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Overview

Dan Goldowitz is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily spans the broad domains of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with notable contributions in Medicine. They have published extensively in subfields including Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cancer Research, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Developmental Neuroscience.

The main topics covered in Goldowitz's work include cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, developmental biology and gene regulation, RNA research and splicing, children's physical and motor development, infant development and preterm care, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, and RNA regulation and disease.

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include Joanna Yeung, Joshua Wu, Maryam Rahimi-Balaei, Sih-Rong Wu, and Miguel Ramirez. These collaborative efforts have resulted in publications across various scientific venues, with repeated contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Cerebellum, eLife, Genes Brain & Behavior, and Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience.

Recent publications by Goldowitz include:

  • Origins, Development, and Compartmentation of the Granule Cells of the Cerebellum, 2021, Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  • Cerebellum Lecture: the Cerebellar Nuclei-Core of the Cerebellum, 2023, The Cerebellum
  • Temporal analysis of enhancers during mouse cerebellar development reveals dynamic and novel regulatory functions, 2022, eLife
  • Neonatal Alcohol Exposure in Mice Induces Select Differentiation- and Apoptosis-Related Chromatin Changes Both Independent of and Dependent on Sex, 2020, Frontiers in Genetics
  • Using a mouse model to gain insights into developmental coordination disorder, 2020, Genes Brain & Behavior

Best Publications

  • A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas

    Alistair R.R. Forrest;Hideya Kawaji;Michael Rehli;J. Kenneth Baillie

  • Consensus Paper: Pathological Role of the Cerebellum in Autism

    S. Hossein Fatemi;Kimberly A. Aldinger;Paul Ashwood;Margaret L. Bauman

  • Scrambler and yotari disrupt the disabled gene and produce a reeler -like phenotype in mice

    Michael Sheldon;Dennis S. Rice;Gabriella D'Arcangelo;Hiroyuki Yoneshima

  • The cells and molecules that make a cerebellum.

    Dan Goldowitz;Kristin Hamre

  • Transcribed enhancers lead waves of coordinated transcription in transitioning mammalian cells

    Erik Arner;Carsten O. Daub;Kristoffer Vitting-Seerup;Robin Andersson

  • An integrated expression atlas of miRNAs and their promoters in human and mouse.

    Derek De Rie;Imad Abugessaisa;Tanvir Alam;Erik Arner

  • Disabled-1 acts downstream of Reelin in a signaling pathway that controls laminar organization in the mammalian brain

    Dennis S. Rice;Michael Sheldon;Gabriella D'Arcangelo;Kazunori Nakajima

  • FANTOM5 CAGE profiles of human and mouse samples

    Shuhei Noguchi;Takahiro Arakawa;Shiro Fukuda;Masaaki Furuno

  • VAC14 Nucleates a Protein Complex Essential for the Acute Interconversion of PI3P and PI(3,5)P2 in Yeast and Mouse

    Natsuko Jin;Clement Y Chow;Li Liu;Sergey N Zolov

  • Cerebellar disorganization characteristic of reeler in scrambler mutant mice despite presence of reelin

    Dan Goldowitz;Richard C. Cushing;Eric Laywell;Gabriella D’Arcangelo

  • Development and death of external granular layer cells in the weaver mouse cerebellum: a quantitative study

    RJ Smeyne;D Goldowitz

  • Genetic and Environmental Control of Variation in Retinal Ganglion Cell Number in Mice

    Robert W. Williams;Richelle C. Strom;Dennis S. Rice;Dan Goldowitz

  • High-throughput behavioral phenotyping in the expanded panel of BXD recombinant inbred strains

    V. M. Philip;S. Duvvuru;B. Gomero;T. A. Ansah

  • Wild-type huntingtin plays a role in brain development and neuronal survival

    Anton Reiner;Ioannis Dragatsis;Scott Zeitlin;Daniel Goldowitz

  • Sequence interpretation. Functional annotation of mouse genome sequences.

    J. H. Nadeau;R. Balling;G. Barsh;D. Beier

  • Anatomical evidence for a projection from the entorhinal cortex to the contralateral dentate gyrus of the rat.

    Dan Goldowitz;W.Frost White;Oswald Steward;Gary Lynch

  • PolymiRTS Database: linking polymorphisms in microRNA target sites with complex traits

    Lei Bao;Mi Zhou;Ligang Wu;Lu Lu

  • Granule cell as a site of gene action in the weaver mouse cerebellum: evidence from heterozygous mutant chimeras

    Dan Goldowitz;Richard J. Mullen

  • Natural Variation in Neuron Number in Mice Is Linked to a Major Quantitative Trait Locus on Chr 11

    Robert W. Williams;Richelle C. Strom;Dan Goldowitz

  • Origins, Development, and Compartmentation of the Granule Cells of the Cerebellum.

    G. Giacomo Consalez;Daniel Goldowitz;Filippo Casoni;Richard Hawkes

  • Huntingtin inhibits caspase-3 activation.

    Yu Zhang;Blair R Leavitt;Jeremy M van Raamsdonk;Ioannis Dragatsis

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth M. Simpson
Elizabeth M. Simpson University of British Columbia
Wyeth W. Wasserman
Wyeth W. Wasserman University of British Columbia
Robert A. Holt
Robert A. Holt BC Cancer Research Institute
Steven J.M. Jones
Steven J.M. Jones University of British Columbia
Robert W. Williams
Robert W. Williams University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Timo Lassmann
Timo Lassmann Telethon Kids Institute
Alistair R. R. Forrest
Alistair R. R. Forrest Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research

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