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D-Index
62
Citations
18682
World Ranking
2950
National Ranking
1290

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1961 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1953 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Benjamin D. Hall was affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spanned multiple fields, notably in engineering and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's work encompassed subfields such as molecular biology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, ocean engineering, mechanical engineering, and aerospace engineering.

Throughout their career, Hall contributed to various topics including underwater vehicles and communication systems, power line inspection robots, robotics and sensor-based localization, plant and animal studies, plant diversity and evolution, plant and fungal species descriptions, and plant reproductive biology.

Their publication record consisted of papers published in several venues, highlighting a multidisciplinary approach to research. Frequent publication venues included arXiv (Cornell University), Ocean Engineering, New Phytologist, Plants, and Preprints.org.

Among Hall's recent papers were:

  • Development of a prototype autonomous inspection robot for offshore riser cables, 2022, Ocean Engineering
  • The symmetry spectrum in a hybridising, tropical group of rhododendrons, 2022, New Phytologist
  • Gene Duplication and Differential Expression of Flower Symmetry Genes in Rhododendron (Ericaceae), 2021, Plants
  • Data Integration in Logic-based Models of Biological Mechanisms, 2021, Preprints.org
  • Laser Ablation Tomography for Rapid Three-Dimensional Tissue Imaging and Analysis, 2022, Journal of Engineering and Science in Medical Diagnostics and Therapy

Hall frequently collaborated with other researchers, including Valerie L. Soza, Elizabeth Ramage, Christopher Gotts, Oliver Beaumont, and Ziyang Chen. This network of coauthors illustrates a diversity of interdisciplinary engagement in both engineering and biological sciences.

Over the course of their professional path, Hall received several recognitions. They were named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014. Earlier honors included being a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) twice, first in 1953 and then again in 2005. Additionally, Hall was recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1961.

Best Publications

  • Phylogenetic relationships among ascomycetes: evidence from an RNA polymerse II subunit.

    Yajuan J. Liu;Sally Whelen;Benjamin D. Hall

  • Codon selection in yeast.

    J L Bennetzen;B D Hall

  • Synthesis and assembly of hepatitis B virus surface antigen particles in yeast

    Pablo Valenzuela;Pablo Valenzuela;Angelica Medina;William J. Rutter;Gustav Ammerer

  • The primary structure of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene for alcohol dehydrogenase.

    J L Bennetzen;B D Hall

  • Using RPB1 sequences to improve phylogenetic inference among mushrooms (Inocybe, Agaricales)

    P. Brandon Matheny;Yajuan J. Liu;Joseph F. Ammirati;Benjamin D. Hall

  • Expression of a human gene for interferon in yeast.

    Ronald A. Hitzeman;Frank E. Hagie;Howard L. Levine;David V. Goeddel

  • The origin of red algae: Implications for plastid evolution

    John W. Stiller;Benjamin D. Hall

  • Sequence of the gene for iso-l-cytochrome c in saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Michael Smith;David W. Leung;Shirley Gillam;Caroline R. Astell

  • SEQUENCE COMPLEMENTARITY OF T2-DNA AND T2-SPECIFIC RNA

    Benjamin D. Hall;Sol Spiegelman

  • Nucleotide sequence of a mutant eukaryotic gene: the yeast tyrosine-inserting ochre suppressor SUP4-o

    Howard M. Goodman;Maynard V. Olson;Benjamin D. Hall

  • The sequence of the DNAs coding for the mating-type loci of saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Caroline R. Astell;Lena Ahlstrom-Jonasson;Michael Smith;Kelly Tatchell

  • A position effect in the control of transcription at yeast mating type loci

    Kim A. Nasmyth;Kelly Tatchell;Benjamin D. Hall;Caroline Astell

  • Body plan evolution of ascomycetes, as inferred from an RNA polymerase II phylogeny.

    Yajuan J. Liu;Benjamin D. Hall

  • Transcriptional regulation of the yeast cytochrome c gene.

    Richard S. Zitomer;Donna L. Montgomery;Diane L. Nichols;Benjamin D. Hall

  • Phylogeny, historical biogeography, and patterns of diversification for Pinus (Pinaceae): Phylogenetic tests of fossil-based hypotheses

    Andrew J. Eckert;Benjamin D. Hall

  • In vitro mutation analysis of the mating-type locus in yeast

    Kelly Tatchell;Kim A. Nasmyth;Benjamin D. Hall;Caroline Astell

  • The primary structure of the alcohol dehydrogenase gene from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

    P R Russell;B D Hall

  • Deletion mapping of sequences essential for in vivo transcription of the iso-1-cytochrome c gene.

    Gerard Faye;David W. Leung;Kelly Tatchell;Benjamin D. Hall

  • Macromolecule Synthesis and Breakdown in Relation to Sporulation and Meiosis in Yeast

    Anita K. Hopper;P. T. Magee;S. K. Welch;M. Friedman

  • Loss of the flagellum happened only once in the fungal lineage: phylogenetic structure of Kingdom Fungi inferred from RNA polymerase II subunit genes

    Yajuan J Liu;Matthew C Hodson;Benjamin D Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

michael smith
michael smith Royal Geographical Society
Anita K. Hopper
Anita K. Hopper The Ohio State University
Maynard V. Olson
Maynard V. Olson University of Washington
Kim Nasmyth
Kim Nasmyth University of Oxford
William J. Rutter
William J. Rutter University of California, San Francisco
André Sentenac
André Sentenac French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Cornelis P. Hollenberg
Cornelis P. Hollenberg Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Jeffrey L. Bennetzen
Jeffrey L. Bennetzen University of Georgia
Pablo Valenzuela
Pablo Valenzuela Novartis (United States)
Ronald W. Davis
Ronald W. Davis Stanford University

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