Michael J. Rust

14.2k citations

86 papers · 10.7k · 2 hit papers · h-index 26

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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 30
- Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications 11
- Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies 10
Molecular Biology 26
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms 13

Co-authors: Xiaowei Zhuang (12 shared papers)Mark Bates (2 shared papers)Melike Lakadamyali (7 shared papers)Hazen P. Babcock (1 shared paper)Erin K. O’Shea (2 shared papers)Feng Zhang (1 shared paper)Jolanda M. Smit (2 shared papers)Jan Wilschut (2 shared papers)
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (7 papers)Soft Matter (5 papers)Nature Communications (4 papers)Current Biology (3 papers)Science (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany Netherlands

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Michael J. Rust

75 papers receiving 10.5k citations

Michael J. Rust's Hit Papers

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Sub-diffraction-limit imaging by stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) 2006 · 6.2k 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	6199
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	627
3	Ligands for Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis Are Differentially Sorted into Distinct Populations of Early Endosomes Cell ·Melike Lakadamyali, Michael J. Rust, Xiaowei Zhuang	2006	471
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	416
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	382
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	306
7	Endocytosis of influenza viruses Microbes and Infection ·Melike Lakadamyali, Michael J. Rust, Xiaowei Zhuang	2004	276
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	260
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	225
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	177
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	169
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	144
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	121
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	82
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	70
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	69
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	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	42
19	Controlling the Cyanobacterial Clock by Synthetically Rewiring Metabolism Cell Reports ·Gopal K. Pattanayak, Guillaume Lambert, Kevin Bernat, Michael J. Rust	2015	41
20	Biophysical clocks face a trade-off between internal and external noise resistance eLife ·Weerapat Pittayakanchit, Zhiyue Lu, Justin Chew, Michael J. Rust, Arvind Murugan	2018	34

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 86 papers that have together received 10.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Circadian rhythm and melatonin (19 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 (11 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (10 papers) and Light effects on plants (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Structural Biology (1.5k citations), Biophysics (4.7k citations), Acoustics and Ultrasonics (73 citations), Endocrine and Autonomic Systems (500 citations) and Biomedical Engineering (2.9k citations). Michael J. Rust has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Xiaowei Zhuang, Mark Bates, Melike Lakadamyali, Hazen P. Babcock, Erin K. O’Shea, Feng Zhang, Jolanda M. Smit, Jan Wilschut, Hilde M. van der Schaar and Heidi van der Ende-Metselaar. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Soft Matter, Nature Communications, Current Biology and Science.

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