Michael J. Tisza

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 636 citations indexed

About

Michael J. Tisza is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael J. Tisza has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 636 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Ecology, 8 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Michael J. Tisza's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (9 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers) and Respiratory viral infections research (3 papers). Michael J. Tisza is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (9 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers) and Respiratory viral infections research (3 papers). Michael J. Tisza collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Sweden. Michael J. Tisza's co-authors include Christopher B. Buck, Guillermo Domínguez‐Huerta, Benjamin Bolduc, Jeffrey T. Chang, Weina Zhao, Sara Prijic, Xiaoling Chen, Zhi Tan, Jocelyne DiRuggiero and Sendurai A. Mani and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Michael J. Tisza

19 papers receiving 633 citations

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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.

A catalog of tens of thousands of viruses from human metagenomes reveals hidden associations with chronic diseases

2021 146 citations Michael J. Tisza, Christopher B. Buck Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Michael J. Tisza

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Umberto Rosani Italy

Fernando Vázquez Spain

Katrina Morris Australia

Huanling Wang China

Zhiming Xiang China

Tobias Mourier Denmark

María M. Costa Spain

Viacheslav Y. Fofanov United States

Gloria León-Ávila Mexico

John H. Leamon United States

Umberto Rosani Italy

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

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Minich, Jeremiah J., M. Omar Din, Michael J. Tisza, et al.. (2025). Culture-independent meta-pangenomics enabled by long-read metagenomics reveals associations with pediatric undernutrition. Cell. 188(23). 6666–6686.e25.

Tisza, Michael J., Blake Hanson, Loren Hopkins, et al.. (2025). Sequencing-Based Detection of Measles in Wastewater: Texas, January 2025. American Journal of Public Health. 115(7). 1115–1119. 1 indexed citations

Tisza, Michael J., Richard E. Lloyd, Kristi L. Hoffman, et al.. (2025). Longitudinal phage–bacteria dynamics in the early life gut microbiome. Nature Microbiology. 10(2). 420–430. 7 indexed citations

Kim, Minsik, Raymond C. Parrish, Michael J. Tisza, et al.. (2024). Host DNA depletion on frozen human respiratory samples enables successful metagenomic sequencing for microbiome studies. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1590–1590. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Xingwen, Cici Bauer, Anna Gitter, et al.. (2024). Revealing patterns of SARS-CoV-2 variant emergence and evolution using RBD amplicon sequencing of wastewater. Journal of Infection. 89(5). 106284–106284. 3 indexed citations

Clark, Justin R., Austen Terwilliger, Vasanthi Avadhanula, et al.. (2023). Wastewater pandemic preparedness: Toward an end-to-end pathogen monitoring program. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1137881–1137881. 12 indexed citations

Gitter, Anna, C. Monserrat, Cici Bauer, et al.. (2023). Wastewater analysis of Mpox virus in a city with low prevalence of Mpox disease: an environmental surveillance study. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. 28. 100639–100639. 21 indexed citations

Tisza, Michael J., et al.. (2022). Viruses Ubiquity and Diversity in Atacama Desert Endolithic Communities. Viruses. 14(9). 1983–1983. 2 indexed citations

Tisza, Michael J. & Christopher B. Buck. (2021). A catalog of tens of thousands of viruses from human metagenomes reveals hidden associations with chronic diseases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(23). 146 indexed citations breakdown →

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Malki, Kema, Natalie A. Sawaya, Michael J. Tisza, et al.. (2021). Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Prokaryotic and Viral Community Assemblages in a Lotic System (Manatee Springs, Florida). Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 87(18). e0064621–e0064621. 13 indexed citations

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Delwart, Eric, Michael J. Tisza, Eda Altan, et al.. (2021). Idiopathic Chronic Diarrhea in Rhesus Macaques Is Not Associated with Enteric Viral Infections. Viruses. 13(12). 2503–2503. 1 indexed citations

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Tisza, Michael J., et al.. (2020). Cenote-Taker 2 democratizes virus discovery and sequence annotation. Virus Evolution. 7(1). veaa100–veaa100. 91 indexed citations

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Malki, Kema, Karyna Rosario, Natalie A. Sawaya, et al.. (2020). Prokaryotic and Viral Community Composition of Freshwater Springs in Florida, USA. mBio. 11(2). 22 indexed citations

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Uritskiy, Gherman, et al.. (2020). Cellular life from the three domains and viruses are transcriptionally active in a hypersaline desert community. Environmental Microbiology. 23(7). 3401–3417. 19 indexed citations

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Starrett, Gabriel J., Michael J. Tisza, Nicole L. Welch, et al.. (2020). Adintoviruses: a proposed animal-tropic family of midsize eukaryotic linear dsDNA (MELD) viruses. Virus Evolution. 7(1). veaa055–veaa055. 25 indexed citations

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Zhao, Weina, Sara Prijic, Michael J. Tisza, et al.. (2016). Candidate Antimetastasis Drugs Suppress the Metastatic Capacity of Breast Cancer Cells by Reducing Membrane Fluidity. Cancer Research. 76(7). 2037–2049. 125 indexed citations

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Tisza, Michael J., Weina Zhao, Sara Prijic, et al.. (2016). Motility and stem cell properties induced by the epithelial-mesenchymal transition require destabilization of lipid rafts. Oncotarget. 7(32). 51553–51568. 27 indexed citations

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Tisza, Michael J., Hang Yuan, Richard Schlegel, & Christopher B. Buck. (2016). Genomic Sequence of Canine Papillomavirus 19. Genome Announcements. 4(6). 19 indexed citations

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Wierzchoś, Jacek, Jocelyne DiRuggiero, Petr Vítek, et al.. (2015). Adaptation strategies of endolithic chlorophototrophs to survive the hyperarid and extreme solar radiation environment of the Atacama Desert. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 934–934. 96 indexed citations

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Zhao, Weina, et al.. (2014). Abstract 2080: Plasma membrane fluidity drives metastasis in breast cancer. Cancer Research. 74(19_Supplement). 2080–2080. 3 indexed citations

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