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Overview

Gad Shaulsky is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States and has a research focus primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their subfields of study include Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Endocrinology, and Genetics.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics, notably Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, Protist diversity and phylogeny, Legionella and Acanthamoeba research, Plant Reproductive Biology, and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Gad Shaulsky include the following:

  • Transcriptional milestones in Dictyostelium development, 2021, Genome Research
  • A GoldenBraid cloning system for synthetic biology in social amoebae, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • The greenbeard gene tgrB1 regulates altruism and cheating in Dictyostelium discoideum, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Cyclic AMP is dispensable for allorecognition in Dictyostelium cells overexpressing PKA-C, 2021, Journal of Cell Science
  • Going against the family: Perturbation of a greenbeard pathway leads to falsebeard cheating, 2024, iScience

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Gad Shaulsky include:

  • Mariko Katoh-Kurasawa
  • Shigenori Hirose
  • Peter Lehmann
  • Blaž Zupan
  • Karin Hrovatin

The scientist publishes regularly in venues such as Genome Research, Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications, Journal of Cell Science, and iScience, reflecting a broad engagement with journals covering molecular and cellular research topics.

Best Publications

  • Determination and Inference of Eukaryotic Transcription Factor Sequence Specificity

    Matthew T. Weirauch;Matthew T. Weirauch;Ally Yang;Mihai Albu;Atina G. Cote

  • The genome of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

    L. Eichinger;J. A. Pachebat;J. A. Pachebat;G. Glöckner;M.-A. Rajandream

  • Nuclear accumulation of p53 protein is mediated by several nuclear localization signals and plays a role in tumorigenesis.

    G. Shaulsky;N. Goldfinger;Avri Ben-Ze'ev;V. Rotter

  • Pleiotropy as a mechanism to stabilize cooperation

    Kevin R. Foster;Gad Shaulsky;Joan E. Strassmann;David C. Queller

  • Meth A fibrosarcoma cells express two transforming mutant p53 species.

    Eliyahu D;Goldfinger N;Pinhasi-Kimhi O;Shaulsky G

  • A rapid and efficient method to generate multiple gene disruptions in Dictyostelium discoideum using a single selectable marker and the Cre-loxP system.

    Jan Faix;Lisa Kreppel;Gad Shaulsky;Michael Schleicher

  • Subcellular distribution of the p53 protein during the cell cycle of Balb/c 3T3 cells.

    G Shaulsky;A Ben-Ze'ev;V Rotter

  • Nuclear localization is essential for the activity of p53 protein.

    G Shaulsky;N Goldfinger;M S Tosky;A J Levine

  • Involvement of wild-type p53 in pre-B-cell differentiation in vitro.

    Gad Shaulsky;Naomi Goldfinger;Alpha Peled;Varda Rotter

  • Social evolution: Kin preference in a social microbe

    Natasha J. Mehdiabadi;Chandra N. Jack;Tiffany Talley Farnham;Thomas G. Platt;Thomas G. Platt

  • A MAP KINASE NECESSARY FOR RECEPTOR-MEDIATED ACTIVATION OF ADENYLYL CYCLASE IN DICTYOSTELIUM

    Jeffrey E. Segall;Adam Kuspa;Gad Shaulsky;Maria Ecke

  • Conserved developmental transcriptomes in evolutionarily divergent species

    Anup Parikh;Edward Roshan Miranda;Mariko Katoh-Kurasawa;Danny Fuller

  • CRAC, a cytosolic protein containing a pleckstrin homology domain, is required for receptor and G protein-mediated activation of adenylyl cyclase in Dictyostelium.

    Robert Insall;Adam Kuspa;Pamela J. Lilly;Gad Shaulsky

  • Developmental signal transduction pathways uncovered by genetic suppressors.

    Gad Shaulsky;Ricardo Escalante;William F. Loomis

  • Microarray data mining with visual programming

    Tomaz Curk;Janez Demsar;Qikai Xu;Gregor Leban

  • Histidine kinases in signal transduction pathways of eukaryotes

    W.F. Loomis;G. Shaulsky;N. Wang

  • Periodic signaling controlled by an oscillatory circuit that includes protein kinases ERK2 and PKA.

    Mineko Maeda;Sijie Lu;Gad Shaulsky;Yuji Miyazaki

  • Self-recognition in social amoebae is mediated by allelic pairs of tiger genes.

    Shigenori Hirose;Rocio Benabentos;Hsing-I Ho;Adam Kuspa

  • Polymorphic Members of the lag Gene Family Mediate Kin Discrimination in Dictyostelium

    Rocio Benabentos;Shigenori Hirose;Richard Sucgang;Tomaz Curk

  • Facultative cheater mutants reveal the genetic complexity of cooperation in social amoebae

    Lorenzo A. Santorelli;Christopher R. L. Thompson;Elizabeth Villegas;Jessica Svetz

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Kuspa
Adam Kuspa Welch Foundation
William F. Loomis
William F. Loomis University of California, San Diego
David C. Queller
David C. Queller Washington University in St. Louis
Joan E. Strassmann
Joan E. Strassmann Washington University in St. Louis
Ivan Bratko
Ivan Bratko University of Ljubljana
Varda Rotter
Varda Rotter Weizmann Institute of Science
Naomi Goldfinger
Naomi Goldfinger Weizmann Institute of Science
Chad A. Shaw
Chad A. Shaw Baylor College of Medicine
Jeroen S. Dickschat
Jeroen S. Dickschat University of Bonn
Tobias G. Köllner
Tobias G. Köllner Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

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