Zemer Gitai

10.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
99 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Zemer Gitai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Zemer Gitai has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Molecular Biology, 51 papers in Genetics and 30 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Zemer Gitai's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (50 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (35 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (28 papers). Zemer Gitai is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (50 papers), Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (35 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (28 papers). Zemer Gitai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Zemer Gitai's co-authors include Ned S. Wingreen, Lucy Shapiro, Natalie A. Dye, Joshua W. Shaevitz, Howard A. Stone, Kerwyn Casey Huang, Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Alexandre Persat, Maxwell Z. Wilson and Albert Siryaporn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Zemer Gitai

99 papers receiving 7.3k 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.

The Mechanical World of Bacteria

2015 385 citations Ned S. Wingreen, Bonnie L. Bassler et al. Cell profile →
A Dual-Mechanism Antibiotic Kills Gram-Negative Bacteria and Avoids Drug Resistance

2020 259 citations Joseph Sheehan, Benjamin P. Bratton et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zemer Gitai United States	46	5.4k	2.6k	1.6k	666	632	99	7.4k
Evgeny Nudler United States	66	10.6k 2.0×	4.4k 1.7×	2.0k 1.2×	384 0.6×	405 0.6×	147	13.4k
Daniel G. Gibson United States	25	8.8k 1.6×	2.7k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	422 0.6×	948 1.5×	36	10.8k
Jeremy H. Lakey United Kingdom	53	5.6k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	757 0.5×	399 0.6×	1.2k 1.9×	195	8.2k
Tohru Minamino Japan	55	5.0k 0.9×	5.0k 1.9×	2.0k 1.2×	1.7k 2.5×	542 0.9×	186	8.4k
Lotte Søgaard‐Andersen Germany	47	4.5k 0.8×	3.2k 1.2×	1.4k 0.9×	695 1.0×	461 0.7×	142	6.1k
Lei Young Australia	8	6.7k 1.2×	2.0k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	332 0.5×	741 1.2×	13	8.4k
Ray-Yuan Chuang United States	16	6.9k 1.3×	2.1k 0.8×	951 0.6×	324 0.5×	709 1.1×	18	8.5k
Igor B. Zhulin United States	46	5.8k 1.1×	2.7k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	716 1.1×	706 1.1×	122	8.8k
Elena V. Orlova United Kingdom	48	6.3k 1.2×	1.3k 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	480 0.7×	299 0.5×	151	9.3k
Susan K. Buchanan United States	46	5.6k 1.0×	2.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	929 1.4×	255 0.4×	113	8.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Zemer Gitai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zemer Gitai

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bratton, Benjamin P., Morgan Delarue, Joseph Sheehan, et al.. (2025). Macromolecular interactions and geometrical confinement determine the 3D diffusion of ribosome-sized particles in live Escherichia coli cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(4). e2406340121–e2406340121. 3 indexed citations

Taylor, Véronique L., et al.. (2025). Prophages block cell surface receptors to preserve their viral progeny. Nature. 644(8078). 1049–1057. 2 indexed citations

Stone, Howard A., et al.. (2025). Bacterial species with different nanocolony morphologies have distinct flow-dependent colonization behaviors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(7). e2419899122–e2419899122. 2 indexed citations

Koch, Matthias D., et al.. (2024). Bacteria Tune a Trade-off between Adhesion and Migration to Colonize Surfaces under Flow. 2(2). 4 indexed citations

Murphy, Coleen T., et al.. (2024). Pseudomonas aeruginosa modulates both Caenorhabditis elegans attraction and pathogenesis by regulating nitrogen assimilation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7927–7927. 7 indexed citations

Sengupta, Titas, Rachel Kaletsky, Rebecca S. Moore, et al.. (2024). A natural bacterial pathogen of C. elegans uses a small RNA to induce transgenerational inheritance of learned avoidance. PLoS Genetics. 20(3). e1011178–e1011178. 16 indexed citations

Zhang, Di, Hsin‐Jung Li, Christopher King, et al.. (2022). Global and gene-specific translational regulation in Escherichia coli across different conditions. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(10). e1010641–e1010641. 17 indexed citations

Ellison, Courtney K., Chenyi Fei, Triana N. Dalia, et al.. (2022). Subcellular localization of type IV pili regulates bacterial multicellular development. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6334–6334. 8 indexed citations

Koch, Matthias D., Chenyi Fei, Ned S. Wingreen, Joshua W. Shaevitz, & Zemer Gitai. (2021). Competitive binding of independent extension and retraction motors explains the quantitative dynamics of type IV pili. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(8). 39 indexed citations

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Sugimoto, Yuki, Benjamin P. Bratton, Courtney K. Ellison, et al.. (2021). Pseudomonas aeruginosa detachment from surfaces via a self-made small molecule. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 296. 100279–100279. 9 indexed citations

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Ellison, Courtney K., et al.. (2021). Acinetobacter baylyi regulates type IV pilus synthesis by employing two extension motors and a motor protein inhibitor. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3744–3744. 18 indexed citations

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Yang, Judy Q., Joseph E. Sanfilippo, Niki Abbasi, et al.. (2021). Evidence for biosurfactant-induced flow in corners and bacterial spreading in unsaturated porous media. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(38). 12 indexed citations

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Moore, Rebecca S., Rachel Kaletsky, Chen Lesnik, et al.. (2021). The role of the Cer1 transposon in horizontal transfer of transgenerational memory. Cell. 184(18). 4697–4712.e18. 47 indexed citations

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Martin, Nicholas R., et al.. (2021). CrvA and CrvB form a curvature-inducing module sufficient to induce cell-shape complexity in Gram-negative bacteria. Nature Microbiology. 6(7). 910–920. 10 indexed citations

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Kaletsky, Rachel, et al.. (2020). C. elegans interprets bacterial non-coding RNAs to learn pathogenic avoidance. Nature. 586(7829). 445–451. 140 indexed citations

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Ursell, Tristan, Jeffrey Nguyen, Russell D. Monds, et al.. (2014). Rod-like bacterial shape is maintained by feedback between cell curvature and cytoskeletal localization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(11). E1025–34. 178 indexed citations

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Schlimpert, Susan, Eric A. Klein, Ariane Briegel, et al.. (2012). General Protein Diffusion Barriers Create Compartments within Bacterial Cells. Cell. 151(6). 1270–1282. 58 indexed citations

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Teeffelen, Sven van, Siyuan Wang, Leon Furchtgott, et al.. (2011). The bacterial actin MreB rotates, and rotation depends on cell-wall assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(38). 15822–15827. 290 indexed citations

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Kim, So Yeon, Zemer Gitai, Anika Kinkhabwala, Lucy Shapiro, & W. E. Moerner. (2006). Single molecules of the bacterial actin MreB undergo directed treadmilling motion in Caulobacter crescentus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(29). 10929–10934. 164 indexed citations

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Gitai, Zemer, Natalie A. Dye, & Lucy Shapiro. (2004). An actin-like gene can determine cell polarity in bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(23). 8643–8648. 249 indexed citations

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