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Brandon J. Wainwright

Brandon J. Wainwright

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Genetics

D-Index
68
Citations
23794
World Ranking
2404
National Ranking
81

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Gottschalk Medal, Australian Academy of Science

Overview

Brandon J. Wainwright is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with additional work in medicine. Their research spans several subfields including molecular biology, genetics, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, cancer research, and surgery.

The main topics covered in Wainwright's research include:

  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA regulation and disease
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

Brandon J. Wainwright's recent scholarly output contains notable publications such as:

  • "Germline Elongator mutations in Sonic Hedgehog medulloblastoma," 2020, published in Nature
  • "Genetic and functional interaction network analysis reveals global enrichment of regulatory T cell genes influencing basal cell carcinoma susceptibility," 2021, published in Genome Medicine
  • "Vincristine-induced peripheral neuropathy is driven by canonical NLRP3 activation and IL-1β release," 2021, published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • "Elp2 mutations perturb the epitranscriptome and lead to a complex neurodevelopmental phenotype," 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • "Tumor cells generate astrocyte-like cells that contribute to SHH-driven medulloblastoma relapse," 2021, published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Their work is also frequently published in scientific venues such as:

  • Neuro-Oncology
  • Genome Medicine
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Brandon J. Wainwright collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including Marija Kojic, Laura A. Genovesi, Amanda Millar, Paul A. Northcott, and Melissa J. Davis. These collaborations indicate a broad interdisciplinary approach and contributions to multiple research teams and projects.

Among the awards received, Wainwright was awarded the Gottschalk Medal from the Australian Academy of Science in 1997.

Best Publications

  • 'Touchdown' PCR to circumvent spurious priming during gene amplification

    R.H. Don;P. T. Cox;B.J. Wainwright;K. Baker

  • Mutations of the Human Homolog of Drosophila patched in the Nevoid Basal Cell Carcinoma Syndrome

    Heidi Hahn;Carol Wicking;Peter G Zaphiropoulos;Mae R Gailani

  • International network of cancer genome projects

    Thomas J. Hudson;Thomas J. Hudson;Warwick Anderson;Axel Aretz;Anna D. Barker

  • Mutations in SUFU predispose to medulloblastoma

    Michael D. Taylor;Ling Liu;Corey Raffel;Chi-chung Hui

  • Medulloblastoma can be initiated by deletion of Patched in lineage-restricted progenitors or stem cells.

    Zeng Jie Yang;Tammy Ellis;Shirley L. Markant;Tracy Ann Read;Tracy Ann Read

  • A macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor-green fluorescent protein transgene is expressed throughout the mononuclear phagocyte system of the mouse.

    R. Tedjo Sasmono;Delvac Oceandy;Jeffrey W. Pollard;Wei Tong

  • Localization of cystic fibrosis locus to human chromosome 7cen–q22

    Brandon J. Wainwright;Peter J. Scambler;Jorg Schmidtke;Eila A. Watson

  • An antibody against the colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor depletes the resident subset of monocytes and tissue- and tumor-associated macrophages but does not inhibit inflammation

    Kelli P. A. MacDonald;James S. Palmer;Stephen Cronau;Elke Jane Seppanen

  • Medulloblastomas of the desmoplastic variant carry mutations of the human homologue of Drosophila patched

    Torsten Pietsch;Andreas Waha;Anke Koch;Jürgen Kraus

  • Targeted disruption of the Wnt2 gene results in placentation defects

    Susan J. Monkley;Stephen J. Delaney;David J. Pennisi;Jeffrey H. Christiansen

  • A candidate for the cystic fibrosis locus isolated by selection for methylation-free islands

    Xavier Estivill;Martin Farrall;Peter J. Scambler;Gillian M. Bell

  • Most germ-line mutations in the nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome lead to a premature termination of the patched protein, and no genotype-phenotype correlations are evident

    Carol Wicking;Susan Shanley;Ian Macleod Smyth;Susan Gillies

  • A mammalian patched homolog is expressed in target tissues of sonic hedgehog and maps to a region associated with developmental abnormalities

    Heidi Hahn;Jeffrey Christiansen;Carol Wicking;Peter G. Zaphiropoulos

  • Fraser syndrome and mouse blebbed phenotype caused by mutations in FRAS1/Fras1 encoding a putative extracellular matrix protein

    Lesley McGregor;Vile Makela;Susan M. Darling;Susan M. Darling;Sofia Vrontou

  • Isolation and Characterization of Human Patched 2 (PTCH2), a Putative Tumour Suppressor Gene in Basal Cell Carcinoma and Medulloblastoma on Chromosome 1p32

    Ian Macleod Smyth;Monica A Narang;Tim Evans;Cornelia Heimann

  • Patched1 functions as a gatekeeper by promoting cell cycle progression.

    Christelle Adolphe;Rehan Hetherington;Tammy Ellis;Brandon Wainwright

  • Sonic Hedgehog regulates Hes1 through a novel mechanism that is independent of canonical Notch pathway signalling

    W J Ingram;K I McCue;T H Tran;A R Hallahan

  • Patterns of polymorphism and linkage disequilibrium for cystic fibrosis.

    X. Estivill;P.J. Scambler;B.J. Wainwright;K. Hawley

  • A demonstration using mouse models that successful gene therapy for cystic fibrosis requires only partial gene correction

    J. R. Dorin;R. Farley;S. Webb;S. N. Smith

  • Hedgehog pathway inhibitor saridegib (IPI-926) increases lifespan in a mouse medulloblastoma model

    Michelle J. Lee;Beryl A. Hatton;Elisabeth H. Villavicencio;Paritosh C. Khanna

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol Wicking
Carol Wicking University of Queensland
Martin Farrall
Martin Farrall University of Oxford
Georgia Chenevix-Trench
Georgia Chenevix-Trench QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Robert Williamson
Robert Williamson University of Melbourne
David A. Hume
David A. Hume University of Queensland
Stefan M. Pfister
Stefan M. Pfister German Cancer Research Center
Michael D. Taylor
Michael D. Taylor University of Toronto
Peter J. Scambler
Peter J. Scambler University College London
Michael Dean
Michael Dean National Institutes of Health

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