2026 Howard D. Lipshitz: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	55	3572	3371	140	131	118	12878

Research.com Recognitions

1990 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Howard D. Lipshitz is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Aging, and Information Systems and Management.

The scientist's work covers significant topics including:

RNA Research and Splicing
RNA modifications and cancer
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research

Howard D. Lipshitz has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

Genetics
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Cell Reports
The American Journal of Human Genetics
PLoS Genetics

Notable recent papers include:

Precise Temporal Regulation of Post-transcriptional Repressors Is Required for an Orderly Drosophila Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition (2020, Cell Reports)
The RNA-Binding Protein Rasputin/G3BP Enhances the Stability and Translation of Its Target mRNAs (2020, Cell Reports)
The Canadian Rare Diseases Models and Mechanisms (RDMM) Network: Connecting Understudied Genes to Model Organisms (2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics)
Opposing roles for Egalitarian and Staufen in transport, anchoring and localization of oskar mRNA in the Drosophila oocyte (2021, PLoS Genetics)
Making biological knowledge useful for humans and machines (2022, Genetics)

Frequent collaborators in research include:

Craig A. Smibert (16 coauthored publications)
Sichun Lin (8 coauthored publications)
Timothy C.H. Low (7 coauthored publications)
Stéphane Angers (7 coauthored publications)
Angelo Karaiskakis (6 coauthored publications)

Howard D. Lipshitz has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1990.

Best Publications

A compendium of RNA-binding motifs for decoding gene regulation

Debashish Ray;Hilal Kazan;Kate B. Cook;Matthew T. Weirauch;Matthew T. Weirauch

1685
Citations
The maternal-to-zygotic transition: a play in two acts

Wael Tadros;Howard D. Lipshitz

1224
Citations
Vectors for Drosophila P-element-mediated transformation and tissue culture transfection.

Carl S. Thummel;Anne M. Boulet;Howard D. Lipshitz

676
Citations
RNA Localization in Development

Arash Bashirullah;Ramona L. Cooperstock;Howard D. Lipshitz

457
Citations
SMAUG Is a Major Regulator of Maternal mRNA Destabilization in Drosophila and Its Translation Is Activated by the PAN GU Kinase

Wael Tadros;Aaron L. Goldman;Tomas Babak;Fiona Menzies

364
Citations
The maternal-to-zygotic transition revisited.

Nadine L. Vastenhouw;Wen Xi Cao;Howard D. Lipshitz

344
Citations
Smaug recruits the CCR4/POP2/NOT deadenylase complex to trigger maternal transcript localization in the early Drosophila embryo.

Jennifer L. Semotok;Ramona L. Cooperstock;Benjamin D. Pinder;Heli K. Vari

298
Citations
Joint action of two RNA degradation pathways controls the timing of maternal transcript elimination at the midblastula transition in Drosophila melanogaster.

Arash Bashirullah;Susan R. Halsell;Ramona L. Cooperstock;Malgorzata Kloc

289
Citations
A vertebrate Polycomb response element governs segmentation of the posterior hindbrain.

Angela Sing;Dylan Pannell;Angelo Karaiskakis;Kendra Sturgeon;Kendra Sturgeon

283
Citations
Spatial and temporal control of RNA stability

Arash Bashirullah;Ramona L. Cooperstock;Howard D. Lipshitz

263
Citations
Distinct human NUMB isoforms regulate differentiation vs. proliferation in the neuronal lineage

Joseph M. Verdi;Arash Bashirullah;Donna E. Goldhawk;Chris J. Kubu

249
Citations
Mechanisms of RNA localization and translational regulation

Howard D Lipshitz;Craig A Smibert

239
Citations
Novel transcripts from the Ultrabithorax domain of the bithorax complex.

H D Lipshitz;D A Peattie;D S Hogness

215
Citations
Dynamic Hsp83 RNA localization during Drosophila oogenesis and embryogenesis

Dali Ding;Susan M. Parkhurst;Susan R. Halsell;Howard D. Lipshitz

210
Citations
Retrovirus vector silencing is de novo methylase independent and marked by a repressive histone code

Dylan Pannell;Cameron S. Osborne;Shuyuan Yao;Tanya Sukonnik

202
Citations
Predicting in vivo binding sites of RNA-binding proteins using mRNA secondary structure

Xiao Li;Gerald Quon;Howard D. Lipshitz;Quaid Morris

202
Citations
Fringe boundaries coincide with Notch-dependent patterning centres in mammals and alter Notch-dependent development in Drosophila.

Brenda Cohen;Arash Bashirullah;Lina Dagnino;Christine Campbell

191
Citations
Specification and development of the pars intercerebralis and pars lateralis, neuroendocrine command centers in the Drosophila brain.

Begona de Velasco;Ted Erclik;Diana Shy;Joey Sclafani

186
Citations
Mammalian NUMB is an evolutionarily conserved signaling adapter protein that specifies cell fate.

Joseph M. Verdi;Rosemarie Schmandt;Arash Bashirullah;Sara Jacob

179
Citations
Transcript clearance during the maternal-to-zygotic transition.

Claudia B Walser;Howard D Lipshitz

178
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Quaid Morris Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Sachdev S. Sidhu University of Waterloo

Stephane Angers University of Toronto

Robert A. Phillips University of Toronto

Volker Hartenstein University of California, Los Angeles

Roderick R. McInnes University of Toronto

Dieter Edbauer German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases

James Ellis University of Toronto

David S. Hogness Stanford University

David P. Bartel MIT

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