W. Zac Stephens

Also affiliated with Huntsman Cancer Institute

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyImmunology and MicrobiologyMedicine

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

Top 7%percentile

0.165Author DataRank

Indexed papers

1in pilot corpus

datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology

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An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 1 indexed paper attributed to them. A prolific author with many moderate-impact papers can outrank one with a single high-impact paper.

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The highest-impact dataset this researcher has shared, ranked by DataRank — the single contribution doing the most to lift their data-sharing standing.

Draft Turicibacter sp. genome isolated from a spore-forming community in mice

Microbiology Resource Announcements(2024)10.1128/mra.00385-24

Top 70%

0.165DataRank

Top 70%2 citations

Allison M. Weis, W. Zac Stephens, June L. Round, Kendra A. Klag

Papers

Driven by 23 papers — median percentile 30. Top paper: “Neonatal fungi promote lifelong metabolic health through macrophage-dependent β cell development”.

Neonatal fungi promote lifelong metabolic health through macrophage-dependent β cell development

Science(2025)10.1126/science.adn0953

N/A

0.879DataRank · unranked

26 citations

Rickesha Bell, Logan Barrios, Halli Baird, Kyla S. Ost, Morgan Greenewood +11 more

Fusobacterium nucleatum and Clinicopathologic Features of Colorectal Cancer: Results From the ColoCare Study

Clinical Colorectal Cancer(2021)10.1016/j.clcc.2021.02.007

N/A

0.520DataRank · unranked

31 citations

Patrick Mallea, Biljana Gigic, W. Zac Stephens, Christy A. Warby, Kate Buhrke +27 more

Neonatal NET-Inhibitory Factor improves survival in the cecal ligation and puncture model of polymicrobial sepsis by inhibiting neutrophil extracellular traps

Frontiers in Immunology(2023)10.3389/fimmu.2022.1046574

N/A

0.373DataRank · unranked

11 citations

Frederik Denorme, W. Zac Stephens, Qing Li, Mark J. Cody, Jacob L. Crandell +10 more

Draft Turicibacter sp. genome isolated from a spore-forming community in mice

Microbiology Resource Announcements(2024)10.1128/mra.00385-24

Top 70%

0.165DataRank

Top 70%2 citations

Allison M. Weis, W. Zac Stephens, June L. Round, Kendra A. Klag

Epithelial-myeloid exchange of MHC class II constrains immunity and microbiota composition

Cell Reports(2021)10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109916

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

37 citations

Jason L. Kubinak, Arevik Ghazaryan, Kaylyn M. Bauer, Rickesha Bell, Kate Buhrke +9 more

Ontogenetic Differences in Dietary Fat Influence Microbiota Assembly in the Zebrafish Gut

UNC Libraries(2021)10.17615/9z2r-5s12

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Sandi Wong, Adam R. Burns, Lawrence A. David, Keaton Stagaman, Brendan J. M. Bohannan +3 more

CD11c+ myeloid cell exosomes reduce intestinal inflammation during colitis

JCI Insight(2022)10.1172/jci.insight.159469

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

21 citations

Morgan C. Nelson, William W. Tang, Tyson R. Chiaro, D. Garrett Brown, Arevik Ghazaryan +17 more

Wild herbivorous mammals (genus Neotoma) host a diverse but transient assemblage of fungi

Symbiosis(2022)10.1007/s13199-022-00853-0

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

12 citations

W. Zac Stephens, Robert Greenhalgh, June L. Round, M. Denise Dearing, Sara B. Weinstein

Autoimmune CD4+ T cells fine-tune TCF1 expression to maintain function and survive persistent antigen exposure during diabetes

Immunity(2024)10.1016/j.immuni.2024.09.016

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

27 citations

Denise Allard, Bryant Perkins, Arielle Raugh, Tessa Galland, Jing Yi +5 more

Colitis reduces active social engagement in mice and is ameliorated by supplementation with human microbiota members

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-46733-7

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

15 citations

Michaela Murphy, Roberto Cadeddu, Rickesha Bell, Allison M. Weis, Tyson R. Chiaro +7 more

Fusobacterium nucleatum Abundance is Associated with Cachexia in Colorectal Cancer Patients: The ColoCare Study

Cancer Medicine(2024)10.1002/cam4.70431

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Tengda Lin, Sheetal Hardikar, Doratha A. Byrd, June L. Round, W. Zac Stephens +16 more

Draft genome of a human gut-derived Blautia sp. that ameliorates colitis and colitis-associated sociability deficits in mice

Microbiology Resource Announcements(2024)10.1128/mra.00726-24

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

3 citations

D. Garrett Brown, Rickesha Bell, Allison M. Weis, Logan Barrios, W. Zac Stephens +2 more

Genomes of diverse Clostridia isolated from a spore forming community in mice that were associated with protection against metabolic syndrome and obesity

Microbiology Resource Announcements(2024)10.1128/mra.00351-24

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Kendra A. Klag, Rickeshia Bell, W. Zac Stephens, June L. Round, Allison M. Weis

The impact of tokenizer selection in genomic language models

Bioinformatics(2025)10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf456

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Nicole L. Pershing, A K M Rubaiyat Reza Habib, Keith Dufault‐Thompson, W. Zac Stephens, Anne J. Blaschke +3 more

The gut microbiome is associated with disease‐free survival in stage I–III colorectal cancer patients

International Journal of Cancer(2025)10.1002/ijc.35342

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

12 citations

Victoria Damerell, Maria F. Gomez, Stephanie Hogue, Tengda Lin, Jennifer Ose +15 more

Dietary fat disrupts a commensal-host lipid network that promotes metabolic health

Cell Metabolism(2025)10.1016/j.cmet.2025.10.007

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

12 citations

Darci Ott, Trevor S. Tippetts, Rebekah J Nicolson, Sean M. Tatum, Kaylyn M. Bauer +14 more

A capsular polysaccharide from a healthy human microbiota member activates a Lag-3-NK cell axis to restrain colon cancer and augment immunotherapy

Cell Reports(2025)10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116172

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Kaylyn M. Bauer, William W. Tang, Emmanuel Stephen‐Victor, Rickesha Bell, D. Garrett Brown +25 more

Clec12a controls colitis by tempering inflammation and restricting expansion of specific commensals

Cell Host & Microbe(2025)10.1016/j.chom.2024.12.009

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Morgan Greenewood, Kaylyn M. Bauer, Kyla S. Ost, Emmanuel Stephen‐Victor, Michaela Murphy +11 more

CIPR: a web-based R/shiny app and R package to annotate cell clusters in single cell RNA sequencing experiments

BMC Bioinformatics(2020)10.1186/s12859-020-3538-2

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

89 citations

Christopher J. Conley, W. Zac Stephens, Ryan M. O’Connell, H. Atakan Ekiz

Pre-surgery gut microbial diversity and abundance are associated with post-surgery onset of cachexia in colorectal cancer patients: the ColoCare Study

Cancer Causes & Control(2025)10.1007/s10552-025-02042-y

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Maria F. Gomez, Tengda Lin, Caroline Himbert, June L. Round, W. Zac Stephens +19 more

Evidence for a core gut microbiota in the zebrafish

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/q2d1-5648

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

John F. Rawls, Colleen M. Cavanaugh, Karen Guillemin, David M. Parichy, Guus Roeselers +2 more

The composition of the zebrafish intestinal microbial community varies across development

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/b7vm-j214

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Sandi Wong, W. Zac Stephens, John F. Rawls, Adam R. Burns, Keaton Stagaman +2 more

Adaptive immunity induces mutualism between commensal eukaryotes

Nature(2021)10.1038/s41586-021-03722-w

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

209 citations

Teresa R. O’Meara, W. Zac Stephens, Tyson R. Chiaro, Haoyang Zhou, Jourdan Penman +16 more

W. Zac Stephens

Indexed papers

Top data-sharing exemplar

Papers