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  • 1992 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Ethan Bier is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans several fields within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences.

Their work focuses primarily on molecular biology, insect science, plant science, genetics, and public health, environmental, and occupational health. Within these subfields, Bier has addressed topics such as CRISPR and genetic engineering, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, insect resistance and genetics, chromosomal and genetic variations, evolution and genetic dynamics, mosquito-borne diseases and control, and invertebrate immune response mechanisms.

Notable recent papers by Ethan Bier include:

  • "Gene drives gaining speed," 2021, published in Nature Reviews Genetics

Other frequently cited relevant works in the field, associated with Bier's research network, include papers published in Nature Communications, BMC Biology, and Nature Communications by coauthors in related collaborations.

Bier collaborates frequently with several researchers, among the most common coauthors are:

  • John M. Marshall (13 joint works)
  • Valentino M. Gantz (10 joint works)
  • Anthony A. James (10 joint works)
  • Gerard Terradas (8 joint works)
  • Jared B. Bennett (8 joint works)

The primary venues where Bier's research appears include:

  • Nature Communications (9 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (7 publications)
  • BMC Biology (2 publications)
  • Science Advances (2 publications)
  • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (2 publications)

Throughout the career, Bier has received recognition such as the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award in 1992.

Best Publications

  • A Systematic Analysis of Human Disease-Associated Gene Sequences In Drosophila melanogaster

    Lawrence T. Reiter;Lorraine Potocki;Sam Chien;Michael Gribskov

  • Highly efficient Cas9-mediated gene drive for population modification of the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles stephensi

    Valentino M. Gantz;Nijole Jasinskiene;Olga Tatarenkova;Aniko Fazekas

  • Searching for pattern and mutation in the Drosophila genome with a P-lacZ vector.

    E Bier;H Vaessin;S Shepherd;K Lee

  • Drosophila, the golden bug, emerges as a tool for human genetics.

    Ethan Bier

  • The mutagenic chain reaction: A method for converting heterozygous to homozygous mutations

    Valentino M. Gantz;Ethan Bier

  • Sestrin as a feedback inhibitor of TOR that prevents age-related pathologies

    Jun Hee Lee;Andrei V. Budanov;Eek Joong Park;Ryan Birse

  • rhomboid, a gene required for dorsoventral axis establishment and peripheral nervous system development in Drosophila melanogaster.

    E. Bier;L. Y. Jan;Yuh Nung Jan

  • prospero is expressed in neuronal precursors and encodes a nuclear protein that is involved in the control of axonal outgrowth in Drosophila.

    Harald Vaessin;Ellsworth Grell;Erica Wolff;Ethan Bier

  • The Drosophila rhomboid gene mediates the localized formation of wing veins and interacts genetically with components of the EGF-R signaling pathway.

    M A Sturtevant;M Roark;E Bier

  • The dorsal gradient morphogen regulates stripes of rhomboid expression in the presumptive neuroectoderm of the Drosophila embryo.

    Y T Ip;R E Park;D Kosman;E Bier

  • Dorsal-ventral patterning of the Drosophila embryo depends on a putative negative growth factor encoded by the short gastrulation gene.

    V Francois;M Solloway;J W O'Neill;J Emery

  • Multiplex Detection of RNA Expression in Drosophila Embryos

    Dave Kosman;Claudia Mieko Mizutani;Derek Lemons;W. Gregory Cox

  • The Drosophila spitz gene encodes a putative EGF-like growth factor involved in dorsal-ventral axis formation and neurogenesis

    Barbara J. Rutledge;Kang Zhang;Ethan Bier;Yuh Nung Jan

  • BMP gradients: A paradigm for morphogen-mediated developmental patterning

    Ethan Bier;Edward M. De Robertis

  • Safeguarding gene drive experiments in the laboratory

    Omar S. Akbari;Hugo J. Bellen;Ethan Bier;Simon L. Bullock

  • deadpan, an essential pan-neural gene in Drosophila, encodes a helix-loop-helix protein similar to the hairy gene product.

    E Bier;H Vaessin;S Younger-Shepherd;L Y Jan

  • Maintenance of Metabolic Homeostasis by Sestrin2 and Sestrin3

    Jun Hee Lee;Jun Hee Lee;Andrei V. Budanov;Andrei V. Budanov;Saswata Talukdar;Eek Joong Park

  • The Drosophila short gastrulation gene prevents Dpp from autoactivating and suppressing neurogenesis in the neuroectoderm.

    B Biehs;V François;E Bier

  • Homophila: human disease gene cognates in Drosophila

    Samson Chien;Lawrence T. Reiter;Ethan Bier;Michael Gribskov

  • ANALYSIS OF THE GENETIC HIERARCHY GUIDING WING VEIN DEVELOPMENT IN DROSOPHILA

    M.A. Sturtevant;E. Bier

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor Nizet
Victor Nizet University of California, San Diego
Anthony A. James
Anthony A. James University of California, Irvine
Omar S. Akbari
Omar S. Akbari University of California, San Diego
William McGinnis
William McGinnis University of California, San Diego
Michael Karin
Michael Karin University of California, San Diego
Rolf Bodmer
Rolf Bodmer Discovery Institute
Suresh Subramani
Suresh Subramani University of California, San Diego
Benoit Viollet
Benoit Viollet Institut Cochin
Yuh Nung Jan
Yuh Nung Jan University of California, San Francisco
David Kimelman
David Kimelman University of Washington

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