Vy Lam

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Vy Lam is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Vy Lam has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Epidemiology and 5 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Vy Lam's work include Gut microbiota and health (10 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (3 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (3 papers). Vy Lam is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (10 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (3 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (3 papers). Vy Lam collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Vy Lam's co-authors include Nita H. Salzman, John E. Baker, Jidong Su, Anna Hsu, Garrett J. Gross, Michael A. Hayward, Pippa Simpson, Christopher J. Kristich, Sushma Kommineni and Karen Duca and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and The FASEB Journal.

In The Last Decade

Vy Lam

26 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Bacteriocin production augments niche competition by enterococci in the mammalian gastrointestinal tract

2015 335 citations Sushma Kommineni, Daniel J. Bretl et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vy Lam United States	17	838	286	258	203	141	26	1.4k
Haoming Xu China	29	1.2k 1.4×	205 0.7×	333 1.3×	123 0.6×	346 2.5×	81	2.1k
Xi Shen China	18	653 0.8×	212 0.7×	109 0.4×	211 1.0×	126 0.9×	65	1.1k
Nikhil Garge United States	8	1.1k 1.4×	487 1.7×	196 0.8×	193 1.0×	196 1.4×	13	1.7k
Naofumi Yoshida Japan	19	892 1.1×	388 1.4×	166 0.6×	79 0.4×	93 0.7×	89	1.6k
Xuemei Liu China	9	817 1.0×	223 0.8×	117 0.5×	195 1.0×	105 0.7×	38	1.3k
Dalia Perelman United States	15	946 1.1×	643 2.2×	143 0.6×	187 0.9×	225 1.6×	27	2.4k
Jacob M. Luber United States	6	1.0k 1.2×	399 1.4×	106 0.4×	93 0.5×	143 1.0×	20	1.4k
Chun Pan Cheung Hong Kong	14	801 1.0×	84 0.3×	557 2.2×	103 0.5×	94 0.7×	25	1.3k
Agnieszka Sroka-Oleksiak Poland	15	497 0.6×	151 0.5×	192 0.7×	84 0.4×	103 0.7×	35	819

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vy Lam

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Frenn, Marilyn, Nita H. Salzman, Vy Lam, et al.. (2025). Childhood Obesity Body Mass Index and Gut Microbiome: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Pilot Feasibility Study. Childhood Obesity. 21(5). 489–496. 1 indexed citations

Pan, Amy, et al.. (2019). Longitudinal changes in the gut microbiome of infants on total parenteral nutrition. Pediatric Research. 86(1). 107–114. 45 indexed citations

Grayson, Mitchell H., Syed-Rehan A. Hussain, Michael A. Hayward, et al.. (2018). Intestinal Microbiota Disruption Reduces Regulatory T Cells and Increases Respiratory Viral Infection Mortality Through Increased IFNγ Production. Frontiers in Immunology. 9. 1587–1587. 55 indexed citations

Lam, Vy, et al.. (2018). Ceftriaxone Administration Disrupts Intestinal Homeostasis, Mediating Noninflammatory Proliferation and Dissemination of Commensal Enterococci. Infection and Immunity. 86(12). 36 indexed citations

Cabrera, Susanne M., Mary L. Kaldunski, Shuang Jia, et al.. (2018). Modulation of the diet and gastrointestinal microbiota normalizes systemic inflammation and β-cell chemokine expression associated with autoimmune diabetes susceptibility. PLoS ONE. 13(1). e0190351–e0190351. 27 indexed citations

Fawley, Jason, et al.. (2017). Intestinal alkaline phosphatase deficiency leads to dysbiosis and bacterial translocation in the newborn intestine. Journal of Surgical Research. 218. 35–42. 19 indexed citations

Pan, Pan, Vy Lam, Nita H. Salzman, et al.. (2017). Black Raspberries and Their Anthocyanin and Fiber Fractions Alter the Composition and Diversity of Gut Microbiota in F-344 Rats. Nutrition and Cancer. 69(6). 943–951. 87 indexed citations

Rentea, Rebecca M., Vy Lam, Ben E. Biesterveld, et al.. (2016). Radiation-induced changes in intestinal and tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase: implications for recovery after radiation therapy. The American Journal of Surgery. 212(4). 602–608. 9 indexed citations

Lam, Vy, Jidong Su, Anna Hsu, et al.. (2016). Intestinal Microbial Metabolites Are Linked to Severity of Myocardial Infarction in Rats. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0160840–e0160840. 111 indexed citations

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Kommineni, Sushma, Daniel J. Bretl, Vy Lam, et al.. (2015). Bacteriocin production augments niche competition by enterococci in the mammalian gastrointestinal tract. Nature. 526(7575). 719–722. 335 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lenarczyk, Marek, Vy Lam, Eric S. Jensen, et al.. (2013). Cardiac Injury after 10 Gy Total Body Irradiation: Indirect Role of Effects on Abdominal Organs. Radiation Research. 180(3). 247–258. 41 indexed citations

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Lam, Vy, Tarin M. Bigley, Scott S. Terhune, & Tetsuro Wakatsuki. (2012). A Method for Quantifying Mechanical Properties of Tissue following Viral Infection. PLoS ONE. 7(8). e42197–e42197. 6 indexed citations

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Lam, Vy, John E. Moulder, Nita H. Salzman, et al.. (2012). Intestinal Microbiota as Novel Biomarkers of Prior Radiation Exposure. Radiation Research. 177(5). 573–573. 63 indexed citations

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Lam, Vy & Tetsuro Wakatsuki. (2010). Hydrogel Tissue Construct-Based High-Content Compound Screening. SLAS DISCOVERY. 16(1). 120–128. 11 indexed citations

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Marquez, J. Pablo, et al.. (2009). High-Throughput Measurements of Hydrogel Tissue Construct Mechanics. Tissue Engineering Part C Methods. 15(2). 181–190. 22 indexed citations

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Haseltine, Eric L., Vy Lam, John Yin, & James B. Rawlings. (2008). Image-Guided Modeling of Virus Growth and Spread. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 70(6). 1730–1748. 30 indexed citations

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Levchenko, Vladislav, Tengis S. Pavlov, Vy Lam, et al.. (2008). Regulation of ENaC expression at the cell surface by Rab11. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 377(2). 521–525. 41 indexed citations

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Saraiya, Purvi, Chris North, Vy Lam, & Karen Duca. (2006). An Insight-Based Longitudinal Study of Visual Analytics. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 12(6). 1511–1522. 92 indexed citations

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Lim, Kwang‐il, Tobias Lang, Vy Lam, & John Yin. (2006). Model-Based Design of Growth-Attenuated Viruses. PLoS Computational Biology. 2(9). e116–e116. 31 indexed citations

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Lam, Vy, Karen Duca, & John Yin. (2005). Arrested spread of vesicular stomatitis virus infections in vitro depends on interferon‐mediated antiviral activity. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 90(7). 793–804. 37 indexed citations

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