Rate My Professor Robert Fagerlund

Fagerlund's scholarly contributions span structural biology of cyanobacterial photosystems and advanced CRISPR research, amassing over 2,442 citations according to Google Scholar. Key publications include 'CRISPR-Cas: adapting to change' (Science, 2017, cited by 529), 'Spacer capture and integration by a type I-F Cas1–Cas2-3 CRISPR adaptation complex' (PNAS, 2017, cited by 132), 'Discovery of multiple anti-CRISPRs highlights anti-defense gene clustering in mobile genetic elements' (Nature Communications, 2020, cited by 175), 'The extrinsic proteins of Photosystem II' (Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics, 2012, cited by 363), and 'The lipoproteins of cyanobacterial photosystem II' (Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, 2011, cited by 67). Recent works feature 'Engineering an antimicrobial chimeric endolysin that targets the phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae' (Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2025) and 'Repurposing an endogenous CRISPR-Cas system to generate and study subtle mutations in bacteriophages' (CRISPR Journal, 2024). In 2017, he was awarded a Marsden Fund Fast-Start grant for $300,000 to study CRISPR-Cas immunity in cyanobacteria. His findings have advanced knowledge of prokaryotic antiviral defenses and phage engineering, influencing fields from molecular microbiology to synthetic biology.