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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2001 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Geraldine Seydoux is affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant emphasis on Molecular Biology. Additional areas of study include Cell Biology, Aging, Food Science, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Nuclear Structure and Function
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms

Geraldine Seydoux has contributed articles to various scientific journals and repositories, with frequent publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), followed by Development, eLife, Nature Cell Biology, and Science. Notable recent papers include:

  • Regulation of biomolecular condensates by interfacial protein clusters, 2021, Science
  • Recruitment of mRNAs to P granules by condensation with intrinsically-disordered proteins, 2020, eLife
  • Puromycin reactivity does not accurately localize translation at the subcellular level, 2020, eLife
  • RNA granules: functional compartments or incidental condensates?, 2023, Genes & Development
  • The conserved helicase ZNFX-1 memorializes silenced RNAs in perinuclear condensates, 2022, Nature Cell Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Seydoux include Andrea Putnam, Madeline Cassani, Laura Thomas, John Paul T. Ouyang, and Peter Askjaer.

Geraldine Seydoux has been recognized by several organizations, including election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2016, designation as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013, and as a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Lattice Light Sheet Microscopy: Imaging Molecules to Embryos at High Spatiotemporal Resolution

    Bi Chang Chen;Wesley R. Legant;Kai Wang;Lin Shao

  • High Efficiency, Homology-Directed Genome Editing in Caenorhabditis elegans Using CRISPR-Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein Complexes.

    Alexandre Paix;Andrew Folkmann;Dominique Rasoloson;Geraldine Seydoux

  • Pathway to Totipotency: Lessons from Germ Cells

    Geraldine Seydoux;Robert E. Braun

  • 3’ UTRs are the primary regulators of gene expression in the C. elegans germline

    Christopher Merritt;Dominique Rasoloson;Darae Ko;Geraldine Seydoux

  • Soma-germline asymmetry in the distributions of embryonic RNAs in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Geraldine Seydoux;Andrew Fire

  • Repression of gene expression in the embryonic germ lineage of C. elegans

    Geraldine Seydoux;Craig C. Mello;Craig C. Mello;Jonathan Pettitt;Jonathan Pettitt;William B. Wood

  • nos-1 and nos-2, two genes related to Drosophila nanos, regulate primordial germ cell development and survival in Caenorhabditis elegans.

    Kuppuswamy Subramaniam;Geraldine Seydoux

  • Transcriptionally repressed germ cells lack a subpopulation of phosphorylated RNA polymerase II in early embryos of Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster

    Geraldine Seydoux;Melanie A. Dunn

  • RNA Granules in Germ Cells

    Ekaterina Voronina;Geraldine Seydoux;Paolo Sassone-Corsi;Ippei Nagamori

  • Regulation of RNA granule dynamics by phosphorylation of serine-rich, intrinsically disordered proteins in C. elegans.

    Jennifer T. Wang;Jarrett Smith;Bi Chang Chen;Helen Schmidt

  • Polarization of the C. elegans zygote proceeds via distinct establishment and maintenance phases.

    Adrian A. Cuenca;Aaron Schetter;Donato Aceto;Kenneth Kemphues

  • PIE-1 is a bifunctional protein that regulates maternal and zygotic gene expression in the embryonic germ line of Caenorhabditis elegans

    Christina Tenenhaus;Kuppuswamy Subramaniam;Melanie A. Dunn;Geraldine Seydoux

  • Scalable and versatile genome editing using linear DNAs with microhomology to Cas9 Sites in Caenorhabditis elegans.

    Alexandre Paix;Yuemeng Wang;Harold E. Smith;Chih Yung S. Lee

  • Regulation of the Oocyte-to-Zygote Transition

    Michael L. Stitzel;Geraldine Seydoux

  • Cell autonomy of lin-12 function in a cell fate decision in C. elegans.

    Geraldine Seydoux;Iva Greenwald

  • Spatial patterning of P granules by RNA-induced phase separation of the intrinsically-disordered protein MEG-3

    Jarrett Smith;Deepika Calidas;Helen Schmidt;Tu Lu

  • Asymmetric segregation of PIE-1 in C. elegans is mediated by two complementary mechanisms that act through separate PIE-1 protein domains.

    Kimberly J. Reese;Melanie A. Dunn;James A. Waddle;Geraldine Seydoux

  • Spindle Dynamics and the Role of γ-Tubulin in Early Caenorhabditis elegans Embryos

    Susan Strome;James Powers;Melanie Dunn;Kimberly Reese

  • Microtubules induce self-organization of polarized PAR domains in Caenorhabditis elegans zygotes

    Fumio Motegi;Seth Zonies;Yingsong Hao;Adrian A. Cuenca

  • Precision genome editing using CRISPR-Cas9 and linear repair templates in C. elegans

    Alexandre Paix;Andrew Folkmann;Geraldine Seydoux

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachel Green
Rachel Green Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Iva Greenwald
Iva Greenwald Columbia University
Donald G. Moerman
Donald G. Moerman University of British Columbia
Tim Schedl
Tim Schedl Washington University in St. Louis
Ralf Schnabel
Ralf Schnabel Technische Universität Braunschweig
Craig C. Mello
Craig C. Mello University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Andrew Fire
Andrew Fire Stanford University
Susan Strome
Susan Strome University of California, Santa Cruz
Judith Kimble
Judith Kimble University of Wisconsin–Madison
Norbert Perrimon
Norbert Perrimon Harvard University

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