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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Dolph L. Hatfield is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within biomedical sciences, with a primary focus on medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Neuroscience also features prominently in their body of work.

The scientist's research covers a variety of specialized subfields including physiology, endocrine and autonomic systems, molecular biology, aging, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Key topics in their publications frequently address circadian rhythm and melatonin, adipose tissue and metabolism, genetics, aging and longevity in model organisms, dietary effects on health, spaceflight effects on biology, muscle physiology and disorders, and heart rate variability and autonomic control.

Hatfield has contributed to research published in various venues, often appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with 30 publications. Other notable venues include The Journal of Physiology, Aging Cell, Innovation in Aging, and The Journals of Gerontology Series A.

Coauthor collaborations are an important aspect of their work. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Zhiguang Huo (26 joint publications)
  • Christopher A. Wolff (20 joint publications)
  • Xiping Zhang (18 joint publications)
  • Collin M. Douglas (17 joint publications)
  • Peggy M. Cawthon (17 joint publications)

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Dolph L. Hatfield are:

  • Myosteatosis in the Context of Skeletal Muscle Function Deficit: An Interdisciplinary Workshop at the National Institute on Aging, 2020, Frontiers in Physiology
  • Temporal dynamics of the multi-omic response to endurance exercise training, 2024, Nature
  • Mechanisms of mechanical overload-induced skeletal muscle hypertrophy: current understanding and future directions, 2023, Physiological Reviews
  • Defining the age-dependent and tissue-specific circadian transcriptome in male mice, 2023, Cell Reports
  • Disrupted circadian oscillations in type 2 diabetes are linked to altered rhythmic mitochondrial metabolism in skeletal muscle, 2021, Science Advances

An award recognized within their career is being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Selenoproteins: molecular pathways and physiological roles.

    Vyacheslav M. Labunskyy;Dolph L. Hatfield;Vadim N. Gladyshev

  • How selenium has altered our understanding of the genetic code.

    Dolph L. Hatfield;Vadim N. Gladyshev

  • Selenium and selenocysteine: roles in cancer, health, and development

    Dolph L. Hatfield;Petra A. Tsuji;Bradley A. Carlson;Vadim N. Gladyshev

  • A novel RNA binding protein, SBP2, is required for the translation of mammalian selenoprotein mRNAs

    Paul R. Copeland;Julia E. Fletcher;Bradley A. Carlson;Dolph L. Hatfield

  • Redox regulation of cell signaling by selenocysteine in mammalian thioredoxin reductases.

    Qi An Sun;Yalin Wu;Francesca Zappacosta;Kuan Teh Jeang

  • Biosynthesis of selenocysteine on its tRNA in eukaryotes

    Xue-Ming Xu;Bradley A. Carlson;Heiko Mix;Yan Zhang

  • Eukaryotic Selenoproteins and Selenoproteomes

    Alexey V. Lobanov;Dolph L. Hatfield;Vadim N. Gladyshev

  • Decoding apparatus for eukaryotic selenocysteine insertion

    Rosa M. Tujebajeva;Paul R. Copeland;Xue Ming Xu;Bradley A. Carlson

  • Identification of a selenocysteyl-tRNA(Ser) in mammalian cells that recognizes the nonsense codon, UGA.

    B. J. Lee;P. J. W. Worland;J. N. Davis;T. C. Stadtman

  • Selenoproteins and selenocysteine insertion system in the model plant cell system, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Sergey V. Novoselov;Mahadev Rao;Natalia V. Onoshko;Huijun Zhi

  • Thioredoxin reductase 1 deficiency reverses tumor phenotype and tumorigenicity of lung carcinoma cells

    Min-Hyuk Yoo;Xue-Ming Xu;Bradley A. Carlson;Vadim N. Gladyshev

  • Rabbit beta-globin is extended beyond its UGA stop codon by multiple suppressions and translational reading gaps.

    Harold S. Chittum;William S. Lane;Bradley A. Carlson;Peter P. Roller

  • Glutathione peroxidase 4 and vitamin E cooperatively prevent hepatocellular degeneration

    Bradley A. Carlson;Ryuta Tobe;Elena Yefremova;Petra A. Tsuji

  • A New Human Selenium-containing Protein PURIFICATION, CHARACTERIZATION, AND cDNA SEQUENCE

    Vadim N. Gladyshev;Kuan Teh Jeang;John C. Wootton;Dolph L. Hatfield

  • Composition and Evolution of the Vertebrate and Mammalian Selenoproteomes

    Marco Mariotti;Perry G. Ridge;Yan Zhang;Yan Zhang;Alexei V. Lobanov

  • Evolutionary dynamics of eukaryotic selenoproteomes: large selenoproteomes may associate with aquatic life and small with terrestrial life

    Alexey V Lobanov;Dmitri E Fomenko;Yan Zhang;Aniruddha Sengupta

  • Mammalian Selenoprotein Thioredoxin-glutathione Reductase ROLES IN DISULFIDE BOND FORMATION AND SPERM MATURATION

    Dan Su;Sergey V. Novoselov;Qi An Sun;Mohamed E. Moustafa

  • Selenoprotein Gene Nomenclature

    Vadim N. Gladyshev;Vadim N. Gladyshev;Elias S. Arnér;Marla J. Berry;Regina Brigelius-Flohé

  • SelT, SelW, SelH, and Rdx12: genomics and molecular insights into the functions of selenoproteins of a novel thioredoxin-like family.

    Alexander Dikiy;Sergey V. Novoselov;Dmitri E. Fomenko;Aniruddha Sengupta

  • Specific excision of the selenocysteine tRNA[Ser]Sec (Trsp) gene in mouse liver demonstrates an essential role of selenoproteins in liver function.

    Bradley A. Carlson;Sergey V. Novoselov;Easwari Kumaraswamy;Byeong Jae Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Vadim N. Gladyshev
Vadim N. Gladyshev Brigham and Women's Hospital
Bradley A. Carlson
Bradley A. Carlson National Institutes of Health
Ulrich Schweizer
Ulrich Schweizer University of Bonn
Gregory V. Kryukov
Gregory V. Kryukov Broad Institute
Marla J. Berry
Marla J. Berry University of Hawaii at Manoa
Marcus Conrad
Marcus Conrad Helmholtz Zentrum München
Lino Tessarollo
Lino Tessarollo National Institutes of Health
Stephen Oroszlan
Stephen Oroszlan National Institutes of Health
Steven P. Gygi
Steven P. Gygi Harvard University
Diane E. Handy
Diane E. Handy Brigham and Women's Hospital

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