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Citations
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4035
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303

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2008 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Claudio D. Stern is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and works primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cell Biology, Developmental Neuroscience, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation, Animal Genetics and Reproduction, Congenital Heart Defects Research, RNA Research and Splicing, Wnt/β-catenin Signaling in Development and Cancer, Pluripotent Stem Cells Research, and Cellular Mechanics and Interactions.

Claudio D. Stern has contributed to the scientific literature with a variety of papers, some recent examples include:

  • Identical twins carry a persistent epigenetic signature of early genome programming, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The nuclear lamina couples mechanical forces to cell fate in the preimplantation embryo via actin organization, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Molecular anatomy of the pre-primitive-streak chick embryo, 2020, Open Biology
  • 'Neighbourhood watch' model: embryonic epiblast cells assess positional information in relation to their neighbours, 2022, Development
  • A mechanical model of early somite segmentation, 2021, iScience

The frequent co-authors working with Stern include Hyung Chul Lee, Hui-Chun Lu, Nidia M. M. Oliveira, Adam A. Moverley, and Nicolas Plachta.

Stern's work has been published repeatedly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Development, Nature Communications, Developmental Biology, and Open Biology.

Regarding distinctions, Stern has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014, a Member of Academia Europaea in 2013, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, since 2008.

Best Publications

  • Book reviewHandbook of Chemical Neuroanatomy: Methods in Chemical Neuroanatomy. Edited by A. Bjorklund and T. Hokfelt. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1983. Cloth bound, 548 pp. UK £140. (Volume 1 in the series).

    C.D. Stern

  • Contact inhibition of locomotion in vivo controls neural crest directional migration

    Carlos Carmona-Fontaine;Helen K. Matthews;Sei Kuriyama;Mauricio Moreno

  • Initiation of neural induction by FGF signalling before gastrulation

    Andrea Streit;Alyson J. Berliner;Costis Papanayotou;Andrés Sirulnik

  • Segmentation in the vertebrate nervous system

    Roger J. Keynes;Claudio D. Stern

  • Fate mapping and cell lineage analysis of Hensen's node in the chick embryo.

    M. A. J. Selleck;C. D. Stern

  • Segmental organization of embryonic diencephalon.

    Michael C. Figdor;Claudio D. Stern

  • The chick; a great model system becomes even greater.

    Claudio D. Stern

  • Mechanisms of vertebrate segmentation

    Roger J. Keynes;Claudio D. Stern

  • Chordin regulates primitive streak development and the stability of induced neural cells, but is not sufficient for neural induction in the chick embryo

    A. Streit;K. J. Lee;Ian Woo;C. Roberts

  • The homeobox gene goosecoid and the origin of organizer cells in the early chick blastoderm

    Juan Carlos Izpisúa-Belmonte;Eddy M. De Robertis;Kate G. Storey;Claudio D. Stern

  • Isolation from chick somites of a glycoprotein fraction that causes collapse of dorsal root ganglion growth cones.

    Jamie A. Davies;Geoffrey M.W. Cook;Claudio D. Stern;Roger J. Keynes

  • Fates and migratory routes of primitive streak cells in the chick embryo

    Delphine Psychoyos;Claudio D. Stern

  • Gastrulation : from cells to embryo

    C. D. Stern

  • A fate map of the epiblast of the early chick embryo

    Y. Hatada;C.D. Stern

  • Establishment and maintenance of the border of the neural plate in the chick: involvement of FGF and BMP activity.

    Andrea Streit;Claudio D Stern

  • The amniote primitive streak is defined by epithelial cell intercalation before gastrulation

    Octavian Voiculescu;Federica Bertocchini;Lewis Wolpert;Ray E. Keller

  • Neural induction and regionalisation in the chick embryo.

    K.G. Storey;J.M. Crossley;E.M. De Robertis;W.E. Norris

  • Initial patterning of the central nervous system: how many organizers?

    Claudio D. Stern

  • Neural induction requires BMP inhibition only as a late step, and involves signals other than FGF and Wnt antagonists.

    Claudia Linker;Claudio D. Stern

  • A molecular pathway determining left–right asymmetry in chick

    Michael Levin;Randy L. Johnson;C. D. Stern;Claudio D. Sterna

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger J. Keynes
Roger J. Keynes University of Cambridge
Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert University College London
Scott E. Fraser
Scott E. Fraser University of Southern California
Michael Levin
Michael Levin Tufts University
Cheryll Tickle
Cheryll Tickle University of Bath
Marianne Bronner-Fraser
Marianne Bronner-Fraser California Institute of Technology
Jamie A. Davies
Jamie A. Davies University of Edinburgh
Clotilde Théry
Clotilde Théry PSL University
Douglas E. Brash
Douglas E. Brash Yale University
James Briscoe
James Briscoe The Francis Crick Institute

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