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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Nobel Prize for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm
  • 2003 - Genetics Society of America Medal
  • 2003 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Jeffrey C. Hall is affiliated with Brandeis University in the United States. Their research contributions include work on molecular mechanisms, with a notable focus that has been recognized by prominent scientific awards.

Their awards include the Nobel Prize in 2017, awarded for discoveries related to molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm. In 2003, they were honored with the Genetics Society of America Medal and were elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences. Additionally, they were named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Feedback of the Drosophila period gene product on circadian cycling of its messenger RNA levels

    Paul E. Hardin;Jeffrey C. Hall;Michael Rosbash;Michael Rosbash

  • A pdf Neuropeptide Gene Mutation and Ablation of PDF Neurons Each Cause Severe Abnormalities of Behavioral Circadian Rhythms in Drosophila

    Susan C.P Renn;Jae H Park;Michael Rosbash;Michael Rosbash;Jeffrey C Hall

  • CRY, a Drosophila Clock and Light-Regulated Cryptochrome, Is a Major Contributor to Circadian Rhythm Resetting and Photosensitivity

    Patrick Emery;W.Venus So;Maki Kaneko;Jeffrey C Hall

  • The cryb mutation identifies cryptochrome as a circadian photoreceptor in Drosophila

    Ralf Stanewsky;Maki Kaneko;Patrick Emery;Bonnie Beretta

  • A mutant Drosophila homolog of mammalian Clock disrupts circadian rhythms and transcription of period and timeless.

    Ravi Allada;Neal E White;W.Venus So;Jeffrey C Hall

  • The mating of a fly

    Jeffrey C. Hall

  • CYCLE Is a Second bHLH-PAS Clock Protein Essential for Circadian Rhythmicity and Transcription of Drosophila period and timeless

    Joan E Rutila;Joan E Rutila;Vipin Suri;Vipin Suri;Myai Le;Myai Le;W.Venus So;W.Venus So

  • Independent Photoreceptive Circadian Clocks Throughout Drosophila

    Jeffrey D. Plautz;Maki Kaneko;Maki Kaneko;Jeffrey C. Hall;Jeffrey C. Hall;Steve A. Kay;Steve A. Kay

  • Advances in genetics

    M. Demerec;Ernst W. Caspari;J. M. Thoday;John G. Scandalios

  • Differential regulation of circadian pacemaker output by separate clock genes in Drosophila

    Jae H. Park;Charlotte Helfrich-Förster;Gyunghee Lee;Li Liu

  • Control of Male Sexual Behavior and Sexual Orientation in Drosophila by the fruitless Gene

    Lisa C Ryner;Stephen F Goodwin;Diego H Castrillon;Anuranjan Anand

  • Circadian fluctuations of period protein immunoreactivity in the CNS and the visual system of Drosophila

    D. M. Zerr;J. C. Hall;M. Rosbash;Kathleen King Siwicki

  • Neuroanatomy of cells expressing clock genes in Drosophila: transgenic manipulation of the period and timeless genes to mark the perikarya of circadian pacemaker neurons and their projections.

    Maki Kaneko;Jeffrey C. Hall

  • Male-specific fruitless specifies the neural substrates of Drosophila courtship behaviour

    Devanand S. Manoli;Margit Foss;Adriana Villella;Barbara J. Taylor

  • Drosophila CRY Is a Deep Brain Circadian Photoreceptor

    Patrick Emery;Ralf Stanewsky;Charlotte Helfrich-Förster;Myai Emery-Le;Myai Emery-Le

  • Molecular analysis of the period locus in Drosophila melanogaster and identification of a transcript involved in biological rhythms

    Pranhitha Reddy;William A. Zehring;David A. Wheeler;Vincent Pirrotta

  • Antibodies to the period gene product of drosophila reveal diverse tissue distribution and rhythmic changes in the visual system

    Kathleen K. Siwicki;Cheryl Eastman;Gabriele Petersen;Michael Rosbash

  • Circadian rhythm mutations in Drosophila melanogaster affect short-term fluctuations in the male's courtship song.

    C. P. Kyriacou;Jeffrey C. Hall

  • P-element transformation with period locus DNA restores rhythmicity to mutant, arrhythmic drosophila melanogaster

    William A. Zehring;David A. Wheeler;Pranhitha Reddy;Ronald J. Konopka

  • Quantitative analysis of Drosophila period gene transcription in living animals.

    Jeffrey D. Plautz;Martin Straume;Ralf Stanewsky;Creston F. Jamison

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Rosbash
Michael Rosbash Brandeis University
Charalambos P. Kyriacou
Charalambos P. Kyriacou University of Leicester
Paul E. Hardin
Paul E. Hardin Texas A&M University
Bruce S. Baker
Bruce S. Baker Stanford University
Laurence J. Zwiebel
Laurence J. Zwiebel Vanderbilt University
Charlotte Helfrich-Förster
Charlotte Helfrich-Förster University of Würzburg
Steve A. Kay
Steve A. Kay University of Southern California
Ralph J. Greenspan
Ralph J. Greenspan University of California, San Diego
Veronica van Heyningen
Veronica van Heyningen University College London
Jay C. Dunlap
Jay C. Dunlap Dartmouth College

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