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Brian Oliver is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Insect Science, Aging, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their research topics cover a range of areas such as:

  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

Brian Oliver has contributed to a number of scientific papers with notable publications including:

  • "Fly Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult fruit fly," 2022, published in Science
  • "Dynamic sex chromosome expression in Drosophila male germ cells," 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • "Fly Cell Atlas: a single-cell transcriptomic atlas of the adult fruit fly," 2021, published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Emergent dynamics of adult stem cell lineages from single nucleus and single cell RNA-Seq of Drosophila testes," 2023, published in eLife
  • "Sperm Head-Tail Linkage Requires Restriction of Pericentriolar Material to the Proximal Centriole End," 2020, published in Developmental Cell

The venues where Brian Oliver frequently publishes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PubMed
  • eLife
  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Science

Key collaborators in Brian Oliver's research are:

  • Teresa M. Przytycka
  • Leif Benner
  • Soumitra Pal
  • Sharvani Mahadevaraju
  • Erika Matunis

Best Publications

  • Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.

    Andrew G. Clark;Michael B. Eisen;Michael B. Eisen;Douglas R. Smith;Casey M. Bergman

  • The developmental transcriptome of Drosophila melanogaster

    Brenton R. Graveley;Angela N. Brooks;Joseph W. Carlson;Michael O. Duff

  • Identification of Functional Elements and Regulatory Circuits by Drosophila modENCODE

    Sushmita Roy;Jason Ernst;Peter V. Kharchenko;Pouya Kheradpour

  • Diversity and dynamics of the Drosophila transcriptome

    James B. Brown;James B. Brown;Nathan Boley;Robert Eisman;Gemma E. May

  • Synthetic spike-in standards for RNA-seq experiments

    Lichun Jiang;Felix Schlesinger;Carrie A. Davis;Yu Zhang

  • Microarrays, deep sequencing and the true measure of the transcriptome.

    John H Malone;Brian Oliver

  • Paucity of Genes on the Drosophila X-Chromosome Showing Male-Biased Expression

    Michael Parisi;Rachel Nuttall;Daniel Naiman;Gerard Bouffard

  • Functional conservation for lipid storage droplet association among Perilipin, ADRP, and TIP47 (PAT)-related proteins in mammals, Drosophila, and Dictyostelium.

    Shinji Miura;Jai-Wei Gan;Joseph Brzostowski;Michael J. Parisi

  • COPI complex is a regulator of lipid homeostasis.

    Mathias Beller;Carole Sztalryd;Carole Sztalryd;Noel Southall;Ming Bell

  • Comparative analysis of the transcriptome across distant species

    Mark B. Gerstein;Joel Rozowsky;Koon Kiu Yan;Daifeng Wang

  • Global analysis of X-chromosome dosage compensation

    Vaijayanti Gupta;Michael Parisi;David Sturgill;Rachel Nuttall

  • Constraint and turnover in sex-biased gene expression in the genus Drosophila

    Yu Zhang;David Sturgill;Michael Parisi;Michael Parisi;Sudhir Kumar

  • A survey of ovary-, testis-, and soma-biased gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster adults.

    Michael Parisi;Rachel Nuttall;Pamela Edwards;James Minor

  • Evolution of protein-coding genes in Drosophila

    Amanda M. Larracuente;Timothy B. Sackton;Anthony J. Greenberg;Alex Wong

  • Evidence for compensatory upregulation of expressed X-linked genes in mammals, Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster

    Xinxian Deng;Joseph B Hiatt;Di Kim Nguyen;Sevinc Ercan

  • Demasculinization of X chromosomes in the Drosophila genus

    David Sturgill;Yu Zhang;Michael Parisi;Michael Parisi;Brian Oliver

  • Gene Discovery Using Computational and Microarray Analysis of Transcription in the Drosophila melanogaster Testis

    Justen Andrews;Gerard G. Bouffard;Chris Cheadle;Jining Lü

  • Comparative validation of the D. melanogaster modENCODE transcriptome annotation

    Zhen Xia Chen;David Sturgill;Jiaxin Qu;Huaiyang Jiang

  • Comparative genomics of Drosophila and human core promoters

    Peter C FitzGerald;David Sturgill;Andrey Shyakhtenko;Brian Oliver

  • Molecular Pathology of the MEN1 Gene

    Sunita K. Agarwal;A. Lee Burns;Karen E. Sukhodolets;Patricia A. Kennedy

Frequent Co-Authors

Teresa M. Przytycka
Teresa M. Przytycka National Institutes of Health
Norbert Perrimon
Norbert Perrimon Harvard University
Susan E. Celniker
Susan E. Celniker Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Anthony P. Mahowald
Anthony P. Mahowald University of Chicago
Peter Cherbas
Peter Cherbas Indiana University
Brenton R. Graveley
Brenton R. Graveley University of Connecticut Health Center
Thomas C. Kaufman
Thomas C. Kaufman Indiana University
Thomas R. Gingeras
Thomas R. Gingeras Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Roger A. Hoskins
Roger A. Hoskins Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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