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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2010 - Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology

Overview

Gary D. Stormo is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on Molecular Biology. Additional subfields include Cell Biology, Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Ophthalmology.

The key topics covered in Stormo's work include:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Retinal Development and Disorders

Stormo has published repeatedly in several venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Nature Reviews Genetics
  • Communications Biology
  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics

Recent papers authored by Stormo include:

  • Redefining fundamental concepts of transcription initiation in bacteria, 2020, Nature Reviews Genetics
  • Autoregulation of yeast ribosomal proteins discovered by efficient search for feedback regulation, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Alternative Splicing During the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Cell Cycle, 2020, G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Directed Evolution of an Enhanced POU Reprogramming Factor for Cell Fate Engineering, 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • On the dependent recognition of some long zinc finger proteins, 2023, Nucleic Acids Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stormo include:

  • David M. Granas
  • Michael A. White
  • Susan K. Dutcher
  • Basab Roy
  • Fredrick Bragg

Stormo's recognition in the scientific community includes election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2016 and as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2010.

Best Publications

  • DNA binding sites: representation and discovery.

    Gary D. Stormo

  • Identifying DNA and protein patterns with statistically significant alignments of multiple sequences.

    Gerald Z. Hertz;Gary D. Stormo

  • Information content of binding sites on nucleotide sequences

    Thomas D. Schneider;Gary D. Stormo;Larry Gold;Andrzej Ehrenfeucht

  • Current Protocols in Bioinformatics

    Alex Bateman;William R. Pearson;Lincoln D. Stein;Gary D. Stormo

  • Translational Initiation in Prokaryotes

    L. Gold;D. Pribnow;T. Schneider;S. Shinedling

  • Use of the ‘Perceptron’ algorithm to distinguish translational initiation sites in E. coli

    Gary D. Stormo;Thomas D. Schneider;Larry Gold;Andrzej Ehrenfeucht

  • Comparative Genomics Identifies a Flagellar and Basal Body Proteome that Includes the BBS5 Human Disease Gene

    Jin Billy Li;Jantje M Gerdes;Courtney J Haycraft;Yanli Fan

  • An improved map of conserved regulatory sites for Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Kenzie D MacIsaac;Ting Wang;D Benjamin Gordon;D Benjamin Gordon;David K Gifford

  • Characterization of translational initiation sites in E. coli.

    Gary D. Stormo;Thomas D. Schneider;Larry M. Gold

  • Sequence requirements of the hammerhead RNA self-cleavage reaction.

    Duane E. Ruffner;Gary D. Stormo;Olke C. Uhlenbeck

  • Identifying protein-binding sites from unaligned DNA fragments.

    Gary D. Stormo;George W. Hartzell

  • The AP-1 transcription factor Batf controls TH17 differentiation

    Barbara U. Schraml;Kai Hildner;Wataru Ise;Wan-Ling Lee

  • Modeling regulatory networks with weight matrices.

    D. C. Weaver;Christopher T. Workman;Gary D. Stormo

  • Analysis of homeodomain specificities allows the family-wide prediction of preferred recognition sites

    Marcus Blaine Noyes;Ryan G. Christensen;Atsuya Wakabayashi;Gary D. Stormo

  • Identification of consensus patterns in unaligned DNA sequences known to be functionally related.

    Gerald Z. Hertz;George W. Hartzell;Gary D. Stormo

  • Splicing signals in Drosophila: intron size, information content, and consensus sequences

    S M Mount;C Burks;G Hertz;G D Stormo

  • Translation initiation in Escherichia coli: sequences within the ribosome-binding site.

    Steven Ringquist;Sidney Shinedling;Doug Barrick;Louis Green

  • CUUCGG hairpins: extraordinarily stable RNA secondary structures associated with various biochemical processes.

    C Tuerk;P Gauss;C Thermes;D R Groebe

  • Specificity, free energy and information content in protein–DNA interactions

    Gary D. Stormo;Dana S. Fields

  • An introduction to sequence similarity ("homology") searching.

    Gary D. Stormo

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry Gold
Larry Gold University of Colorado Boulder
Ting Wang
Ting Wang Washington University in St. Louis
Susan K. Dutcher
Susan K. Dutcher Washington University in St. Louis
Thomas Schneider
Thomas Schneider National Institutes of Health
Scot A. Wolfe
Scot A. Wolfe University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Jan Gorodkin
Jan Gorodkin University of Copenhagen
Kai Tan
Kai Tan Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Julio Collado-Vides
Julio Collado-Vides National Autonomous University of Mexico
Stephen M. Beverley
Stephen M. Beverley Washington University in St. Louis
Thomas E. Johnson
Thomas E. Johnson University of Colorado Boulder

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