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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1995 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

David B. Stern is affiliated with the Boyce Thompson Institute in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with particular emphasis on Molecular Biology and Plant Science. The scope of their work also touches on Social Psychology, Endocrinology, and Immunology as secondary areas of study.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including:

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Animal and Plant Science Education
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

David B. Stern has contributed to multiple research publications, with notable papers including:

  • "Plant science decadal vision 2020-2030: Reimagining the potential of plants for a healthy and sustainable future," 2020, published in Plant Direct
  • "Transgenic overexpression of rubisco subunits and the assembly factor RAF1 are beneficial to recovery from drought stress in maize," 2020, Environmental and Experimental Botany
  • "Transgenic expression of Rubisco accumulation factor2 and Rubisco subunits increases photosynthesis and growth in maize," 2024, Journal of Experimental Botany
  • "Plant Ribonuclease J: An Essential Player in Maintaining Chloroplast RNA Quality Control for Gene Expression," 2020, Plants
  • "Removing systemic barriers to equity, diversity, and inclusion: Report of the 2019 Plant Science Research Network workshop 'Inclusivity in the Plant Sciences,'" 2022, Plant Direct

The scientist has frequently published in several venues, including:

  • Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Plant Direct
  • The Plant Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Environmental and Experimental Botany

During their research career, David B. Stern collaborated often with peers such as Amber M. Hotto, Natalie Henkhaus, Eric Lyons, Andrew D. L. Nelson, and José Pablo Dundore-Arias. This network of co-authors reflects a collaborative approach to their research topics.

Recognition of their work includes fellowships awarded by prominent organizations: a Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2004 and a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1995.

Best Publications

  • The Chlamydomonas Genome Reveals the Evolution of Key Animal and Plant Functions

    Sabeeha S. Merchant;Simon E. Prochnik;Olivier Vallon;Elizabeth H. Harris

  • The Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project gene disruption project: Single P-element insertions mutating 25% of vital Drosophila genes.

    A C Spradling;D Stern;A Beaton;E J Rhem

  • The Chlamydomonas reinhardtii plastid chromosome: islands of genes in a sea of repeats.

    Jude E. Maul;Jason W. Lilly;Liying Cui;Claude W. dePamphilis

  • Insights into the evolution of mitochondrial genome size from complete sequences of Citrullus lanatus and Cucurbita pepo (Cucurbitaceae)

    Andrew J. Alverson;XiaoXin Wei;Danny W. Rice;David B. Stern

  • Mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes of maize have a 12-kilobase DNA sequence in common

    David B. Stern;David M. Lonsdale

  • Chloroplast RNA metabolism.

    David B Stern;Michel P. Goldschmidt-Clermont;Maureen R Hanson

  • Control of plastid gene expression: 3′ inverted repeats act as mRNA processing and stabilizing elements, but do not terminate transcription

    David B. Stern;Wilhelm Gruissem

  • Engineering the chloroplast genome: techniques and capabilities for chloroplast transformation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Karen L. Kindle;Kristy L. Richards;David B. Stern

  • Extensive and Widespread Homologies between Mitochondrial DNA and Chloroplast DNA in Plants

    David B. Stern;Jeffrey D. Palmer

  • Chlamydomonas reinhardtii at the Crossroads of Genomics

    Arthur R. Grossman;Elizabeth E. Harris;Charles Hauser;Paul A. Lefebvre

  • A 3' stem/loop structure of the Chlamydomonas chloroplast atpB gene regulates mRNA accumulation in vivo.

    David B. Stern;Elaine R. Radwanski;Karen L. Kindle

  • Use of Illumina sequencing to identify transposon insertions underlying mutant phenotypes in high-copy Mutator lines of maize

    Rosalind Williams-Carrier;Nicholas Stiffler;Susan Belcher;Tiffany Kroeger

  • Function of plastid mRNA 3' inverted repeats. RNA stabilization and gene-specific protein binding.

    D B Stern;H Jones;W Gruissem

  • MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION : PROMOTER STRUCTURES AND RNA POLYMERASES

    Robin L. Tracy;David B. Stern

  • Processing and degradation of chloroplast mRNA.

    Rita A Monde;Gadi Schuster;David B Stern

  • The Chloroplast Gene ycf9 Encodes a Photosystem II (PSII) Core Subunit, PsbZ, That Participates in PSII Supramolecular Architecture

    Magdalena Swiatek;Richard Kuras;Anna Sokolenko;David Higgs

  • Overexpression of Rubisco subunits with RAF1 increases Rubisco content in maize

    Coralie E Salesse-Smith;Robert E Sharwood;Florian A Busch;Johannes Kromdijk

  • Rubisco large-subunit translation is autoregulated in response to its assembly state in tobacco chloroplasts

    Katia Wostrikoff;David Stern

  • Genetics and genomics of chloroplast biogenesis: maize as a model system

    David B. Stern;Maureen R. Hanson;Alice Barkan

  • Functional analysis of two maize cDNAs encoding T7-like RNA polymerases.

    Ching Chun Chang;Jen Sheen;Muriel Bligny;Yasuo Niwa

Frequent Co-Authors

Gadi Schuster
Gadi Schuster Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Robert E. Sharwood
Robert E. Sharwood Australian National University
Zhangjun Fei
Zhangjun Fei Cornell University
Alice Barkan
Alice Barkan University of Oregon
Wataru Sakamoto
Wataru Sakamoto Okayama University
Francis-André Wollman
Francis-André Wollman Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Florian A. Busch
Florian A. Busch Australian National University
Xuemei Chen
Xuemei Chen University of California, Riverside
Jeffrey D. Palmer
Jeffrey D. Palmer Indiana University

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