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  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
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  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1987 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1986 - Genetics Society of America Medal

Overview

Gerald M. Rubin is affiliated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and agricultural and biological sciences. These main fields are further detailed by subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, molecular biology, and plant science.

Their work covers a range of topics related to neurobiology and insect physiology research, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, plant and biological electrophysiology studies, advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques, plant molecular biology research, and circadian rhythm and melatonin.

Gerald M. Rubin's frequent co-authors include Aljoscha Nern, Yoshinori Aso, Tanya Wolff, Marisa Dreher, and Philipp Schlegel. The scientist's research has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Current Biology
  • Neuron
  • Nature

They have contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • The connectome of the adult Drosophila mushroom body provides insights into function, 2020, eLife
  • A connectome of the Drosophila central complex reveals network motifs suitable for flexible navigation and context-dependent action selection, 2021, eLife
  • A genetic, genomic, and computational resource for exploring neural circuit function, 2020, eLife
  • Complete Connectomic Reconstruction of Olfactory Projection Neurons in the Fly Brain, 2020, Current Biology
  • The Mind of a Mouse, 2020, Cell

Gerald M. Rubin has been recognized with several awards, including the Genetics Society of America Medal in 1986, membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 1987, fellowship honors from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences awarded in 1992, membership in the National Academy of Medicine since 2002, and election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    M Ashburner;C A Ball;J A Blake;D Botstein

  • The genome sequence of Drosophila melanogaster

    M. D. Adams;S. E. Celniker;R. A. Holt;C. A. Evans

  • The Gene Ontology (GO) database and informatics resource.

    Harris Ma;Clark J;Ireland A;Lomax J

  • Genetic Transformation of Drosophila with Transposable Element Vectors

    Gerald M. Rubin;Allan C. Spradling

  • Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.

    Robert L Strausberg;Elise A Feingold;Lynette H Grouse;Jeffery G Derge

  • Analysis of genetic mosaics in developing and adult Drosophila tissues

    Tian Xu;Gerald M. Rubin

  • Comparative Genomics of the Eukaryotes

    Gerald M. Rubin;Mark D. Yandell;Jennifer R. Wortman;George L. Gabor

  • A Whole-Genome Assembly of Drosophila

    Eugene W. Myers;Granger G. Sutton;Art L. Delcher;Ian M. Dew

  • Transposition of cloned P elements into Drosophila germ line chromosomes

    Allan C. Spradling;Gerald M. Rubin

  • A GAL4-Driver Line Resource for Drosophila Neurobiology

    Arnim Jenett;Gerald M. Rubin;Teri-T.B. Ngo;David Shepherd

  • Refinement of Tools for Targeted Gene Expression in Drosophila

    Barret D. Pfeiffer;Teri-T B. Ngo;Karen L. Hibbard;Christine Murphy

  • Molecular characterization of the drosophila trp locus: A putative integral membrane protein required for phototransduction

    Craig Montell;Gerald M. Rubin

  • Expression of baculovirus P35 prevents cell death in Drosophila

    Bruce A. Hay;Tanya Wolff;Gerald M. Rubin

  • The Toll and Imd pathways are the major regulators of the immune response in Drosophila

    Ennio De Gregorio;Paul T. Spellman;Phoebe Tzou;Gerald M. Rubin

  • The BDGP gene disruption project: single transposon insertions associated with 40% of Drosophila genes.

    Hugo J. Bellen;Robert W. Levis;Guochun Liao;Yuchun He

  • Tools for neuroanatomy and neurogenetics in Drosophila

    Barret D. Pfeiffer;Arnim Jenett;Ann S. Hammonds;Teri T.B. Ngo

  • Ras1 and a putative guanine nucleotide exchange factor perform crucial steps in signaling by the sevenless protein tyrosine kinase.

    Michael A. Simon;David D.L. Bowtell;G.Steven Dodson;Todd R. Laverty

  • Computational identification of Drosophila microRNA genes

    Eric C Lai;Pavel Tomancak;Robert W Williams;Gerald M Rubin

  • The activities of two Ets-related transcription factors required for drosophila eye development are modulated by the Ras/MAPK pathway

    Elizabeth M. O'Neill;Ilaria Rebay;Robert Tjian;Gerald M. Rubin

  • A computer program for aligning a cDNA sequence with a genomic DNA sequence.

    Liliana Florea;George Hartzell;Zheng Zhang;Gerald M. Rubin

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshinori Aso
Yoshinori Aso Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Susan E. Celniker
Susan E. Celniker Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Suzanna E. Lewis
Suzanna E. Lewis Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hiromu Tanimoto
Hiromu Tanimoto Tohoku University
Gregory S.X.E. Jefferis
Gregory S.X.E. Jefferis MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Michael Ashburner
Michael Ashburner University of Cambridge
Aljoscha Nern
Aljoscha Nern Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Allan C. Spradling
Allan C. Spradling Carnegie Institution for Science
Christopher J. Mungall
Christopher J. Mungall Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Roger A. Hoskins
Roger A. Hoskins Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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