Report summary

The 2015-2026 picture for University of Southern California Department of Biological Sciences is a 115-PI network with 165 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as the leading field (30% of slots across 70 PIs; 70 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (19% of slots across 52 PIs; 52 labels), and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology as the leading topic (4% of slots across 14 PIs; 14 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The leading PI names are Valter D. Longo (46.1 weighted works; Dietary Effects on Health, Diet and metabolism studies). The clearest collaboration lines are Peter Kühn and James Hicks (84 shared works, weight 29.6); Peter Kühn and Stephanie N. Shishido (45 shared works, weight 24.8). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 21.6, around Molecular Biology, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, led by James Q. Boedicker, Mohamed Y. El‐Naggar, Ian M. Ehrenreich.