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Overview

David Traver is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a focus on detailed cellular and molecular mechanisms.

The main fields of study in their work include Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. More specifically, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Molecular Biology, Immunology, Cell Biology, Genetics, and Cancer Research.

The scientific topics they have worked on frequently address aspects of zebrafish biomedical research applications, neutrophil, myeloperoxidase and oxidative mechanisms, immune cells in cancer, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, blood disorders and treatments, erythrocyte function and pathophysiology, as well as angiogenesis and VEGF in cancer.

Some of the venues where David Traver has published research most often include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Blood Advances
  • Development
  • Nature Cell Biology
  • Experimental Hematology

They have collaborated frequently with several other researchers, notably:

  • Martin Distel
  • Mansi Parekh
  • E. Sevilla
  • Philip Hampel
  • Catherine Priest

Highlighted recent papers authored or co-authored by David Traver include:

  • "Impact of COVID-19 on early career scientists: an optimistic guide for the future," 2020, BMC Biology
  • "Human pallial MGE-type GABAergic interneuron cell therapy for chronic focal epilepsy," 2023, Cell Stem Cell
  • "Systemic Inflammation and Normocytic Anemia in DOCK11 Deficiency," 2023, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "A zebrafish model of granulin deficiency reveals essential roles in myeloid cell differentiation," 2021, Blood Advances
  • "Notch signaling enhances bone regeneration in the zebrafish mandible," 2022, Development

Best Publications

  • A clonogenic common myeloid progenitor that gives rise to all myeloid lineages

    Koichi Akashi;Koichi Akashi;David Traver;Toshihiro Miyamoto;Irving L. Weissman

  • CD47 Is Upregulated on Circulating Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Leukemia Cells to Avoid Phagocytosis

    Siddhartha Jaiswal;Catriona H.M. Jamieson;Wendy W. Pang;Christopher Y. Park

  • Haematopoietic stem cells derive directly from aortic endothelium during development

    Julien Y. Bertrand;Neil C. Chi;Neil C. Chi;Buyung Santoso;Shutian Teng

  • Transplantation and in vivo imaging of multilineage engraftment in zebrafish bloodless mutants

    David Traver;Barry H Paw;Kenneth D Poss;W Todd Penberthy

  • BRAF Mutations Are Sufficient to Promote Nevi Formation and Cooperate with p53 in the Genesis of Melanoma

    E.Elizabeth Patton;Hans R. Widlund;Jeffery L. Kutok;Kamden R. Kopani;Kamden R. Kopani

  • The use of zebrafish to understand immunity

    Nikolaus S Trede;David M Langenau;David Traver;A.Thomas Look

  • Mitoferrin is essential for erythroid iron assimilation

    George C. Shaw;John J. Cope;John J. Cope;Liangtao Li;Kenneth Corson

  • Myc-induced T cell leukemia in transgenic zebrafish.

    David M. Langenau;David Traver;Adolfo A. Ferrando;Jeffery L. Kutok

  • Dendritic cell potentials of early lymphoid and myeloid progenitors.

    Markus G. Manz;David Traver;David Traver;Toshihiro Miyamoto;Toshihiro Miyamoto;Irving L. Weissman;Irving L. Weissman

  • Development of CD8α-Positive Dendritic Cells from a Common Myeloid Progenitor

    David Traver;Koichi Akashi;Markus Manz;Miriam Merad

  • Hematopoietic stem cell fate is established by the Notch–Runx pathway

    Caroline Erter Burns;David Traver;Elizabeth Mayhall;Jennifer L. Shepard

  • In vivo tracking of T cell development, ablation, and engraftment in transgenic zebrafish.

    David M. Langenau;Adolfo A. Ferrando;David Traver;Jeffery L. Kutok

  • Intrinsic requirement for zinc finger transcription factor Gfi-1 in neutrophil differentiation

    Hanno Hock;Melanie J Hamblen;Heather M Rooke;David Traver

  • Expression of CD41 marks the initiation of definitive hematopoiesis in the mouse embryo.

    Hanna K. A. Mikkola;Yuko Fujiwara;Thorsten M. Schlaeger;David Traver

  • Mutations in the Cilia Gene ARL13B Lead to the Classical Form of Joubert Syndrome

    Vincent Cantagrel;Jennifer L. Silhavy;Stephanie L. Bielas;Dominika Swistun

  • Analysis of thrombocyte development in CD41-GFP transgenic zebrafish.

    Hui Feng Lin;David Traver;David Traver;Hao Zhu;Kimberly Dooley;Kimberly Dooley

  • Definitive hematopoiesis initiates through a committed erythromyeloid progenitor in the zebrafish embryo

    Julien Y. Bertrand;Albert D. Kim;Emily P. Violette;David L. Stachura

  • Proinflammatory Signaling Regulates Hematopoietic Stem Cell Emergence

    Raquel Espín-Palazón;Raquel Espín-Palazón;David L. Stachura;Clyde A. Campbell;Diana García-Moreno

  • The zebrafish as a model organism to study development of the immune system.

    David Traver;Philippe Herbomel;E Elizabeth Patton;Ryan D Murphey

  • Analysis of thrombocyte development in CD41-GFP transgenic zebrafish. Commentary

    Pudur Jagadeeswaran;Hui-Feng Lin;David Traver;Hao Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonard I. Zon
Leonard I. Zon Harvard University
Koichi Akashi
Koichi Akashi Kyushu University
Irving L. Weissman
Irving L. Weissman Stanford University
Gary W. Litman
Gary W. Litman University of South Florida
Barry H. Paw
Barry H. Paw Brigham and Women's Hospital
Karl Willert
Karl Willert University of California, San Diego
Toshihiro Miyamoto
Toshihiro Miyamoto Kyushu University
A. Thomas Look
A. Thomas Look Harvard University
Jeffery L. Kutok
Jeffery L. Kutok Epizyme (United States)
David M. Langenau
David M. Langenau Harvard University

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