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59
Citations
24967
World Ranking
1996
National Ranking
160

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Andrea H. Brand is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cancer Research, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Plant Science.

Their work covers multiple main topics such as Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation, Neonatal Respiratory Health Research, Renal and related cancers, and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research.

Frequently publishing in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), PLoS Biology, Cell Reports, Development, and Cell Stem Cell, Andrea has shared insights across both experimental and theoretical aspects of biology.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Organoid modeling of human fetal lung alveolar development reveals mechanisms of cell fate patterning and neonatal respiratory disease (2022, Cell Stem Cell)
  • Quiescent Neural Stem Cells for Brain Repair and Regeneration: Lessons from Model Systems (2020, Trends in Neurosciences)
  • NanoDam identifies Homeobrain (ARX) and Scarecrow (NKX2.1) as conserved temporal factors in the Drosophila central brain and visual system (2022, Developmental Cell)
  • SOX9 maintains human foetal lung tip progenitor state by enhancing WNT and RTK signalling (2022, The EMBO Journal)
  • Stem cell niche organization in the Drosophila ovary requires the ECM component Perlecan (2021, Current Biology)

Andrea H. Brand's frequent coauthors include:

  • Jelle van den Ameele
  • Alex P. A. Donovan
  • Robert Krautz
  • Seth W. Cheetham
  • Jocelyn L.Y. Tang

Their scientific impact is further marked by recognition such as being named a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Targeted gene expression as a means of altering cell fates and generating dominant phenotypes.

    Andrea H. Brand;Norbert Perrimon

  • Characterization of a “silencer” in yeast: A DNA sequence with properties opposite to those of a transcriptional enhancer

    Andrea H. Brand;Linda Breeden;Judith Abraham;Rolf Sternglanz

  • Ectopic expression in Drosophila.

    Andrea H. Brand;Armen S. Manoukian;Norbert Perrimon;Norbert Perrimon

  • Prospero Acts as a Binary Switch between Self-Renewal and Differentiation in Drosophila Neural Stem Cells

    Semil P. Choksi;Tony D. Southall;Torsten Bossing;Karin Edoff

  • Staufen- and FMRP-containing neuronal RNPs are structurally and functionally related to somatic P bodies.

    Scott A. Barbee;Patricia S. Estes;Anne Marie Cziko;Jens Hillebrand

  • Nutrition-Responsive Glia Control Exit of Neural Stem Cells from Quiescence

    James M. Chell;Andrea H. Brand

  • folded gastrulation, cell shape change and the control of myosin localization.

    Rachel E. Dawes-Hoang;Kush M. Parmar;Kush M. Parmar;Audrey E. Christiansen;Chris B. Phelps

  • A yeast silencer contains sequences that can promote autonomous plasmid replication and transcriptional activation

    Andrea H. Brand;Andrea H. Brand;Gos Micklem;Kim Nasmyth

  • Ectopic gene expression in Drosophila using GAL4 system

    Chris B. Phelps;Andrea H. Brand

  • Rotation and asymmetry of the mitotic spindle direct asymmetric cell division in the developing central nervous system

    Julia A. Kaltschmidt;Catherine M. Davidson;Nicholas H. Brown;Andrea H. Brand

  • Imaging into the future: visualizing gene expression and protein interactions with fluorescent proteins

    Peter van Roessel;Andrea H Brand

  • Frizzled regulates localization of cell-fate determinants and mitotic spindle rotation during asymmetric cell division.

    Yohanns Bellaïche;Michel Gho;Julia A. Kaltschmidt;Andrea H. Brand

  • Miranda mediates asymmetric protein and RNA localization in the developing nervous system.

    Alison J. Schuldt;Jan H.J. Adams;Catherine M. Davidson;David R. Micklem

  • An actomyosin-based barrier inhibits cell mixing at compartmental boundaries in Drosophila embryos.

    Bruno Monier;Anne Pélissier-Monier;Andrea H. Brand;Bénédicte Sanson

  • Identification of silencer binding proteins from yeast: possible roles in SIR control and DNA replication

    David Shore;David J. Stillman;Andrea H. Brand;Kim A. Nasmyth

  • Polar transport in the Drosophila oocyte requires Dynein and Kinesin I cooperation.

    Jens Januschke;Louis Gervais;Sajith Dass;Julia A. Kaltschmidt

  • Cell-Type-Specific Profiling of Gene Expression and Chromatin Binding without Cell Isolation: Assaying RNA Pol II Occupancy in Neural Stem Cells

    Tony D. Southall;Katrina S. Gold;Boris Egger;Catherine M. Davidson

  • Independent Regulation of Synaptic Size and Activity by the Anaphase-Promoting Complex

    Peter van Roessel;David Anthony Elliott;Iain M Robinson;Andreas Prokop

  • The mago nashi gene is required for the polarisation of the oocyte and the formation of perpendicular axes in Drosophila

    David R. Micklem;Ramanuj Dasgupta;Heather Elliott;Fanni Gergely

  • Regulation of spindle orientation and neural stem cell fate in the Drosophila optic lobe

    Boris August Egger;Jason Q Boone;Naomi R Stevens;Andrea Brand

Frequent Co-Authors

Norbert Perrimon
Norbert Perrimon Harvard University
Kapaettu Satyamoorthy
Kapaettu Satyamoorthy Manipal University Jaipur
Servaas A. Morré
Servaas A. Morré Maastricht University
George P. Patrinos
George P. Patrinos University of Patras
Jim Haseloff
Jim Haseloff University of Cambridge
Núria Malats
Núria Malats Spanish National Cancer Research Centre
Effy Vayena
Effy Vayena ETH Zurich
Hans Lehrach
Hans Lehrach Max Planck Society
François Schweisguth
François Schweisguth Institut Pasteur
Howard M. Goodman
Howard M. Goodman Harvard University

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