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Overview

Brian E. Ellis is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans several fields with a primary focus on Computer Science. Within this domain, Ellis has contributed extensively to Artificial Intelligence, Molecular Biology, Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including Natural Language Processing Techniques, Topic Modeling, Speech and Dialogue Systems, Music and Audio Processing, Music Technology and Sound Studies, Plant Gene Expression Analysis, and Plant Biochemistry and Biosynthesis.

Ellis has published papers in notable venues. These include:

  • Seamless: Multilingual Expressive and Streaming Speech Translation, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Biological impacts of phosphomimic AtMYB75, 2020, Planta
  • Joint speech and text machine translation for up to 100 languages, 2025, Nature
  • Developmental phenotypes of Arabidopsis plants expressing phosphovariants of AtMYB75, 2020, Plant Signaling & Behavior
  • SeamlessM4T: Massively Multilingual & Multimodal Machine Translation, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

The frequent publication venues for Ellis include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature
  • Planta
  • Plant Signaling & Behavior
  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Collaboration has been an important aspect of Ellis's research. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Carleigh Wood
  • John P. Hoffman
  • Alice Rakotoarison
  • Jeff Wang
  • Loïc Barrault

Best Publications

  • The genome of black cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray)

    G. A. Tuskan;G. A. Tuskan;S. DiFazio;S. DiFazio;S. Jansson;J. Bohlmann

  • Mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades in plants: a new nomenclature

    Kazuya Ichimura;Kazuo Shinozaki;Guillaume Tena

  • Ancient signals: comparative genomics of plant MAPK and MAPKK gene families

    Louis-Philippe Hamel;Marie-Claude Nicole;Somrudee Sritubtim;Marie-Josée Morency

  • An Arabidopsis mutant defective in the general phenylpropanoid pathway.

    Clint C. S. Chapple;Thomas Vogt;Brian E. Ellis;Chris R. Somerville

  • Transgenic tobacco plants with reduced capability to detoxify reactive oxygen intermediates are hyperresponsive to pathogen infection.

    Ron Mittler;Elza Hallak Herr;Bjorn Larus Orvar;Wim van Camp

  • MAP kinases MPK9 and MPK12 are preferentially expressed in guard cells and positively regulate ROS-mediated ABA signaling

    Fabien Jammes;Charlotte Song;Charlotte Song;Dongjin Shin;Dongjin Shin;Shintaro Munemasa

  • Global transcript profiling of primary stems from Arabidopsis thaliana identifies candidate genes for missing links in lignin biosynthesis and transcriptional regulators of fiber differentiation.

    Jürgen Ehlting;Nathalie Mattheus;Dana S. Aeschliman;Eryang Li

  • Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Signaling in Plant-Interacting Fungi: Distinct Messages from Conserved Messengers

    Louis-Philippe Hamel;Marie-Claude Nicole;Sébastien Duplessis;Brian E. Ellis

  • Convergence and specificity in the Arabidopsis MAPK nexus

    Erik Andreasson;Erik Andreasson;Brian Ellis

  • A beta-glucosidase from lodgepole pine xylem specific for the lignin precursor coniferin.

    D. P. Dharmawardhana;B. E. Ellis;J. E. Carlson

  • Laccases direct lignification in the discrete secondary cell wall domains of protoxylem.

    M. Schuetz;A. Benske;R. A. Smith;Y. Watanabe

  • Robust simple sequence repeat markers for spruce ( Picea spp.) from expressed sequence tags

    Dainis Rungis;Yanik Bérubé;Jun Zhang;Steven Ralph

  • Ozone treatment rapidly activates MAP kinase signalling in plants.

    Marcus A. Samuel;Godfrey P. Miles;Brian E. Ellis

  • Genomics of hybrid poplar (Populus trichocarpa× deltoides) interacting with forest tent caterpillars (Malacosoma disstria): normalized and full‐length cDNA libraries, expressed sequence tags, and a cDNA microarray for the study of insect‐induced defences in poplar

    Steven Ralph;Claire Oddy;Dawn Cooper;Hesther Yueh

  • Xylem tissue specification, patterning, and differentiation mechanisms

    Mathias Schuetz;Rebecca Smith;Brian Ellis

  • Isolation of high-quality RNA from gymnosperm and angiosperm trees.

    Natalia Kolosova;Barbara Miller;Steven Ralph;Brian E. Ellis

  • Fungal elicitor-mediated responses in pine cell cultures I. Induction of phenylpropanoid metabolism

    Malcolm M. Campbell;Brian E. Ellis

  • TRICHOMELESS1 regulates trichome patterning by suppressing GLABRA1 in Arabidopsis.

    Shucai Wang;Su Hwan Kwak;Qingning Zeng;Brian E. Ellis

  • The Class II KNOX gene KNAT7 negatively regulates secondary wall formation in Arabidopsis and is functionally conserved in Populus

    Eryang Li;Apurva Bhargava;Weiya Qiang;Weiya Qiang;Michael C. Friedmann

  • The genome of black cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray) - eScholarship

    G.A. Tuskan;S. DiFazio;S. Jansson;J. Bohlmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl J. Douglas
Carl J. Douglas University of British Columbia
Jin-Gui Chen
Jin-Gui Chen Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Shawn D. Mansfield
Shawn D. Mansfield University of British Columbia
Kermit Ritland
Kermit Ritland University of British Columbia
Jörg Bohlmann
Jörg Bohlmann University of British Columbia
George W. Haughn
George W. Haughn University of British Columbia
Malcolm M. Campbell
Malcolm M. Campbell University of Guelph
Armand Séguin
Armand Séguin Natural Resources Canada
James W. Kronstad
James W. Kronstad University of British Columbia
François Eudes
François Eudes Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada

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