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2024
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France
2024

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78
Citations
18686
World Ranking
1718
National Ranking
75

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in France Leader Award
  • 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1956 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Overview

Eric Gilson is affiliated with Université Côte d'Azur in France and has built a research profile primarily focused on Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their scholarly output includes numerous contributions to subfields such as Ecology, Molecular Biology, Physiology, Oceanography, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their main research topics encompass Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence, Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms, Marine and fisheries research, Marine and coastal plant biology, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies.

Eric Gilson's frequent co-authors include Didier Zoccola, Paola Furla, Stéphanie Reynaud, Patrick Wincker, and Éric Douville. Their work is often published in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Nature Communications, and Aging Cell.

Notable papers include the following:

  • Mesenchymal stem cell treatment improves outcome of COVID-19 patients via multiple immunomodulatory mechanisms, 2021, Cell Research
  • A yeast living ancestor reveals the origin of genomic introgressions, 2020, Nature
  • Human RAP 1 specifically protects telomeres of senescent cells from DNA damage, 2020, EMBO Reports
  • Ecology of Endozoicomonadaceae in three coral genera across the Pacific Ocean, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Clonal hematopoiesis driven by chromosome 1q/MDM4 trisomy defines a canonical route toward leukemia in Fanconi anemia, 2023, Cell stem cell

Eric Gilson has received recognition including membership in Academia Europaea since 2013 and fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada, awarded in 1956.

Best Publications

  • Telomeric localization of TRF2, a novel human telobox protein

    Thomas Bilaud;Christine Brun;Katia Ancelin;Catherine Elaine Koering

  • A Protein-Counting Mechanism for Telomere Length Regulation in Yeast

    Stéphane Marcand;Eric Gilson;David M. Shore

  • The metabolic checkpoint kinase mTOR is essential for IL-15 signaling during the development and activation of NK cells

    Antoine Marçais;Julien Cherfils-Vicini;Charlotte Viant;Sophie Degouve

  • How telomeres are replicated.

    Eric Gilson;Vincent Géli

  • SIR3 and SIR4 proteins are required for the positioning and integrity of yeast telomeres

    F. Palladino;T. Laroche;E. Gilson;A. Axelrod

  • Natural and pharmacological regulation of telomerase

    Jean-Louis Mergny;Jean-François Riou;Patrick Mailliet;Marie-Paule Teulade-Fichou

  • Cohabitation of insulators and silencing elements in yeast subtelomeric regions.

    Geneviève Fourel;Emmanuelle Revardel;Catherine Elaine Koering;Éric Gilson

  • Evidence for silencing compartments within the yeast nucleus: a role for telomere proximity and Sir protein concentration in silencer-mediated repression.

    Laurent Maillet;Cecile Boscheron;Monica Gotta;Stephane Marcand

  • The Telobox, a Myb-Related Telomeric DNA Binding Motif Found in Proteins from Yeast, Plants and Human

    Thomas Bilaud;Catherine Elaine Koering;Emmanuelle Binet-Brasselet;Katia Ancelin

  • A family of dispersed repetitive extragenic palindromic DNA sequences in E. coli.

    E Gilson;J M Clément;D Brutlag;M Hofnung

  • Cell cycle restriction of telomere elongation.

    Stéphane Marcand;Vanessa Brevet;Carl Mann;Eric Gilson

  • Telomere damage induced by the G-quadruplex ligand RHPS4 has an antitumor effect

    Erica Salvati;Carlo Leonetti;Angela Rizzo;Marco Scarsella

  • Targeting Assay To Study the cis Functions of Human Telomeric Proteins: Evidence for Inhibition of Telomerase by TRF1 and for Activation of Telomere Degradation by TRF2

    Katia Ancelin;Michele Brunori;Serge Bauwens;Catherine-Elaine Koering

  • Distortion of the DNA Double Helix by RAP1 at Silencers and Multiple Telomeric Binding Sites

    Eric Gilson;Michael Roberge;Rafael Giraldo;Daniela Rhodes

  • Evidence for high affinity binding-protein dependent transport systems in gram-positive bacteria and in Mycoplasma.

    E. Gilson;G. Alloing;T. Schmidt;J. P. Claverys

  • Progressive cis-inhibition of telomerase upon telomere elongation.

    Stéphane Marcand;Vanessa Brevet;Eric Gilson

  • Functional Interaction between Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase 2 (PARP-2) and TRF2: PARP Activity Negatively Regulates TRF2

    Françoise Dantzer;Marie-Josèphe Giraud-Panis;Isabel Jaco;Jean-Christophe Amé

  • A topological mechanism for TRF2-enhanced strand invasion

    Simon Amiard;Michel Doudeau;Sébastien Pinte;Anaïs Poulet

  • Nuclear architecture and spatial positioning help establish transcriptional states of telomeres in yeast.

    Frank Feuerbach;Vincent Galy;Edgar Trelles-Sticken;Micheline Fromont-Racine

  • The Apollo 5' exonuclease functions together with TRF2 to protect telomeres from DNA repair.

    Christelle Lenain;Serge Bauwens;Simon Amiard;Michele Brunori

Frequent Co-Authors

Maurice Hofnung
Maurice Hofnung Institut Pasteur
Susan M. Gasser
Susan M. Gasser Friedrich Miescher Institute
Laure Sabatier
Laure Sabatier University of Paris-Saclay
Vincent Géli
Vincent Géli Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille
Gabriella Zupi
Gabriella Zupi École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Maurizio D'Incalci
Maurizio D'Incalci Humanitas University
Malcolm F. G. Stevens
Malcolm F. G. Stevens University of Nottingham
Paul Hofman
Paul Hofman Grenoble Alpes University
Gilles Salles
Gilles Salles Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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