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David Schneider

David Schneider

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Earth Science

D-Index
39
Citations
4896
World Ranking
6257
National Ranking
326

Overview

David Schneider is a researcher affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada. Their academic work primarily focuses on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant emphasis on Molecular Biology within that domain.

Schneider's research covers various aspects of RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA research and splicing, and the intersections of RNA modifications and cancer. Additional topics include genomics and chromatin dynamics, DNA repair mechanisms, fungal and yeast genetics research, and bacterial genetics and biotechnology.

Their most frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Biophysical Chemistry
  • Journal of Molecular Biology
  • Genes

Recent papers published by Schneider illustrate the focus and diversity of their research interests. These include:

  • The small-molecule BMH-21 directly inhibits transcription elongation and DNA occupancy of RNA polymerase I in vivo and in vitro (2021), Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Distinct states of nucleolar stress induced by anticancer drugs (2023), eLife
  • Multi-start Evolutionary Nonlinear OpTimizeR (MENOTR): A hybrid parameter optimization toolbox (2021), Biophysical Chemistry
  • miR-486 is essential for muscle function and suppresses a dystrophic transcriptome (2022), Life Science Alliance
  • Defining the divergent enzymatic properties of RNA polymerases I and II (2020), Journal of Biological Chemistry

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Schneider's work, with frequent co-authors including Aaron L. Lucius, Ruth Q. Jacobs, Abigail K. Huffines, Zachariah M. Ingram, and Kaila B. Fuller. This network reflects an interdisciplinary teamwork approach within molecular biology and biochemistry fields.

Best Publications

  • Crustal reworking at Nanga Parbat, Pakistan: Metamorphic consequences of thermal-mechanical coupling facilitated by erosion

    Peter K. Zeitler;Peter O. Koons;Michael P. Bishop;C. Page Chamberlain

  • Late Quaternary stratigraphy and sedimentation patterns in the western Arctic Ocean

    Leonid Polyak;Jens Bischof;Joseph D. Ortiz;Dennis A. Darby

  • Age of volcanic rocks and syndepositional iron formations, Marquette Range Supergroup: implications for the tectonic setting of Paleoproterozoic iron formations of the Lake Superior region

    D.A. Schneider;M.E. Bickford;W.F. Cannon;K.J. Schulz

  • Miocene bivergent crustal extension in the Aegean: Evidence from the western Cyclades (Greece)

    Bernhard Grasemann;David A. Schneider;Daniel F. Stöckli;Christoph Iglseder

  • The time‐averaged paleomagnetic field

    David A. Schneider;Dennis V. Kent

  • A detailed chronology of the Australasian impact event, the Brunhes-Matuyama geomagnetic polarity reversal, and global climate change

    David A. Schneider;Dennis V. Kent;Gilberto A. Mello

  • Correlation of paleointensity variation records in the Brunhes/Matuyama polarity transition interval

    Dennis V. Kent;David A. Schneider

  • Tectonics of Nanga Parbat, western Himalaya: Synkinematic plutonism within the doubly vergent shear zones of a crustal-scale pop-up structure

    D. A. Schneider;M. A. Edwards;W. S. F. Kidd;M. Asif Khan

  • U-Pb zircon geochronology of Paleoproterozoic plutons from the northern midcontinent, USA: Evidence for subduction flip and continued convergence after geon 18 Penokean orogenesis

    Daniel K. Holm;W. Randall Van Schmus;Leah C. MacNeill;Terrence J. Boerboom

  • Pliocene-Pleistocene radiolarian events and magnetostratigraphic calibrations for the tropical Indian Ocean

    David A. Johnson;David A. Schneider;Catherine A. Nigrini;Jean Pierre Caulet

  • Improving paleohydrological and diagenetic reconstructions in calcite veins and breccia of a sedimentary basin by combining Δ47 temperature, δ18Owater and U-Pb age

    Maurice Pagel;Magali Bonifacie;David A. Schneider;Cécile Gautheron

  • Age and deformation of Early Proterozoic quartzites in the southern Lake Superior region: Implications for extent of foreland deformation during final assembly of Laurentia

    Daniel Holm;David Schneider;Christopher D. Coath

  • Early Miocene anatexis identified in the western syntaxis, Pakistan Himalaya

    D.A Schneider;M.A Edwards;W.S.F Kidd;P.K Zeitler

  • I and S-type plutonism on Serifos (W-Cyclades, Greece)

    C. Iglseder;B. Grasemann;D.A. Schneider;K. Petrakakis

  • Reinterpretation of Paleoproterozoic accretionary boundaries of the north-central United States based on a new aeromagnetic-geologic compilation

    D.K. Holm;R. Anderson;Terrence Boerboom;W. F. Cannon

  • Ivory Coast microtektite strewn field: description and relation to the Jaramillo geomagnetic event

    B.P. Glass;Dennis V. Kent;David A. Schneider;L. Tauxe

  • New insights into the southern margin of the Archean–Proterozoic boundary in the north-central United States based on U–Pb, Sm–Nd, and Ar–Ar geochronology

    W R Van Schmus;David A Schneider;Daniel Holm;S Dodson

  • Eocene tectonometamorphism on Serifos (western Cyclades) deduced from zircon depth-profiling geochronology and mica thermochronology

    D.A. Schneider;C. Senkowski;H. Vogel;B. Grasemann

  • Inclination anomalies from Indian Ocean sediments and the possibility of a standing nondipole field

    David A. Schneider;Dennis V. Kent

  • Zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology of Neoproterozoic strata from the Mackenzie Mountains, Canada: Implications for the Phanerozoic exhumation and deformation history of the northern Canadian Cordillera

    Jeremy Powell;David Schneider;Daniel Stockli;Karen Fallas

  • Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program. VOLUME 13 8 INITIAL REPORTS PARTI EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC Covering Leg 138 of the cruises of the Drilling Vessel JOIDES Resolution, Balboa, Panama, to San Diego, California, Sites 844-854, 6 May 1991-5 July 1991

    Larry A. Mayer;Nicklas G. Pisias;Thomas R. Janecek;Jack G. Baldauf

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard Grasemann
Bernhard Grasemann University of Vienna
Dennis V. Kent
Dennis V. Kent Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Baptiste Gault
Baptiste Gault Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Nicklas G Pisias
Nicklas G Pisias Oregon State University
Nicholas J Shackleton
Nicholas J Shackleton University of Cambridge
Simon E. Jackson
Simon E. Jackson Geological Survey of Canada
Peter K. Zeitler
Peter K. Zeitler Lehigh University
Daniel F. Stockli
Daniel F. Stockli The University of Texas at Austin
William S.F. Kidd
William S.F. Kidd University at Albany, State University of New York
Martin Thöni
Martin Thöni University of Vienna

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