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13217
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Gary M. Wessel is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and works primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Aquatic Science, Ecology, Oceanography, and Genetics. Their research spans several areas of marine and aquatic biology, especially concentrating on Echinoderm biology and ecology, developmental biology and gene regulation, reproductive biology and fertility, marine biology and environmental chemistry, marine and coastal plant biology, coral and marine ecosystems studies, and animal genetics and reproduction.

The scientist has a significant publication record, including recent works published in various notable venues. Key recent papers include:

  • Genomic insights of body plan transitions from bilateral to pentameral symmetry in Echinoderms, 2020, Communications Biology
  • A single cell RNA sequencing resource for early sea urchin development, 2020, Development
  • Regulation of dynamic pigment cell states at single-cell resolution, 2020, eLife
  • Methodology for Whole Mount and Fluorescent RNA In Situ Hybridization in Echinoderms: Single, Double, and Beyond, 2020, Methods in molecular biology
  • Genetic manipulation of the pigment pathway in a sea urchin reveals distinct lineage commitment prior to metamorphosis in the bilateral to radial body plan transition, 2020, Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors in their work include Nathalie Oulhen, Cosmo Pieplow, Stephany Foster, Margherita Perillo, and Shumpei Morita.

Gary M. Wessel has also published extensively in several scientific venues such as Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Developmental Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, and Development.

The scientist's contributions have been recognized by their peers, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • The genome of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.

    Erica Sodergren;George M. Weinstock;Eric H. Davidson;R. Andrew Cameron

  • Intercellular recognition: quantitation of initial binding events.

    David R. McClay;Gary M. Wessel;Richard B. Marchase

  • Fertilization Mechanisms in Flowering Plants

    Thomas Dresselhaus;Stefanie Sprunck;Gary M. Wessel

  • Purified TPC Isoforms Form NAADP Receptors with Distinct Roles for Ca2+ Signaling and Endolysosomal Trafficking

    Margarida Ruas;Katja Rietdorf;Abdelilah Arredouani;Lianne C. Davis

  • A conserved germline multipotency program

    Celina E. Juliano;S. Zachary Swartz;Gary M. Wessel

  • Ontogeny of the basal lamina in the sea urchin embryo.

    Gary M. Wessel;Richard B. Marchase;David R. McClay

  • Vasa genes: emerging roles in the germ line and in multipotent cells

    Eric A. Gustafson;Gary M. Wessel

  • Defending the Zygote: Search for the Ancestral Animal Block to Polyspermy

    Julian L Wong;Gary M Wessel

  • Gastrulation in the sea urchin embryo requires the deposition of crosslinked collagen within the extracellular matrix

    Gary M. Wessel;David R. McClay

  • Sequential expression of germ-layer specific molecules in the sea urchin embryo

    Gary M. Wessel;David R. McClay

  • PIWI proteins and PIWI-interacting RNAs function in Hydra somatic stem cells

    Celina E. Juliano;Adrian Reich;Na Liu;Jessica Götzfried

  • The biology of cortical granules

    Gary M. Wessel;Jacqueline M. Brooks;Emma Green;Sheila Haley

  • The oxidative burst at fertilization is dependent upon activation of the dual oxidase Udx1.

    Julian L. Wong;Robbert Créton;Gary M. Wessel

  • The regulation of oocyte maturation.

    Ekaterina Voronina;Gary M Wessel

  • SNAREs in mammalian sperm: possible implications for fertilization.

    João Ramalho-Santos;Ricardo D. Moreno;Ricardo D. Moreno;Peter Sutovsky;Anthony Wing-Sang Chan

  • Germ line determinants are not localized early in sea urchin development, but do accumulate in the small micromere lineage.

    Celina E. Juliano;Ekaterina Voronina;Christie Stack;Maryanna Aldrich

  • The major yolk protein in sea urchins is a transferrin-like, iron binding protein.

    Jacqueline M. Brooks;Gary M. Wessel

  • Flipping the switch: how a sperm activates the egg at fertilization.

    John Parrington;Lianne C. Davis;Antony Galione;Gary Wessel

  • Vasa protein expression is restricted to the small micromeres of the sea urchin, but is inducible in other lineages early in development.

    Ekaterina Voronina;Manuel Lopez;Celina E. Juliano;Eric Gustafson

  • Membrane trafficking machinery components associated with the mammalian acrosome during spermiogenesis.

    João Ramalho-Santos;Ricardo D. Moreno;Gary M. Wessel;Edward K.L. Chan

Frequent Co-Authors

David R. McClay
David R. McClay Duke University
William H. Klein
William H. Klein The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
William F. Marzluff
William F. Marzluff University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Victor D. Vacquier
Victor D. Vacquier University of California, San Diego
Charles A. Ettensohn
Charles A. Ettensohn Carnegie Mellon University
Gerald Schatten
Gerald Schatten University of Pittsburgh
João Ramalho-Santos
João Ramalho-Santos University of Coimbra
John Parrington
John Parrington University of Oxford
Antony Galione
Antony Galione University of Oxford
Wen Wang
Wen Wang Northwestern Polytechnical University

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