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Overview

Conrad C. Weihl is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on medicine. Their research spans multiple subfields including molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurology, genetics, and cell biology.

The scientist's main research topics encompass muscle physiology and disorders, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, neurogenetic and muscular disorders research, inflammatory myopathies and dermatomyositis, heat shock proteins research, endoplasmic reticulum stress and related diseases, and cardiomyopathy and myosin studies.

Conrad C. Weihl has contributed to numerous scientific publications, highlighting recent papers such as:

  • Molecular and cellular basis of genetically inherited skeletal muscle disorders (2021, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology)
  • 272nd ENMC international workshop: 10 Years of progress - revision of the ENMC 2013 diagnostic criteria for inclusion body myositis and clinical trial readiness. 16-18 June 2023, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands (2024, Neuromuscular Disorders)
  • Multisystem Proteinopathy Due to VCP Mutations: A Review of Clinical Heterogeneity and Genetic Diagnosis (2022, Genes)
  • Neuronal VCP loss of function recapitulates FTLD-TDP pathology (2021, Cell Reports)
  • VCP suppresses proteopathic seeding in neurons (2022, Molecular Neurodegeneration)

The scientist frequently collaborates with co-authors including Jil Daw, Sara K. Pittman, Tahseen Mozaffar, Matthew Wicklund, and Andrew R. Findlay, reflecting a collaborative approach in their research endeavors.

Conrad C. Weihl's work is often published in venues such as Neuromuscular Disorders, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neurology, Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation, indicating a consistent presence in both clinical and translational neurology fields.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Mutations in prion-like domains in hnRNPA2B1 and hnRNPA1 cause multisystem proteinopathy and ALS

    Hong Joo Kim;Nam Chul Kim;Yong Dong Wang;Emily A. Scarborough

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Valosin-containing protein (VCP) is required for autophagy and is disrupted in VCP disease

    Jeong Sun Ju;Rodrigo A. Fuentealba;Sara E. Miller;Erin Jackson

  • Mutations in the Matrin 3 gene cause familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Janel O Johnson;Erik P Pioro;Ashley Boehringer;Ruth Chia

  • The VCP/p97 system at a glance: connecting cellular function to disease pathogenesis.

    Hemmo Meyer;Conrad C. Weihl

  • TDP-43 accumulation in inclusion body myopathy muscle suggests a common pathogenic mechanism with frontotemporal dementia

    Conrad C. Weihl;Peyker Temiz;Sara E. Miller;Giles Watts

  • Exploiting macrophage autophagy-lysosomal biogenesis as a therapy for atherosclerosis.

    Ismail Sergin;Trent D. Evans;Xiangyu Zhang;Somashubhra Bhattacharya

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • VCP/p97 cooperates with YOD1, UBXD1 and PLAA to drive clearance of ruptured lysosomes by autophagy.

    Chrisovalantis Papadopoulos;Philipp Kirchner;Monika Bug;Daniel Grum

  • Endolysosomal sorting of ubiquitylated caveolin-1 is regulated by VCP and UBXD1 and impaired by VCP disease mutations

    Danilo Ritz;Maja Vuk;Maja Vuk;Philipp Kirchner;Monika Bug

  • Valosin-containing protein disease: inclusion body myopathy with Paget's disease of the bone and fronto-temporal dementia

    Conrad C. Weihl;Alan Pestronk;Virginia E. Kimonis

  • Quantitation of "autophagic flux" in mature skeletal muscle

    Jeong-Sun Ju;Arun S. Varadhachary;Sara E. Miller;Conrad C. Weihl

  • Hyperammonemia-mediated autophagy in skeletal muscle contributes to sarcopenia of cirrhosis

    Jia Qiu;Cynthia Tsien;Samjhana Thapalaya;Arvind Narayanan

  • Inclusion body myopathy-associated mutations in p97/VCP impair endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation

    Conrad C. Weihl;Seema Dalal;Alan Pestronk;Phyllis I. Hanson

  • Interaction with Polyglutamine Aggregates Reveals a Q/N-rich Domain in TDP-43

    Rodrigo A. Fuentealba;Maria Udan;Shaughn Bell;Iga Wegorzewska

  • Mutant presenilin-1 induces apoptosis and downregulates Akt/PKB.

    Conrad C. Weihl;Ghanashyam D. Ghadge;Scott G. Kennedy;Nissim Hay

  • Exome sequencing reveals DNAJB6 mutations in dominantly-inherited myopathy.

    Matthew B. Harms;R. Brian Sommerville;Peggy Allred;Shaughn Bell

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Pestronk
Alan Pestronk Washington University in St. Louis
J. Paul Taylor
J. Paul Taylor St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Sergio Lavandero
Sergio Lavandero University of Chile
Babak Razani
Babak Razani University of Pittsburgh
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Boris Zhivotovsky
Boris Zhivotovsky Karolinska Institute
Jason E. Gestwicki
Jason E. Gestwicki University of California, San Francisco
Raymond P. Roos
Raymond P. Roos University of Chicago
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Andrea Ballabio
Andrea Ballabio Baylor College of Medicine

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