations

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Reed, Nathan, Dawen Cai, T. Lynne Blasius, et al.. (2006). Microtubule Acetylation Promotes Kinesin-1 Binding and Transport. Current Biology. 16(21). 2166–2172. 722 indexed citations breakdown →

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