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  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Andrew J. Copp is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine, with a total of 63 publications in each field.

The researcher focuses on several subfields including Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cell Biology, Rheumatology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Their main topics of research cover diverse areas such as Folate and B Vitamins Research, Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, Pluripotent Stem Cells Research, Wnt/β-catenin Signaling in Development and Cancer, Neurogenesis and Neuroplasticity Mechanisms, Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy, and Metabolism and Genetic Disorders.

Their recent publications include:

  • "A roadmap for the Human Developmental Cell Atlas", 2021, Nature
  • "Inositols: From Established Knowledge to Novel Approaches", 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "Integrin-Mediated Focal Anchorage Drives Epithelial Zippering during Mouse Neural Tube Closure", 2020, Developmental Cell
  • "Breakthroughs in the Use of Inositols for Assisted Reproductive Treatment (ART)", 2020, Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • "Cell non-autonomy amplifies disruption of neurulation by mosaic Vangl2 deletion in mice", 2021, Nature Communications

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Nicholas D. E. Greene
  • Gabriel L. Galea
  • Eirini Maniou
  • Abigail R. Marshall
  • Sandra C. de Castro

Andrew J. Copp's publications have appeared repeatedly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), EBioMedicine, Nature Communications, Birth Defects Research, and Disease Models & Mechanisms.

This scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • The genetic basis of mammalian neurulation

    Andrew J. Copp;Nicholas D. E. Greene;Jennifer N. Murdoch

  • FOXP2 and the neuroanatomy of speech and language

    Faraneh Vargha-Khadem;David G. Gadian;Andrew Copp;Mortimer Mishkin

  • Mutation of Celsr1 disrupts planar polarity of inner ear hair cells and causes severe neural tube defects in the mouse.

    John A. Curtin;Elizabeth Quint;Vicky Tsipouri;Ruth M. Arkell

  • Disruption of Bardet-Biedl syndrome ciliary proteins perturbs planar cell polarity in vertebrates

    Alison J Ross;Helen May-Simera;Erica R Eichers;Masatake Kai

  • Neural tube defects: recent advances, unsolved questions, and controversies

    Andrew J Copp;Philip Stanier;Nicholas D E Greene

  • Neural tube defects.

    Nicholas D.E. Greene;Andrew J. Copp

  • Genetics and development of neural tube defects

    Andrew J Copp;Nicholas D E Greene

  • FOXP2 expression during brain development coincides with adult sites of pathology in a severe speech and language disorder.

    Cecilia S. L. Lai;Dianne Gerrelli;Anthony P. Monaco;Simon E. Fisher

  • Death before birth: Clues from gene knockouts and mutations

    Andrew J. Copp

  • Neural tube closure: cellular, molecular and biomechanical mechanisms.

    Evanthia Nikolopoulou;Gabriel L. Galea;Ana Rolo;Nicholas D. E. Greene

  • The embryonic development of mammalian neural tube defects.

    A. J. Copp;F. A. Brook;J. P. Estibeiro;A. S. W. Shum

  • Genetics of human neural tube defects

    Nicholas D.E. Greene;Philip Stanier;Andrew J. Copp

  • Convergent extension, planar-cell-polarity signalling and initiation of mouse neural tube closure.

    Patricia Ybot-Gonzalez;Dawn Savery;Dianne Gerrelli;Massimo Signore

  • The chromosome 6p22 haplotype associated with dyslexia reduces the expression of KIAA0319, a novel gene involved in neuronal migration

    Silvia Paracchini;Ankur Thomas;Sandra Castro;Cecilia Lai

  • Severe neural tube defects in the loop-tail mouse result from mutation of Lpp1, a novel gene involved in floor plate specification

    Jennifer N. Murdoch;Kit Doudney;Caroline Paternotte;Andrew J. Copp

  • Embryonic Folate Metabolism and Mouse Neural Tube Defects

    Angeleen Fleming;Andrew J. Copp

  • Pax3 is required for cardiac neural crest migration in the mouse: evidence from the splotch (Sp2H) mutant

    Simon J. Conway;Deborah J. Henderson;Andrew J. Copp

  • Disruption of scribble (Scrb1) causes severe neural tube defects in the circletail mouse

    Jennifer N Murdoch;Deborah J Henderson;Kit Doudney;Carles Gaston-Massuet

  • Disruption of Bardet-Biedl syndrome ciliary proteins perturbs planar cell polarity in vertebrates

    A Ross;H May-Simera;E Eichers;M Kai

  • The genetic basis of mammalian neurulation

    Andrew Copp

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas D. E. Greene
Nicholas D. E. Greene University College London
Philip Stanier
Philip Stanier University College London
Lyn S. Chitty
Lyn S. Chitty University College London
Susan Lindsay
Susan Lindsay Newcastle University
Elizabeth M. C. Fisher
Elizabeth M. C. Fisher University College London
Merton Bernfield
Merton Bernfield Harvard University
Janet Rossant
Janet Rossant University of Toronto
Nicholas Katsanis
Nicholas Katsanis Galatea Bio Inc
Hélène Dollfus
Hélène Dollfus University of Strasbourg
David J. Adams
David J. Adams Wellcome Sanger Institute

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