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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - ASM Lifetime Achievement Award, American Society for Microbiology
  • 2016 - ASM Alice C. Evans Award for Advancement of Women, American Society for Microbiology
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1992 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Carol A. Gross is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco, in the United States. Their research primarily spans fields within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work is concentrated in several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Materials Chemistry, and Microbiology. Their research themes cover topics such as Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

Carol A. Gross has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Titrating gene expression using libraries of systematically attenuated CRISPR guide RNAs, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • Mismatch-CRISPRi Reveals the Co-varying Expression-Fitness Relationships of Essential Genes in Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis, 2020, Cell Systems
  • Cold Shock Response in Bacteria, 2021, Annual Review of Genetics
  • Bacterial CRISPR screens for gene function, 2020, Current Opinion in Microbiology
  • Morphological and Transcriptional Responses to CRISPRi Knockdown of Essential Genes in Escherichia coli, 2021, mBio

The venues in which Carol A. Gross frequently publishes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • mBio
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cell Systems
  • Molecular Cell

The scientist has collaborated regularly with others in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Horia Todor
  • Jason M. Peters
  • Kerwyn Casey Huang
  • Hendrik Osadnik
  • Byoung-Mo Koo

Carol A. Gross has been recognized with several awards, including:

  • ASM Lifetime Achievement Award, American Society for Microbiology, 2019
  • ASM Alice C. Evans Award for Advancement of Women, American Society for Microbiology, 2016
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2002
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1992

Best Publications

  • From the regulation of peptidoglycan synthesis to bacterial growth and morphology

    Athanasios Typas;Manuel Banzhaf;Carol A. Gross;Waldemar Vollmer

  • Quantifying Absolute Protein Synthesis Rates Reveals Principles Underlying Allocation of Cellular Resources

    Gene Wei Li;David Burkhardt;Carol Gross;Jonathan S. Weissman

  • A Multiplexed Single-Cell CRISPR Screening Platform Enables Systematic Dissection of the Unfolded Protein Response.

    Britt Adamson;Thomas M. Norman;Marco Jost;Min Y. Cho

  • Multiple sigma subunits and the partitioning of bacterial transcription space.

    Tanja M. Gruber;Carol A. Gross

  • The sigma 70 family: sequence conservation and evolutionary relationships.

    M Lonetto;M Gribskov;C A Gross

  • Mapping and sequencing of mutations in the Escherichia coli rpoB gene that lead to rifampicin resistance.

    Ding Jun Jin;Carol A. Gross

  • A collection of strains containing genetically linked alternating antibiotic resistance elements for genetic mapping of Escherichia coli.

    M Singer;T A Baker;G Schnitzler;S M Deischel

  • Phenotypic Landscape of a Bacterial Cell

    Robert J. Nichols;Saunak Sen;Yoe Jin Choo;Pedro Beltrao

  • Is hsp70 the cellular thermometer

    Elizabeth A. Craig;Carol A. Gross

  • A Comprehensive, CRISPR-based Functional Analysis of Essential Genes in Bacteria

    Jason M. Peters;Alexandre Colavin;Handuo Shi;Tomasz L. Czarny

  • The htpR gene product of E. coli is a sigma factor for heat-shock promoters

    Alan D. Grossman;James W. Erickson;Carol A. Gross

  • Conserved and Variable Functions of the σE Stress Response in Related Genomes

    Virgil A Rhodius;Won Chul Suh;Gen Nonaka;Joyce F West

  • OMP Peptide Signals Initiate the Envelope-Stress Response by Activating DegS Protease via Relief of Inhibition Mediated by Its PDZ Domain

    Nathan P Walsh;Benjamin M Alba;Baundauna Bose;Carol A Gross

  • Construction and Analysis of Two Genome-Scale Deletion Libraries for Bacillus subtilis

    Byoung-Mo Koo;George Kritikos;Jeremiah D. Farelli;Horia Todor

  • Identification of the sigma E subunit of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase: a second alternate sigma factor involved in high-temperature gene expression.

    J W Erickson;C A Gross

  • The heat shock response of E. coli is regulated by changes in the concentration of sigma 32.

    David B. Straus;William A. Walter;Carol A. Gross

  • Bacterial Sigma Factors: A Historical, Structural, and Genomic Perspective

    Andrey Feklístov;Brian D. Sharon;Seth A. Darst;Carol A. Gross

  • Selective Ribosome Profiling Reveals the Cotranslational Chaperone Action of Trigger Factor In Vivo

    Eugene Oh;Annemarie H. Becker;Arzu Sandikci;Damon Huber

  • Regulation of the Escherichia coli sigma-dependent envelope stress response.

    Benjamin M. Alba;Carol A. Gross

  • The activity of sigma E, an Escherichia coli heat-inducible sigma-factor, is modulated by expression of outer membrane proteins.

    J Mecsas;P E Rouviere;J W Erickson;T J Donohue

  • A Multiplexed Single-Cell CRISPR Screening Platform Enables Systematic Dissection of the Unfolded Protein Response

    Britt Adamson;Thomas M. Norman;Marco Jost;Min Y. Cho

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard R. Burgess
Richard R. Burgess University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kerwyn Casey Huang
Kerwyn Casey Huang Stanford University
Robert Landick
Robert Landick University of Wisconsin–Madison
Athanasios Typas
Athanasios Typas Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit
Nevan J. Krogan
Nevan J. Krogan University of California, San Francisco
Elizabeth A. Campbell
Elizabeth A. Campbell Rockefeller University
William S. Reznikoff
William S. Reznikoff Marine Biological Laboratory

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