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Marc C. Morais

Environmental Science · Indiana University

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Established · publishing since 1998
Bacteriophages and microbial interactionsRNA and protein synthesis mechanismsBacterial Genetics and BiotechnologyProtein Structure and DynamicsEnzyme Structure and Function

Publications

84

Citations

3,138

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

29

Publishing since 1998

Research summary
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Marc C. Morais studies how viruses assemble and package their genetic material, focusing on the molecular machines (motors) that pump DNA into virus shells and the proteins that build those shells. The work combines structural biology techniques such as cryo-electron microscopy with biophysical and biochemical analysis, using systems like bacteriophage Phi29 (a virus that infects bacteria) and human-relevant viruses such as Zika and dengue.

Viral genome packaging motorsVirus capsid (shell) assemblyCryo-electron microscopy and structural biologyBacteriophagesFlaviviruses (Zika/dengue)

Publication output has been variable, with a spike around 2020 followed by lower yearly counts and a recent uptick in 2025, averaging roughly 2-3 papers per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

Funding
Public award records

No award with a current end date on record.

1 earlier award
  • NSF 1929271Jul 2019 – Jun 2022 · $427k awarded

    Collaborative Research: Virus Assembly in Extreme Environments: A Structural and Genetic Approach

Matched to public NIH RePORTER and NSF records by name and institution. Awards from other agencies are not shown, and a match is not always found — this list may be incomplete.

In context
Among 573 established Environmental Science PIs within our index
Citations: 3,138cohort median 2,398
h-index: 31cohort median 23
Publications / year (recent): 2.6cohort median 3.7

Typically publishes in teams of ~7 · 23% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 20 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.6/year recently
172018: 2 publications18192020: 18 publications18202021: 5 publications212022: 3 publications222023: 2 publications232024: 1 publication242025: 6 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×7
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences×4
  • Worldwide Protein Data Bank×4
  • Nucleic Acids Research×3
  • Nature Communications×2
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Last updated Sep 1, 2026.

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