Kerwyn Casey Huang

19.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
179 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Kerwyn Casey Huang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kerwyn Casey Huang has authored 179 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Molecular Biology, 100 papers in Genetics and 60 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Kerwyn Casey Huang's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (88 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (53 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (34 papers). Kerwyn Casey Huang is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (88 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (53 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (34 papers). Kerwyn Casey Huang collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Russia. Kerwyn Casey Huang's co-authors include Ned S. Wingreen, Justin L. Sonnenburg, Carolina Tropini, Enrique Rojas, Handuo Shi, Zemer Gitai, Amanda Miguel, Kristen Earle, Ranjan Mukhopadhyay and Julie A. Theriot and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Kerwyn Casey Huang

174 papers receiving 9.8k citations

Hit Papers

A Comprehensive, CRISPR-based Functional Analysis of Esse... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2017 2018 2018 2017 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. A Comprehensive, CRISPR-based Functional Analysis of Essential Genes in Bacteria
    2016 512 citations Jason M. Peters, Alexandre Colavin et al. profile →
  2. The Gut Microbiome: Connecting Spatial Organization to Function
    2017 438 citations Kerwyn Casey Huang et al. profile →
  3. The outer membrane is an essential load-bearing element in Gram-negative bacteria
    2018 420 citations Enrique Rojas, Gabriel Billings et al. profile →
  4. A Gut Commensal-Produced Metabolite Mediates Colonization Resistance to Salmonella Infection
    2018 354 citations Manohary Rajendram, Kerwyn Casey Huang et al. profile →
  5. GTPase activity–coupled treadmilling of the bacterial tubulin FtsZ organizes septal cell wall synthesis
    2017 338 citations Amanda Miguel, Kerwyn Casey Huang et al. Science profile →
  6. Physical properties of the bacterial outer membrane
    2021 240 citations Jiawei Sun, Thomas J. Silhavy et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kerwyn Casey Huang United States 54 6.6k 3.4k 2.0k 875 834 179 9.9k
Yves V. Brun United States 56 6.6k 1.0× 4.1k 1.2× 2.8k 1.4× 578 0.7× 860 1.0× 154 10.1k
Hera Vlamakis United States 50 8.2k 1.2× 2.5k 0.7× 1.9k 1.0× 1.4k 1.6× 657 0.8× 90 11.8k
P. Lynne Howell Canada 55 6.9k 1.0× 1.9k 0.5× 1.4k 0.7× 752 0.9× 422 0.5× 202 9.5k
Mikhail S. Gelfand Russia 58 8.4k 1.3× 2.5k 0.7× 1.5k 0.7× 904 1.0× 421 0.5× 362 12.5k
Jörg Stülke Germany 64 7.9k 1.2× 5.4k 1.6× 2.7k 1.4× 765 0.9× 741 0.9× 193 11.7k
Ned S. Wingreen United States 77 10.4k 1.6× 3.5k 1.0× 1.7k 0.9× 500 0.6× 1.8k 2.2× 263 24.3k
Daniel B. Kearns United States 47 5.8k 0.9× 3.4k 1.0× 2.6k 1.3× 332 0.4× 790 0.9× 145 8.6k
Joshua Adkins United States 54 7.3k 1.1× 1.2k 0.3× 1.1k 0.6× 730 0.8× 967 1.2× 164 11.0k
João B. Xavier United States 44 6.1k 0.9× 1.8k 0.5× 1.3k 0.6× 2.1k 2.4× 742 0.9× 98 10.0k
Michael Y. Galperin United States 70 12.6k 1.9× 3.6k 1.0× 3.1k 1.5× 963 1.1× 798 1.0× 209 17.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nguyen, Taylor H., Benjamin Wang, Manohary Rajendram, et al.. (2025). Profiling Salmonella transcriptional dynamics during macrophage infection using a comprehensive reporter library. Nature Microbiology. 10(4). 1006–1023. 2 indexed citations
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Miguel, Amanda, Matylda Zietek, Handuo Shi, et al.. (2025). Modulation of bacterial cell size and growth rate via activation of a cell envelope stress response. mBio. 16(11). e0228125–e0228125. 1 indexed citations
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Knapp, Benjamin D., Lisa Willis, Carlos G. Gonzalez, et al.. (2024). Metabolic rearrangement enables adaptation of microbial growth rate to temperature shifts. Nature Microbiology. 10(1). 185–201. 9 indexed citations
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Knapp, Benjamin D., Handuo Shi, & Kerwyn Casey Huang. (2024). Complex state transitions of the bacterial cell division protein FtsZ. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 35(10). ar130–ar130. 2 indexed citations
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Vasquez, Kimberly S., et al.. (2023). Within-host evolution of the gut microbiome. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 71. 102258–102258. 18 indexed citations
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Sun, Jiawei, et al.. (2023). Mechanism of outer membrane destabilization by global reduction of protein content. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5715–5715. 20 indexed citations
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Gopinathan, Ajay, et al.. (2022). Feedback linking cell envelope stiffness, curvature, and synthesis enables robust rod-shaped bacterial growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(41). e2200728119–e2200728119. 6 indexed citations
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Arjes, Heidi A., Haiwen Gui, Esha Atolia, et al.. (2022). Fatty Acid Synthesis Knockdown Promotes Biofilm Wrinkling and Inhibits Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. mBio. 13(5). e0138822–e0138822. 5 indexed citations
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Kamariza, Mireille, Benjamin D. Knapp, Christopher Ealand, et al.. (2021). Toward Point-of-Care Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis : A Brighter Solvatochromic Probe Detects Mycobacteria within Minutes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(9). 1368–1379. 34 indexed citations
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Shi, Handuo, Corey S. Westfall, Pascal D. Odermatt, et al.. (2021). Starvation induces shrinkage of the bacterial cytoplasm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(24). 43 indexed citations
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Cesar, Spencer, Brian Yu, Enrique Rojas, et al.. (2020). Bacterial Evolution in High-Osmolarity Environments. mBio. 11(4). 15 indexed citations
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Shi, Handuo, Wei Wang, Angela M. Mitchell, et al.. (2020). The inner membrane protein YhdP modulates the rate of anterograde phospholipid flow in Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(43). 26907–26914. 49 indexed citations
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Atolia, Esha, Spencer Cesar, Heidi A. Arjes, et al.. (2020). Environmental and Physiological Factors Affecting High-Throughput Measurements of Bacterial Growth. mBio. 11(5). 33 indexed citations
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Lim, Youngbin, Anthony L. Shiver, Margarita Khariton, et al.. (2019). Mechanically resolved imaging of bacteria using expansion microscopy. PLoS Biology. 17(10). e3000268–e3000268. 36 indexed citations
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Zhou, Xiaoxue, David K. Halladin, Enrique Rojas, et al.. (2015). Mechanical crack propagation drives millisecond daughter cell separation in Staphylococcus aureus. Science. 348(6234). 574–578. 85 indexed citations
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Ursell, Tristan, Jeffrey Nguyen, Russell D. Monds, et al.. (2014). Rod-like bacterial shape is maintained by feedback between cell curvature and cytoskeletal localization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(11). E1025–34. 178 indexed citations
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Tsekouras, Konstantinos, et al.. (2013). Design of High-Specificity Nanocarriers by Exploiting Non-Equilibrium Effects in Cancer Cell Targeting. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e65623–e65623. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Ying, Jen Hsin, Lingyun Zhao, et al.. (2013). FtsZ Protofilaments Use a Hinge-Opening Mechanism for Constrictive Force Generation. Science. 341(6144). 392–395. 119 indexed citations
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Teeffelen, Sven van, Siyuan Wang, Leon Furchtgott, et al.. (2011). The bacterial actin MreB rotates, and rotation depends on cell-wall assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(38). 15822–15827. 290 indexed citations
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Fleming, Tinya C., Jae Yen Shin, Sang-Hyuk Lee, et al.. (2010). Dynamic SpoIIIE assembly mediates septal membrane fission during Bacillus subtilis sporulation. Genes & Development. 24(11). 1160–1172. 57 indexed citations

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