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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Andrew W. Murray is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the domain of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, encompassing a total of 95 publications. Within this broad field, their subfields of focus include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cell Biology, Plant Science, and Food Science.

Their scientific contributions are reflected in a variety of research topics, emphasizing:

  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis

Frequent publication venues for Andrew W. Murray include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 13 papers, Current Biology with 9 papers, eLife with 3 papers, PLoS Biology with 2 papers, and PLoS Genetics with 2 papers.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Many, but not all, lineage-specific genes can be explained by homology detection failure" (2020, PLoS Biology)
  • "Mixing genome annotation methods in a comparative analysis inflates the apparent number of lineage-specific genes" (2022, Current Biology)
  • "Cohesion is established during DNA replication utilising chromosome associated cohesin rings as well as those loaded de novo onto nascent DNAs" (2020, eLife)
  • "A Putative Bet-Hedging Strategy Buffers Budding Yeast against Environmental Instability" (2020, Current Biology)
  • "Polymerization in the actin ATPase clan regulates hexokinase activity in yeast" (2020, Science)

Andrew W. Murray has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Marco Fumasoni, Caroline M. Weisman, Sean R. Eddy, Julien Barrere, and Piyush Nanda.

Recognition for their work includes election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014. Additionally, they became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000.

Best Publications

  • From molecular to modular cell biology.

    Leland H. Hartwell;John J. Hopfield;Stanislas Leibler;Andrew W. Murray

  • Cyclin is degraded by the ubiquitin pathway

    Michael Glotzer;Andrew W. Murray;Marc W. Kirschner

  • Coding-sequence determinants of gene expression in Escherichia coli.

    Grzegorz Kudla;Andrew W. Murray;David Tollervey;Joshua B. Plotkin

  • Feedback control of mitosis in budding yeast.

    Rong Li;Andrew W. Murray

  • Cyclin synthesis drives the early embryonic cell cycle.

    Andrew W. Murray;Marc W. Kirschner

  • Recycling the Cell Cycle: Cyclins Revisited

    Andrew W Murray

  • The role of cyclin synthesis and degradation in the control of maturation promoting factor activity

    Andrew W. Murray;Mark J. Solomon;Marc W. Kirschner

  • Cell cycle extracts.

    Andrew W. Murray

  • The Cell Cycle: An Introduction

    Andrew Wood Murray;Tim Hunt

  • Creative blocks: cell-cycle checkpoints and feedback controls

    Andrew W. Murray

  • Integrating genetic approaches into the discovery of anticancer drugs

    Leland H. Hartwell;Philippe Szankasi;Christopher J. Roberts;Andrew W. Murray

  • Dominoes and clocks: the union of two views of the cell cycle.

    Andrew W. Murray;Marc W. Kirschner

  • In vivo localization of DNA sequences and visualization of large-scale chromatin organization using lac operator/repressor recognition.

    Carmen C. Robinett;Aaron Straight;Gang Li;Carol Willhelm

  • Interphase chromosomes undergo constrained diffusional motion in living cells.

    W.F Marshall;A Straight;J.F Marko;J Swedlow

  • Budding Yeast Cdc20: A Target of the Spindle Checkpoint

    Lena H. Hwang;Lucius F. Lau;Lucius F. Lau;Dana L. Smith;Dana L. Smith;Cathy A. Mistrot;Cathy A. Mistrot

  • Association of Spindle Assembly Checkpoint Component XMAD2 with Unattached Kinetochores

    Rey-Huei Chen;Jennifer C. Waters;E. D. Salmon;Andrew W. Murray

  • Anaphase is initiated by proteolysis rather than by the inactivation of maturation-promoting factor

    Sandra L. Holloway;Michael Glotzer;Randall W. King;Andrew W. Murray

  • GFP tagging of budding yeast chromosomes reveals that protein–protein interactions can mediate sister chromatid cohesion

    Aaron F. Straight;Andrew S. Belmont;Carmen C. Robinett;Andrew W. Murray

  • Cell cycle: A snip separates sisters

    Andrew Murray

  • Construction of artificial chromosomes in yeast

    Andrew W. Murray;Jack W. Szostak

Frequent Co-Authors

Jack W. Szostak
Jack W. Szostak University of Chicago
Aaron F. Straight
Aaron F. Straight Stanford University
Marc W. Kirschner
Marc W. Kirschner Harvard University
Sue Biggins
Sue Biggins Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Andrew S. Belmont
Andrew S. Belmont University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Edward D. Salmon
Edward D. Salmon University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sean R. Eddy
Sean R. Eddy Harvard University
Rong Li
Rong Li Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Peter K. Sorger
Peter K. Sorger Harvard University
Kevin R. Foster
Kevin R. Foster University of Oxford

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