Melanie J. Shears

1.5k total citations
28 papers, 876 citations indexed

About

Melanie J. Shears is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Immunology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Melanie J. Shears has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 876 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 11 papers in Immunology and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Melanie J. Shears's work include Malaria Research and Control (18 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (13 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (4 papers). Melanie J. Shears is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (18 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (13 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (4 papers). Melanie J. Shears collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Australia. Melanie J. Shears's co-authors include Cyrille Y. Botté, Geoffrey I. McFadden, Photini Sinnis, Robert L. Moritz, Kristian E. Swearingen, Stefan H. I. Kappe, Scott E. Lindner, Christine S. Hopp, Damien L. Callahan and Yoshiki Yamaryo‐Botté and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Melanie J. Shears

27 papers receiving 872 citations

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melanie J. Shears United States	14	402	380	204	178	174	28	876
Ming Kalanon Australia	17	677 1.7×	447 1.2×	269 1.3×	156 0.9×	171 1.0×	22	1.1k
Abigail J. Perrin United Kingdom	12	329 0.8×	212 0.6×	71 0.3×	92 0.5×	129 0.7×	15	543
Kylie A. Mullin Australia	11	456 1.1×	324 0.9×	172 0.8×	370 2.1×	82 0.5×	11	813
Loïc Rivière France	16	888 2.2×	777 2.0×	176 0.9×	1.0k 5.7×	180 1.0×	28	1.6k
Amy Springer United States	13	307 0.8×	249 0.7×	37 0.2×	49 0.3×	150 0.9×	24	600
Wu‐Bo Li United States	12	216 0.5×	238 0.6×	64 0.3×	108 0.6×	136 0.8×	16	510
Takeshi Annoura Japan	15	486 1.2×	281 0.7×	157 0.8×	209 1.2×	149 0.9×	39	751
Souad Amiar United States	10	56 0.1×	295 0.8×	102 0.5×	98 0.6×	29 0.2×	17	520
Zhu‐Hong Li United States	19	181 0.5×	539 1.4×	258 1.3×	352 2.0×	29 0.2×	31	890
Kenneth P. Watkins United States	20	160 0.4×	1.6k 4.3×	50 0.2×	518 2.9×	78 0.4×	20	1.9k

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Duncombe, Caroline J., Annette M. Seilie, Kimberly A. Dill‐McFarland, et al.. (2025). Androgens inhibit protective CD8+ T cell responses against pre-erythrocytic malaria parasites in mice. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5172–5172. 1 indexed citations

Shears, Melanie J., Jesse H. Erasmus, Amit P. Khandhar, et al.. (2024). Accelerated prime-and-trap vaccine regimen in mice using repRNA-based CSP malaria vaccine. npj Vaccines. 9(1). 12–12. 7 indexed citations

Shears, Melanie J., Caroline J. Duncombe, Annette M. Seilie, et al.. (2024). Ultra-low volume intradermal administration of radiation-attenuated sporozoites with the glycolipid adjuvant 7DW8-5 completely protects mice against malaria. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 2881–2881. 1 indexed citations

Shears, Melanie J., Brad Stone, Natasha KC, et al.. (2023). Preliminary studies on the immunogenicity of a prime-and-trap malaria vaccine in nonhuman primates. Vaccine. 41(38). 5494–5498.

Shears, Melanie J., Rebekah A. Reynolds, Caroline J. Duncombe, et al.. (2023). Plasmodium knowlesi in pig-tailed macaques: a potential new model for malaria vaccine research. Malaria Journal. 22(1). 379–379. 2 indexed citations

Duncombe, Caroline J., Sumana Chakravarty, B. Kim Lee Sim, et al.. (2022). Sex-Specific Differences in Cytokine Induction by the Glycolipid Adjuvant 7DW8-5 in Mice. Biomolecules. 13(1). 8–8. 1 indexed citations

Chakravarty, Sumana, Melanie J. Shears, Eric R. James, et al.. (2022). Efficient infection of non-human primates with purified, cryopreserved Plasmodium knowlesi sporozoites. Malaria Journal. 21(1). 247–247. 6 indexed citations

Shears, Melanie J., Annette M. Seilie, Tayla M. Olsen, et al.. (2022). Cryopreserved Sporozoites with and without the Glycolipid Adjuvant 7DW8-5 Protect in Prime-and-Trap Malaria Vaccination. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 106(4). 1227–1236. 8 indexed citations

Lindner, Scott E., Kristian E. Swearingen, Melanie J. Shears, et al.. (2022). Addendum: Transcriptomics and proteomics reveal two waves of translational repression during the maturation of malaria parasite sporozoites. Nature Communications. 13(1). 283–283. 3 indexed citations

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Shears, Melanie J., Annette M. Seilie, B. Kim Lee Sim, Stephen L. Hoffman, & Sean C. Murphy. (2020). Quantification of Plasmodium knowlesi versus Plasmodium falciparum in the rhesus liver: implications for malaria vaccine studies in rhesus models. Malaria Journal. 19(1). 313–313. 6 indexed citations

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Shears, Melanie J. & Sean C. Murphy. (2020). Vancomycin improves Plasmodium yoelii malaria parasite in vitro liver stage cultures by controlling Elizabethkingia anophelis, a bacterium in the microbiome of lab-reared Anopheles mosquitoes. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 237. 111279–111279. 2 indexed citations

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Amiar, Souad, Nichollas E. Scott, Laurence Berry, et al.. (2020). Division and Adaptation to Host Environment of Apicomplexan Parasites Depend on Apicoplast Lipid Metabolic Plasticity and Host Organelle Remodeling. Cell Reports. 30(11). 3778–3792.e9. 41 indexed citations

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Shears, Melanie J., Raja Sekhar Nirujogi, Kristian E. Swearingen, et al.. (2019). Proteomic Analysis of Plasmodium Merosomes: The Link between Liver and Blood Stages in Malaria. Journal of Proteome Research. 18(9). 3404–3418. 24 indexed citations

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Lindner, Scott E., Kristian E. Swearingen, Melanie J. Shears, et al.. (2019). Transcriptomics and proteomics reveal two waves of translational repression during the maturation of malaria parasite sporozoites. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4964–4964. 74 indexed citations

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McLean, Kyle Jarrod, Judith Straimer, Christine S. Hopp, et al.. (2019). Generation of Transmission-Competent Human Malaria Parasites with Chromosomally-Integrated Fluorescent Reporters. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 13131–13131. 18 indexed citations

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Shears, Melanie J., et al.. (2018). Important Extracellular Interactions between Plasmodium Sporozoites and Host Cells Required for Infection. Trends in Parasitology. 35(2). 129–139. 26 indexed citations

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Amiar, Souad, James I. MacRae, Damien L. Callahan, et al.. (2016). Apicoplast-Localized Lysophosphatidic Acid Precursor Assembly Is Required for Bulk Phospholipid Synthesis in Toxoplasma gondii and Relies on an Algal/Plant-Like Glycerol 3-Phosphate Acyltransferase. PLoS Pathogens. 12(8). e1005765–e1005765. 51 indexed citations

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Shears, Melanie J., Cyrille Y. Botté, & Geoffrey I. McFadden. (2015). Fatty acid metabolism in the Plasmodium apicoplast: Drugs, doubts and knockouts. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 199(1-2). 34–50. 71 indexed citations

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Martin, Gregory J.O., David R. Hill, Melanie J. Shears, et al.. (2014). Lipid Profile Remodeling in Response to Nitrogen Deprivation in the Microalgae Chlorella sp. (Trebouxiophyceae) and Nannochloropsis sp. (Eustigmatophyceae). PLoS ONE. 9(8). e103389–e103389. 119 indexed citations

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Botté, Cyrille Y., Yoshiki Yamaryo‐Botté, Thusitha Rupasinghe, et al.. (2013). Atypical lipid composition in the purified relict plastid (apicoplast) of malaria parasites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(18). 7506–7511. 99 indexed citations

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