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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Alice Barkan is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States and specializes in research at the intersection of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work predominantly focuses on molecular biology with additional contributions in plant science, cellular and molecular neuroscience, renewable energy, sustainability, and biochemistry.

The researcher has published extensively in fields related to photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, mitochondrial function and pathology, light effects on plants, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, genomics and phylogenetic studies, and algal biology and biofuel production.

Notable recent papers by Alice Barkan include:

  • Light-induced psbA translation in plants is triggered by photosystem II damage via an assembly-linked autoregulatory circuit, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Exploring the Link between Photosystem II Assembly and Translation of the Chloroplast psbA mRNA, 2020, Plants
  • Dynamic localization of SPO11-1 and conformational changes of meiotic axial elements during recombination initiation of maize meiosis, 2020, PLoS Genetics
  • The PPR-SMR Protein ATP4 Is Required for Editing the Chloroplast rps8 mRNA in Rice and Maize, 2020, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • In vivo stabilization of endogenous chloroplast RNAs by customized artificial pentatricopeptide repeat proteins, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Prakitchai Chotewutmontri
  • Rosalind Williams-Carrier
  • Susan Belcher
  • Margarita Rojas

Alice Barkan's works are often published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Plant Cell
  • The Plant Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Plants

The research conducted by Alice Barkan has been recognized through awards including membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2020 and a fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Redesigning photosynthesis to sustainably meet global food and bioenergy demand

    Donald R. Ort;Donald R. Ort;Sabeeha S. Merchant;Jean Alric;Alice Barkan

  • Pentatricopeptide repeat proteins in plants

    Alice Barkan;Ian Small

  • A Combinatorial Amino Acid Code for RNA Recognition by Pentatricopeptide Repeat Proteins

    Alice Barkan;Margarita Rojas;Sota Fujii;Aaron Yap

  • Site-specific binding of a PPR protein defines and stabilizes 5′ and 3′ mRNA termini in chloroplasts

    Jeannette Pfalz;Omer Ali Bayraktar;Jana Prikryl;Alice Barkan

  • Participation of nuclear genes in chloroplast gene expression.

    Alice Barkan;Michel P. Goldschmidt-Clermont

  • A Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein Facilitates the trans-Splicing of the Maize Chloroplast rps12 Pre-mRNA

    Christian Schmitz-Linneweber;Rosalind E. Williams-Carrier;Pascale M. Williams-Voelker;Tiffany S. Kroeger

  • Expression of Plastid Genes: Organelle-Specific Elaborations on a Prokaryotic Scaffold

    Alice Barkan

  • A nuclear mutation in maize blocks the processing and translation of several chloroplast mRNAs and provides evidence for the differential translation of alternative mRNA forms.

    A Barkan;M Walker;M Nolasco;D Johnson

  • RNA Immunoprecipitation and Microarray Analysis Show a Chloroplast Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein to Be Associated with the 5' Region of mRNAs Whose Translation It Activates

    Christian Schmitz-Linneweber;Rosalind Williams-Carrier;Alice Barkan

  • Mechanism of RNA stabilization and translational activation by a pentatricopeptide repeat protein

    Jana Prikryl;Margarita Rojas;Gadi Schuster;Alice Barkan

  • Molecular cloning of the maize gene crp1 reveals similarity between regulators of mitochondrial and chloroplast gene expression

    Dianna G. Fisk;Macie B. Walker;Alice Barkan

  • Proteins encoded by a complex chloroplast transcription unit are each translated from both monocistronic and polycistronic mRNAs.

    A Barkan

  • Nucleoid-enriched proteomes in developing plastids and chloroplasts from maize leaves; a new conceptual framework for nucleoid functions

    Wojciech Majeran;Giulia Friso;Yukari Asakura;Xian Qu

  • Nuclear Mutants of Maize with Defects in Chloroplast Polysome Assembly Have Altered Chloroplast RNA Metabolism.

    Alice Barkan

  • Nuclear mutations that block group II RNA splicing in maize chloroplasts reveal several intron classes with distinct requirements for splicing factors.

    Bethany D. Jenkins;Doris J. Kulhanek;Alice Barkan

  • A member of the Whirly family is a multifunctional RNA- and DNA-binding protein that is essential for chloroplast biogenesis

    Jana Prikryl;Kenneth P. Watkins;Giulia Friso;Klaas J. van Wijk

  • The Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein PPR5 Stabilizes a Specific tRNA Precursor in Maize Chloroplasts

    Susanne Beick;Christian Schmitz-Linneweber;Rosalind Williams-Carrier;Bryan Jensen

  • Use of Illumina sequencing to identify transposon insertions underlying mutant phenotypes in high-copy Mutator lines of maize

    Rosalind Williams-Carrier;Nicholas Stiffler;Susan Belcher;Tiffany Kroeger

  • Inactivation of maize transposon Mu suppresses a mutant phenotype by activating an outward-reading promoter near the end of Mu1.

    Alice Barkan;Robert A. Martienssen

  • Two nuclear mutations disrupt distinct pathways for targeting proteins to the chloroplast thylakoid.

    R. Voelker;A. Barkan

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaas J. van Wijk
Klaas J. van Wijk Cornell University
David B. Stern
David B. Stern Boyce Thompson Institute
Robert A. Martienssen
Robert A. Martienssen Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Brian W. Matthews
Brian W. Matthews University of Oregon
Ian Small
Ian Small University of Western Australia
Maureen R. Hanson
Maureen R. Hanson Cornell University
Peter M. Rogowsky
Peter M. Rogowsky École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Michael Freeling
Michael Freeling University of California, Berkeley
Donald R. Ort
Donald R. Ort University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ralph Bock
Ralph Bock Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology

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