Navin Pokala

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

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Navin Pokala is a scholar working on Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Aging and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Navin Pokala has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, 12 papers in Aging and 8 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Navin Pokala's work include Circadian rhythm and melatonin (12 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (12 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (4 papers). Navin Pokala is often cited by papers focused on Circadian rhythm and melatonin (12 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (12 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (4 papers). Navin Pokala collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Navin Pokala's co-authors include Cornelia I. Bargmann, Tracy M. Handel, Evan Z. Macosko, P. Crews, David G. Drubin, Kathryn R. Ayscough, Elizabeth Vierling, Garrett J. Lee, Steven W. Flavell and Dirk R. Albrecht and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Navin Pokala

20 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

High Rates of Actin Filament Turnover in Budding Yeast and Roles for Actin in Establishment and Maintenance of Cell Polarity Revealed Using the Actin Inhibitor Latrunculin-A

1997 648 citations Kathryn R. Ayscough, Navin Pokala et al. The Journal of Cell Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Navin Pokala United States	17	1.4k	1.2k	853	572	498	20	3.0k
Sreekanth H. Chalasani United States	23	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	1.0k 1.2×	1.9k 3.3×	293 0.6×	45	4.2k
Steven L. McIntire United States	21	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	774 0.9×	906 1.6×	302 0.6×	25	2.8k
David M. Miller United States	39	2.3k 1.7×	3.0k 2.5×	1.2k 1.5×	1.0k 1.8×	421 0.8×	84	4.6k
Shai Shaham United States	43	3.2k 2.3×	2.3k 1.9×	810 0.9×	807 1.4×	751 1.5×	95	5.4k
Anne C. Hart United States	40	3.0k 2.2×	2.4k 2.1×	1.3k 1.5×	1.7k 3.0×	568 1.1×	73	5.7k
Massimo A. Hilliard Australia	28	1.0k 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	579 0.7×	750 1.3×	390 0.8×	44	2.6k
Jean‐Louis Bessereau France	34	2.8k 2.0×	2.5k 2.1×	850 1.0×	997 1.7×	854 1.7×	72	4.7k
Daniel A. Colón‐Ramos United States	32	1.3k 0.9×	971 0.8×	492 0.6×	845 1.5×	498 1.0×	65	3.2k
Keiko Gengyo‐Ando Japan	36	2.0k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	426 0.5×	810 1.4×	1.0k 2.0×	70	3.8k
Ikue Mori Japan	40	1.1k 0.8×	3.4k 2.9×	2.4k 2.9×	1.3k 2.3×	285 0.6×	89	5.0k

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Pokala, Navin & Steven W. Flavell. (2022). Recording and Quantifying C. elegans Behavior. Methods in molecular biology. 2468. 357–373. 4 indexed citations

Pokala, Navin, et al.. (2019). Parallel Multimodal Circuits Control an Innate Foraging Behavior. Neuron. 102(2). 407–419.e8. 49 indexed citations

Pokala, Navin & Elizabeth E Glater. (2018). Using Optogenetics to Understand Neuronal Mechanisms Underlying Behavior in C. elegans.. PubMed. 16(2). A152–A158. 11 indexed citations

Wang, Han, Jonathan Liu, Shahla Gharib, et al.. (2016). cGAL, a temperature-robust GAL4–UAS system for Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature Methods. 14(2). 145–148. 50 indexed citations

Jin, Xin, Navin Pokala, & Cornelia I. Bargmann. (2016). Distinct Circuits for the Formation and Retrieval of an Imprinted Olfactory Memory. Cell. 164(4). 632–643. 101 indexed citations

Roberts, William M., Theodore H. Lindsay, Tod R. Thiele, et al.. (2016). A stochastic neuronal model predicts random search behaviors at multiple spatial scales in C. elegans. eLife. 5. 68 indexed citations

Calhoun, Adam J., et al.. (2015). Neural Mechanisms for Evaluating Environmental Variability in Caenorhabditis elegans. Neuron. 86(2). 428–441. 60 indexed citations

Gordus, Andrew, Navin Pokala, Sagi Levy, Steven W. Flavell, & Cornelia I. Bargmann. (2015). Feedback from Network States Generates Variability in a Probabilistic Olfactory Circuit. Cell. 161(2). 215–227. 157 indexed citations

Pokala, Navin, Qiang Liu, Andrew Gordus, & Cornelia I. Bargmann. (2014). Inducible and titratable silencing ofCaenorhabditis elegansneurons in vivo with histamine-gated chloride channels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(7). 2770–2775. 161 indexed citations

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Flavell, Steven W., Navin Pokala, Evan Z. Macosko, et al.. (2013). Serotonin and the Neuropeptide PDF Initiate and Extend Opposing Behavioral States in C. elegans. Cell. 154(5). 1023–1035. 271 indexed citations

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Garrison, Jennifer L., et al.. (2012). Oxytocin/Vasopressin-Related Peptides Have an Ancient Role in Reproductive Behavior. Science. 338(6106). 540–543. 197 indexed citations

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Zimmer, Manuel, Jesse Gray, Navin Pokala, et al.. (2009). Neurons Detect Increases and Decreases in Oxygen Levels Using Distinct Guanylate Cyclases. Neuron. 61(6). 865–879. 212 indexed citations

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Macosko, Evan Z., Navin Pokala, Evan H. Feinberg, et al.. (2009). A hub-and-spoke circuit drives pheromone attraction and social behaviour in C. elegans. Nature. 458(7242). 1171–1175. 367 indexed citations

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Chowdry, Arnab B., et al.. (2007). An object‐oriented library for computational protein design. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 28(14). 2378–2388. 29 indexed citations

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Pokala, Navin & Tracy M. Handel. (2005). Energy Functions for Protein Design: Adjustment with Protein–Protein Complex Affinities, Models for the Unfolded State, and Negative Design of Solubility and Specificity. Journal of Molecular Biology. 347(1). 203–227. 161 indexed citations

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Pokala, Navin & Tracy M. Handel. (2004). Energy functions for protein design I: Efficient and accurate continuum electrostatics and solvation. Protein Science. 13(4). 925–936. 72 indexed citations

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Pokala, Navin & Tracy M. Handel. (2001). Review: Protein Design—Where We Were, Where We Are, Where We're Going. Journal of Structural Biology. 134(2-3). 269–281. 101 indexed citations

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Pokala, Navin, et al.. (1997). Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of the N-terminal actin binding domain of human fimbrin. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 28(3). 452–453. 1 indexed citations

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Ayscough, Kathryn R., et al.. (1997). High Rates of Actin Filament Turnover in Budding Yeast and Roles for Actin in Establishment and Maintenance of Cell Polarity Revealed Using the Actin Inhibitor Latrunculin-A. The Journal of Cell Biology. 137(2). 399–416. 648 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lee, Garrett J., Navin Pokala, & Elizabeth Vierling. (1995). Structure and in Vitro Molecular Chaperone Activity of Cytosolic Small Heat Shock Proteins from Pea. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 270(18). 10432–10438. 262 indexed citations

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