Michael A. DeJesus

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
26 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Michael A. DeJesus is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael A. DeJesus has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Epidemiology and 11 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Michael A. DeJesus's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (11 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (11 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (9 papers). Michael A. DeJesus is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (11 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (11 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (9 papers). Michael A. DeJesus collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Michael A. DeJesus's co-authors include Thomas R. Ioerger, Christopher M. Sassetti, Brian J. Akerley, Jeffrey D. Gawronski, Dirk Schnappinger, Sabine Ehrt, Jarukit E. Long, Eric J. Rubin, Sae Woong Park and Sarah M. Fortune and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael A. DeJesus

26 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

High-Resolution Phenotypic Profiling Defines Genes Essential for Mycobacterial Growth and Cholesterol Catabolism

2011 795 citations Jeffrey D. Gawronski, Michael A. DeJesus et al. PLoS Pathogens profile →
Comprehensive Essentiality Analysis of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Genome via Saturating Transposon Mutagenesis

2017 429 citations Michael A. DeJesus, Jarukit E. Long et al. profile →

Peers

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Elaine O. Davis United Kingdom

Jeffrey D. Gawronski United States

Christine L. Cosma United States

Yasu S. Morita United States

Martin Cohen‐Gonsaud France

Paras Jain United States

Mickaël Blaise France

J. Christian Pérez United States

S Iordănescu Romania

Jun-Rong Wei United States

Elaine O. Davis United Kingdom

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288 ×1.0

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael A. DeJesus

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Mishra, Saurabh, Xiaoyi Hu, Adrián Jinich, et al.. (2025). Candidate transmission survival genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(10). e2425981122–e2425981122. 2 indexed citations

Poulton, Nicholas C., Michael A. DeJesus, Mariko Kanai, et al.. (2024). Beyond antibiotic resistance: The whiB7 transcription factor coordinates an adaptive response to alanine starvation in mycobacteria. Cell chemical biology. 31(4). 669–682.e7. 7 indexed citations

Bosch, Barbara, Michael A. DeJesus, Dirk Schnappinger, & Jeremy M. Rock. (2024). Weak links: Advancing target‐based drug discovery by identifying the most vulnerable targets. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1535(1). 10–19. 2 indexed citations

DeJesus, Michael A., Nicholas C. Poulton, Barbara Bosch, et al.. (2024). Compensatory evolution in NusG improves fitness of drug-resistant M. tuberculosis. Nature. 628(8006). 186–194. 17 indexed citations

DeJesus, Michael A., et al.. (2024). A dose-response model for statistical analysis of chemical genetic interactions in CRISPRi screens. PLoS Computational Biology. 20(5). e1011408–e1011408. 1 indexed citations

Li, Shuqi, Nicholas C. Poulton, Michael A. DeJesus, et al.. (2022). CRISPRi chemical genetics and comparative genomics identify genes mediating drug potency in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nature Microbiology. 7(6). 766–779. 96 indexed citations

Poulton, Nicholas C., et al.. (2022). Mutations in rv0678 Confer Low-Level Resistance to Benzothiazinone DprE1 Inhibitors in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 66(9). e0090422–e0090422. 15 indexed citations

Bosch, Barbara, Michael A. DeJesus, Nicholas C. Poulton, et al.. (2021). Genome-wide gene expression tuning reveals diverse vulnerabilities of M. tuberculosis. Cell. 184(17). 4579–4592.e24. 155 indexed citations

DeJesus, Michael A., Nadine Ruecker, Anisha Zaveri, et al.. (2021). An improved statistical method to identify chemical-genetic interactions by exploiting concentration-dependence. PLoS ONE. 16(10). e0257911–e0257911. 1 indexed citations

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DeJesus, Michael A., Anisha Zaveri, Clare M. Smith, et al.. (2019). Statistical analysis of variability in TnSeq data across conditions using zero-inflated negative binomial regression. BMC Bioinformatics. 20(1). 603–603. 14 indexed citations

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Trujillo, Carolina, Karl Syson, Hendrik Koliwer‐Brandl, et al.. (2016). Trehalose-6-Phosphate-Mediated Toxicity Determines Essentiality of OtsB2 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis In Vitro and in Mice. PLoS Pathogens. 12(12). e1006043–e1006043. 28 indexed citations

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DeJesus, Michael A. & Thomas R. Ioerger. (2016). Normalization of transposon-mutant library sequencing datasets to improve identification of conditionally essential genes. Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. 14(3). 1642004–1642004. 11 indexed citations

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Orsini, Caitlin A., Barry Setlow, Michael A. DeJesus, et al.. (2016). Behavioral and transcriptomic profiling of mice null forLphn3, a gene implicated inADHDand addiction. Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine. 4(3). 322–343. 38 indexed citations

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Loesch, Kimberly, Gamal Akabani, Michael A. Deveau, et al.. (2015). Functional Genomics Screening Utilizing Mutant Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells Identifies Novel Radiation-Response Genes. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0120534–e0120534. 4 indexed citations

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DeJesus, Michael A. & Thomas R. Ioerger. (2015). Capturing Uncertainty by Modeling Local Transposon Insertion Frequencies Improves Discrimination of Essential Genes. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 12(1). 92–102. 5 indexed citations

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DeJesus, Michael A., et al.. (2015). TRANSIT - A Software Tool for Himar1 TnSeq Analysis. PLoS Computational Biology. 11(10). e1004401–e1004401. 144 indexed citations

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Long, Jarukit E., Michael A. DeJesus, Doyle V. Ward, et al.. (2015). Identifying Essential Genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Global Phenotypic Profiling. Methods in molecular biology. 1279. 79–95. 66 indexed citations

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DeJesus, Michael A. & Thomas R. Ioerger. (2013). A Hidden Markov Model for identifying essential and growth-defect regions in bacterial genomes from transposon insertion sequencing data. BMC Bioinformatics. 14(1). 303–303. 58 indexed citations

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DeJesus, Michael A., James C. Sacchettini, & Thomas R. Ioerger. (2012). Reannotation of translational start sites in the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis. 93(1). 18–25. 22 indexed citations

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Gawronski, Jeffrey D., et al.. (2011). High-Resolution Phenotypic Profiling Defines Genes Essential for Mycobacterial Growth and Cholesterol Catabolism. PLoS Pathogens. 7(9). e1002251–e1002251. 795 indexed citations breakdown →

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