Nine JBEI Scientists in Top 2% of the World

December 23, 2020
By Sara Harmon

A recent paper in PLoS Biology featured updated databases of standardized citation metrics across all scientists and scientific disciplines.  We reviewed the databases for our JBEI scientists and the following individuals are ranked in the Top 2% of scientists in the world:

Paul D. Adams

JBEI Vice President for Technology and Director of Structural Biology

Ranked Discipline: Biomedical Research/Biochemistry & Molecular Biology/Biophysics

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Adam M. Feist

JBEI Scientific Lead, Host Engineering

Ranked Discipline: Enabling & Strategic Technologies/Biotechnology/Microbiology

University of California, San Diego

Jay D. Keasling

JBEI Chief Executive Officer and Director of New Pathways and Metabolic Models

Ranked Discipline: Enabling & Strategic Technologies/Biotechnology/Microbiology

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

University of California, Berkeley

Bernhard O. Palsson

JBEI Scientific Lead, Genome Scale Models

Ranked Discipline: Enabling & Strategic Technologies/Bioinformatics/Biotechnology

University of California, San Diego

Pamela G. Ronald

JBEI Scientific Lead, Plant Pathology

Ranked Discipline: Biology/Plant Biology & Botany/Developmental Biology

University of California, Davis

Henrik V. Scheller

JBEI Vice President for Feedstocks and Director of Cell Wall Biology and Engineering

Ranked Discipline: Biology/Plant Biology & Botany/Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Brent H. Shanks

JBEI Scientific Lead, Chemical Catalysis

Ranked Discipline: Chemistry/Organic Chemistry/Chemical Engineering

Iowa State University

Blake A. Simmons

JBEI Chief Science & Technology Officer and Vice President for Deconstruction

Ranked Discipline: Enabling & Strategic Technologies/Biotechnology/Organic Chemistry

Seema Singh

JBEI Director of Biomass Pretreatment and Process Development and Deputy VP of Deconstruction

Ranked Discipline: Enabling & Strategic Technologies/Biotechnology/Organic Chemistry