Michelle O’Malley

6.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
88 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Michelle O’Malley is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michelle O’Malley has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Molecular Biology, 43 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 17 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Michelle O’Malley's work include Biofuel production and bioconversion (40 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (32 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers). Michelle O’Malley is often cited by papers focused on Biofuel production and bioconversion (40 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (32 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers). Michelle O’Malley collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Michelle O’Malley's co-authors include John K. Henske, Sean Gilmore, Michael K. Theodorou, Kevin Solomon, Anne S. Robinson, Justin Yoo, Susanna Seppälä, Charles H. Haitjema, St. Elmo Wilken and H. Tom Soh and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michelle O’Malley

81 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes

2019 398 citations Christopher E. Lawson, William R. Harcombe et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
Engineering live cell surfaces with functional polymers via cytocompatible controlled radical polymerization

2017 379 citations Michelle O’Malley et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michelle O’Malley United States	28	1.7k	1.0k	442	361	330	88	3.0k
Eric Samain France	33	1.3k 0.8×	412 0.4×	605 1.4×	148 0.4×	382 1.2×	65	2.7k
Lily Eurwilaichitr Thailand	31	1.7k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	661 1.5×	377 1.0×	901 2.7×	90	2.9k
José Muñoz‐Dorado Spain	23	1.6k 0.9×	827 0.8×	643 1.5×	530 1.5×	447 1.4×	54	3.1k
Akihiko Kosugi Japan	31	1.5k 0.9×	2.0k 2.0×	607 1.4×	238 0.7×	1.1k 3.4×	134	3.2k
Lene Lange Denmark	32	1.3k 0.8×	756 0.7×	1.1k 2.4×	323 0.9×	720 2.2×	139	3.3k
Emma R. Master Canada	30	1.1k 0.7×	1.8k 1.8×	1.4k 3.1×	98 0.3×	726 2.2×	128	3.3k
Amy M. Grunden United States	28	1.2k 0.7×	561 0.5×	454 1.0×	166 0.5×	189 0.6×	92	2.6k
Richard J. Giannone United States	32	2.1k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	507 1.1×	402 1.1×	546 1.7×	114	3.3k
Michael O’Donohue France	36	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	698 1.6×	159 0.4×	1.3k 4.0×	96	3.1k
K. Ruel France	31	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	2.0k 4.4×	99 0.3×	517 1.6×	76	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Michelle O’Malley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michelle O’Malley

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ragunathan, R., Jennifer L. Brown, Stephen J. Mondo, et al.. (2025). Genomic and transcriptomic characterization of carbohydrate-active enzymes in the anaerobic fungus Neocallimastix cameroonii var. constans. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 15(8).

Swift, Candice L., Chaevien Clendinen, Heather Olson, et al.. (2025). Untargeted GC-MS Metabolic Profiling of Anaerobic Gut Fungi Reveals Putative Terpenoids and Strain-Specific Metabolites. Metabolites. 15(9). 578–578.

Vining, Oliver B., et al.. (2025). New approaches to secondary metabolite discovery from anaerobic gut microbes. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 109(1). 12–12. 3 indexed citations

Swift, Candice L., Oliver B. Vining, Anna Lipzen, et al.. (2024). Separation of life stages within anaerobic fungi (Neocallimastigomycota) highlights differences in global transcription and metabolism. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 176. 103958–103958. 1 indexed citations

Doré, Hugo, Amy Eisenberg, Gabriel E. Leventhal, et al.. (2024). Targeted hypermutation of putative antigen sensors in multicellular bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(9). e2316469121–e2316469121. 7 indexed citations

Seppälä, Susanna, et al.. (2023). Identification and expression of small multidrug resistance transporters in early‐branching anaerobic fungi. Protein Science. 32(9). e4730–e4730. 2 indexed citations

Hussain, Sunyia, Maia Kinnebrew, Matthew N. Idso, et al.. (2022). Lipid membrane mimetics and oligomerization tune functional properties of proteorhodopsin. Biophysical Journal. 122(1). 168–179. 2 indexed citations

Swift, Candice L., Katherine Louie, Benjamin P. Bowen, et al.. (2021). Anaerobic gut fungi are an untapped reservoir of natural products. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(18). 48 indexed citations

Roux, Simon, Blair G. Paul, Sarah C. Bagby, et al.. (2021). Ecology and molecular targets of hypermutation in the global microbiome. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3076–3076. 43 indexed citations

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Seppälä, Susanna, et al.. (2021). Homo-oligomerization of the human adenosine A2A receptor is driven by the intrinsically disordered C-terminus. eLife. 10. 10 indexed citations

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Wilken, St. Elmo, Jonathan M. Monk, Christopher E. Lawson, et al.. (2021). Experimentally Validated Reconstruction and Analysis of a Genome-Scale Metabolic Model of an Anaerobic Neocallimastigomycota Fungus. mSystems. 6(1). 45 indexed citations

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Brown, Jennifer L., Candice L. Swift, Stephen J. Mondo, et al.. (2021). Co‑cultivation of the anaerobic fungus Caecomyces churrovis with Methanobacterium bryantii enhances transcription of carbohydrate binding modules, dockerins, and pyruvate formate lyases on specific substrates. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 14(1). 234–234. 25 indexed citations

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O’Malley, Michelle, et al.. (2021). Microbial communities and their enzymes facilitate degradation of recalcitrant polymers in anaerobic digestion. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 64. 100–108. 45 indexed citations

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Hagen, Live H., Charles Brooke, Claire Shaw, et al.. (2020). Proteome specialization of anaerobic fungi during ruminal degradation of recalcitrant plant fiber. The ISME Journal. 15(2). 421–434. 71 indexed citations

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Lawson, Christopher E., William R. Harcombe, Roland Hatzenpichler, et al.. (2019). Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 17(12). 725–741. 398 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wilken, St. Elmo, Susanna Seppälä, Thomas S. Lankiewicz, et al.. (2019). Genomic and proteomic biases inform metabolic engineering strategies for anaerobic fungi. Metabolic Engineering Communications. 10. e00107–e00107. 19 indexed citations

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O’Malley, Michelle, et al.. (2019). Nature’s recyclers: anaerobic microbial communities drive crude biomass deconstruction. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 62. 38–47. 38 indexed citations

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Solomon, Kevin, Charles H. Haitjema, John K. Henske, et al.. (2016). Early-branching gut fungi possess a large, comprehensive array of biomass-degrading enzymes. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 4 indexed citations

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O’Malley, Michelle, et al.. (2016). Intracellular FRET-based Screen for Redesigning the Specificity of Secreted Proteases. ACS Chemical Biology. 11(4). 961–970. 26 indexed citations

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O’Malley, Michelle, Tzvetana Lazarova, Zachary T. Britton, & Anne S. Robinson. (2007). High-level expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae enables isolation and spectroscopic characterization of functional human adenosine A2a receptor. Journal of Structural Biology. 159(2). 166–178. 64 indexed citations

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