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Bob Goldstein is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, along with Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The subfields of study where they have contributed include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Aging, Molecular Biology, Physiology, and Cell Biology. Their work addresses multiple research topics, notably Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms; Tardigrade Biology and Ecology; Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology; Spaceflight effects on biology; CRISPR and Genetic Engineering; Cellular Mechanics and Interactions; and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms.

Frequent publication venues for Goldstein's research are:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Biology
  • Preprints.org
  • Genetics

Some of their recent published papers include:

  • An expanded auxin-inducible degron toolkit for Caenorhabditis elegans, 2021, Genetics
  • Mechanisms of Desiccation Tolerance: Themes and Variations in Brine Shrimp, Roundworms, and Tardigrades, 2020, Frontiers in Physiology
  • Production of reactive oxygen species and involvement of bioprotectants during anhydrobiosis in the tardigrade Paramacrobiotus spatialis, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • LEA motifs promote desiccation tolerance in vivo, 2021, BMC Biology
  • Tardigrade small heat shock proteins can limit desiccation-induced protein aggregation, 2023, Communications Biology

Their research has involved collaboration with several frequent coauthors including:

  • Jonathan D. Hibshman
  • Daniel J. Dickinson
  • Pu Zhang
  • Taylor N. Medwig-Kinney
  • Courtney M. Clark-Hachtel

Best Publications

  • Engineering the Caenorhabditis elegans genome using Cas9-triggered homologous recombination

    Daniel J Dickinson;Jordan D Ward;David J Reiner;David J Reiner;Bob Goldstein

  • The PAR Proteins: Fundamental Players in Animal Cell Polarization

    Bob Goldstein;Ian G. Macara

  • Streamlined Genome Engineering with a Self-Excising Drug Selection Cassette

    Daniel J. Dickinson;Ariel M. Pani;Jennifer K. Heppert;Christopher D. Higgins

  • Apical constriction: a cell shape change that can drive morphogenesis.

    Jacob M. Sawyer;Jessica R. Harrell;Gidi Shemer;Jessica Sullivan-Brown

  • Apical constriction: themes and variations on a cellular mechanism driving morphogenesis

    Adam C. Martin;Bob Goldstein

  • Specification of the anteroposterior axis in Caenorhabditis elegans.

    Bob Goldstein;Steven N. Hird

  • Tardigrades Use Intrinsically Disordered Proteins to Survive Desiccation

    Thomas C. Boothby;Hugo Tapia;Alexandra H. Brozena;Samantha Piszkiewicz

  • Noninvasive Imaging beyond the Diffraction Limit of 3D Dynamics in Thickly Fluorescent Specimens

    Liang Gao;Lin Shao;Christopher D. Higgins;John S. Poulton

  • CRISPR-Based Methods for Caenorhabditis elegans Genome Engineering

    Daniel J. Dickinson;Bob Goldstein

  • Triggering a Cell Shape Change by Exploiting Preexisting Actomyosin Contractions

    Minna Roh-Johnson;Gidi Shemer;Christopher D. Higgins;Joseph H. McClellan

  • Induction of gut in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos

    Bob Goldstein

  • C. elegans PAR proteins function by mobilizing and stabilizing asymmetrically localized protein complexes.

    Rebecca J Cheeks;Julie C Canman;Willow N Gabriel;Nicole Meyer

  • Non-model model organisms.

    James J Russell;Julie A Theriot;Pranidhi Sood;Wallace F Marshall

  • Evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer from the draft genome of a tardigrade.

    Thomas C. Boothby;Jennifer R. Tenlen;Frank W. Smith;Jeremy R. Wang

  • Using RNA interference to identify genes required for RNA interference

    Nathaniel R. Dudley;Jean-Claude Labbé;Bob Goldstein

  • Wnt Signals Can Function as Positional Cues in Establishing Cell Polarity

    Bob Goldstein;Hisako Takeshita;Kota Mizumoto;Hitoshi Sawa

  • RhoA activation during polarization and cytokinesis of the early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo is differentially dependent on NOP-1 and CYK-4

    Yu Chung Tse;Michael Werner;Katrina M. Longhini;Jean Claude Labbe

  • Cell contacts orient some cell division axes in the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo.

    B Goldstein

  • Establishment of gut fate in the e lineage of C. elegans: The roles of lineage-dependent mechanisms and cell interactions

    Bob Goldstein

  • The tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini, a new model for studying the evolution of development.

    Willow N. Gabriel;Robert McNuff;Sapna K. Patel;T. Ryan Gregory

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary J. Pielak
Gary J. Pielak University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Paul S. Maddox
Paul S. Maddox University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Amy S. Gladfelter
Amy S. Gladfelter Duke University
Daniel P. Kiehart
Daniel P. Kiehart Duke University
Mark Peifer
Mark Peifer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Anna Akhmanova
Anna Akhmanova Utrecht University
Corbin D. Jones
Corbin D. Jones University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Julie Ahringer
Julie Ahringer University of Cambridge
Nancy L. Allbritton
Nancy L. Allbritton University of Washington
Brian Kuhlman
Brian Kuhlman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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