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2024
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UK
2024

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123
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106868
World Ranking
326
National Ranking
57

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1991 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1989 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Adrian Bird is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of research is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Molecular Biology and Genetics as prominent subfields. Additional subfields of study include Plant Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Cancer Research.

Bird's work covers several main topics, notably Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, RNA modifications and cancer, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, Renal and related cancers, Cancer-related gene regulation, and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Adrian Bird include:

  • Neuronal non-CG methylation is an essential target for MeCP2 function, 2021, Molecular Cell
  • SALL4 controls cell fate in response to DNA base composition, 2021, Molecular Cell
  • High-throughput sequencing SELEX for the determination of DNA-binding protein specificities in vitro, 2022, STAR Protocols
  • MeCP2 binds to methylated DNA independently of phase separation and heterochromatin organisation, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Absence of MeCP2 binding to non-methylated GT-rich sequences in vivo, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research

Adrian Bird frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Cell, Life Science Alliance, PLoS Genetics, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

The scientist's work includes collaborations with various co-authors, among the most frequent are Kashyap Chhatbar, Raphaël Pantier, Beatrice Alexander-Howden, Justyna Cholewa-Waclaw, and Jim Selfridge.

Adrian Bird has been recognized with several awards, including being named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2016, a Member of Academia Europaea in 1991, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 1989.

Best Publications

  • DNA methylation patterns and epigenetic memory

    Adrian Bird

  • Epigenetic regulation of gene expression: how the genome integrates intrinsic and environmental signals

    Rudolf Jaenisch;Adrian Bird

  • CpG-rich islands and the function of DNA methylation

    Adrian P. Bird

  • Transcriptional repression by the methyl-CpG-binding protein MeCP2 involves a histone deacetylase complex

    Xinsheng Nan;Huck-Hui Ng;Colin A. Johnson;Carol D. Laherty

  • Perceptions of epigenetics

    Adrian Bird

  • CpG Islands and the Regulation of Transcription

    Aimée M. Deaton;Adrian Bird

  • DNA methylation landscapes: provocative insights from epigenomics

    Miho M. Suzuki;Adrian Bird

  • Genomic DNA methylation: the mark and its mediators.

    Robert J. Klose;Adrian P. Bird

  • Methylation-induced repression--belts, braces, and chromatin.

    Adrian P Bird;Alan P Wolffe

  • Identification and characterization of a family of mammalian methyl-CpG binding proteins.

    Brian Hendrich;Adrian Bird

  • A mouse Mecp2-null mutation causes neurological symptoms that mimic rett syndrome

    Jacky Guy;Brian Hendrich;Megan Holmes;Joanne E Martin

  • Purification, sequence, and cellular localization of a novel chromosomal protein that binds to Methylated DNA

    Joe D. Lewis;Joe D. Lewis;Richard R. Meehan;Richard R. Meehan;William J. Henzel;Ingrid Maurer-Fogy

  • MeCP2 is a transcriptional repressor with abundant binding sites in genomic chromatin.

    Xinsheng Nan;F.Javier Campoy;Adrian Bird

  • Number of CpG islands and genes in human and mouse

    Francisco Antequera;Adrian Bird

  • DNA methylation and the frequency of CpG in animal DNA.

    Adrian P. Bird

  • Analysis of the NuRD subunits reveals a histone deacetylase core complex and a connection with DNA methylation

    Yi Zhang;Huck-Hui Ng;Hediye Erdjument-Bromage;Paul Tempst

  • Reversal of Neurological Defects in a Mouse Model of Rett Syndrome

    Jacky Guy;Jian Gan;Jim Selfridge;Stuart Cobb

  • The essentials of DNA methylation.

    Adrian Bird

  • The Methyl-CpG-binding Protein MeCP2 Links DNA Methylation to Histone Methylation

    François Fuks;Paul J. Hurd;Daniel Wolf;Xinsheng Nan

  • Non-CpG methylation is prevalent in embryonic stem cells and may be mediated by DNA methyltransferase 3a

    Bernard H. Ramsahoye;Detlev Biniszkiewicz;Frank Lyko;Victoria Clark

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian Hendrich
Brian Hendrich University of Cambridge
Richard R. Meehan
Richard R. Meehan University of Edinburgh
Stuart Cobb
Stuart Cobb University of Glasgow
Owen J. Sansom
Owen J. Sansom University of Glasgow
Guido Sanguinetti
Guido Sanguinetti International School for Advanced Studies
Alan Richard Clarke
Alan Richard Clarke Cardiff University
Huck-Hui Ng
Huck-Hui Ng Genome Institute of Singapore
Wendy A. Bickmore
Wendy A. Bickmore University of Edinburgh
Anne C. Ferguson-Smith
Anne C. Ferguson-Smith University of Cambridge
Douglas R. Higgs
Douglas R. Higgs University of Oxford

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