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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Frank H. Collins was affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Their research predominantly focused on Engineering, with a strong emphasis on Civil and Structural Engineering along with related subfields such as Building and Construction, Pollution, Materials Chemistry, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their work concentrated on several main topics including Concrete and Cement Materials Research, Innovative Concrete Reinforcement Materials, Smart Materials for Construction, Building Materials and Conservation, Recycling and Utilization of Industrial and Municipal Waste in Materials Production, Magnesium Oxide Properties and Applications, and Concrete Corrosion and Durability.

Throughout their career, Collins published extensively in various academic venues. The most frequent publication sources included:

  • Construction and Building Materials
  • Journal of Building Engineering
  • Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Among the recent papers associated with Collins are:

  • Efficacy of a Spatial Repellent for Control of Malaria in Indonesia: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial, 2020, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Effects of Carbon Nanotubes on the Early-Age Hydration Kinetics of Portland Cement Using Isothermal Calorimetry, 2021, Cement and Concrete Composites
  • Enhancing Fresh Properties and Strength of Concrete with a Pre-Dispersed Carbon Nanotube Liquid Admixture, 2020, Construction and Building Materials
  • On the Mechanisms for Improved Strengths of Carbon Nanofiber-Enriched Mortars, 2020, Cement and Concrete Research
  • Miniature Resistance Measurement Device for Structural Health Monitoring of Reinforced Concrete Infrastructure, 2020, Sensors

Collins frequently collaborated with several coauthors. Those most commonly associated with their work included:

  • Alastair J.N. MacLeod
  • Will P. Gates
  • András Fehérvári
  • Laurie Aldridge
  • Prateek Kumar Sharma

Recognition for Collins's contributions to the scientific community included being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Effects of the obese gene product on body weight regulation in ob/ob mice

    Mary Ann Pelleymounter;Mary Jane Cullen;Mary Beth Baker;Randy Hecht

  • Beta-secretase cleavage of Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein by the transmembrane aspartic protease BACE.

    Robert Vassar;Brian D. Bennett;Safura Babu-Khan;Steve Kahn

  • GDNF: a glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor for midbrain dopaminergic neurons

    Leu-Fen H. Lin;Daniel H. Doherty;Jack D. Lile;Susan Bektesh

  • The Genome Sequence of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

    Robert A. Holt;G. Mani Subramanian;Aaron Halpern;Granger G. Sutton

  • Identification of Single Specimens of the Anopheles Gambiae Complex by the Polymerase Chain Reaction

    Julie A. Scott;William G. Brogdon;Frank H. Collins

  • Genome sequence of Aedes aegypti, a major arbovirus vector

    Vishvanath Nene;Jennifer R. Wortman;Daniel Lawson;Brian Haas

  • Functional recovery in parkinsonian monkeys treated with GDNF.

    D M Gash;Z Zhang;A Ovadia;W A Cass

  • Immunity-Related Genes and Gene Families in Anopheles gambiae

    George K. Christophides;Evgeny Zdobnov;Carolina Barillas-Mury;Ewan Birney

  • Malaria: progress, perils, and prospects for eradication

    Brian M. Greenwood;David A. Fidock;Dennis E. Kyle;Stefan H.I. Kappe

  • Identification of a point mutation in the voltage-gated sodium channel gene of Kenyan Anopheles gambiae associated with resistance to DDT and pyrethroids.

    H. Ranson;B. Jensen;J. M. Vulule;X. Wang

  • G protein-coupled receptors in Anopheles gambiae.

    Catherine A. Hill;A. Nicole Fox;R. Jason Pitts;Lauren B. Kent

  • A ribosomal RNA gene probe differentiates member species of the Anopheles gambiae complex.

    F H Collins;M A Mendez;M O Rasmussen;P C Mehaffey

  • Evolution of supergene families associated with insecticide resistance.

    Hilary Ranson;Charles Claudianos;Charles Claudianos;Federica Ortelli;Christelle Abgrall

  • A research agenda to underpin malaria eradication.

    Pedro L. Alonso;Graham Brown;Myriam Arévalo-Herrera;Fred Binka

  • Genetic Selection of a Plasmodium-Refractory Strain of the Malaria Vector Anopheles gambiae

    Frank H. Collins;Richard K. Sakai;Kenneth D. Vernick;Susan Paskewitz

  • Comparative genome and proteome analysis of Anopheles gambiae and Drosophila melanogaster.

    Evgeny M. Zdobnov;Christian Von Mering;Ivica Letunic;David Torrents

  • Genome sequences of the human body louse and its primary endosymbiont provide insights into the permanent parasitic lifestyle

    Ewen F. Kirkness;Brian J. Haas;Brian J. Haas;Weilin Sun;Henk R. Braig

  • Highly evolvable malaria vectors: The genomes of 16 Anopheles mosquitoes

    Daniel E. Neafsey;Robert M. Waterhouse;Mohammad R. Abai;Sergey S. Aganezov

  • VectorBase: an updated bioinformatics resource for invertebrate vectors and other organisms related with human diseases

    Gloria I. Giraldo-Calderón;Scott J. Emrich;Robert M. MacCallum;Gareth Maslen

  • Control of embryonic motoneuron survival in vivo by ciliary neurotrophic factor.

    RW Oppenheim;D Prevette;QW Yin;F Collins

Frequent Co-Authors

Evgeny M. Zdobnov
Evgeny M. Zdobnov Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Nora J. Besansky
Nora J. Besansky University of Notre Dame
Hilary Ranson
Hilary Ranson Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Janet Hemingway
Janet Hemingway Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
George K. Christophides
George K. Christophides Imperial College London
Christos Louis
Christos Louis University of Crete
Fotis C. Kafatos
Fotis C. Kafatos Harvard University
Ewan Birney
Ewan Birney European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Fotis C. Kafatos
Fotis C. Kafatos Imperial College London
Tovi Lehmann
Tovi Lehmann National Institutes of Health

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