Michael J. Lawson

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Michael J. Lawson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael J. Lawson has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Michael J. Lawson's work include Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (5 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (3 papers). Michael J. Lawson is often cited by papers focused on Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (5 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (3 papers). Michael J. Lawson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Switzerland. Michael J. Lawson's co-authors include Christopher J. Cronin, Long Cai, Qian Zhu, Yodai Takei, Noushin Koulena, Guo‐Cheng Yuan, Jina Yun, Ruben Dries, Johan Elf and David Fange and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Michael J. Lawson

14 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

Transcriptome-scale super-resolved imaging in tissues by RNA seqFISH+

2019 1.1k citations Michael J. Lawson, Qian Zhu et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael J. Lawson United States	13	1.5k	313	200	192	172	14	1.8k
Christopher J. Cronin United States	9	1.3k 0.8×	293 0.9×	69 0.3×	195 1.0×	187 1.1×	13	1.8k
Gökçen Eraslan United States	8	2.0k 1.3×	345 1.1×	182 0.9×	327 1.7×	419 2.4×	12	2.6k
Jina Yun United States	11	1.9k 1.3×	335 1.1×	232 1.2×	308 1.6×	286 1.7×	13	2.3k
Itoshi Nikaido Japan	23	1.8k 1.2×	152 0.5×	323 1.6×	172 0.9×	373 2.2×	46	2.3k
Tyler Burks United States	2	1.4k 0.9×	174 0.6×	165 0.8×	213 1.1×	248 1.4×	3	1.7k
Duncan Donohue United States	19	1.0k 0.7×	450 1.4×	164 0.8×	148 0.8×	295 1.7×	34	2.1k
Hannah Dueck United States	12	1.2k 0.8×	166 0.5×	78 0.4×	139 0.7×	308 1.8×	13	1.5k
Zhichao Miao China	23	1.6k 1.0×	187 0.6×	96 0.5×	313 1.6×	211 1.2×	52	2.0k
Anna Kuchina United States	8	1.2k 0.8×	129 0.4×	195 1.0×	163 0.8×	182 1.1×	14	1.4k
Yodai Takei United States	8	2.4k 1.6×	341 1.1×	263 1.3×	259 1.3×	332 1.9×	11	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael J. Lawson

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14 of 14 papers shown

Lawson, Michael J., Brian Drawert, Linda Petzold, & Tau‐Mu Yi. (2022). A positive feedback loop involving the Spa2 SHD domain contributes to focal polarization. PLoS ONE. 17(2). e0263347–e0263347. 3 indexed citations

Lawson, Michael J. & Johan Elf. (2021). Imaging-based screens of pool-synthesized cell libraries. Nature Methods. 18(4). 358–365. 14 indexed citations

Camsund, Daniel, Michael J. Lawson, Jimmy Larsson, et al.. (2019). Time-resolved imaging-based CRISPRi screening. Nature Methods. 17(1). 86–92. 58 indexed citations

Lawson, Michael J., Qian Zhu, Ruben Dries, et al.. (2019). Transcriptome-scale super-resolved imaging in tissues by RNA seqFISH+. Nature. 568(7751). 235–239. 1092 indexed citations breakdown →

Lawson, Michael J., Daniel Camsund, Jimmy Larsson, et al.. (2017). In situ genotyping of a pooled strain library after characterizing complex phenotypes. Molecular Systems Biology. 13(10). 947–947. 50 indexed citations

Jones, Daniel, Prune Leroy, Cecilia Unoson, et al.. (2017). Kinetics of dCas9 target search in Escherichia coli. Science. 357(6358). 1420–1424. 126 indexed citations

Lawson, Michael J., Linda Petzold, & Andreas Hellander. (2015). Accuracy of the Michaelis–Menten approximation when analysing effects of molecular noise. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 12(106). 20150054–20150054. 14 indexed citations

Hellander, Andreas, Michael J. Lawson, Brian Drawert, & Linda Petzold. (2014). Local error estimates for adaptive simulation of the reaction–diffusion master equation via operator splitting. Journal of Computational Physics. 266. 89–100. 12 indexed citations

Cervantes, Marcella D., Eileen P. Hamilton, Jie Xiong, et al.. (2013). Selecting One of Several Mating Types through Gene Segment Joining and Deletion in Tetrahymena thermophila. PLoS Biology. 11(3). e1001518–e1001518. 67 indexed citations

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Lawson, Michael J., Brian Drawert, Mustafa Khammash, Linda Petzold, & Tau‐Mu Yi. (2013). Spatial Stochastic Dynamics Enable Robust Cell Polarization. PLoS Computational Biology. 9(7). e1003139–e1003139. 43 indexed citations

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Ames, Elizabeth G., et al.. (2013). Sequencing of mRNA identifies re-expression of fetal splice variants in cardiac hypertrophy. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 62. 99–107. 30 indexed citations

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Cruchaga, Carlos, Sumitra Chakraverty, Kevin H. Mayo, et al.. (2012). Rare Variants in APP, PSEN1 and PSEN2 Increase Risk for AD in Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease Families. PLoS ONE. 7(2). e31039–e31039. 206 indexed citations

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Drawert, Brian, Michael J. Lawson, Linda Petzold, & Mustafa Khammash. (2010). The diffusive finite state projection algorithm for efficient simulation of the stochastic reaction-diffusion master equation. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 132(7). 74101–74101. 43 indexed citations

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Bagheri, Neda, Michael J. Lawson, Jörg Stelling, & Francis J. Doyle. (2008). Modeling the Drosophila melanogaster Circadian Oscillator via Phase Optimization. Journal of Biological Rhythms. 23(6). 525–537. 15 indexed citations

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