Deborah Jacobs‐Sera

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Deborah Jacobs‐Sera is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Deborah Jacobs‐Sera has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Ecology, 24 papers in Molecular Biology and 24 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Deborah Jacobs‐Sera's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (50 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (20 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (18 papers). Deborah Jacobs‐Sera is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (50 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (20 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (18 papers). Deborah Jacobs‐Sera collaborates with scholars based in United States, Finland and Denmark. Deborah Jacobs‐Sera's co-authors include Graham F. Hatfull, Daniel A. Russell, Rebekah M. Dedrick, Carlos A. Guerrero-Bustamante, Rebecca A. Garlena, Helen Spencer, Robert T. Schooley, Kimberly Gilmour, J F Soothill and Katrina Ford and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Deborah Jacobs‐Sera

48 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Engineered bacteriophages for treatment of a patient with a disseminated drug-resistant Mycobacterium abscessus

2019 905 citations Rebekah M. Dedrick, Carlos A. Guerrero-Bustamante et al. Nature Medicine profile →

Peers

Deborah Jacobs‐Sera

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Daniel A. Russell United States

Rebekah M. Dedrick United States

Rebecca A. Garlena United States

Simon J. Labrie Canada

Jeffrey Lawrence United States

Andrei Fokine United States

Eddie B. Gilcrease United States

Hans‐Wolfgang Ackermann Canada

Hiroki Ando Japan

Hans-W. Ackermann Canada

Daniel A. Russell United States

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600 ×1.2

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Countries citing papers authored by Deborah Jacobs‐Sera

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Fields of papers citing papers by Deborah Jacobs‐Sera

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Deborah Jacobs‐Sera

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Roquet‐Banères, Françoise, Laurent Kremer, Daniel A. Russell, et al.. (2025). Genome sequence of Mycobacterium abscessus phage P3MA. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 14(6). e0016925–e0016925.

Abad, Lawrence, Deborah Jacobs‐Sera, Krista G. Freeman, et al.. (2025). Stabilization mechanism accommodating genome length variation in evolutionarily related viral capsids. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3145–3145. 1 indexed citations

Jacobs‐Sera, Deborah, et al.. (2024). Isolation of Bacteriophages on Actinobacteria Hosts. Methods in molecular biology. 2793. 273–298.

Freeman, Krista G., Anna Robotham, Olivia B. Parks, et al.. (2023). Virion glycosylation influences mycobacteriophage immune recognition. Cell Host & Microbe. 31(7). 1216–1231.e6. 12 indexed citations

Dedrick, Rebekah M., Rebecca A. Garlena, Daniel A. Russell, et al.. (2023). Unusual prophages in Mycobacterium abscessus genomes and strain variations in phage susceptibilities. PLoS ONE. 18(2). e0281769–e0281769. 7 indexed citations

Freeman, Krista G., Alexis Huet, James F. Conway, et al.. (2023). A structural dendrogram of the actinobacteriophage major capsid proteins provides important structural insights into the evolution of capsid stability. Structure. 31(3). 282–294.e5. 17 indexed citations

Pezo, Valérie, Pierre-Yves Bourguignon, Dominique Louis, et al.. (2021). Noncanonical DNA polymerization by aminoadenine-based siphoviruses. Science. 372(6541). 520–524. 44 indexed citations

Pope, Welkin H., Kristen Butela, Rebecca A. Garlena, et al.. (2020). Genome Sequences of 20 Bacteriophages Isolated on Gordonia terrae. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 9(3). 1 indexed citations

Dedrick, Rebekah M., Carlos A. Guerrero-Bustamante, Rebecca A. Garlena, et al.. (2019). Engineered bacteriophages for treatment of a patient with a disseminated drug-resistant Mycobacterium abscessus. Nature Medicine. 25(5). 730–733. 905 indexed citations breakdown →

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Montgomery, Matthew T., Carlos A. Guerrero-Bustamante, Rebekah M. Dedrick, Deborah Jacobs‐Sera, & Graham F. Hatfull. (2019). Yet More Evidence of Collusion: a New Viral Defense System Encoded by Gordonia Phage CarolAnn. mBio. 10(2). 41 indexed citations

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Hutinet, Geoffrey, Witold Kot, Cui Liang, et al.. (2019). 7-Deazaguanine modifications protect phage DNA from host restriction systems. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5442–5442. 72 indexed citations

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Adair, Tamarah L., J. Alfred Bonilla, Karen K. Klyczek, et al.. (2017). Complete Genome Sequences of Arthrobacter Phages Beans, Franzy, Jordan, Piccoletto, Shade, and Timinator. Genome Announcements. 5(44).

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Bonilla, J. Alfred, Sharon Isern, Ann M. Findley, et al.. (2017). Genome Sequences of 19 Rhodococcus erythropolis Cluster CA Phages. Genome Announcements. 5(49). 4 indexed citations

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Pope, Welkin H. & Deborah Jacobs‐Sera. (2017). Annotation of Bacteriophage Genome Sequences Using DNA Master: An Overview. Methods in molecular biology. 1681. 217–229. 52 indexed citations

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Viana-Niero, Cristina, Joaquim Martins, Layla Farage Martins, et al.. (2016). Characterization of mycobacteria and mycobacteriophages isolated from compost at the São Paulo Zoo Park Foundation in Brazil and creation of the new mycobacteriophage Cluster U. BMC Microbiology. 16(1). 111–111. 12 indexed citations

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Pope, Welkin H., Daniel J. Fisher, Marcie H. Warner, et al.. (2016). Genome Sequence of Gordonia Bacteriophage Lucky10. Genome Announcements. 4(3). 1 indexed citations

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Smith, Margaret C. M., Roger W. Hendrix, Rebekah M. Dedrick, et al.. (2013). Evolutionary Relationships among Actinophages and a Putative Adaptation for Growth in Streptomyces spp. Journal of Bacteriology. 195(21). 4924–4935. 27 indexed citations

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Jacobs‐Sera, Deborah, Daniel A. Russell, Ching‐Chung Ko, et al.. (2013). Snapshot of haloarchaeal tailed virus genomes. RNA Biology. 10(5). 803–816. 45 indexed citations

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Pope, Welkin H., Deborah Jacobs‐Sera, Aaron A. Best, et al.. (2013). Cluster J Mycobacteriophages: Intron Splicing in Capsid and Tail Genes. PLoS ONE. 8(7). e69273–e69273. 18 indexed citations

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Jacobs‐Sera, Deborah, Laura J. Marinelli, Charles A. Bowman, et al.. (2012). On the nature of mycobacteriophage diversity and host preference. Virology. 434(2). 187–201. 127 indexed citations

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