Professor of Biological Physics
Affiliate Professor, Microbiology

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, Physics
Affiliate, Microbiology
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

Silverman, A., Nashef, R., Wasserman, R., Noy, T., Born, S., Yao, T., Geng, Y., Rotbard, H., Levkowitz, A., Kaufman, Y., Golding, I., & Melamed, S. (2025). Phage-encoded small RNA hijacks host replication machinery to support the phage lytic cycle. Molecular cell, 85(24), 4678-4697.e12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2025.11.019

Geng, Y., Nguyen, T. V. P., Homaee, E., & Golding, I. (2024). Using bacterial population dynamics to count phages and their lysogens. Nature communications, 15(1), Article 7814. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51913-6

Golding, I., & Amir, A. (2024). Colloquium: Gene expression in growing cells: A biophysical primer. Reviews of Modern Physics, 96(4), Article 041001. https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.96.041001

Nguyen, T. V. P., Wu, Y., Yao, T., Trinh, J. T., Zeng, L., Chemla, Y. R., & Golding, I. (2024). Coinfecting phages impede each other's entry into the cell. Current Biology, 34(13), 2841-2853.e18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.05.032

Pountain, A. W., Jiang, P., Yao, T., Homaee, E., Guan, Y., McDonald, K. J. C., Podkowik, M., Shopsin, B., Torres, V. J., Golding, I., & Yanai, I. (2024). Transcription–replication interactions reveal bacterial genome regulation. Nature, 626(7999), 661-669. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06974-w

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