Stephan Lane

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Stephan Lane is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephan Lane has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 2 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Stephan Lane's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (15 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (13 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (10 papers). Stephan Lane is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (15 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (13 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (10 papers). Stephan Lane collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Switzerland. Stephan Lane's co-authors include Huimin Zhao, Yong‐Su Jin, Pu Xue, Tianhao Yu, Yajie Wang, Mingfeng Cao, Guanhua Xun, Suryang Kwak, Heejin Kim and Soo Rin Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Stephan Lane

24 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Directed Evolution: Methodologies and Applications

2021 428 citations Yajie Wang, Pu Xue et al. Chemical Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephan Lane United States	16	1.0k	491	94	86	68	25	1.3k
Woo Dae Jang South Korea	13	922 0.9×	484 1.0×	137 1.5×	74 0.9×	73 1.1×	23	1.4k
Nikhil U. Nair United States	21	1.0k 1.0×	425 0.9×	147 1.6×	55 0.6×	49 0.7×	45	1.3k
Jee Loon Foo Singapore	20	1.0k 1.0×	249 0.5×	110 1.2×	107 1.2×	25 0.4×	39	1.3k
Xia Wu China	22	655 0.6×	357 0.7×	147 1.6×	96 1.1×	55 0.8×	46	1.2k
Gerd M. Seibold Germany	21	1.1k 1.1×	467 1.0×	114 1.2×	51 0.6×	28 0.4×	49	1.3k
William C. DeLoache United States	5	1.3k 1.3×	196 0.4×	139 1.5×	119 1.4×	88 1.3×	5	1.5k
Sungho Jang South Korea	18	1.0k 1.0×	299 0.6×	57 0.6×	49 0.6×	101 1.5×	41	1.2k
Linda G. Otten Netherlands	18	797 0.8×	171 0.3×	96 1.0×	61 0.7×	24 0.4×	29	997
Franz Stefan Hartner Austria	12	1.1k 1.1×	305 0.6×	161 1.7×	122 1.4×	15 0.2×	14	1.3k
Lu Lin China	18	485 0.5×	242 0.5×	88 0.9×	74 0.9×	17 0.3×	50	891

Countries citing papers authored by Stephan Lane

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephan Lane

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephan Lane

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jia, Dong, Stephan Lane, Daniel C. Castro, et al.. (2025). Enhancing lipid production in plant cells through automated high-throughput genome engineering and phenotyping. The Plant Cell. 37(2). 5 indexed citations

Chen, Junyu, Nilmani Singh, Jingxia Lu, Stephan Lane, & Huimin Zhao. (2025). Artificial intelligence–powered biofoundries for protein engineering and metabolic engineering. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 96. 103380–103380.

Singh, Nilmani, Stephan Lane, Tianhao Yu, et al.. (2025). A generalized platform for artificial intelligence-powered autonomous enzyme engineering. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5648–5648. 16 indexed citations

Lane, Stephan, Ming‐Hsun Cheng, Vijay Pratap Singh, et al.. (2024). Engineering and evolution of Yarrowia lipolytica for producing lipids from lignocellulosic hydrolysates. Bioresource Technology. 416. 131806–131806. 14 indexed citations

Boob, Aashutosh Girish, et al.. (2024). CRISPR-COPIES: an in silico platform for discovery of neutral integration sites for CRISPR/Cas-facilitated gene integration. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(6). e30–e30. 9 indexed citations

Oh, Chamteut, et al.. (2023). Portable, single nucleotide polymorphism-specific duplex assay for virus surveillance in wastewater. The Science of The Total Environment. 912. 168701–168701. 11 indexed citations

Lane, Stephan, Timothy L. Turner, & Yong‐Su Jin. (2023). Glucose assimilation rate determines the partition of flux at pyruvate between lactic acid and ethanol in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biotechnology Journal. 18(4). e2200535–e2200535. 8 indexed citations

Enghiad, Behnam, Pu Xue, Nilmani Singh, et al.. (2022). PlasmidMaker is a versatile, automated, and high throughput end-to-end platform for plasmid construction. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2697–2697. 49 indexed citations

Jain, Surbhi, Meng Zhang, Zia Fatma, et al.. (2021). TALEN outperforms Cas9 in editing heterochromatin target sites. Nature Communications. 12(1). 606–606. 69 indexed citations

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Sun, Liang, et al.. (2021). Complete and efficient conversion of plant cell wall hemicellulose into high-value bioproducts by engineered yeast. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4975–4975. 48 indexed citations

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Yun, Eun Ju, Guo-Chang Zhang, Stephan Lane, et al.. (2021). Glycolate production by a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutant lacking carbon-concentrating mechanism. Journal of Biotechnology. 335. 39–46. 12 indexed citations

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Wang, Yajie, Pu Xue, Mingfeng Cao, et al.. (2021). Directed Evolution: Methodologies and Applications. Chemical Reviews. 121(20). 12384–12444. 428 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xun, Guanhua, et al.. (2021). A rapid, accurate, scalable, and portable testing system for COVID-19 diagnosis. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2905–2905. 142 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yanfei, Stephan Lane, Sarah K. Hammer, et al.. (2019). Xylose utilization stimulates mitochondrial production of isobutanol and 2-methyl-1-butanol in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 12(1). 223–223. 36 indexed citations

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Kwak, Suryang, Eun Ju Yun, Stephan Lane, et al.. (2019). Redirection of the Glycolytic Flux Enhances Isoprenoid Production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biotechnology Journal. 15(2). e1900173–e1900173. 32 indexed citations

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Lane, Stephan, H. Xu, Eun Joong Oh, et al.. (2018). Glucose repression can be alleviated by reducing glucose phosphorylation rate in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 2613–2613. 64 indexed citations

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Kim, Heejin, Eun Joong Oh, Stephan Lane, et al.. (2018). Enhanced cellobiose fermentation by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae expressing a mutant cellodextrin facilitator and cellobiose phosphorylase. Journal of Biotechnology. 275. 53–59. 19 indexed citations

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Lane, Stephan, Dong Jia, & Yong‐Su Jin. (2018). Value-added biotransformation of cellulosic sugars by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Bioresource Technology. 260. 380–394. 43 indexed citations

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Jayakody, Lahiru N., Stephan Lane, Heejin Kim, & Yong‐Su Jin. (2016). Mitigating health risks associated with alcoholic beverages through metabolic engineering. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 37. 173–181. 13 indexed citations

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Choi, Eun‐Ji, Jin‐Woo Kim, Soo‐Jung Kim, et al.. (2016). Enhanced production of 2,3‐butanediol in pyruvate decarboxylase‐deficient Saccharomyces cerevisiae through optimizing ratio of glucose/galactose. Biotechnology Journal. 11(11). 1424–1432. 12 indexed citations

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