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Genetics and Molecular Biology
UK
2024

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
106
Citations
33175
World Ranking
435
National Ranking
248

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1992 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

David M. Glover is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with particular focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cell Biology, Plant Science, and Obstetrics and Gynecology. Their work includes investigations into microtubule and mitosis dynamics, chromosomal and genetic variations, evolution and genetic dynamics, pluripotent stem cells research, CRISPR and genetic engineering, ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, and congenital heart defects research.

Frequent publication venues for this scientist include Open Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Cell Biology, Nature Communications, and STAR Protocols. Their collaboration network features coauthors such as Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Daniel K. Fabian, Levente Kovács, Alexis L. Sperling, and Erik Garrison.

Selected recent papers exemplify the thematic range and publication impact of their work:

  • "Embryo model completes gastrulation to neurulation and organogenesis," 2022, Nature
  • "Expression of SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 and the protease TMPRSS2 suggests susceptibility of the human embryo in the first trimester," 2020, Open Biology
  • "Stem cell-derived synthetic embryos self-assemble by exploiting cadherin codes and cortical tension," 2022, Nature Cell Biology
  • "Parthenogenesis in dipterans: a genetic perspective," 2023, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Novel perspectives of target-binding by the evolutionarily conserved PP4 phosphatase," 2020, Open Biology

Throughout their career, the scientist has received recognition including election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1992, a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 2009, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Mutations in aurora prevent centrosome separation leading to the formation of monopolar spindles

    David M Glover;Mark H Leibowitz;Doris A McLean;Huw Parry

  • Drosophila Aurora B Kinase Is Required for Histone H3 Phosphorylation and Condensin Recruitment during Chromosome Condensation and to Organize the Central Spindle during Cytokinesis

    Régis Giet;David M. Glover

  • polo, a mitotic mutant of Drosophila displaying abnormal spindle poles.

    C.E. Sunkel;D.M. Glover

  • SAK/PLK4 is required for centriole duplication and flagella development.

    M. Bettencourt-Dias;A. Rodrigues-Martins;L. Carpenter;M. Riparbelli

  • Polo-like kinases: conservation and divergence in their functions and regulation.

    Vincent Archambault;David M. Glover

  • Centrosome biogenesis and function: centrosomics brings new understanding

    Mónica Bettencourt-Dias;David M. Glover

  • Polo-like kinases: a team that plays throughout mitosis

    David M. Glover;Iain M. Hagan;Álvaro A.M. Tavares

  • Farmasøytisk preparat omfattende RNA, anvendelse derav for fremstilling av et medikament, et sett derav for inhibering av genekspresjon og invitro-fremgangsmåter inhibering av genekspresjon.

    Zernicka-Goetz Magdalena;Wianny Florence;Evans Martin John;Glover David Moore

  • polo encodes a protein kinase homolog required for mitosis in Drosophila.

    S Llamazares;A Moreira;A Tavares;C Girdham

  • The conserved Schizosaccharomyces pombe kinase plo1, required to form a bipolar spindle, the actin ring, and septum, can drive septum formation in G1 and G2 cells.

    Hiroyuki Ohkura;Iain M. Hagan;David M. Glover

  • Genome-wide survey of protein kinases required for cell cycle progression.

    M. Bettencourt-Dias;R. Giet;R. Giet;R. Sinka;A. Mazumdar

  • Drosophila Aurora A kinase is required to localize D-TACC to centrosomes and to regulate astral microtubules.

    Régis Giet;Doris McLean;Simon Descamps;Michael J. Lee

  • A small peptide inhibitor of DNA replication defines the site of interaction between the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21WAF1 and proliferating cell nuclear antigen

    Emma Warbrick;David P. Lane;David M. Glover;Lynne S. Cox

  • One of the protein phosphatase 1 isoenzymes in Drosophila is essential for mitosis

    J.Myles Axton;Vlktor Dombrádi;Patricia T.W. Cohen;David M. Glover

  • Chromatid segregation at anaphase requires the barren product, a novel chromosome-associated protein that interacts with Topoisomerase II.

    Manzoor A Bhat;Alastair Valentine Philp;David M Glover;Hugo J Bellen

  • Origin and formation of the first two distinct cell types of the inner cell mass in the mouse embryo

    Samantha A. Morris;Roy T. Y. Teo;Huiliang Li;Paul Robson

  • A novel arrangement of the 18S and 28S sequences in a repeating unit of drosophila melanogaster rDNA

    David M. Glover;David S. Hogness

  • pavarotti encodes a kinesin-like protein required to organize the central spindle and contractile ring for cytokinesis

    Richard R. Adams;Alvaro A.M. Tavares;Adi Salzberg;Hugo J. Bellen

  • Asterless is a scaffold for the onset of centriole assembly

    Nikola S. Dzhindzhev;Quan D. Yu;Kipp Weiskopf;Kipp Weiskopf;George Tzolovsky

  • Revisiting the role of the mother centriole in centriole biogenesis.

    A. Rodrigues-Martins;M. Riparbelli;M. Riparbelli;M. Riparbelli;G. Callaini;G. Callaini;G. Callaini;D. M. Glover;D. M. Glover;D. M. Glover

Frequent Co-Authors

Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz California Institute of Technology
Maria Giovanna Riparbelli
Maria Giovanna Riparbelli University of Siena
David P. Lane
David P. Lane Karolinska Institute
Michal Dadlez
Michal Dadlez Polish Academy of Sciences
Cayetano Gonzalez
Cayetano Gonzalez Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Claudio E. Sunkel
Claudio E. Sunkel University of Porto
Michael Ashburner
Michael Ashburner University of Cambridge
Ernest D. Laue
Ernest D. Laue University of Cambridge
Christos Louis
Christos Louis University of Crete
Iain M. Hagan
Iain M. Hagan University of Manchester

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