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Alistair R. R. Forrest is affiliated with the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research in Australia. Their research spans across multiple disciplines within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. The scientist has contributed extensively to fields including molecular biology, oncology, cancer research, immunology, and genetics.

Their primary topics of research focus on single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, RNA modifications and cancer, cancer genomics and diagnostics, cancer-related molecular mechanisms, immune cells in cancer, and RNA research and splicing.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Cell
  • Nature

Key recent papers from Alistair R. R. Forrest comprise:

  • Systematic assessment of tissue dissociation and storage biases in single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-seq workflows, 2020, Genome Biology
  • Stromal cell diversity associated with immune evasion in human triple-negative breast cancer, 2020, The EMBO Journal
  • Predicting cell-to-cell communication networks using NATMI, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Human prefrontal cortex gene regulatory dynamics from gestation to adulthood at single-cell resolution, 2022, Cell
  • Spatial transcriptomics reveals discrete tumour microenvironments and autocrine loops within ovarian cancer subclones, 2024, Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators in research include:

  • Rui Hou
  • Elena Denisenko
  • Timo Lassmann
  • Matthew Jones
  • Janina E. E. Tirnitz-Parker

Best Publications

  • The Transcriptional Landscape of the Mammalian Genome

    P. Carninci;T. Kasukawa;S. Katayama;J. Gough

  • An atlas of active enhancers across human cell types and tissues

    Robin Andersson;Claudia Gebhard;Irene Miguel-Escalada;Ilka Hoof

  • Analysis of the mouse transcriptome based on functional annotation of 60,770 full-length cDNAs

    Y. Okazaki;M. Furuno;T. Kasukawa;J. Adachi

  • A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas

    Alistair R.R. Forrest;Hideya Kawaji;Michael Rehli;J. Kenneth Baillie

  • Genome-wide analysis of mammalian promoter architecture and evolution

    Piero Carninci;Albin Sandelin;Boris Lenhard;Boris Lenhard;Shintaro Katayama

  • Stem cell transcriptome profiling via massive-scale mRNA sequencing.

    Nicole Cloonan;Alistair R R Forrest;Alistair R R Forrest;Gabriel Kolle;Brooke B A Gardiner

  • Long non-coding antisense RNA controls Uchl1 translation through an embedded SINEB2 repeat

    Claudia Carrieri;Laura Cimatti;Marta Biagioli;Marta Biagioli;Anne Beugnet

  • An atlas of human long non-coding RNAs with accurate 5′ ends

    Chung Chau Hon;Jordan A. Ramilowski;Jayson Harshbarger;Nicolas Bertin;Nicolas Bertin

  • The regulated retrotransposon transcriptome of mammalian cells.

    Geoffrey J Faulkner;Yasumasa Kimura;Carsten O Daub;Shivangi Wani

  • An Atlas of Combinatorial Transcriptional Regulation in Mouse and Man

    Timothy Ravasi;Harukazu Suzuki;Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci;Shintaro Katayama

  • Gateways to the FANTOM5 promoter level mammalian expression atlas

    Marina Lizio;Jayson Harshbarger;Hisashi Shimoji;Jessica Severin

  • A draft network of ligand–receptor-mediated multicellular signalling in human

    Jordan A. Ramilowski;Tatyana Goldberg;Jayson Harshbarger;Edda Kloppmann

  • Transcribed enhancers lead waves of coordinated transcription in transitioning mammalian cells

    Erik Arner;Carsten O. Daub;Kristoffer Vitting-Seerup;Robin Andersson

  • An integrated expression atlas of miRNAs and their promoters in human and mouse.

    Derek De Rie;Imad Abugessaisa;Tanvir Alam;Erik Arner

  • The transcriptional network that controls growth arrest and differentiation in a human myeloid leukemia cell line

    Harukazu Suzuki;Alistair R.R. Forrest;Erik Van Nimwegen;Carsten O. Daub

  • Systematic assessment of tissue dissociation and storage biases in single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-seq workflows

    Elena Denisenko;Belinda B. Guo;Matthew Jones;Rui Hou

  • Tiny RNAs associated with transcription start sites in animals.

    Ryan J Taft;Evgeny A Glazov;Nicole Cloonan;Cas Simons

  • Hierarchical folding and reorganization of chromosomes are linked to transcriptional changes in cellular differentiation

    James Fraser;Carmelo Ferrai;Carmelo Ferrai;Andrea M Chiariello;Markus Schueler

  • The miR-17-5p microRNA is a key regulator of the G1/S phase cell cycle transition

    Nicole Cloonan;Mellissa K Brown;Anita L Steptoe;Shivangi Wani

  • Stromal cell diversity associated with immune evasion in human triple-negative breast cancer.

    Sunny Z. Wu;Sunny Z. Wu;Daniel L. Roden;Daniel L. Roden;Chenfei Wang;Holly Holliday;Holly Holliday

Frequent Co-Authors

Timo Lassmann
Timo Lassmann Telethon Kids Institute
David A. Hume
David A. Hume University of Queensland
Carsten O. Daub
Carsten O. Daub Karolinska Institute
Sean M. Grimmond
Sean M. Grimmond University of Melbourne
Christine A. Wells
Christine A. Wells University of Melbourne

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