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61
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17745
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2955
National Ranking
1176

Overview

Christopher B. Buck is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in Oncology, Plant Science, Ecology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Immunology.

The scientist's work covers various topics, including:

  • Polyomavirus and related diseases
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Full-Duplex Wireless Communications
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Viral-associated cancers and disorders

Christopher B. Buck has published extensively in several venues, with notable recurring publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Virus Evolution
  • Virology
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by the scientist are:

  • "A catalog of tens of thousands of viruses from human metagenomes reveals hidden associations with chronic diseases" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Discovery of several thousand highly diverse circular DNA viruses" (2020), published in eLife
  • "Cenote-Taker 2 democratizes virus discovery and sequence annotation" (2020), published in Virus Evolution
  • "Adintoviruses: a proposed animal-tropic family of midsize eukaryotic linear dsDNA (MELD) viruses" (2020), published in Virus Evolution
  • "Characterization of ALTO-encoding circular RNAs expressed by Merkel cell polyomavirus and trichodysplasia spinulosa polyomavirus" (2021), published in PLoS Pathogens

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Diana V. Pastrana
  • Gabriel J. Starrett
  • Michael J. Tisza
  • Arvind Varsani
  • Alberto Peretti

Best Publications

  • Identification of a Reservoir for HIV-1 in Patients on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

    Diana Finzi;Monika Hermankova;Theodore Pierson;Lucy M. Carruth

  • Merkel Cell Polyomavirus and Two Previously Unknown Polyomaviruses Are Chronically Shed from Human Skin

    Rachel M. Schowalter;Diana V. Pastrana;Katherine A. Pumphrey;Adam L. Moyer

  • Genital transmission of HPV in a mouse model is potentiated by nonoxynol-9 and inhibited by carrageenan

    Jeffrey N Roberts;Christopher B Buck;Cynthia D Thompson;Rhonda Kines

  • Carrageenan Is a Potent Inhibitor of Papillomavirus Infection

    Christopher B Buck;Cynthia D Thompson;Jeffrey N Roberts;Martin Müller

  • Efficient Intracellular Assembly of Papillomaviral Vectors

    Christopher B. Buck;Diana V. Pastrana;Douglas R. Lowy;John T. Schiller

  • Arrangement of L2 within the Papillomavirus Capsid

    Christopher B. Buck;Naiqian Cheng;Cynthia D. Thompson;Douglas R. Lowy

  • Reactivity of human sera in a sensitive, high-throughput pseudovirus-based papillomavirus neutralization assay for HPV16 and HPV18

    Diana V. Pastrana;Christopher B. Buck;Yuk Ying S. Pang;Cynthia D. Thompson

  • Human Merkel cell polyomavirus infection II. MCV is a common human infection that can be detected by conformational capsid epitope immunoassays

    Yanis L. Tolstov;Diana V. Pastrana;Huichen Feng;Jiirgen C. Becker

  • Maturation of papillomavirus capsids.

    Christopher B. Buck;Cynthia D. Thompson;Yuk-Ying S. Pang;Douglas R. Lowy

  • Generation of HPV pseudovirions using transfection and their use in neutralization assays.

    Christopher B. Buck;Diana V. Pastrana;Douglas R. Lowy;John T. Schiller

  • The papillomavirus major capsid protein L1

    Christopher B. Buck;Patricia M. Day;Benes L. Trus

  • Human α-defensins block papillomavirus infection

    Christopher B. Buck;Patricia M. Day;Cynthia D. Thompson;Jacek Lubkowski

  • Mash Screen: high-throughput sequence containment estimation for genome discovery

    Brian D. Ondov;Brian D. Ondov;Gabriel J. Starrett;Anna Sappington;Aleksandra Kostic

  • Molecular Characterization of Preintegration Latency in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection

    Theodore C. Pierson;Yan Zhou;Tara L. Kieffer;Christian T. Ruff

  • Quantitation of Human Seroresponsiveness to Merkel Cell Polyomavirus

    Diana V. Pastrana;Yanis L. Tolstov;Jürgen C. Becker;Patrick S. Moore

  • A Protective and Broadly Cross-Neutralizing Epitope of Human Papillomavirus L2

    Ratish Gambhira;Balasubramanyam Karanam;Subhashini Jagu;Jeffrey N. Roberts

  • A catalog of tens of thousands of viruses from human metagenomes reveals hidden associations with chronic diseases

    Michael J. Tisza;Christopher B. Buck

  • Taxonomical developments in the family Polyomaviridae

    Reimar Johne;Christopher B. Buck;Tobias Allander;Walter J. Atwood

  • The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 gag gene encodes an internal ribosome entry site.

    Christopher B. Buck;Xuefei Shen;Michael A. Egan;Theodore C. Pierson

  • Production of papillomavirus-based gene transfer vectors

    Christopher B. Buck;Cynthia D. Thompson

  • Intrinsic stability of episomal circles formed during human immunodeficiency virus type 1 replication.

    Theodore C. Pierson;Tara L. Kieffer;Christian T. Ruff;Christopher Buck

Frequent Co-Authors

John T. Schiller
John T. Schiller National Institutes of Health
Douglas R. Lowy
Douglas R. Lowy National Institutes of Health
Robert F. Siliciano
Robert F. Siliciano Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Theodore C. Pierson
Theodore C. Pierson National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
David H. McDermott
David H. McDermott National Institutes of Health
Benes L. Trus
Benes L. Trus National Institutes of Health
James M. Pipas
James M. Pipas University of Pittsburgh
Philip M. Murphy
Philip M. Murphy National Institutes of Health
Richard B.S. Roden
Richard B.S. Roden Johns Hopkins University
Alison A. McBride
Alison A. McBride National Institutes of Health

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