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David E. Burstein

David E. Burstein

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
61
Citations
13779
World Ranking
11317
National Ranking
106

Overview

David E. Burstein is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel. Their research spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Neurology, and Immunology.

The scientist's work addresses a diverse range of topics including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, Eating Disorders and Behaviors, Tryptophan and Brain Disorders, Advanced Causal Inference Techniques, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, and RNA Modifications and Cancer.

David E. Burstein has contributed to several publications over recent years. Notable papers include:

  • "Penetrance and Pleiotropy of Polygenic Risk Scores for Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and Depression Among Adults in the US Veterans Affairs Health Care System" (2022) in JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Genome-wide analysis of a model-derived binge eating disorder phenotype identifies risk loci and implicates iron metabolism" (2023) in Nature Genetics
  • "Genome-Wide Association Study of Treatment-Resistant Depression: Shared Biology With Metabolic Traits" (2024) in American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Detecting and Adjusting for Hidden Biases due to Phenotype Misclassification in Genome-Wide Association Studies" (2023) in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Single-cell atlas of transcriptomic vulnerability across multiple neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases" (2024) in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Georgios Voloudakis
  • Panos Roussos
  • Sanan Venkatesh
  • Tim B. Bigdeli
  • Jaroslav Bendl

David E. Burstein often publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), European Neuropsychopharmacology, Scientific Data, Nature Genetics, and the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Best Publications

  • Programmed DNA destruction by miniature CRISPR-Cas14 enzymes.

    Lucas B. Harrington;David Burstein;Janice S. Chen;David Paez-Espino

  • Two distinct RNase activities of CRISPR-C2c2 enable guide-RNA processing and RNA detection

    Alexandra East-Seletsky;Mitchell R. O’Connell;Spencer C. Knight;David Burstein

  • New CRISPR–Cas systems from uncultivated microbes

    David Burstein;Lucas B. Harrington;Steven C. Strutt;Alexander J. Probst

  • GLUT1 glucose transporter expression in colorectal carcinoma: a marker for poor prognosis.

    Richard S. Haber;Allison Rathan;Kenneth R. Weiser;Alla Pritsker

  • Differential GC content between exons and introns establishes distinct strategies of splice-site recognition.

    Maayan Amit;Maya Donyo;Dror Hollander;Amir Goren

  • Genome-scale identification of Legionella pneumophila effectors using a machine learning approach.

    David Burstein;Tal Zusman;Elena Degtyar;Ram Viner

  • Genomic analysis of 38 Legionella species identifies large and diverse effector repertoires

    David Burstein;Francisco Amaro;Tal Zusman;Ziv Lifshitz

  • Evidence for RNA synthesis-dependent and -independent pathways in stimulation of neurite outgrowth by nerve growth factor

    David E. Burstein;Lloyd A. Greene

  • RNA Targeting by Functionally Orthogonal Type VI-A CRISPR-Cas Enzymes

    Alexandra East-Seletsky;Mitchell R. O’Connell;David Burstein;Gavin J. Knott

  • The average common substring approach to phylogenomic reconstruction.

    Igor Ulitsky;David Burstein;Tamir Tuller;Benny Chor

  • Major bacterial lineages are essentially devoid of CRISPR-Cas viral defence systems

    David Burstein;Christine L. Sun;Christine L. Sun;Christopher T. Brown;Itai Sharon

  • p63 in pulmonary epithelium, pulmonary squamous neoplasms, and other pulmonary tumors

    Beverly Y. Wang;Joan Gil;David Kaufman;Li Gan

  • Large-scale comparative analysis of splicing signals and their corresponding splicing factors in eukaryotes

    Schraga H Schwartz;João Silva;David Burstein;Tal Pupko

  • Immunohistochemical Localization of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor in Astrocytomas

    David Zagzag;Douglas C. Miller;Yasufumi Sato;Daniel B. Rifkin

  • Thyroid cytology and the risk of malignancy in thyroid nodules: importance of nuclear atypia in indeterminate specimens.

    Adam S. Kelman;Allison Rathan;Jonas Leibowitz;David E. Burstein

  • Genomic resolution of a cold subsurface aquifer community provides metabolic insights for novel microbes adapted to high CO2 concentrations.

    Alexander J. Probst;Cindy J. Castelle;Andrea Singh;Christopher T. Brown

  • Computational modeling and experimental validation of the Legionella and Coxiella virulence-related type-IVB secretion signal

    Ziv Lifshitz;David Burstein;Michael Peeri;Tal Zusman

  • p63 and TTF-1 immunostaining. A useful marker panel for distinguishing small cell carcinoma of lung from poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of lung.

    Maoxin Wu;Beverly Wang;Joan Gil;Edmond Sabo

  • Mediterranean grassland soil C-N compound turnover is dependent on rainfall and depth, and is mediated by genomically divergent microorganisms.

    Spencer Diamond;Peter F Andeer;Zhou Li;Alexander Crits-Christoph

  • Activated N‐ras gene induces neuronal differentiation of PC12 rat pheochromocytoma cells

    Isabel Guerrero;Henry Wong;Angel Pellicer;David E. Burstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Jillian F. Banfield
Jillian F. Banfield University of California, Berkeley
Tal Pupko
Tal Pupko Tel Aviv University
Jennifer A. Doudna
Jennifer A. Doudna University of California, Berkeley
David Zhang
David Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Lloyd A. Greene
Lloyd A. Greene Columbia University
Angel Pellicer
Angel Pellicer New York University
Goutham Narla
Goutham Narla University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gil Ast
Gil Ast Tel Aviv University
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute

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