Marena Trinidad

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
21 papers, 457 citations indexed

About

Marena Trinidad is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Marena Trinidad has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 457 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Marena Trinidad's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (14 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (5 papers). Marena Trinidad is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (14 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (5 papers). Marena Trinidad collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Brazil. Marena Trinidad's co-authors include Jennifer A. Doudna, David Colognori, Kai Chen, Min Hyung Kang, Cindy R. Sandoval Espinoza, Wayne Ngo, Jennifer Hamilton, Elizabeth C. Stahl, Honglue Shi and Benjamin A. Adler and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Marena Trinidad

19 papers receiving 450 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

In vivo human T cell engineering with enveloped delivery vehicles

2024 103 citations Jennifer Hamilton, Cindy R. Sandoval Espinoza et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
Lung and liver editing by lipid nanoparticle delivery of a stable CRISPR–Cas9 ribonucleoprotein

2024 54 citations Kai Chen, Hesong Han et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers

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Paul C. Kirchgatterer United States

James Y.S. Kim United States

Congting Guo China

Mollie S. Schubert United States

Changchang Xin China

Farzaneh Moghadam United States

Marta Martínez-Lage Spain

Mahalakshmi Sridharan United States

Paul C. Kirchgatterer United States

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43 ×1.0

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35 ×1.2

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Citations per year, relative to Marena Trinidad Marena Trinidad (= 1×) peers Paul C. Kirchgatterer

Countries citing papers authored by Marena Trinidad

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marena Trinidad

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marena Trinidad

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Weiss, Trevor, Honglue Shi, Marena Trinidad, et al.. (2026). Efficient transgene-free multiplexed germline editing via viral delivery of an engineered TnpB. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Ma, Enbo, Kai Chen, Honglue Shi, et al.. (2025). Directed evolution expands CRISPR–Cas12a genome-editing capacity. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(13). 1 indexed citations

Shi, Honglue, Kevin Wasko, Marena Trinidad, et al.. (2025). Rapid two-step target capture ensures efficient CRISPR-Cas9-guided genome editing. Molecular Cell. 85(9). 1730–1742.e9. 3 indexed citations

Ehrenberg, Alexander J., Cathrine Petersen, Felipe Luiz Pereira, et al.. (2025). Pathways underlying selective neuronal vulnerability in Alzheimer's disease: Contrasting the vulnerable locus coeruleus to the resilient substantia nigra. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 21(3). e70087–e70087. 2 indexed citations

Shi, Honglue, Kevin Wasko, Marena Trinidad, et al.. (2025). BPS2025 - Rapid two-step target capture ensures efficient CRISPR-Cas9-guided genome editing. Biophysical Journal. 124(3). 90a–90a. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Kai, et al.. (2024). Engineering self-deliverable ribonucleoproteins for genome editing in the brain. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1727–1727. 24 indexed citations

Chen, Kai, Katarzyna M. Soczek, Erin Doherty, et al.. (2024). Rapid DNA unwinding accelerates genome editing by engineered CRISPR-Cas9. Cell. 187(13). 3249–3261.e14. 29 indexed citations

Hamilton, Jennifer, Cindy R. Sandoval Espinoza, Min Hyung Kang, et al.. (2024). In vivo human T cell engineering with enveloped delivery vehicles. Nature Biotechnology. 42(11). 1684–1692. 103 indexed citations breakdown →

Trinidad, Marena, Hunter Nisonoff, Seyone Chithrananda, et al.. (2024). RNA language models predict mutations that improve RNA function. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10627–10627. 8 indexed citations

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Chen, Kai, et al.. (2024). Lung and liver editing by lipid nanoparticle delivery of a stable CRISPR–Cas9 ribonucleoprotein. Nature Biotechnology. 43(9). 1445–1457. 54 indexed citations breakdown →

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Adler, Benjamin A., et al.. (2024). Structure-guided discovery of ancestral CRISPR-Cas13 ribonucleases. Science. 385(6708). 538–543. 20 indexed citations

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Trinidad, Marena, Alicia Ljungdahl, Geoffrey Y. Berguig, et al.. (2024). Haploinsufficiency underlies the neurodevelopmental consequences of SLC6A1 variants. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 111(6). 1222–1238. 7 indexed citations

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Ferguson, Lucas, et al.. (2024). eIF3 engages with 3’-UTR termini of highly translated mRNAs. eLife. 13. 1 indexed citations

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Trinidad, Marena, Xinying Hong, Steven Froelich, et al.. (2023). Predicting disease severity in metachromatic leukodystrophy using protein activity and a patient phenotype matrix. Genome biology. 24(1). 172–172. 7 indexed citations

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Yoon, Peter H., Petr Skopintsev, Honglue Shi, et al.. (2023). Eukaryotic RNA-guided endonucleases evolved from a unique clade of bacterial enzymes. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(22). 12414–12427. 17 indexed citations

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Colognori, David, Marena Trinidad, & Jennifer A. Doudna. (2023). Precise transcript targeting by CRISPR-Csm complexes. Nature Biotechnology. 41(9). 1256–1264. 42 indexed citations

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Stahl, Elizabeth C., Jennifer K. Sabo, Min Hyung Kang, et al.. (2023). Genome editing in the mouse brain with minimally immunogenic Cas9 RNPs. Molecular Therapy. 31(8). 2422–2438. 22 indexed citations

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Ma, Enbo, Kai Chen, Honglue Shi, et al.. (2022). Improved genome editing by an engineered CRISPR-Cas12a. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(22). 12689–12701. 66 indexed citations

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Lin-Shiao, Enrique, et al.. (2022). Decorating chromatin for enhanced genome editing using CRISPR-Cas9. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(49). e2204259119–e2204259119. 32 indexed citations

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Estrada, Karol, Steven Froelich, Arthur Wüster, et al.. (2021). Identifying therapeutic drug targets using bidirectional effect genes. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2224–2224. 18 indexed citations

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