William Wan

4.9k citations

38 papers · 3.2k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 23

Impact in

Structural Biology top 0.1%
- Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
Surfaces, Coatings and Films top 2%
- Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques

Papers in ⓘ

Molecular Biology 22
- Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding 8
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 4
Structural Biology 12
- Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications 12

Co-authors: John A. G. Briggs (9 shared papers)Wim J. H. Hagen (3 shared papers)Gerald Stubbs (10 shared papers)F.K.M. Schur (3 shared papers)Amy Kendall (4 shared papers)Charles D. Schwieters (1 shared paper)Dominik Berthold (1 shared paper)Virginia M.‐Y. Lee (1 shared paper)
Journals: Microscopy and Microanalysis (4 papers)Journal of Structural Biology (3 papers)Nature (3 papers)Science (3 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

William Wan

37 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Implementation of a cryo-electron tomography tilt-scheme optimized for high resolution subtomogram averaging 2016 · 477 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 Journal of Structural Biology
2016 Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

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1	Solid-state NMR structure of a pathogenic fibril of full-length human α-synuclein Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Marcus D. Tuttle, Gemma Comellas, Andrew J. Nieuwkoop, Dustin J. Covell, Dominik Berthold, Kathryn D. Kloepper, Joseph M. Courtney, Jae Kwang Kim, Alexander M. Barclay, Amy Kendall, William Wan, Gerald Stubbs, Charles D. Schwieters, Virginia M.‐Y. Lee, Julia M. George, Chad M. Rienstra Hit paper breakdown →	2016	777
2	Implementation of a cryo-electron tomography tilt-scheme optimized for high resolution subtomogram averaging Journal of Structural Biology ·Wim J. H. Hagen, William Wan, John A. G. Briggs Hit paper breakdown →	2016	477
3	An atomic model of HIV-1 capsid-SP1 reveals structures regulating assembly and maturation Science ·F.K.M. Schur, Martin Obr, Wim J. H. Hagen, William Wan, Arjen J. Jakobi, Joanna Kirkpatrick, Carsten Sachse, Hans‐Georg Kräusslich, John A. G. Briggs	2016	311
4	Molecular architecture of the inner ring scaffold of the human nuclear pore complex Science ·Jan Kosiński, Shyamal Mosalaganti, Alexander von Appen, Roman Teimer, Amanda L. DiGuilio, William Wan, Khanh Huy Bui, Wim J. H. Hagen, John A. G. Briggs, Joseph S. Glavy, Ed Hurt, Martin Beck	2016	233
5	Cryo-Electron Tomography and Subtomogram Averaging Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·William Wan, John A. G. Briggs	2016	182
6	Efficient 3D-CTF correction for cryo-electron tomography using NovaCTF improves subtomogram averaging resolution to 3.4 Å Journal of Structural Biology ·Beata Turoňová, F.K.M. Schur, William Wan, John A. G. Briggs	2017	175
7	Is Supramolecular Filament Chirality the Underlying Cause of Major Morphology Differences in Amyloid Fibrils? Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Dmitry Kurouski, Xuefang Lu, Ludmila A. Popova, William Wan, Maruda Shanmugasundaram, Gerald Stubbs, Rina K. Dukor, Igor K. Lednev, Laurence A. Nafié	2014	156
8	Structure and assembly of the Ebola virus nucleocapsid Nature ·William Wan, Larissa Kolesnikova, Mairi Clarke, Alexander Koehler, Takeshi Noda, Stephan Becker, John A. G. Briggs	2017	146
9	Biogenic regions of cyanobacterial thylakoids form contact sites with the plasma membrane Nature Plants ·Anna Rast, Miroslava Schaffer, Sahradha Albert, William Wan, Stefan Pfeffer, Florian Beck, Jürgen M. Plitzko, Jörg Nickelsen, Benjamin D. Engel	2019	100
10	In situ architecture of the ciliary base reveals the stepwise assembly of intraflagellar transport trains Science ·Hugo van den Hoek, Nikolai Klena, Mareike A. Jordan, Gonzalo Alvarez Viar, Ricardo D. Righetto, Miroslava Schaffer, Philipp S. Erdmann, William Wan, Stefan Geimer, Jürgen M. Plitzko, Wolfgang Baumeister, Gaia Pigino, Virginie Hamel, Paul Guichard, Benjamin D. Engel	2022	84
11	The native structure of the assembled matrix protein 1 of influenza A virus Nature ·Julia Peukes, Xiaoli Xiong, Simon Erlendsson, Kun Qu, William Wan, Leslie J. Calder, Oliver Schraidt, Susann Kummer, Stefan M.V. Freund, Hans‐Georg Kräusslich, John A. G. Briggs	2020	62
12	Cryo-electron tomography structure of Arp2/3 complex in cells reveals new insights into the branch junction Nature Communications ·Florian Fäßler, Georgi Dimchev, Victor-Valentin Hodirnau, William Wan, F.K.M. Schur	2020	56
13	AHD2.0: an update version of Arabidopsis Hormone Database for plant systematic studies Nucleic Acids Research ·Zhang Jiang, Xueying Liu, Zhaohua Peng, Yinan Wan, Ying Ji, Weiming He, William Wan, Jingchu Luo, Hongwei Guo	2010	47
14	VIPP1 rods engulf membranes containing phosphatidylinositol phosphates Scientific Reports ·Jasmine Theis, Tilak Kumar Gupta, Johannes Klingler, William Wan, Sahradha Albert, Sandro Keller, Benjamin D. Engel, Michael Schroda	2019	37
15	Ebola and Marburg virus matrix layers are locally ordered assemblies of VP40 dimers eLife ·William Wan, Mairi Clarke, Michael Norris, Larissa Kolesnikova, Alexander Koehler, Zachary A. Bornholdt, Stephan Becker, Erica Ollmann Saphire, John A. G. Briggs	2020	37
16	Multishot tomography for high-resolution in situ subtomogram averaging Journal of Structural Biology ·Sagar Khavnekar, William Wan, Parijat Majumder, Wojciech Wietrzyñski, Philipp S. Erdmann, Jürgen M. Plitzko	2022	29
17	STOPGAP : an open-source package for template matching, subtomogram alignment and classification Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology ·William Wan, Sagar Khavnekar, Jonathan Wagner	2024	28
18	Fungal prion HET-s as a model for structural complexity and self-propagation in prions Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·William Wan, Gerald Stubbs	2014	27
19	Rapid Filament Supramolecular Chirality Reversal of HET-s (218–289) Prion Fibrils Driven by pH Elevation The Journal of Physical Chemistry B ·Maruda Shanmugasundaram, Dmitry Kurouski, William Wan, Gerald Stubbs, Rina K. Dukor, Laurence A. Nafié, Igor K. Lednev	2015	26
20	STOPGAP: A Software Package for Subtomogram Averaging and Refinement Microscopy and Microanalysis ·William Wan, Sagar Khavnekar, Jonathan Wagner, Philipp S. Erdmann, Wolfgang Baumeister	2020	24

About William Wan

William Wan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Structural Biology, Radiation, Surfaces, Coatings and Films and Physiology, having authored 38 papers that have together received 3.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (12 papers), Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (8 papers), Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (7 papers), Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (7 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (6 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (4 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (4 papers) and Trace Elements in Health (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Structural Biology (762 citations), Surfaces, Coatings and Films (350 citations), Virology (163 citations), Neurology (421 citations) and Molecular Biology (1.7k citations). William Wan has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include John A. G. Briggs, Wim J. H. Hagen, Gerald Stubbs, F.K.M. Schur, Amy Kendall, Charles D. Schwieters, Dominik Berthold, Virginia M.‐Y. Lee, Chad M. Rienstra and Alexander M. Barclay. Their work appears in journals such as Microscopy and Microanalysis, Journal of Structural Biology, Nature, Science and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

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