Michael J. Rust

14.0k citations

83 papers · 10.2k · 2 hit papers · h-index 25

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Structural Biology top 0.05%
- Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
Biophysics top 0.01%
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
- Cell Image Analysis Techniques

Papers in

Biomedical Engineering 29
- Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications 11
- Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies 9
Molecular Biology 26
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms 13

Co-authors: Xiaowei Zhuang (11 shared papers)Mark Bates (1 shared paper)Melike Lakadamyali (7 shared papers)Hazen P. Babcock (1 shared paper)Erin K. O’Shea (2 shared papers)Feng Zhang (1 shared paper)Jan Wilschut (2 shared papers)Jolanda M. Smit (2 shared papers)
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (7 papers)Soft Matter (5 papers)Nature Communications (4 papers)Science (3 papers)Current Biology (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States Netherlands Germany

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Michael J. Rust

74 papers receiving 10.0k citations

Michael J. Rust's Hit Papers

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Sub-diffraction-limit imaging by stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) 2006 · 5.9k 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.

2006 Nature Methods
2003 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	Sub-diffraction-limit imaging by stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) Nature Methods ·Michael J. Rust, Mark Bates, Xiaowei Zhuang Hit paper breakdown →	2006	5897
2	Visualizing infection of individual influenza viruses Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Melike Lakadamyali, Michael J. Rust, Hazen P. Babcock, Xiaowei Zhuang Hit paper breakdown →	2003	604
3	Ligands for Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis Are Differentially Sorted into Distinct Populations of Early Endosomes Cell ·Melike Lakadamyali, Michael J. Rust, Xiaowei Zhuang	2006	456
4	Dissecting the Cell Entry Pathway of Dengue Virus by Single-Particle Tracking in Living Cells PLoS Pathogens ·Hilde M. van der Schaar, Michael J. Rust, Chen Chen, Heidi van der Ende-Metselaar, Jan Wilschut, Xiaowei Zhuang, Jolanda M. Smit	2008	393
5	Assembly of endocytic machinery around individual influenza viruses during viral entry Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Michael J. Rust, Melike Lakadamyali, Feng Zhang, Xiaowei Zhuang	2004	360
6	Ordered Phosphorylation Governs Oscillation of a Three-Protein Circadian Clock Science ·Michael J. Rust, Joseph S. Markson, William S. Lane, Daniel S. Fisher, Erin K. O’Shea	2007	277
7	Endocytosis of influenza viruses Microbes and Infection ·Melike Lakadamyali, Michael J. Rust, Xiaowei Zhuang	2004	268
8	Imaging Poliovirus Entry in Live Cells PLoS Biology ·Boerries Brandenburg, Lily Y. Lee, Melike Lakadamyali, Michael J. Rust, Xiaowei Zhuang, James M. Hogle	2007	250
9	Characterization of the Early Events in Dengue Virus Cell Entry by Biochemical Assays and Single-Virus Tracking Journal of Virology ·Hilde M. van der Schaar, Michael J. Rust, Barry-Lee Waarts, Heidi van der Ende-Metselaar, Richard Kühn, Jan Wilschut, Xiaowei Zhuang, Jolanda M. Smit	2007	218
10	Light-Driven Changes in Energy Metabolism Directly Entrain the Cyanobacterial Circadian Oscillator Science ·Michael J. Rust, Susan S. Golden, Erin K. O’Shea	2011	168
11	Functionalized nano interdigitated electrodes arrays on polymer with integrated microfluidics for direct bio-affinity sensing using impedimetric measurement Sensors and Actuators A Physical ·Zhiwei Zou, Junhai Kai, Michael J. Rust, Jungyoup Han, Chong H. Ahn	2007	163
12	A protein fold switch joins the circadian oscillator to clock output in cyanobacteria Science ·Yong‐Gang Chang, Susan E. Cohen, Connie Phong, William K. Myers, Yong-Ick Kim, Roger Tseng, Jenny Lin, Li Zhang, Joseph S. Boyd, Yvonne Lee, Shannon Kang, David E. Lee, Sheng Li, R. David Britt, Michael J. Rust, Susan S. Golden, Andy LiWang	2015	134
13	Single-molecule enzymology of RNA: Essential functional groups impact catalysis from a distance Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·David Rueda, Gregory Bokinsky, Maria M. Rhodes, Michael J. Rust, Xiaowei Zhuang, Nils G. Walter	2004	117
14	Robust and tunable circadian rhythms from differentially sensitive catalytic domains Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Connie Phong, Joseph S. Markson, Crystal M. Wilhoite, Michael J. Rust	2012	79
15	Small Rad51 and Dmc1 Complexes Often Co-occupy Both Ends of a Meiotic DNA Double Strand Break PLoS Genetics ·Michael S. Brown, Jennifer Grubb, Annie Zhang, Michael J. Rust, Douglas K. Bishop	2015	69
16	Rhythms in Energy Storage Control the Ability of the Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock to Reset Current Biology ·Gopal K. Pattanayak, Connie Phong, Michael J. Rust	2014	65
17	Myosin-driven actin-microtubule networks exhibit self-organized contractile dynamics Science Advances ·Gloria Lee, Gregor Leech, Michael J. Rust, Moumita Das, Ryan McGorty, Jennifer L. Ross, Rae M. Robertson‐Anderson	2021	54
18	Controlling the Cyanobacterial Clock by Synthetically Rewiring Metabolism Cell Reports ·Gopal K. Pattanayak, Guillaume Lambert, Kevin Bernat, Michael J. Rust	2015	40
19	Mixtures of opposing phosphorylations within hexamers precisely time feedback in the cyanobacterial circadian clock Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jenny Lin, Justin Chew, Udaysankar Chockanathan, Michael J. Rust	2014	38
20	Varying crosslinking motifs drive the mesoscale mechanics of actin-microtubule composites Scientific Reports ·Shea Ricketts, Madison Francis, Leila Farhadi, Michael J. Rust, Moumita Das, Jennifer L. Ross, Rae M. Robertson‐Anderson	2019	32

About Michael J. Rust

Michael J. Rust is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Cell Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, having authored 83 papers that have together received 10.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Circadian rhythm and melatonin (18 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (13 papers), Micro and Nano Robotics (11 papers), Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications (11 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (11 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (10 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (9 papers) and Advanced Materials and Mechanics (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Structural Biology (1.4k citations), Biophysics (4.5k citations), Acoustics and Ultrasonics (72 citations), Endocrine and Autonomic Systems (470 citations) and Biomedical Engineering (2.8k citations). Michael J. Rust has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Xiaowei Zhuang, Mark Bates, Melike Lakadamyali, Hazen P. Babcock, Erin K. O’Shea, Feng Zhang, Jan Wilschut, Jolanda M. Smit, Heidi van der Ende-Metselaar and Hilde M. van der Schaar. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Soft Matter, Nature Communications, Science and Current Biology.

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