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Overview

Andrew E. Firth is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Contributions in agricultural and biological sciences also form part of their academic portfolio.

Their work extensively covers subfields such as molecular biology, infectious diseases, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, plant science, and animal science and zoology. These areas underscore a broad spectrum of life sciences with a particular emphasis on the molecular and pathological mechanisms underpinning health and disease.

Key research topics addressed by Andrew E. Firth include:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Viral infections and immunology research
  • Animal virus infections studies
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Plant virus research studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research

Their publication record features frequent collaborations with several researchers, highlighting a network of coauthors involved in various aspects of virology and molecular biology. Notable coauthors include Katherine A. Brown, Ian Brierley, Hazel Stewart, James R. Edgar, and Stephen C. Graham.

Their research has appeared in a range of scientific journals, with multiple publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), PLoS Pathogens, Journal of General Virology, Journal of Virology, and Nature Communications. This selection of venues emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature and the virological focus of their scientific output.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Andrew E. Firth comprise:

  • "An RNA thermoswitch regulates daytime growth in Arabidopsis," 2020, Nature Plants
  • "CIAlign: A highly customisable command line tool to clean, interpret and visualise multiple sequence alignments," 2022, PeerJ
  • "Manipulation of the unfolded protein response: A pharmacological strategy against coronavirus infection," 2021, PLoS Pathogens
  • "2022 taxonomic update of phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales," 2022, Archives of Virology
  • "Annual (2023) taxonomic update of RNA-directed RNA polymerase-encoding negative-sense RNA viruses (realm Riboviria: kingdom Orthornavirae: phylum Negarnaviricota)," 2023, Journal of General Virology

Best Publications

  • An overlapping essential gene in the Potyviridae.

    Betty Y.-W. Chung;W. Allen Miller;John F. Atkins;Andrew E. Firth

  • An Overlapping Protein-Coding Region in Influenza A Virus Segment 3 Modulates the Host Response

    B. W. Jagger;Helen Wise;J. C. Kash;K. A. Walters

  • Non-canonical translation in RNA viruses.

    Andrew E. Firth;Ian Brierley

  • Discovery of a small arterivirus gene that overlaps the GP5 coding sequence and is important for virus production

    Andrew E. Firth;Jessika C. Zevenhoven-Dobbe;Norma M. Wills;Yun Young Go

  • Ribosomal frameshifting and transcriptional slippage: From genetic steganography and cryptography to adventitious use.

    John F Atkins;Gary Loughran;Pramod R Bhatt;Andrew Edwin Firth

  • Insect-specific flaviviruses: a systematic review of their discovery, host range, mode of transmission, superinfection exclusion potential and genomic organization.

    Bradley J. Blitvich;Andrew E. Firth

  • Identification of a novel splice variant form of the influenza A virus M2 ion channel with an antigenically distinct ectodomain.

    Helen M. Wise;Edward C. Hutchinson;Brett W. Jagger;Brett W. Jagger;Amanda D. Stuart

  • Efficient −2 frameshifting by mammalian ribosomes to synthesize an additional arterivirus protein

    Ying Fang;Emmely E. Treffers;Yanhua Li;Ali Tas

  • GLUE-IT and PEDEL-AA: new programmes for analyzing protein diversity in randomized libraries

    Andrew E. Firth;Wayne M. Patrick

  • Detection of a fourth orbivirus non-structural protein.

    Mourad Belhouchet;Fauziah Mohd Jaafar;Andrew E. Firth;Jonathan M. Grimes

  • Effect of 5′UTR introns on gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Betty Y.W. Chung;Cas Simons;Andrew E. Firth;Chris M. Brown

  • Identification of evolutionarily conserved non-AUG-initiated N-terminal extensions in human coding sequences

    Ivaylo P. Ivanov;Andrew E. Firth;Audrey M. Michel;John F. Atkins

  • User-friendly algorithms for estimating completeness and diversity in randomized protein-encoding libraries.

    Wayne M. Patrick;Andrew E. Firth;Jonathan M. Blackburn

  • Estimating photometric redshifts with artificial neural networks

    Andrew E. Firth;Ofer Lahav;Rachel S. Somerville;Rachel S. Somerville

  • NS1′ of Flaviviruses in the Japanese Encephalitis Virus Serogroup Is a Product of Ribosomal Frameshifting and Plays a Role in Viral Neuroinvasiveness

    Ezequiel Balmori Melian;Edward Hinzman;Tomoko Nagasaki;Andrew E. Firth

  • Observation of dually decoded regions of the human genome using ribosome profiling data

    Audrey M. Michel;Kingshuk Roy Choudhury;Andrew E. Firth;Nicholas T. Ingolia

  • Transcriptional slippage in the positive‐sense RNA virus family Potyviridae

    Allan Olspert;Betty Y W Chung;John F. Atkins;John F. Atkins;John P. Carr

  • Stimulation of stop codon readthrough: frequent presence of an extended 3′ RNA structural element

    Andrew E. Firth;Norma M. Wills;Raymond F. Gesteland;John F. Atkins

  • High-Resolution Analysis of Coronavirus Gene Expression by RNA Sequencing and Ribosome Profiling

    Nerea Irigoyen;Andrew E. Firth;Joshua D. Jones;Betty Y.-W. Chung

  • An RNA thermoswitch regulates daytime growth in Arabidopsis.

    Betty Y. W. Chung;Martin Balcerowicz;Marco Di Antonio;Katja E. Jaeger;Katja E. Jaeger

Frequent Co-Authors

John F. Atkins
John F. Atkins University College Cork
Ian Brierley
Ian Brierley University of Cambridge
Richard S. Ellis
Richard S. Ellis University College London
Richard G. McMahon
Richard G. McMahon University of Cambridge
Roberto Abraham
Roberto Abraham University of Toronto
Raymond G. Carlberg
Raymond G. Carlberg University of Toronto
Hongzheng Chen
Hongzheng Chen Zhejiang University
Ofer Lahav
Ofer Lahav University College London
Rachel S. Somerville
Rachel S. Somerville Flatiron Institute
Paul Martini
Paul Martini The Ohio State University

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