Girish C. Melkani

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

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Girish C. Melkani is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Girish C. Melkani has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 17 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Girish C. Melkani's work include Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (17 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (16 papers) and Muscle Physiology and Disorders (15 papers). Girish C. Melkani is often cited by papers focused on Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (17 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (16 papers) and Muscle Physiology and Disorders (15 papers). Girish C. Melkani collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and India. Girish C. Melkani's co-authors include Satchidananda Panda, Sanford I. Bernstein, Amandine Chaix, Emily N. C. Manoogian, Hiep D. Le, Shubhroz Gill, Adriana S. Trujillo, Anthony Cammarato, Karen Ocorr and Rolf Bodmer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Girish C. Melkani

57 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Time-Restricted Eating to Prevent and Manage Chronic Metabolic Diseases

2019 278 citations Girish C. Melkani, Satchidananda Panda et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Girish C. Melkani United States	17	704	552	527	283	252	57	1.5k
April D. Strader United States	19	857 1.2×	248 0.4×	721 1.4×	53 0.2×	35 0.1×	35	1.7k
Iveta Herichová Slovakia	20	243 0.3×	244 0.4×	587 1.1×	58 0.2×	125 0.5×	60	1.1k
Silke Kießling Germany	17	539 0.8×	244 0.4×	950 1.8×	92 0.3×	17 0.1×	23	1.4k
Kayoko Ogimoto United States	24	729 1.0×	432 0.8×	822 1.6×	11 0.0×	87 0.3×	38	1.8k
Frank C. Tinsley United States	12	861 1.2×	325 0.6×	1.3k 2.5×	28 0.1×	53 0.2×	22	2.1k
Shinya Nishide Japan	13	188 0.3×	146 0.3×	281 0.5×	24 0.1×	53 0.2×	22	648
Mirosław Mackiewicz United States	13	345 0.5×	101 0.2×	555 1.1×	35 0.1×	25 0.1×	15	1.1k
I. М. Kvetnoy Russia	17	271 0.4×	226 0.4×	557 1.1×	30 0.1×	16 0.1×	105	1.1k
Ilya Trakht Russia	9	136 0.2×	199 0.4×	508 1.0×	18 0.1×	75 0.3×	17	973

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Halder, Sajal Kumar & Girish C. Melkani. (2025). The Interplay of Genetic Predisposition, Circadian Misalignment, and Metabolic Regulation in Obesity. Current Obesity Reports. 14(1). 21–21. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Jianhua, et al.. (2025). Linkage of circadian rhythm disruptions with Alzheimer's disease and therapeutic interventions. Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B. 15(6). 2945–2965. 3 indexed citations

Guo, Yiming, et al.. (2024). Diurnal expression of Dgat2 induced by time‐restricted feeding maintains cardiac health in the Drosophila model of circadian disruption. Aging Cell. 23(7). e14169–e14169. 8 indexed citations

Mao, Haibin, et al.. (2024). Apolipoprotein E Induces Lipid Accumulation Through Dgat2 That Is Prevented with Time-Restricted Feeding in Drosophila. Genes. 15(11). 1376–1376. 1 indexed citations

Bhide, Shruti, Sahaana Chandran, Namakkal S. Rajasekaran, & Girish C. Melkani. (2024). Genetic and Pathophysiological Basis of Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Laminopathies. Genes. 15(8). 1095–1095. 4 indexed citations

Guo, Yiming, et al.. (2024). Time‐restricted feeding mediated modulation of microbiota leads to changes in muscle physiology in Drosophila obesity models. Aging Cell. 24(2). e14382–e14382. 1 indexed citations

Guo, Yiming, et al.. (2023). Time-restricted feeding promotes muscle function through purine cycle and AMPK signaling in Drosophila obesity models. Nature Communications. 14(1). 949–949. 23 indexed citations

Melkani, Girish C., et al.. (2023). Circadian‐mediated regulation of cardiometabolic disorders and aging with time‐restricted feeding. Obesity. 31(S1). 40–49. 14 indexed citations

Trujillo, Adriana S., Sahaana Chandran, Hiep D. Le, et al.. (2019). Time-restricted feeding restores muscle function in Drosophila models of obesity and circadian-rhythm disruption. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2700–2700. 107 indexed citations

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Kronert, William A., Meera Viswanathan, Girish C. Melkani, et al.. (2018). Prolonged cross-bridge binding triggers muscle dysfunction in a Drosophila model of myosin-based hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. eLife. 7. 23 indexed citations

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Bhide, Shruti, Adriana S. Trujillo, Diane E. Cryderman, et al.. (2018). Increasing autophagy and blocking Nrf2 suppress laminopathy‐induced age‐dependent cardiac dysfunction and shortened lifespan. Aging Cell. 17(3). e12747–e12747. 40 indexed citations

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Gill, Shubhroz, Hiep D. Le, Girish C. Melkani, & Satchidananda Panda. (2015). Time-restricted feeding attenuates age-related cardiac decline in Drosophila. Science. 347(6227). 1265–1269. 212 indexed citations

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Kronert, William A., et al.. (2015). A Failure to Communicate. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(49). 29270–29280. 15 indexed citations

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Kronert, William A., et al.. (2014). Mapping Interactions between Myosin Relay and Converter Domains That Power Muscle Function. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(18). 12779–12790. 14 indexed citations

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Trujillo, Adriana S., et al.. (2013). Exploration and Suppression of Tau-Induced Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Defects in a Drosophila Model. Biophysical Journal. 104(2). 486a–486a. 1 indexed citations

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Melkani, Girish C., Adriana S. Trujillo, Raúl Ramos, et al.. (2013). Huntington's Disease Induced Cardiac Amyloidosis Is Reversed by Modulating Protein Folding and Oxidative Stress Pathways in the Drosophila Heart. PLoS Genetics. 9(12). e1004024–e1004024. 66 indexed citations

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Melkani, Girish C., et al.. (2012). Expression of the inclusion body myopathy 3 mutation in Drosophila depresses myosin function and stability and recapitulates muscle inclusions and weakness. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 23(11). 2057–2065. 12 indexed citations

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Melkani, Girish C., Rolf Bodmer, Karen Ocorr, & Sanford I. Bernstein. (2011). The UNC-45 Chaperone Is Critical for Establishing Myosin-Based Myofibrillar Organization and Cardiac Contractility in the Drosophila Heart Model. PLoS ONE. 6(7). e22579–e22579. 43 indexed citations

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Melkani, Girish C., Gustavo Zardeneta, & Jose A. Mendoza. (2005). On the chaperonin activity of GroEL at heat-shock temperature. The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. 37(7). 1375–1385. 11 indexed citations

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Melkani, Girish C., Gustavo Zardeneta, & Jose A. Mendoza. (2002). GroEL interacts transiently with oxidatively inactivated rhodanese facilitating its reactivation. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 294(4). 893–899. 8 indexed citations

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