Gary G. Borisy

43.9k citations

240 papers · 34.4k indexed · 12 hit papers · h-index 95

Impact in

Cell Biology top 0.01%
- Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
- Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
- Cellular transport and secretion
Immunology and Allergy top 0.1%
- Cell Adhesion Molecules Research

Papers in

Cell Biology 161
- Microtubule and mitosis dynamics 133
- Cellular Mechanics and Interactions 53
- Cellular transport and secretion 13
Periodontics 18
- Oral microbiology and periodontitis research 18

Co-authors: Tatyana Svitkina Thomas D. Pollard J.B. Olmsted Alexander B. Verkhovsky Jessica L. Mark Welch Mark H. Ginsberg J. Thomas Parsons Alan Rick Horwitz
Journals: The Journal of Cell Biology (49 papers)Journal of Cell Science (21 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (20 papers)Journal of Molecular Biology (9 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (8 papers)
Partner nations: United States Russia France

In The Last Decade

Gary G. Borisy

235 papers receiving 32.8k citations

Hit Papers

12 papers align trajectories log scale

Biogeography of a human oral microbiome at the micron scale 2016 · 630 citations

What are hit papers?

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.

2016 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2003 Science
2003 The Journal of Cell Biology
2003 Cell
2002 Cell
2002 The Journal of Cell Biology
1999 The Journal of Cell Biology
1997 The Journal of Cell Biology
1975 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1973 Annual Review of Biochemistry
1967 The Journal of Cell Biology
1967 The Journal of Cell Biology

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Co-authors

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	Spatial ecology of the Neisseriaceae family in the human oral cavity Microbiology Spectrum ·Jonathan J. Giacomini, Julian Torres‐Morales, Floyd E. Dewhirst, Gary G. Borisy, Jessica L. Mark Welch	2025	0
2	Spatial ecology of Haemophilus and Aggregatibacter in the human oral cavity Microbiology Spectrum ·Jonathan J. Giacomini, Julian Torres‐Morales, Jonathan Tang, Floyd E. Dewhirst, Gary G. Borisy, Jessica L. Mark Welch	2024	8
3	Site Specialization of Human Oral Veillonella Species Microbiology Spectrum ·Jonathan J. Giacomini, Julian Torres‐Morales, Floyd E. Dewhirst, Gary G. Borisy, Jessica L. Mark Welch	2023	19
4	Site‐tropism of streptococci in the oral microbiome Molecular Oral Microbiology ·Anthony R. McLean, Julian Torres‐Morales, Floyd E. Dewhirst, Gary G. Borisy, Jessica L. Mark Welch	2022	16
5	Corncob structures in dental plaque reveal microhabitat taxon specificity Microbiome ·Viviana Morillo-López, Alexandra Sjaarda, Imon Islam, Gary G. Borisy, Jessica L. Mark Welch	2022	31
6	Spatial Ecology of the Human Tongue Dorsum Microbiome Cell Reports ·Steven A. Wilbert, Jessica L. Mark Welch, Gary G. Borisy	2020	114
7	Semi-blind sparse affine spectral unmixing of autofluorescence-contaminated micrographs Bioinformatics ·Blair J. Rossetti, Steven A. Wilbert, Jessica L. Mark Welch, Gary G. Borisy, James G. Nagy	2019	10
8	Systematic evasion of the restriction-modification barrier in bacteria Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Christopher D. Johnston, Sean L. Cotton, Susan R. Rittling, Jacqueline R. Starr, Gary G. Borisy, Floyd E. Dewhirst, Katherine P. Lemon	2019	65
9	Biogeography of a human oral microbiome at the micron scale Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jessica L. Mark Welch, Blair J. Rossetti, Christopher W. Rieken, Floyd E. Dewhirst, Gary G. Borisy Hit paper breakdown →	2016	630
10	Microtubules: 50 years on from the discovery of tubulin Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology ·Gary G. Borisy, Rebecca Heald, Jonathon Howard, Carsten Janke, (unknown), Eva Nogales	2016	69
11	Oligotyping analysis of the human oral microbiome Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·A. Murat Eren, Gary G. Borisy, Susan M. Huse, Jessica L. Mark Welch	2014	256
12	Systems-level analysis of microbial community organization through combinatorial labeling and spectral imaging Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Alex M. Valm, Jessica L. Mark Welch, Christopher W. Rieken, Yuko Hasegawa, Mitchell L. Sogin, Rudolf Oldenbourg, Floyd E. Dewhirst, Gary G. Borisy	2011	235
13	Ena/VASP Proteins Have an Anti-Capping Independent Function in Filopodia Formation Molecular Biology of the Cell ·Derek A. Applewhite, Melanie Barzik, Shin‐ichiro Kojima, Tatyana Svitkina, Frank B. Gertler, Gary G. Borisy	2007	169
14	Molecular dynamics imaging in micropatterned living cells Nature Methods ·Kristiana Kandere‐Grzybowska, Christopher J. Campbell, Yulia Komarova, Bartosz A. Grzybowski, Gary G. Borisy	2005	63
15	Conformational changes in CLIP-170 regulate its binding to microtubules and dynactin localization The Journal of Cell Biology ·Gideon Lansbergen, Yulia Komarova, Mauro Modesti, Claire Wyman, Casper C. Hoogenraad, Holly V. Goodson, Régis Lemaitre, David Drechsel, Erik van Munster, Theodorus W. J. Gadella, Frank Grosveld, Niels Galjart, Gary G. Borisy, Anna Akhmanova	2004	148
16	Critical Role of Ena/VASP Proteins for Filopodia Formation in Neurons and in Function Downstream of Netrin-1 Neuron ·Cécile Lebrand, Erik W. Dent, Geraldine Strasser, Lorene M. Lanier, Matthias Krause, Tatyana Svitkina, Gary G. Borisy, Frank B. Gertler	2004	266
17	Mechanism of filopodia initiation by reorganization of a dendritic network The Journal of Cell Biology ·Tatyana Svitkina, Елена А. Буланова, Oleg Y. Chaga, Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Shin‐ichiro Kojima, Jury M. Vasiliev, Gary G. Borisy Hit paper breakdown →	2003	599
18	Cellular Motility Driven by Assembly and Disassembly of Actin Filaments Cell ·Thomas D. Pollard, Gary G. Borisy Hit paper breakdown →	2003	3311
19	Self-organization of a propulsive actin network as an evolutionary process Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ivan V. Maly, Gary G. Borisy	2001	104
20	Molecular biology of the cytoskeleton Gary G. Borisy, Don W. Cleveland, Douglas B. Murphy	1984	261

About Gary G. Borisy

Gary G. Borisy is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Periodontics, Structural Biology, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, having authored 240 papers that have together received 34.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (133 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (53 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (36 papers), Oral microbiology and periodontitis research (18 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (17 papers), Gut microbiota and health (17 papers), 14-3-3 protein interactions (16 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cell Biology (22.7k citations), Immunology and Allergy (2.7k citations), Biophysics (1.9k citations), Molecular Biology (18.4k citations) and Periodontics (1.0k citations). Gary G. Borisy has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Russia and France. Frequent co-authors include Tatyana Svitkina, Thomas D. Pollard, J.B. Olmsted, Alexander B. Verkhovsky, Jessica L. Mark Welch, Mark H. Ginsberg, J. Thomas Parsons, Alan Rick Horwitz, Martin A. Schwartz and Richard Firtel. Their work appears in journals such as The Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Cell Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Molecular Biology and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

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