Ryan Lister

36.5k total citations · 10 hit papers
96 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

About

Ryan Lister is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan Lister has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Plant Science and 9 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Ryan Lister's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (33 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (18 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (17 papers). Ryan Lister is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (33 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (18 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (17 papers). Ryan Lister collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Ryan Lister's co-authors include Joseph R. Ecker, A. Harvey Millar, Julian Tonti‐Filippini, Joseph R. Nery, Mattia Pelizzola, Brian D. Gregory, Ronan C. O’Malley, Robert H. Dowen, R. David Hawkins and Bing Ren and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ryan Lister

94 papers receiving 15.1k citations

Hit Papers

Human DNA methylomes at base resolution show widespread e... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2009 2008 2011 2012 2011 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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.

  1. Human DNA methylomes at base resolution show widespread epigenomic differences
    2009 3.4k citations Ryan Lister, Joseph R. Nery et al. Nature profile →
  2. Highly Integrated Single-Base Resolution Maps of the Epigenome in Arabidopsis
    2008 1.8k citations Ryan Lister, A. Harvey Millar et al. profile →
  3. Hotspots of aberrant epigenomic reprogramming in human induced pluripotent stem cells
    2011 1.1k citations Ryan Lister, Joseph R. Nery et al. Nature profile →
  4. Widespread dynamic DNA methylation in response to biotic stress
    2012 738 citations Robert J. Schmitz, Ryan Lister et al. profile →
  5. Genome-wide mapping of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in embryonic stem cells
    2011 643 citations Ryan Lister, Joseph R. Ecker et al. Nature profile →
  6. A single-cell atlas of entorhinal cortex from individuals with Alzheimer’s disease reveals cell-type-specific gene expression regulation
    2019 555 citations Alexandra Grubman, Gabriel Chew et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
  7. Epigenomic Signatures of Neuronal Diversity in the Mammalian Brain
    2015 475 citations Mark A. Urich, Joseph R. Nery et al. profile →
  8. Systematic assessment of tissue dissociation and storage biases in single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-seq workflows
    2020 353 citations Daniel Poppe, Rebecca K. Simmons et al. profile →
  9. Stress induced gene expression drives transient DNA methylation changes at adjacent repetitive elements
    2015 285 citations Matthew D. Schultz, Joseph R. Ecker et al. eLife profile →
  10. Modelling human blastocysts by reprogramming fibroblasts into iBlastoids
    2021 240 citations Xiaodong Liu, Jia Ping Tan et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ryan Lister Australia 52 11.9k 4.6k 2.4k 956 615 96 15.3k
Joseph R. Nery United States 37 9.7k 0.8× 5.2k 1.1× 2.2k 0.9× 653 0.7× 359 0.6× 50 13.0k
Naomi Habib United States 20 15.6k 1.3× 1.6k 0.3× 3.2k 1.3× 1.3k 1.4× 803 1.3× 34 18.0k
Hiroyuki Sasaki Japan 59 9.9k 0.8× 2.1k 0.5× 2.7k 1.1× 1.3k 1.4× 1.0k 1.7× 192 12.5k
Hao Wu United States 53 10.0k 0.8× 2.0k 0.4× 3.8k 1.6× 1.6k 1.7× 463 0.8× 219 15.1k
Hiroshi Kimurâ Japan 71 15.9k 1.3× 2.5k 0.5× 2.1k 0.9× 1.6k 1.6× 1.4k 2.3× 461 19.8k
David S. Johnson United States 26 13.9k 1.2× 2.4k 0.5× 2.4k 1.0× 1.9k 1.9× 383 0.6× 48 17.0k
Kelly A. Frazer United States 55 9.5k 0.8× 2.4k 0.5× 5.2k 2.2× 1.5k 1.6× 559 0.9× 138 15.2k
Tao Liu China 43 15.4k 1.3× 3.0k 0.7× 2.5k 1.0× 2.5k 2.6× 713 1.2× 221 20.0k
Yoichi Matsuda Japan 62 8.5k 0.7× 4.2k 0.9× 5.4k 2.3× 970 1.0× 516 0.8× 343 15.1k
Simon Andrews United Kingdom 54 12.4k 1.0× 1.6k 0.4× 3.2k 1.3× 1.4k 1.4× 674 1.1× 109 15.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ryan Lister

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lister, Ryan, et al.. (2025). Synthetic gene circuits in plants: recent advances and challenges. PubMed. 6. e6–e6. 2 indexed citations
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Sutton, Gavin J, Sébastien Bagot, Kieran Walsh, et al.. (2025). CRISPRi screening in cultured human astrocytes uncovers distal enhancers controlling genes dysregulated in Alzheimer’s disease. Nature Neuroscience. 29(3). 703–716.
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Cahn, Jonathan, James P. B. Lloyd, Ino D. Karemaker, et al.. (2024). Characterization of DNA methylation reader proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genome Research. 34(12). 2229–2243. 1 indexed citations
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Liew, Lim Chee, Yue You, Marina Oliva, et al.. (2024). Establishment of single-cell transcriptional states during seed germination. Nature Plants. 10(9). 1418–1434. 20 indexed citations
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Swain, Tessa, Christian Pflueger, Saskia Freytag, et al.. (2023). A modular dCas9-based recruitment platform for combinatorial epigenome editing. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(1). 474–491. 14 indexed citations
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Martin, Sally, Daniel Poppe, Nelly Olova, et al.. (2023). Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Neurons as a Model System for Epigenome Maturation during Development. Genes. 14(5). 957–957. 3 indexed citations
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Gerdes, Patricia, Sue Mei Lim, Adam D. Ewing, et al.. (2022). Retrotransposon instability dominates the acquired mutation landscape of mouse induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7470–7470. 10 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaodong, Jia Ping Tan, Jan Schröder, et al.. (2021). Modelling human blastocysts by reprogramming fibroblasts into iBlastoids. Nature. 591(7851). 627–632. 240 indexed citations breakdown →
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Petereit, Jakob, Owen Duncan, Monika W. Murcha, et al.. (2020). Mitochondrial CLPP2 Assists Coordination and Homeostasis of Respiratory Complexes. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 184(1). 148–164. 24 indexed citations
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Kenny, Nathan J., Warren R. Francis, Ramón E. Rivera‐Vicéns, et al.. (2020). Tracing animal genomic evolution with the chromosomal-level assembly of the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3676–3676. 79 indexed citations
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Freytag, Saskia & Ryan Lister. (2019). schex avoids overplotting for large single-cell RNA-sequencing datasets. Bioinformatics. 36(7). 2291–2292. 7 indexed citations
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Grubman, Alexandra, Gabriel Chew, John F. Ouyang, et al.. (2019). A single-cell atlas of entorhinal cortex from individuals with Alzheimer’s disease reveals cell-type-specific gene expression regulation. Nature Neuroscience. 22(12). 2087–2097. 555 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pflueger, Christian, Dennis Eng Kiat Tan, Tessa Swain, et al.. (2018). A modular dCas9-SunTag DNMT3A epigenome editing system overcomes pervasive off-target activity of direct fusion dCas9-DNMT3A constructs. Genome Research. 28(8). 1193–1206. 136 indexed citations
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Crisp, Peter A., Diep R Ganguly, Kevin Murray, et al.. (2017). Rapid Recovery Gene Downregulation during Excess-Light Stress and Recovery in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 29(8). 1836–1863. 79 indexed citations
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Kretzmann, Jessica A., Diwei Ho, Cameron W. Evans, et al.. (2017). Synthetically controlling dendrimer flexibility improves delivery of large plasmid DNA. Chemical Science. 8(4). 2923–2930. 104 indexed citations
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Kawakatsu, Taiji, Tim Stuart, Natalie W. Breakfield, et al.. (2016). Unique cell-type-specific patterns of DNA methylation in the root meristem. Nature Plants. 2(5). 16058–16058. 141 indexed citations
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Stuart, Tim, Steven R. Eichten, Jonathan Cahn, et al.. (2016). Population scale mapping of transposable element diversity reveals links to gene regulation and epigenomic variation. eLife. 5. 150 indexed citations
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Eichten, Steven R., Tim Stuart, Akanksha Srivastava, Ryan Lister, & Justin Borevitz. (2016). DNA methylation profiles of diverse Brachypodium distachyon align with underlying genetic diversity. Genome Research. 26(11). 1520–1531. 28 indexed citations
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Bogdanović, Ozren, Arne H. Smits, Elisa de la Calle‐Mustienes, et al.. (2016). Active DNA demethylation at enhancers during the vertebrate phylotypic period. Nature Genetics. 48(4). 417–426. 173 indexed citations

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