Giulia Palermo

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Giulia Palermo is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Giulia Palermo has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Giulia Palermo's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (49 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (44 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (26 papers). Giulia Palermo is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (49 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (44 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (26 papers). Giulia Palermo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Italy. Giulia Palermo's co-authors include Martin Jínek, Ursula Röthlisberger, J. Andrew McCammon, Yinglong Miao, Marco De Vivo, Aakash Saha, Alessandra Magistrato, Lorenzo Casalino, Pablo R. Arantes and Łukasz Nierzwicki and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Giulia Palermo

87 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics: Principles and applications

2021 189 citations Jinan Wang, Pablo Arantes et al. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Giulia Palermo United States	32	2.3k	349	242	232	217	89	3.0k
Jin Liu United States	29	1.8k 0.8×	161 0.5×	41 0.2×	147 0.6×	239 1.1×	80	2.4k
Lorenz M. Mayr Switzerland	28	2.3k 1.0×	304 0.9×	52 0.2×	434 1.9×	207 1.0×	51	3.1k
Marc Ostermeier United States	31	2.7k 1.2×	348 1.0×	122 0.5×	133 0.6×	701 3.2×	95	3.4k
Ervin Welker Hungary	27	2.2k 1.0×	399 1.1×	29 0.1×	957 4.1×	233 1.1×	63	3.4k
Peixiang Ma China	27	1.4k 0.6×	201 0.6×	58 0.2×	107 0.5×	40 0.2×	95	2.2k
Vikram Khipple Mulligan United States	20	2.5k 1.1×	494 1.4×	37 0.2×	183 0.8×	167 0.8×	32	3.0k
Lindsey Doyle United States	15	1.7k 0.8×	452 1.3×	29 0.1×	63 0.3×	172 0.8×	22	2.1k
Stuart A. Sievers United States	17	3.0k 1.3×	585 1.7×	103 0.4×	465 2.0×	177 0.8×	24	4.4k
Ulrich Schopfer Switzerland	15	962 0.4×	151 0.4×	30 0.1×	80 0.3×	73 0.3×	34	1.8k
Rodrigo Galindo‐Murillo United States	21	1.5k 0.6×	221 0.6×	42 0.2×	431 1.9×	73 0.3×	65	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Giulia Palermo

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giulia Palermo

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Giulia Palermo. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Giulia Palermo based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Giulia Palermo. Giulia Palermo is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nierzwicki, Łukasz, et al.. (2025). Flexibility in PAM recognition expands DNA targeting in xCas9. eLife. 13. 2 indexed citations

Lisi, George P., et al.. (2025). Design Rules for Expanding PAM Compatibility in CRISPR-Cas9 from the VQR, VRER and EQR variants. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 129(46). 11949–11958. 1 indexed citations

Saha, Aakash, et al.. (2025). CRISPR-Cas12a REC2–Nuc interactions drive target-strand cleavage and constrain trans cleavage. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(18). 1 indexed citations

Palermo, Giulia, et al.. (2025). Emerging Mechanisms of Metal-Catalyzed RNA and DNA Modifications. Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. 76(1). 497–518. 2 indexed citations

Arantes, Pablo R., et al.. (2025). Unveiling Cas8 dynamics and regulation within a transposon-encoded Cascade–TniQ complex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(14). e2422895122–e2422895122. 3 indexed citations

D’Ordine, Alexandra M., et al.. (2024). Structural and dynamic impacts of single-atom disruptions to guide RNA interactions within the recognition lobe of Geobacillus stearothermophilus Cas9. eLife. 13.

Palermo, Giulia, et al.. (2024). Graph theory approaches for molecular dynamics simulations. Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics. 57. e15–e15. 6 indexed citations

Saha, Aakash, Mohd Ahsan, Pablo Arantes, et al.. (2024). An alpha-helical lid guides the target DNA toward catalysis in CRISPR-Cas12a. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1473–1473. 29 indexed citations

Skeens, Erin, Mohd Ahsan, Alexandra M. D’Ordine, et al.. (2024). High-fidelity, hyper-accurate, and evolved mutants rewire atomic-level communication in CRISPR-Cas9. Science Advances. 10(10). eadl1045–eadl1045. 18 indexed citations

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Wang, Jimin, Pablo R. Arantes, Mohd Ahsan, et al.. (2023). Twisting and swiveling domain motions in Cas9 to recognize target DNA duplexes, make double-strand breaks, and release cleaved duplexes. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 9. 1072733–1072733. 12 indexed citations

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Ahsan, Mohd, et al.. (2023). Machines on Genes through the Computational Microscope. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 19(7). 1945–1964. 12 indexed citations

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Lin, Chun‐Han, Antoine Cléry, Aakash Saha, et al.. (2022). Structural basis for Cas9 off-target activity. Cell. 185(22). 4067–4081.e21. 117 indexed citations

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D’Ordine, Alexandra M., et al.. (2022). Disruption of electrostatic contacts in the HNH nuclease from a thermophilic Cas9 rewires allosteric motions and enhances high-temperature DNA cleavage. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 157(22). 225103–225103. 6 indexed citations

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Wang, Jinan, Pablo Arantes, Apurba Bhattarai, et al.. (2021). Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics: Principles and applications. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular Science. 11(5). 189 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nierzwicki, Łukasz, et al.. (2021). Folding‐upon‐Repair DNA Nanoswitches for Monitoring the Activity of DNA Repair Enzymes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(13). 7283–7289. 42 indexed citations

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Nierzwicki, Łukasz, et al.. (2021). Folding‐upon‐Repair DNA Nanoswitches for Monitoring the Activity of DNA Repair Enzymes. Angewandte Chemie. 133(13). 7359–7365. 12 indexed citations

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Ricci, Clarisse G., Janice S. Chen, Yinglong Miao, et al.. (2019). Deciphering Off-Target Effects in CRISPR-Cas9 through Accelerated Molecular Dynamics. ACS Central Science. 5(4). 651–662. 96 indexed citations

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Palermo, Giulia, Clarisse G. Ricci, Janice S. Chen, et al.. (2019). Molecular Mechanism of Off-Target Effects in CRISPR-Cas9. Biophysical Journal. 116(3). 319a–319a. 1 indexed citations

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Palermo, Giulia, Clarisse G. Ricci, Amendra Fernando, et al.. (2017). Protospacer Adjacent Motif-Induced Allostery Activates CRISPR-Cas9. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(45). 16028–16031. 102 indexed citations

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Palermo, Giulia, Zenita Adhireksan, Benjamin S. Murray, et al.. (2016). An Organometallic Compound which Exhibits a DNA Topology‐Dependent One‐Stranded Intercalation Mode. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55(26). 7441–7444. 20 indexed citations

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