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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Andrew P. Jackson is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these areas, they have focused on subfields such as Insect Science, Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, and Immunology.

The scientific topics addressed in their work include:

  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Research on Leishmaniasis Studies
  • Trypanosoma species research and implications
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Interferon and immune responses
  • Insect and Pesticide Research

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Andrew P. Jackson include:

  • "cGAS-mediated induction of type I interferon due to inborn errors of histone pre-mRNA processing," 2020, Nature Genetics
  • "An invariant Trypanosoma vivax vaccine antigen induces protective immunity," 2021, Nature
  • "Variant antigen diversity in Trypanosoma vivax is not driven by recombination," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Evolution of the variant surface glycoprotein family in African trypanosomes," 2021, Trends in Parasitology
  • "Bodo saltans (Kinetoplastida) is dependent on a novel Paracaedibacter-like endosymbiont that possesses multiple putative toxin-antitoxin systems," 2021, The ISME Journal

Frequent co-authors they have collaborated with are:

  • Craig W. Duffy
  • Delphine Autheman
  • Gavin J. Wright
  • Sara Silva Pereira
  • Gregory D. D. Hurst

Their research outputs have appeared repeatedly in certain publication venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trends in Parasitology
  • Nature Genetics
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications

Andrew P. Jackson was recognized with the following awards:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 2020
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2014

Best Publications

  • Cerebral organoids model human brain development and microcephaly

    Madeline A. Lancaster;Magdalena Renner;Carol Anne Martin;Daniel Wenzel

  • cGAS surveillance of micronuclei links genome instability to innate immunity

    Karen J. MacKenzie;Paula Carroll;Carol Anne Martin;Olga Murina

  • Mutations in the gene encoding the 3'-5' DNA exonuclease TREX1 cause Aicardi-Goutières syndrome at the AGS1 locus.

    Yanick J Crow;Yanick J Crow;Bruce E Hayward;Rekha Parmar;Peter Robins

  • The Human Phenotype Ontology project: linking molecular biology and disease through phenotype data

    Sebastian Köhler;Sandra C. Doelken;Christopher J. Mungall;Sebastian Bauer

  • Mutations in genes encoding ribonuclease H2 subunits cause Aicardi-Goutières syndrome and mimic congenital viral brain infection.

    Yanick J Crow;Yanick J Crow;Andrea Leitch;Bruce E Hayward;Anna Garner

  • Mutation in the gene encoding ferritin light polypeptide causes dominant adult-onset basal ganglia disease.

    Andrew R.J. Curtis;Constanze Fey;Christopher M Morris;Laurence A. Bindoff

  • Identification of Microcephalin, a Protein Implicated in Determining the Size of the Human Brain

    Andrew P. Jackson;Andrew P. Jackson;Helen Eastwood;Sandra M. Bell;Jimi Adu

  • Enzymatic removal of ribonucleotides from DNA is essential for Mammalian genome integrity and development

    Martin A.M. Reijns;Björn Rabe;Rachel E. Rigby;Pleasantine Mill

  • Clinical and Molecular Phenotype of Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome

    Gillian Rice;Teresa Patrick;Rekha Parmar;Claire F Taylor

  • CRISPR screens identify genomic ribonucleotides as a source of PARP-trapping lesions

    Michal Zimmermann;Olga Murina;Martin A. M. Reijns;Angelo Agathanggelou

  • Mutations in pericentrin cause Seckel syndrome with defective ATR-dependent DNA damage signaling

    Elen Griffith;Sarah Walker;Carol-Anne Martin;Paola Vagnarelli

  • Mutations in the pre-replication complex cause Meier-Gorlin syndrome

    Louise S Bicknell;Ernie M H F Bongers;Andrea Leitch;Stephen Brown

  • CEP152 is a genome maintenance protein disrupted in Seckel syndrome

    Ersan Kalay;Gökhan Yigit;Yakup Aslan;Karen E Brown

  • Lagging-strand replication shapes the mutational landscape of the genome

    Martin A. M. Reijns;Harriet Kemp;James Ding;Sophie Marion de Procé

  • Mutations in Microcephalin Cause Aberrant Regulation of Chromosome Condensation

    Marc Trimborn;Sandra M. Bell;Clive Felix;Yasmin Rashid

  • Mechanisms and pathways of growth failure in primordial dwarfism

    Anna Klingseisen;Andrew P. Jackson

  • Mutations in ORC1, encoding the largest subunit of the origin recognition complex, cause microcephalic primordial dwarfism resembling Meier-Gorlin syndrome

    Louise S. Bicknell;Sarah Walker;Anna Klingseisen;Tom Stiff

  • Ribonuclease H2 mutations induce a cGAS/STING-dependent innate immune response.

    Karen J Mackenzie;Paula Carroll;Laura Lettice;Žygimantė Tarnauskaitė

  • What primary microcephaly can tell us about brain growth.

    James Cox;Andrew P. Jackson;Jacquelyn Bond;Christopher G. Woods

  • BRIT1/MCPH1 links chromatin remodelling to DNA damage response.

    Guang Peng;Eun Kyoung Yim;Hui Dai;Andrew P. Jackson

Frequent Co-Authors

Yanick J. Crow
Yanick J. Crow Université Paris Cité
Carol A. Wise
Carol A. Wise The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Clare V. Logan
Clare V. Logan University of Edinburgh
Grant S. Stewart
Grant S. Stewart University of Birmingham
Nicholas J. Lench
Nicholas J. Lench University College London
Han G. Brunner
Han G. Brunner Radboud University
C. Geoffrey Woods
C. Geoffrey Woods University of Cambridge
Matthew E. Hurles
Matthew E. Hurles Wellcome Sanger Institute
Bernd Wollnik
Bernd Wollnik University of Göttingen
Martin S. Taylor
Martin S. Taylor Harvard University

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