Gürol M. Süel

6.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
48 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Gürol M. Süel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Gürol M. Süel has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Plant Science and 12 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Gürol M. Süel's work include Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (16 papers), Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies (14 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (10 papers). Gürol M. Süel is often cited by papers focused on Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (16 papers), Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies (14 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (10 papers). Gürol M. Süel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and China. Gürol M. Süel's co-authors include Jordi García‐Ojalvo, Michael B. Elowitz, Arthur Prindle, Jintao Liu, Mark A. Wall, Steve W. Lockless, Rama Ranganathan, Munehiro Asally, Louisa M. Liberman and Tolga Çağatay and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Gürol M. Süel

47 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Evolutionarily conserved networks of residues mediate allosteric communication in proteins

2002 684 citations Gürol M. Süel et al. profile →
Ion channels enable electrical communication in bacterial communities

2015 541 citations Arthur Prindle, Jintao Liu et al. Nature profile →
An excitable gene regulatory circuit induces transient cellular differentiation

2006 538 citations Gürol M. Süel, Jordi García‐Ojalvo et al. Nature profile →
Metabolic co-dependence gives rise to collective oscillations within biofilms

2015 322 citations Jintao Liu, Arthur Prindle et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gürol M. Süel United States	25	3.1k	1.1k	513	495	464	48	4.2k
Tetsuya Yomo Japan	44	5.0k 1.6×	1.8k 1.7×	1.1k 2.2×	275 0.6×	487 1.0×	244	6.5k
Avigdor Eldar Israel	25	2.4k 0.8×	838 0.8×	244 0.5×	312 0.6×	225 0.5×	43	3.1k
George H. Wadhams United Kingdom	23	2.2k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	441 0.9×	485 1.0×	410 0.9×	33	3.4k
Chikara Furusawa Japan	40	4.1k 1.3×	1.0k 0.9×	1.0k 2.0×	267 0.5×	101 0.2×	162	5.2k
Matthias Heinemann Netherlands	45	5.0k 1.6×	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 2.1×	248 0.5×	126 0.3×	102	6.5k
Yitzhak Pilpel Israel	49	6.7k 2.2×	1.3k 1.2×	243 0.5×	670 1.4×	705 1.5×	100	8.3k
Mark C. Leake United Kingdom	37	3.6k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	780 1.5×	167 0.3×	409 0.9×	128	5.3k
James N. Sturgis France	40	3.6k 1.2×	750 0.7×	218 0.4×	357 0.7×	1.0k 2.2×	102	4.7k
Farren J. Isaacs United States	38	7.2k 2.3×	2.2k 2.0×	721 1.4×	323 0.7×	99 0.2×	63	8.2k
Matthew R. Bennett United States	28	2.6k 0.8×	791 0.7×	692 1.3×	334 0.7×	152 0.3×	69	3.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Süel, Gürol M., et al.. (2025). Computational model of fractal interface formation in bacterial biofilms. Physical review. E. 112(6). 64408–64408.

Comerci, Colin J., et al.. (2024). Bioelectronic tools for understanding the universal language of electrical signaling across species and kingdoms. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 267. 116843–116843. 2 indexed citations

Yue, Jiping, Albert C. Yang, Colin J. Comerci, et al.. (2024). Bioelectronic drug-free control of opportunistic pathogens through selective excitability. Device. 2(11). 100596–100596. 3 indexed citations

Comerci, Colin J., Leticia Galera-Laporta, Edgar Gutierrez, et al.. (2022). Localized electrical stimulation triggers cell-type-specific proliferation in biofilms. Cell Systems. 13(6). 488–498.e4. 17 indexed citations

Chiou, Jian-geng, et al.. (2022). A segmentation clock patterns cellular differentiation in a bacterial biofilm. Cell. 185(1). 145–157.e13. 39 indexed citations

Galera-Laporta, Leticia, et al.. (2022). Electrochemical potential enables dormant spores to integrate environmental signals. Science. 378(6615). 43–49. 59 indexed citations

Bialecka-Fornal, Maja, Joseph Larkin, Arthur Prindle, et al.. (2020). Encoding Membrane-Potential-Based Memory within a Microbial Community. Cell Systems. 10(5). 417–423.e3. 86 indexed citations

Larkin, Joseph, et al.. (2020). Spiral Wave Propagation in Communities with Spatially Correlated Heterogeneity. Biophysical Journal. 118(7). 1721–1732. 5 indexed citations

Bialecka-Fornal, Maja, Joseph Larkin, Arthur Prindle, et al.. (2020). Encoding Spatial Memory within a Bacterial Biofilm Community. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 610a–610a. 2 indexed citations

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Martinez-Corral, Rosa, Jintao Liu, Arthur Prindle, Gürol M. Süel, & Jordi García‐Ojalvo. (2019). Metabolic basis of brain-like electrical signalling in bacterial communities. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1774). 20180382–20180382. 54 indexed citations

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Galera-Laporta, Leticia, Maja Bialecka-Fornal, Zhouxin Shen, et al.. (2019). Magnesium Flux Modulates Ribosomes to Increase Bacterial Survival. Cell. 177(2). 352–360.e13. 95 indexed citations

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Martinez-Corral, Rosa, Jintao Liu, Gürol M. Süel, & Jordi García‐Ojalvo. (2018). Bistable emergence of oscillations in growing Bacillus subtilis biofilms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(36). E8333–E8340. 40 indexed citations

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Larkin, Joseph, Arthur Prindle, Jintao Liu, et al.. (2018). Signal Percolation within a Bacterial Community. Cell Systems. 7(2). 137–145.e3. 77 indexed citations

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Mugler, Andrew, Mark Kittisopikul, Luke Hayden, et al.. (2016). Noise Expands the Response Range of the Bacillus subtilis Competence Circuit. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(3). e1004793–e1004793. 20 indexed citations

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Liu, Jintao, et al.. (2015). Metabolic co-dependence gives rise to collective oscillations within biofilms. Nature. 523(7562). 550–554. 322 indexed citations breakdown →

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Asally, Munehiro, Mark Kittisopikul, Pau Rué, et al.. (2012). Localized cell death focuses mechanical forces during 3D patterning in a biofilm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(46). 18891–18896. 267 indexed citations

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Süel, Gürol M.. (2011). Use of Fluorescence Microscopy to Analyze Genetic Circuit Dynamics. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 497. 275–293. 10 indexed citations

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Wu, Zhuoru, Katherine Luby‐Phelps, Abhijit Bugde, et al.. (2009). Capacity for stochastic self-renewal and differentiation in mammalian spermatogonial stem cells. The Journal of Cell Biology. 187(4). 513–524. 23 indexed citations

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Süel, Gürol M., Rajan P. Kulkarni, Jonathan Dworkin, Jordi García‐Ojalvo, & Michael B. Elowitz. (2007). Tunability and Noise Dependence in Differentiation Dynamics. Science. 315(5819). 1716–1719. 356 indexed citations

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Süel, Gürol M., Jordi García‐Ojalvo, Louisa M. Liberman, & Michael B. Elowitz. (2006). An excitable gene regulatory circuit induces transient cellular differentiation. Nature. 440(7083). 545–550. 538 indexed citations breakdown →

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