Kirsten R. Benjamin

High-level semi-synthetic production of the potent antimalarial artemisinin

Christopher J. Paddon, Patrick J. Westfall, Douglas J. Pitera et al. · Nature · 2013 · 2K citations · Full text

Medicinal Chemistry, Antiparasitic Agent, Medicine +5

Production of amorphadiene in yeast, and its conversion to dihydroartemisinic acid, precursor to the antimalarial agent artemisinin

Patrick J. Westfall, Douglas J. Pitera, Jacob R. Lenihan et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · 711 citations · Full text

Rewriting yeast central carbon metabolism for industrial isoprenoid production

Adam L. Meadows, Kristy Hawkins, Yoseph Tsegaye et al. · Nature · 2016 · 681 citations

Biosynthesis, Biological Carbon Fixation, Biochemistry +4

Control of landmark events in meiosis by the CDK Cdc28 and the meiosis-specific kinase Ime2

Kirsten R. Benjamin, Chao Zhang, Kevan M. Shokat et al. · Genes & Development · 2003 · 297 citations · Full text

Molecular Biology, Cytoskeleton, Cell Cycle +23

Negative feedback that improves information transmission in yeast signalling

Richard Yu, C. Gustavo Pesce, Alejandro Colman‐Lerner et al. · Nature · 2008 · 234 citations · Full text

Signal Transduction, Signal Recognition, Molecular Biology +2