Jonathan M. Urbach

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

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Jonathan M. Urbach is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Virology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan M. Urbach has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Virology and 6 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Jonathan M. Urbach's work include Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (7 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (6 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (4 papers). Jonathan M. Urbach is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (7 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (6 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (4 papers). Jonathan M. Urbach collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and China. Jonathan M. Urbach's co-authors include Frederick M. Ausubel, Nicole T. Liberati, Daniel G. Lee, Sachiko Miyata, Gang Wu, Javier E. Irazoqui, Eliana Drenkard, Tao Wei, Robert R. Rando and Laurence G. Rahme and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan M. Urbach

26 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

An ordered, nonredundant library of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PA14 transposon insertion mutants

2006 773 citations Nicole T. Liberati, Jonathan M. Urbach et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jonathan M. Urbach United States	19	2.3k	909	787	672	543	27	3.5k
Larry A. Gallagher United States	29	2.5k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	878 1.1×	610 0.9×	571 1.1×	48	3.9k
Ivan Matić France	40	3.4k 1.5×	2.7k 3.0×	1.1k 1.4×	677 1.0×	443 0.8×	97	5.7k
Sachiko Miyata United States	7	1.6k 0.7×	675 0.7×	621 0.8×	454 0.7×	173 0.3×	8	2.0k
Konstantin V. Korotkov United States	33	1.7k 0.8×	984 1.1×	425 0.5×	757 1.1×	206 0.4×	78	3.4k
Richard W. Titball United Kingdom	43	1.6k 0.7×	831 0.9×	204 0.3×	369 0.5×	291 0.5×	98	4.5k
Lothar Jänsch Germany	37	3.6k 1.6×	492 0.5×	363 0.5×	328 0.5×	633 1.2×	116	5.2k
Toshifumi Tomoyasu Japan	30	3.5k 1.5×	1.6k 1.7×	246 0.3×	544 0.8×	249 0.5×	65	4.8k
Steffen Porwollik United States	45	2.0k 0.8×	1.3k 1.4×	611 0.8×	1.9k 2.9×	371 0.7×	120	5.9k
Hanna Engelberg–Kulka Israel	31	2.7k 1.2×	2.5k 2.8×	948 1.2×	830 1.2×	192 0.4×	65	4.4k
Jonathan Dworkin United States	31	2.6k 1.1×	1.9k 2.1×	258 0.3×	243 0.4×	310 0.6×	66	3.8k

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Kiani, Zahra, Jonathan M. Urbach, Daniel Y. Chang, et al.. (2025). CD8+ T cell stemness precedes post-intervention control of HIV viraemia. Nature. 650(8100). 196–204. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Yuhuan, Jiayi Chen, Chenghui Wang, et al.. (2024). Exon shuffling and alternative splicing of ROCO genes in brown algae enables a diverse repertoire of candidate immune receptors. Frontiers in Plant Science. 15. 1445022–1445022.

Viard, Mathias, Colm Ó’hUigín, Yuko Yuki, et al.. (2024). Impact of HLA class I functional divergence on HIV control. Science. 383(6680). 319–325. 6 indexed citations

Collins, David R., Jonathan M. Urbach, Geetha Mylvaganam, et al.. (2023). Cytolytic CD8 ⁺ T cells infiltrate germinal centers to limit ongoing HIV replication in spontaneous controller lymph nodes. Science Immunology. 8(83). eade5872–eade5872. 22 indexed citations

Wang, Chenghui, Yan Li, Jonathan M. Urbach, et al.. (2023). Exon shuffling potentiates a diverse repertoire of brown algal NB‐ARC‐TPR candidate immune receptor proteins via alternative splicing. The Plant Journal. 114(2). 246–261. 2 indexed citations

Collins, David R., Jonathan M. Urbach, Karen A. Power, et al.. (2021). Functional impairment of HIV-specific CD8+ T cells precedes aborted spontaneous control of viremia. Immunity. 54(10). 2372–2384.e7. 30 indexed citations

Nathan, Anusha, Elizabeth J. Rossin, Clarety Kaseke, et al.. (2021). Structure-guided T cell vaccine design for SARS-CoV-2 variants and sarbecoviruses. Cell. 184(17). 4401–4413.e10. 53 indexed citations

Rossin, Elizabeth J., Gaurav D. Gaiha, Jonathan M. Urbach, James Chodosh, & Bruce D. Walker. (2019). Structural Topology Defines Protective CD8+ T cell Epitopes in the HIV Proteome. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 60(9). 4629–4629. 10 indexed citations

Gaiha, Gaurav D., Elizabeth J. Rossin, Jonathan M. Urbach, et al.. (2019). Structural topology defines protective CD8 ⁺ T cell epitopes in the HIV proteome. Science. 364(6439). 480–484. 92 indexed citations

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Urbach, Jonathan M. & Frederick M. Ausubel. (2017). The NBS-LRR architectures of plant R-proteins and metazoan NLRs evolved in independent events. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(5). 1063–1068. 100 indexed citations

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Djonović, Slavica, Jonathan M. Urbach, Eliana Drenkard, et al.. (2013). Trehalose Biosynthesis Promotes Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pathogenicity in Plants. PLoS Pathogens. 9(3). e1003217–e1003217. 66 indexed citations

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Feinbaum, Rhonda, Jonathan M. Urbach, Nicole T. Liberati, et al.. (2012). Genome-Wide Identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Virulence-Related Genes Using a Caenorhabditis elegans Infection Model. PLoS Pathogens. 8(7). e1002813–e1002813. 137 indexed citations

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Irazoqui, Javier E., Jonathan M. Urbach, & Frederick M. Ausubel. (2009). Evolution of host innate defence: insights from Caenorhabditis elegans and primitive invertebrates. Nature reviews. Immunology. 10(1). 47–58. 339 indexed citations

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Liberati, Nicole T., Jonathan M. Urbach, Tara Thurber, Gang Wu, & Frederick M. Ausubel. (2008). Comparing Insertion Libraries in Two Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains to Assess Gene Essentiality. Methods in molecular biology. 416. 153–169. 7 indexed citations

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Lee, Vincent T., Anja Brenčič, Nicole T. Liberati, et al.. (2006). Analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa diguanylate cyclases and phosphodiesterases reveals a role for bis-(3′-5′)-cyclic-GMP in virulence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(8). 2839–2844. 428 indexed citations

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Lee, Daniel G., Jonathan M. Urbach, Gang Wu, et al.. (2006). Genomic analysis reveals that Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence is combinatorial. Genome biology. 7(10). R90–R90. 455 indexed citations

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Chang, Jeff H., Jonathan M. Urbach, Larry W. Arnold, et al.. (2005). A high-throughput, near-saturating screen for type III effector genes from Pseudomonas syringae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(7). 2549–2554. 185 indexed citations

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He, Jianxin, Regina L. Baldini, Éric Déziel, et al.. (2004). The broad host range pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PA14 carries two pathogenicity islands harboring plant and animal virulence genes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(8). 2530–2535. 312 indexed citations

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Garsin, Danielle A., Jonathan M. Urbach, José C. Huguet‐Tapia, Joseph E. Peters, & Frederick M. Ausubel. (2004). Construction of anEnterococcus faecalisTn917-Mediated-Gene-Disruption Library Offers Insight into Tn917Insertion Patterns. Journal of Bacteriology. 186(21). 7280–7289. 46 indexed citations

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Urbach, Jonathan M. & Robert R. Rando. (1994). Thiol dependent isomerization of all‐trans‐retinoic acid to 9‐cis‐retinoic acid. FEBS Letters. 351(3). 429–432. 33 indexed citations

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