Gee W. Lau

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
87 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Gee W. Lau is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Microbiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gee W. Lau has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 22 papers in Microbiology. Recurrent topics in Gee W. Lau's work include Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (21 papers), Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances (16 papers) and Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (16 papers). Gee W. Lau is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (21 papers), Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances (16 papers) and Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (16 papers). Gee W. Lau collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Gee W. Lau's co-authors include Daniel J. Hassett, Huimin Ran, Fansheng Kong, Yonghua Hao, Dmitri V. Mavrodi, Zhizhou Kuang, Laurence G. Rahme, John E. Hamer, Bradley E. Britigan and Luchang Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Gee W. Lau

87 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

The role of pyocyanin in Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection

2004 582 citations Gee W. Lau, Daniel J. Hassett et al. profile →
A Gram-negative-selective antibiotic that spares the gut microbiome

2024 68 citations Gee W. Lau, Paul J. Hergenrother et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gee W. Lau United States	36	2.7k	975	725	649	600	87	4.6k
Shawn Lewenza Canada	29	2.8k 1.0×	984 1.0×	833 1.1×	820 1.3×	431 0.7×	45	3.9k
Alessandra Bragonzi Italy	39	2.5k 0.9×	797 0.8×	436 0.6×	657 1.0×	1.4k 2.3×	105	4.1k
Morten Alhede Denmark	32	2.8k 1.0×	756 0.8×	633 0.9×	336 0.5×	521 0.9×	46	4.1k
David A. D’Argenio United States	20	3.1k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	400 0.6×	1.2k 1.9×	734 1.2×	23	4.3k
Shouguang Jin United States	40	3.0k 1.1×	1.0k 1.1×	447 0.6×	999 1.5×	164 0.3×	131	4.2k
Xiaoyuan Wang China	43	3.7k 1.4×	439 0.5×	265 0.4×	872 1.3×	337 0.6×	227	5.8k
Douglas G. Storey Canada	28	1.8k 0.7×	626 0.6×	370 0.5×	701 1.1×	590 1.0×	62	2.8k
Adriana I. Vasil United States	35	3.1k 1.1×	753 0.8×	1.5k 2.1×	1.1k 1.7×	281 0.5×	45	4.5k
Hong Wu China	33	2.3k 0.9×	579 0.6×	465 0.6×	261 0.4×	411 0.7×	106	4.0k
Susanne Häußler Germany	50	4.9k 1.8×	2.3k 2.3×	614 0.8×	1.8k 2.8×	632 1.1×	194	7.8k

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Lau, Gee W., et al.. (2025). Modulation of pulmonary immune functions by the Pseudomonas aeruginosa secondary metabolite pyocyanin. Frontiers in Immunology. 16. 1550724–1550724. 3 indexed citations

Lau, Gee W., et al.. (2025). Pseudomonas aeruginosa-derived metabolites and volatile organic compounds: impact on lung epithelial homeostasis and mucosal immune response. Frontiers in Immunology. 16. 1553013–1553013. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Jingjun, et al.. (2024). Time-resolved RNA-seq analysis to unravel the in vivo competence induction by Streptococcus pneumoniae during pneumonia-derived sepsis. Microbiology Spectrum. 12(3). e0305023–e0305023. 3 indexed citations

Slamti, Leyla, et al.. (2023). The quorum-sensing peptidic inhibitor rescues host immune system eradication: A novel infectivity mechanism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(35). e2301045120–e2301045120. 7 indexed citations

Liu, Zheng, Fufei An, Jiahui Li, et al.. (2023). A smart coating with integrated physical antimicrobial and strain-mapping functionalities for orthopedic implants. Science Advances. 9(18). eadg7397–eadg7397. 31 indexed citations

Tian, Ye, Kritika Mehta, Wei Lu, et al.. (2023). Membrane phospholipid remodeling modulates nonalcoholic steatohepatitis progression by regulating mitochondrial homeostasis. Hepatology. 79(4). 882–897. 20 indexed citations

Lau, Gee W., et al.. (2020). Inactivation of FOXA2 by Respiratory Bacterial Pathogens and Dysregulation of Pulmonary Mucus Homeostasis. Frontiers in Immunology. 11. 515–515. 26 indexed citations

Jia, Jizeng, Won‐Tak Choi, Jinfeng Miao, et al.. (2015). Pseudomonas aeruginosa pyocyanin modulates mucin glycosylation with sialyl-Lewisx to increase binding to airway epithelial cells. Mucosal Immunology. 9(4). 1039–1050. 33 indexed citations

Parkinson, Elizabeth I., Joseph S. Bair, Emma H. Southgate, et al.. (2015). Deoxynybomycins inhibit mutant DNA gyrase and rescue mice infected with fluoroquinolone-resistant bacteria. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6947–6947. 33 indexed citations

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Hao, Yonghua, Zhizhou Kuang, Shikha Bhatia, et al.. (2011). Pseudomonas aeruginosa pyocyanin causes airway goblet cell hyperplasia and metaplasia and mucus hypersecretion by inactivating the transcriptional factor FoxA2. Cellular Microbiology. 14(3). 401–415. 47 indexed citations

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Zhu, Luchang & Gee W. Lau. (2011). Inhibition of Competence Development, Horizontal Gene Transfer and Virulence in Streptococcus pneumoniae by a Modified Competence Stimulating Peptide. PLoS Pathogens. 7(9). e1002241–e1002241. 60 indexed citations

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Cheluvappa, Rajkumar, Gerene M. Denning, Gee W. Lau, et al.. (2010). Pathogenesis of the hyperlipidemia of Gram-negative bacterial sepsis may involve pathomorphological changes in liver sinusoidal endothelial cells. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 14(10). e857–e867. 30 indexed citations

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Hassett, Daniel J., Thomas R. Korfhagen, Randall T. Irvin, et al.. (2010). Pseudomonas aeruginosabiofilm infections in cystic fibrosis: insights into pathogenic processes and treatment strategies. Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets. 14(2). 117–130. 105 indexed citations

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Cheluvappa, Rajkumar, Gerene M. Denning, Gee W. Lau, et al.. (2009). Pseudomonas aeruginosa and the hyperlipidaemia of sepsis. Pathology. 41(7). 615–621. 11 indexed citations

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Wesselkamper, Scott C., Bryan L. Eppert, Gregory T. Motz, et al.. (2008). NKG2D Is Critical for NK Cell Activation in Host Defense against Pseudomonas aeruginosa Respiratory Infection. The Journal of Immunology. 181(8). 5481–5489. 63 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shiping, Francis X. McCormack, Roger C. Lévesque, George A. O’Toole, & Gee W. Lau. (2007). The Flagellum of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Is Required for Resistance to Clearance by Surfactant Protein A. PLoS ONE. 2(6). e564–e564. 40 indexed citations

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Kong, Fansheng, Lisa R. Young, Yi Chen, et al.. (2006). Pseudomonas aeruginosa pyocyanin inactivates lung epithelial vaculoar ATPase-dependent cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator expression and localization. Cellular Microbiology. 8(7). 1121–1133. 41 indexed citations

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Apidianakis, Yiorgos, Michael Mindrinos, Wenzhong Xiao, et al.. (2005). Profiling early infection responses: Pseudomonas aeruginosa eludes host defenses by suppressing antimicrobial peptide gene expression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(7). 2573–2578. 134 indexed citations

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Potvin, Éric, Dario Lehoux, Irena Kukavica‐Ibrulj, et al.. (2003). In vivo functional genomics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa for high‐throughput screening of new virulence factors and antibacterial targets. Environmental Microbiology. 5(12). 1294–1308. 155 indexed citations

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Baldini, Regina L., Gee W. Lau, & Laurence G. Rahme. (2002). Use of plant and insect hosts to model bacterial pathogenesis. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 358. 3–13. 7 indexed citations

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