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  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Eric J. Richards is affiliated with the Boyce Thompson Institute in the United States and has contributed to multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research primarily focuses on molecular biology, plant science, history and philosophy of science, renewable energy and sustainability, and paleontology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Nuclear Structure and Function
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • RNA Research and Splicing

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Seminars in cell and development biology on histone variants remodelers of H2A variants associated with heterochromatin" (2022) published in Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • "Coordination of NMCP1- and NMCP2-class proteins within the plant nucleoskeleton" (2020) published in Molecular Biology of the Cell
  • "The nuclear lamina is required for proper development and nuclear shape distortion in tomato" (2023) published in Journal of Experimental Botany
  • "The edge of the nucleus: Variations on a theme" (2022) published in Developmental Cell
  • "William Lawrence Tower's Beetles: Experimental Evolution and the Manipulation of Inheritance" (2024) published in Journal of the History of Biology

Frequent collaborators of Eric J. Richards include:

  • Endia L. Blunt
  • Hayley Sussman
  • Rachel C. Christopherson
  • Junsik Choi
  • Brendan S. Kosztyo

The primary venues for their publications are:

  • Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Molecular Biology of the Cell
  • Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Developmental Cell
  • Journal of the History of Biology

Eric J. Richards was recognized with the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Inherited epigenetic variation--revisiting soft inheritance.

    Eric J. Richards

  • Epigenetic Codes for Heterochromatin Formation and Silencing: Rounding up the Usual Suspects

    Eric J Richards;Sarah C.R Elgin

  • Maintenance of genomic methylation requires a SWI2/SNF2-like protein

    Jeffrey A. Jeddeloh;Jeffrey A. Jeddeloh;Trevor L. Stokes;Eric J. Richards

  • Isolation of a higher eukaryotic telomere from Arabidopsis thaliana

    Eric J. Richards;Frederick M. Ausubel

  • Analysis of histone acetyltransferase and histone deacetylase families of Arabidopsis thaliana suggests functional diversification of chromatin modification among multicellular eukaryotes

    Ritu Pandey;Andreas Müller;Carolyn A. Napoli;David A. Selinger

  • Arabidopsis thaliana DNA methylation mutants

    Aurawan Vongs;Tetsuji Kakutani;Robert A. Martienssen;Eric J. Richards

  • Arabidopsis MET1 Cytosine Methyltransferase Mutants

    Mark W. Kankel;Douglas E. Ramsey;Trevor L. Stokes;Susan K. Flowers

  • Developmental abnormalities and epimutations associated with DNA hypomethylation mutations

    Tetsuji Kakutani;Jeffrey A. Jeddeloh;Susan K. Flowers;Kyoko Munakata

  • Epigenetic variation in Arabidopsis disease resistance

    Trevor L. Stokes;Barbara N. Kunkel;Eric J. Richards

  • Meiotically and Mitotically Stable Inheritance of DNA Hypomethylation Induced by ddm1 Mutation of Arabidopsis thaliana

    Tetsuji Kakutani;Kyoko Munakata;Eric J. Richards;Hirohiko Hirochika

  • LITTLE NUCLEI Genes Affecting Nuclear Morphology in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Travis A. Dittmer;Nicola J. Stacey;Keiko Sugimoto-Shirasu;Eric J. Richards

  • Preparation of genomic DNA from plant tissue.

    Eric Richards;Mark Reichardt;Sharon Rogers

  • The DNA methylation locus DDM1 is required for maintenance of gene silencing in Arabidopsis

    Jeffrey A. Jeddeloh;Judith Bender;Eric J. Richards

  • A Cluster of Disease Resistance Genes in Arabidopsis Is Coordinately Regulated by Transcriptional Activation and RNA Silencing

    Hankuil Yi;Eric J. Richards

  • Three SRA-domain methylcytosine-binding proteins cooperate to maintain global CpG methylation and epigenetic silencing in Arabidopsis.

    Hye Ryun Woo;Travis A. Dittmer;Eric J. Richards

  • DNA methylation and plant development

    Eric J. Richards

  • Arabidopsis thaliana Centromere Regions: Genetic Map Positions and Repetitive DNA Structure

    Elaine K. Round;Susan K. Flowers;Eric J. Richards

  • VIM1, a methylcytosine-binding protein required for centromeric heterochromatinization

    Hye Ryun Woo;Olga Pontes;Craig S. Pikaard;Eric J. Richards

  • Natural epigenetic variation in plant species: a view from the field

    Eric J Richards

  • The centromere region of Arabidopsis thaliana chromosome 1 contains telomere-similar sequences

    Eric J. Richards;Howard M. Goodman;Frederick M. Ausubel

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert A. Martienssen
Robert A. Martienssen Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Frederick M. Ausubel
Frederick M. Ausubel Harvard University
Tetsuji Kakutani
Tetsuji Kakutani University of Tokyo
Craig S. Pikaard
Craig S. Pikaard Indiana University
Iris Meier
Iris Meier The Ohio State University
Vicki L. Chandler
Vicki L. Chandler University of Arizona
Howard M. Goodman
Howard M. Goodman Harvard University
Caroline Dean
Caroline Dean John Innes Centre
Steven E. Jacobsen
Steven E. Jacobsen University of California, Los Angeles
Detlef Weigel
Detlef Weigel Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

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