Tiansen Li

12.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
108 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Tiansen Li is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tiansen Li has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Molecular Biology, 32 papers in Genetics and 26 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Tiansen Li's work include Retinal Development and Disorders (63 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (18 papers) and Retinal Diseases and Treatments (18 papers). Tiansen Li is often cited by papers focused on Retinal Development and Disorders (63 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (18 papers) and Retinal Diseases and Treatments (18 papers). Tiansen Li collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Tiansen Li's co-authors include Basil S. Pawlyk, Michael Adamian, Donghyun Hong, Anand Swaroop, Piotr Siciński, Oleg V. Bulgakov, Roderick T. Bronson, Robert A. Weinberg, Michael A. Sandberg and Michael Danciger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tiansen Li

108 papers receiving 10.0k 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.

Cyclin D1 provides a link between development and oncogenesis in the retina and breast

1995 874 citations Tiansen Li et al. profile →
Retinal degeneration in the rd mouse is caused by a defect in the β subunit of rod cGMP-phosphodiesterase

1990 684 citations Tiansen Li et al. profile →
Elastic fiber homeostasis requires lysyl oxidase–like 1 protein

2004 542 citations Yun Zhao, Basil S. Pawlyk et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tiansen Li

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tiansen Li. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tiansen Li 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 Tiansen Li. Tiansen Li 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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	RPGR: Deep Phenotyping and Genetic Characterization With Findings Specific to the 3′-end of ORF15 2023 ·Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science ·Matthew D. Benson, (unknown), (unknown), Delphine Blain, Denise Cunningham, (unknown), Xun Sun, Tiansen Li, Robert B. Hufnagel, Brian P. Brooks, Laryssa A. Huryn, Wadih M. Zein, Catherine A. Cukras	3
2	Loss of endocytosis-associated RabGEF1 causes aberrant morphogenesis and altered autophagy in photoreceptors leading to retinal degeneration 2020 ·PLoS Genetics ·(unknown), (unknown), Jessica Gumerson, Jacob Nellissery, Angel Aponte, Linn Gieser, Haohua Qian, Robert N. Fariss, Juan S. Bonifacino, Tiansen Li, Anand Swaroop	10
3	Soy Protein Nanofiber Scaffolds for Uniform Maturation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Retinal Pigment Epithelium 2020 ·Tissue Engineering Part C Methods ·Michael A. Phelan, Kamil Kruczek, John H. Wilson, Matthew J. Brooks, Charles T. Drinnan, (unknown), Jonathan A. Gerstenhaber, Anand Swaroop, Peter I. Lelkes, Tiansen Li	22
4	Retinal disease in ciliopathies: Recent advances with a focus on stem cell-based therapies 2019 ·PubMed ·(unknown), Emily Welby, Tiansen Li, Anand Swaroop	28
5	RPGR gene editing with CRISPR-Cas 9 system in Retinal degeneration 9 (Rd9) mice to correct a disease mutation and phenotype 2018 ·Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science ·(unknown), Wenhan Yu, Jessica Gumerson, Lijin Dong, Zhijian Wu, Tiansen Li	3
6	Outer Membrane Protein 25 of Brucella Activates Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Signal Pathway in Human Trophoblast Cells 2017 ·Frontiers in Veterinary Science ·Jing Zhang, Yu Zhang, (unknown), Jing Liu, Xuehua Shao, Changxin Wu, (unknown), (unknown), Tiansen Li, (unknown), Chuangfu Chen, Hui Zhang	13
7	Centrosomal protein CP110 controls maturation of mother centriole during cilia biogenesis 2016 ·Development ·Sharda Yadav, Neel Sharma, Chunqiao Liu, Lijin Dong, Tiansen Li, Anand Swaroop	66
8	Ciliopathy-associated gene Cc2d2a promotes assembly of subdistal appendages on the mother centriole during cilia biogenesis 2014 ·Nature Communications ·Shobi Veleri, (unknown), Robert N. Fariss, Helen May‐Simera, Matthew Brooks, (unknown), Chun Gao, (unknown), Pinghu Liu, Kunio Nagashima, Rivka A. Rachel, Tiansen Li, Lijin Dong, Anand Swaroop	65
9	Leber Congenital Amaurosis Caused by Mutations in RPGRIP1 2014 ·Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine ·Tiansen Li	22
10	Construction and immune evaluation on mutation of phosphoglucomutase gene (pgm) attenuates of Brucella melitensis vaccine M5-90. 2013 ·Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences ·Tiansen Li, Hui Zhang, Yan Zhang, Meng Ru, (unknown), Zhihua Sun, (unknown), Zhen Wang, Ruihua Chen, Chuangfu Chen	1
11	Tubby is required for trafficking G protein-coupled receptors to neuronal cilia 2012 ·PubMed ·Xun Sun, James Haley, Oleg V. Bulgakov, Xue Cai, James F. McGinnis, Tiansen Li	78
12	Functional Characterization of Prickle 2, a core Planar Cell Polarity protein, in mouse retina 2012 ·Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science ·(unknown), Chunqiao Liu, Alexander G. Bassuk, Helen May‐Simera, Vinit B. Mahajan, Werner Graf, Anand Swaroop, Tiansen Li	1
13	Photoreceptor sensory cilia and ciliopathies: focus on CEP290, RPGR and their interacting proteins 2012 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Rivka A. Rachel, Tiansen Li, Anand Swaroop	107
14	DNA sequence variants in the LOXL1 gene are associated with pseudoexfoliation glaucoma in a U.S. clinic-based population with broad ethnic diversity 2008 ·BMC Medical Genetics ·Baojian Fan, Louis R. Pasquale, Cynthia L. Grosskreutz, Douglas J. Rhee, Teresa C. Chen, Margaret M. DeAngelis, Ivana K. Kim, (unknown), Joan W. Miller, Tiansen Li, Jonathan L. Haines, Janey L. Wiggs	93
15	Usherin is required for maintenance of retinal photoreceptors and normal development of cochlear hair cells 2007 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Xiaoqing Liu, Oleg V. Bulgakov, Keith N. Darrow, Basil S. Pawlyk, Michael Adamian, M. Charles Liberman, Tiansen Li	211
16	Mpp4 is required for proper localization of plasma membrane calcium ATPases and maintenance of calcium homeostasis at the rod photoreceptor synaptic terminals 2007 ·Human Molecular Genetics ·Jun Yang, Basil S. Pawlyk, (unknown), Michael Adamian, (unknown), Norman Michaud, Yun Zhao, Michael A. Sandberg, Clint L. Makino, Tiansen Li	32
17	Failure of Elastic Fiber Homeostasis Leads to Pelvic Floor Disorders 2006 ·American Journal Of Pathology ·Xiaoqing Liu, Yun Zhao, Basil S. Pawlyk, Margot S. Damaser, Tiansen Li	135
18	Dominant, Gain-of-Function Mutant Produced by Truncation of RPGR 2003 ·Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science ·Donghyun Hong, Basil S. Pawlyk, Michael Adamian, Tiansen Li	53
19	Absence of photoreceptor rescue with D-cis-diltiazem in the rd mouse. 2002 ·PubMed ·Basil S. Pawlyk, Tiansen Li, (unknown), Michael A. Sandberg, Eliot L. Berson	62
20	Evaluation of recombinant adeno-associated virus as a gene transfer vector for the retina 1997 ·Current Eye Research ·(unknown), Selvarangan Ponnazhagan, Xu-Shan Wang, Arun Srivastava, Tiansen Li	69

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