Hana El‐Samad

7.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
78 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Hana El‐Samad is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hana El‐Samad has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Biophysics and 8 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Hana El‐Samad's work include Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (44 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (19 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (15 papers). Hana El‐Samad is often cited by papers focused on Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (44 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (19 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (15 papers). Hana El‐Samad collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Chile. Hana El‐Samad's co-authors include Mustafa Khammash, Wendell A. Lim, Michael Chevalier, Wenzhe Ma, Ala Trusina, Chao Tang, David Pincus, Jacob Stewart-Ornstein, Peter Walter and Ignacio A. Zuleta and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Hana El‐Samad

77 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

Defining Network Topologies that Can Achieve Biochemical ... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2013 2019 2020 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Defining Network Topologies that Can Achieve Biochemical Adaptation
    2009 664 citations Wenzhe Ma, Ala Trusina et al. Cell profile →
  2. Conformational biosensors reveal GPCR signalling from endosomes
    2013 608 citations Roshanak Irannejad, Michael Chevalier et al. Nature profile →
  3. De novo design of bioactive protein switches
    2019 185 citations Scott E. Boyken, Andrew H. Ng et al. Nature profile →
  4. De novo design of protein logic gates
    2020 158 citations Zibo Chen, Ryan D. Kibler et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hana El‐Samad United States 35 3.7k 732 514 496 399 78 4.7k
Sabine Schmidt Germany 26 4.3k 1.2× 535 0.7× 530 1.0× 356 0.7× 559 1.4× 76 6.2k
Kurt S. Thorn United States 26 4.1k 1.1× 1.6k 2.2× 285 0.6× 378 0.8× 374 0.9× 35 5.8k
Onn Brandman United States 19 5.1k 1.4× 578 0.8× 668 1.3× 391 0.8× 177 0.4× 31 5.9k
Sina Ghaemmaghami United States 27 8.1k 2.2× 991 1.4× 799 1.6× 224 0.5× 258 0.6× 57 9.1k
Jonathan S. Minden United States 25 2.6k 0.7× 631 0.9× 355 0.7× 292 0.6× 191 0.5× 59 3.6k
Tobias Madl Austria 46 4.7k 1.3× 416 0.6× 279 0.5× 254 0.5× 207 0.5× 192 6.5k
Bogdan Budnik United States 41 4.0k 1.1× 347 0.5× 296 0.6× 299 0.6× 575 1.4× 96 6.1k
Kunio Takeyasu Japan 43 4.2k 1.1× 751 1.0× 749 1.5× 453 0.9× 362 0.9× 182 6.1k
Jana Wolf Germany 23 4.5k 1.2× 533 0.7× 446 0.9× 308 0.6× 174 0.4× 56 6.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hana El‐Samad

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hana El‐Samad

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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El‐Samad, Hana. (2022). Mr. President, Mandate an Equitable Bioeconomy. 1(5). 402–403. 1 indexed citations
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El‐Samad, Hana & Fay Y. Lin. (2022). The Vision for GEN Biotechnology : From Precision Biology to Engaging a Broad Audience. 1(1). 21–25. 2 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Taylor H., Galen Dods, Mariana Gómez-Schiavon, et al.. (2022). Competitive Displacement of De Novo Designed HeteroDimers Can Reversibly Control Protein–Protein Interactions and Implement Feedback in Synthetic Circuits. 1(1). 91–100. 2 indexed citations
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Woodall, Nicholas B., Zara Y. Weinberg, Florian Büsch, et al.. (2021). De novo design of tyrosine and serine kinase-driven protein switches. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 28(9). 762–770. 18 indexed citations
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Chen, Zibo, Ryan D. Kibler, Andrew C. Hunt, et al.. (2020). De novo design of protein logic gates. Science. 368(6486). 78–84. 158 indexed citations breakdown →
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Westbrook, Alexandra, et al.. (2019). Control theoretical concepts for synthetic and systems biology. Current Opinion in Systems Biology. 14. 50–57. 16 indexed citations
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Lucas, James E., Kyle E. Watters, Christof Fellmann, et al.. (2019). Controlling CRISPR-Cas9 with ligand-activated and ligand-deactivated sgRNAs. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2127–2127. 147 indexed citations
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Harrigan, Patrick, Hiten D. Madhani, & Hana El‐Samad. (2018). Real-Time Genetic Compensation Defines the Dynamic Demands of Feedback Control. Cell. 175(3). 877–886.e10. 54 indexed citations
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Stewart-Ornstein, Jacob, Susan Chen, Rajat Bhatnagar, Jonathan S. Weissman, & Hana El‐Samad. (2016). Model-guided optogenetic study of PKA signaling in budding yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 28(1). 221–227. 15 indexed citations
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Stewart-Ornstein, Jacob, et al.. (2014). Using Dynamic Noise Propagation to Infer Causal Regulatory Relationships in Biochemical Networks. ACS Synthetic Biology. 4(3). 258–264. 13 indexed citations
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Irannejad, Roshanak, Michael Chevalier, Jacob P. Mahoney, et al.. (2013). Conformational biosensors reveal GPCR signalling from endosomes. Nature. 495(7442). 534–538. 608 indexed citations breakdown →
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Stewart-Ornstein, Jacob, Christopher S. Nelson, Joe DeRisi, Jonathan S. Weissman, & Hana El‐Samad. (2013). Msn2 Coordinates a Stoichiometric Gene Expression Program. Current Biology. 23(23). 2336–2345. 43 indexed citations
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Stewart-Ornstein, Jacob & Hana El‐Samad. (2012). Stochastic Modeling of Cellular Networks. Methods in cell biology. 110. 111–137. 5 indexed citations
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Pincus, David, et al.. (2011). Homeostatic adaptation to endoplasmic reticulum stress depends on Ire1 kinase activity. The Journal of Cell Biology. 193(1). 171–184. 124 indexed citations
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El‐Samad, Hana & Hiten D. Madhani. (2011). Can a Systems Perspective Help Us Appreciate the Biological Meaning of Small Effects?. Developmental Cell. 21(1). 11–13. 3 indexed citations
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McCullagh, Emma, et al.. (2010). Coordinate control of gene expression noise and interchromosomal interactions in a MAP kinase pathway. Nature Cell Biology. 12(10). 954–962. 52 indexed citations
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August, Elias, et al.. (2010). Discriminating between rival biochemical network models: three approaches to optimal experiment design. BMC Systems Biology. 4(1). 38–38. 44 indexed citations
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Ma, Wenzhe, Ala Trusina, Hana El‐Samad, Wendell A. Lim, & Chao Tang. (2009). Defining Network Topologies that Can Achieve Biochemical Adaptation. Cell. 138(4). 760–773. 664 indexed citations breakdown →
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El‐Samad, Hana, Jesse P. Goff, & Mustafa Khammash. (2002). Calcium Homeostasis and Parturient Hypocalcemia: An Integral Feedback Perspective. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 214(1). 17–29. 141 indexed citations

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