Roberto Galizi

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
35 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Roberto Galizi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Insect Science and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto Galizi has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Insect Science and 8 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Roberto Galizi's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (25 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (18 papers) and Insect Resistance and Genetics (11 papers). Roberto Galizi is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (25 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (18 papers) and Insect Resistance and Genetics (11 papers). Roberto Galizi collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and United States. Roberto Galizi's co-authors include Andrea Crisanti, Andrew Hammond, Tony Nolan, Kyros Kyrou, Austin Burt, Nikolai Windbichler, Nace Kranjc, Andrea Beaghton, Matthew O. Gribble and Alekos Simoni and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Roberto Galizi

35 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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 CRISPR-Cas9 gene drive system targeting female reproduction in the malaria mosquito vector Anopheles gambiae

2015 774 citations Andrew Hammond, Roberto Galizi et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
A CRISPR–Cas9 gene drive targeting doublesex causes complete population suppression in caged Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes

2018 521 citations Kyros Kyrou, Andrew Hammond et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roberto Galizi United Kingdom	19	2.0k	1.4k	790	512	322	35	2.6k
Omar S. Akbari United States	34	2.4k 1.2×	2.1k 1.5×	1.1k 1.4×	688 1.3×	637 2.0×	118	3.5k
Tony Nolan United Kingdom	30	2.7k 1.4×	2.1k 1.4×	1.2k 1.6×	756 1.5×	507 1.6×	60	3.8k
Andrew Hammond United Kingdom	14	1.7k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	710 0.9×	479 0.9×	278 0.9×	20	2.2k
Nikolai Windbichler United Kingdom	24	1.9k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	816 1.0×	517 1.0×	255 0.8×	44	2.6k
Nijole Jasinskiene United States	29	2.3k 1.2×	2.0k 1.4×	1.2k 1.6×	544 1.1×	381 1.2×	38	3.5k
Kyros Kyrou United Kingdom	12	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	629 0.8×	442 0.9×	265 0.8×	15	2.1k
Andrea L. Smidler United States	14	1.2k 0.6×	596 0.4×	372 0.5×	305 0.6×	547 1.7×	19	1.7k
Zach N. Adelman United States	31	1.7k 0.8×	2.0k 1.4×	1.7k 2.2×	388 0.8×	527 1.6×	101	3.6k
Valentino M. Gantz United States	16	1.5k 0.8×	970 0.7×	471 0.6×	412 0.8×	292 0.9×	22	1.8k
Jason L. Rasgon United States	40	987 0.5×	3.3k 2.3×	2.5k 3.2×	471 0.9×	476 1.5×	133	4.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roberto Galizi

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Taxiarchi, Chrysanthi, Marco Galardini, Roxana L. Minuz, et al.. (2024). Anti-CRISPR Anopheles mosquitoes inhibit gene drive spread under challenging behavioural conditions in large cages. Nature Communications. 15(1). 952–952. 12 indexed citations

Hasan, Mohammad Nayeem, Muhammad Abdul Baker Chowdhury, Mahbubur Rahman, et al.. (2024). Two decades of endemic dengue in Bangladesh (2000–2022): trends, seasonality, and impact of temperature and rainfall patterns on transmission dynamics. Journal of Medical Entomology. 61(2). 345–353. 11 indexed citations

Taxiarchi, Chrysanthi, Daniel Tonge, Kyros Kyrou, et al.. (2023). Single-cell profiling of Anopheles gambiae spermatogenesis defines the onset of meiotic silencing and premeiotic overexpression of the X chromosome. Communications Biology. 6(1). 850–850. 3 indexed citations

Fuchs, Silke, William T. Garrood, Andrew Hammond, et al.. (2021). Resistance to a CRISPR-based gene drive at an evolutionarily conserved site is revealed by mimicking genotype fixation. PLoS Genetics. 17(10). e1009740–e1009740. 26 indexed citations

Annas, George J., Chase L. Beisel, Kendell Clement, et al.. (2021). A Code of Ethics for Gene Drive Research. The CRISPR Journal. 4(1). 19–24. 29 indexed citations

Fuchs, Silke, Roberto Galizi, Federica Bernardini, et al.. (2021). The Potential for a Released Autosomal X-Shredder Becoming a Driving-Y Chromosome and Invasively Suppressing Wild Populations of Malaria Mosquitoes. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 9. 752253–752253. 11 indexed citations

Hammond, Andrew, Ioanna Morianou, Kyros Kyrou, et al.. (2021). Regulating the expression of gene drives is key to increasing their invasive potential and the mitigation of resistance. PLoS Genetics. 17(1). e1009321–e1009321. 73 indexed citations

Prakash, Satya, et al.. (2021). Engineering Adaptive Gene Circuits in Bacteria Mastering Game Playing by Reinforcement Learning. Biophysical Journal. 120(3). 262a–262a. 1 indexed citations

Araújo, Maísa da Silva, et al.. (2020). Vector-Focused Approaches to Curb Malaria Transmission in the Brazilian Amazon: An Overview of Current and Future Challenges and Strategies. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease. 5(4). 161–161. 8 indexed citations

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Simoni, Alekos, Andrew Hammond, Andrea Beaghton, et al.. (2020). A male-biased sex-distorter gene drive for the human malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. Nature Biotechnology. 38(9). 1054–1060. 136 indexed citations

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Sharma, Atashi, et al.. (2020). Cellular mechanisms regulating synthetic sex ratio distortion in the Anopheles gambiae germline. Pathogens and Global Health. 114(7). 370–378. 11 indexed citations

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Simoni, Alekos, Andrew Hammond, Andrea Beaghton, et al.. (2020). Author Correction: A male-biased sex-distorter gene drive for the human malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. Nature Biotechnology. 38(9). 1097–1097. 5 indexed citations

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Galizi, Roberto, et al.. (2020). Engineered RNA-Interacting CRISPR Guide RNAs for Genetic Sensing and Diagnostics. The CRISPR Journal. 3(5). 398–408. 16 indexed citations

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Bernardini, Federica, et al.. (2019). Introgression of a synthetic sex ratio distortion system from Anopheles gambiae into Anopheles arabiensis. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 5158–5158. 19 indexed citations

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Taxiarchi, Chrysanthi, Nace Kranjc, Kyros Kyrou, et al.. (2019). High-resolution transcriptional profiling of Anopheles gambiae spermatogenesis reveals mechanisms of sex chromosome regulation. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 14841–14841. 22 indexed citations

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Galizi, Roberto & Alfonso Jaramillo. (2018). Engineering CRISPR guide RNA riboswitches for in vivo applications. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 55. 103–113. 24 indexed citations

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Bernardini, Federica, et al.. (2018). Molecular tools and genetic markers for the generation of transgenic sexing strains in Anopheline mosquitoes. Parasites & Vectors. 11(S2). 660–660. 12 indexed citations

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Bernardini, Federica, Roberto Galizi, Chrysanthi Taxiarchi, et al.. (2017). Cross-Species Y Chromosome Function Between Malaria Vectors of the Anopheles gambiae Species Complex. Genetics. 207(2). 729–740. 13 indexed citations

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Hammond, Andrew, Kyros Kyrou, Marco Bruttini, et al.. (2017). The creation and selection of mutations resistant to a gene drive over multiple generations in the malaria mosquito. PLoS Genetics. 13(10). e1007039–e1007039. 201 indexed citations

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Castellano, Leandro, Ermanno Rizzi, Jonathan Krell, et al.. (2015). The germline of the malaria mosquito produces abundant miRNAs, endo-siRNAs, piRNAs and 29-nt small RNAs. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 100–100. 36 indexed citations

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