Jason Lai

1.8k total citations
22 papers, 624 citations indexed

About

Jason Lai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Jason Lai has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 624 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Cell Biology and 4 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Jason Lai's work include Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (5 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (4 papers) and Congenital heart defects research (4 papers). Jason Lai is often cited by papers focused on Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (5 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (4 papers) and Congenital heart defects research (4 papers). Jason Lai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and United Kingdom. Jason Lai's co-authors include Didier Y. R. Stainier, Carsten Kuenne, Mario Looso, Pedro Luís Moura, Stefan Günther, Shih-Lei Lai, Ayele Taddese Tsedeke, Rubén Marín‐Juez, Jan Kubelka and Mohamed A. El-Brolosy and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jason Lai

22 papers receiving 623 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jason Lai United States 12 444 147 94 69 66 22 624
Po-Lin So United States 13 631 1.4× 58 0.4× 146 1.6× 84 1.2× 47 0.7× 16 846
Allison S. Cleary United States 7 423 1.0× 123 0.8× 74 0.8× 36 0.5× 49 0.7× 14 711
Aliana Egeo Italy 12 691 1.6× 319 2.2× 101 1.1× 33 0.5× 139 2.1× 15 842
Craig S. Newman United States 13 690 1.6× 92 0.6× 138 1.5× 31 0.4× 23 0.3× 21 885
Qi Xiao China 17 628 1.4× 105 0.7× 74 0.8× 46 0.7× 77 1.2× 29 884
Antje Schaefer Netherlands 15 514 1.2× 346 2.4× 39 0.4× 92 1.3× 24 0.4× 20 818
Theresa C. Swayne United States 16 883 2.0× 201 1.4× 26 0.3× 80 1.2× 38 0.6× 31 1.1k
Kiyotoshi Satoh Japan 14 852 1.9× 274 1.9× 102 1.1× 35 0.5× 15 0.2× 24 1.2k
James E. Bear United States 11 430 1.0× 134 0.9× 39 0.4× 34 0.5× 18 0.3× 17 801

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jason Lai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jason Lai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jason Lai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jason Lai 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 Jason Lai. Jason Lai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chen, Kuang-Yui Michael, Jason Lai, Jialu Wang, et al.. (2025). Computational design of highly signalling-active membrane receptors through solvent-mediated allosteric networks. Nature Chemistry. 17(3). 429–438. 1 indexed citations
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Lai, Jason, et al.. (2022). Optogenetic control of YAP cellular localisation and function. EMBO Reports. 23(9). e54401–e54401. 10 indexed citations
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Lai, Jason, et al.. (2022). DNA-damage induced cell death in yap1;wwtr1 mutant epidermal basal cells. eLife. 11. 2 indexed citations
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Lai, Jason, Kristina Gagalova, Carsten Kuenne, Mohamed A. El-Brolosy, & Didier Y. R. Stainier. (2019). Induction of interferon-stimulated genes and cellular stress pathways by morpholinos in zebrafish. Developmental Biology. 454(1). 21–28. 20 indexed citations
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Wang, Li, Kaifang Pang, Kihoon Han, et al.. (2019). An autism-linked missense mutation in SHANK3 reveals the modularity of Shank3 function. Molecular Psychiatry. 25(10). 2534–2555. 49 indexed citations
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Stone, Oliver A., Mohamed A. El-Brolosy, Kerstin Wilhelm, et al.. (2018). Loss of pyruvate kinase M2 limits growth and triggers innate immune signaling in endothelial cells. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4077–4077. 61 indexed citations
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Lai, Jason, et al.. (2018). Effect of Mutations on the Global and Site-Specific Stability and Folding of an Elementary Protein Structural Motif. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 122(49). 11083–11094. 3 indexed citations
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Astone, Matteo, Jason Lai, Sirio Dupont, et al.. (2018). Zebrafish mutants and TEAD reporters reveal essential functions for Yap and Taz in posterior cardinal vein development. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 10189–10189. 36 indexed citations
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Lai, Jason, Michelle M. Collins, Verónica Uribe, et al.. (2018). The Hippo pathway effector Wwtr1 regulates cardiac wall maturation in zebrafish. Development. 145(10). 29 indexed citations
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Lai, Jason, et al.. (2017). Enhancing Structure Prediction and Design of Soluble and Membrane Proteins with Explicit Solvent-Protein Interactions. Structure. 25(11). 1758–1770.e8. 15 indexed citations
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Lai, Jason, et al.. (2017). A new parameter‐rich structure‐aware mechanistic model for amino acid substitution during evolution. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 86(2). 218–228. 8 indexed citations
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Lai, Shih-Lei, Rubén Marín‐Juez, Pedro Luís Moura, et al.. (2017). Reciprocal analyses in zebrafish and medaka reveal that harnessing the immune response promotes cardiac regeneration. eLife. 6. 211 indexed citations
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Kimelman, David, et al.. (2017). Regulation of posterior body and epidermal morphogenesis in zebrafish by localized Yap1 and Wwtr1. eLife. 6. 32 indexed citations
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Konrad, Anke, Jason Lai, Zeeshan Mutahir, Jure Piškur, & David A. Liberles. (2014). The Phylogenetic Distribution and Evolution of Enzymes Within the Thymidine Kinase 2-like Gene Family in Metazoa. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 78(3-4). 202–216. 4 indexed citations
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Wong, Lai-Ping, Jason Lai, Woei‐Yuh Saw, et al.. (2014). Insights into the Genetic Structure and Diversity of 38 South Asian Indians from Deep Whole-Genome Sequencing. PLoS Genetics. 10(5). e1004377–e1004377. 30 indexed citations
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Lai, Jason, et al.. (2013). Elite Model for the Generation of Induced Pluripotent Cancer Cells (iPCs). PLoS ONE. 8(2). e56702–e56702. 8 indexed citations
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Lai, Jason, et al.. (2012). A Phylogenetic Analysis of Normal Modes Evolution in Enzymes and Its Relationship to Enzyme Function. Journal of Molecular Biology. 422(3). 442–459. 20 indexed citations
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Lai, Jason, et al.. (2012). Reversal of Aberrant Cancer Methylome and Transcriptome upon Direct Reprogramming of Lung Cancer Cells. Scientific Reports. 2(1). 592–592. 38 indexed citations
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Parsons, Philip J., et al.. (2011). New synthetic routes to the kainoids: a synthesis of kainic acid and its analogues. Tetrahedron. 67(52). 10267–10273. 11 indexed citations
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Penkett, Clive S., Lee Kingston, Richard J. French, et al.. (2006). Palladium-mediated fragmentation of meta photocycloadducts using carbon based electrophiles. Part 1. Tetrahedron. 62(14). 3423–3434. 8 indexed citations

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