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Jeffrey R. Holt is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular emphasis on molecular biology and sensory systems. Additional subfields include physiology, cognitive neuroscience, and neurology.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass:

  • Hearing, cochlea, tinnitus, genetics
  • RNA regulation and disease
  • Erythrocyte function and pathophysiology
  • Connexins and lens biology
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Hearing loss and rehabilitation
  • Vestibular and auditory disorders

Jeffrey R. Holt has contributed to multiple recent research papers, including:

  • In vivo base editing restores sensory transduction and transiently improves auditory function in a mouse model of recessive deafness, 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • The Mechanosensory Transduction Machinery in Inner Ear Hair Cells, 2020, Annual Review of Biophysics
  • Single and Dual Vector Gene Therapy with AAV9-PHP.B Rescues Hearing in Tmc1 Mutant Mice, 2020, Molecular Therapy
  • Efficient viral transduction in mouse inner ear hair cells with utricle injection and AAV9-PHP.B, 2020, Hearing Research
  • TMEM63 proteins function as monomeric high-threshold mechanosensitive ion channels, 2023, Neuron

They have frequently published in venues such as Hearing Research, Science Translational Medicine, Molecular Therapy, Neuron, and EMBO Molecular Medicine.

Jeffrey R. Holt has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including Marcos Sotomayor, Olga Shubina-Oleinik, Carl Nist-Lund, Bifeng Pan, and Irina Marcovich. Coauthorship counts range from four to six collaborations per individual.

Best Publications

  • TRPA1 is a candidate for the mechanosensitive transduction channel of vertebrate hair cells

    David P. Corey;David P. Corey;Jaime Garcia-Añoveros;Jeffrey R. Holt;Kelvin Y. Kwan;Kelvin Y. Kwan

  • Treatment of autosomal dominant hearing loss by in vivo delivery of genome editing agents

    Xue Gao;Yong Tao;Yong Tao;Yong Tao;Veronica Lamas;Mingqian Huang

  • Mechanotransduction in mouse inner ear hair cells requires transmembrane channel-like genes

    Yoshiyuki Kawashima;Gwenaëlle S.G. Géléoc;Gwenaëlle S.G. Géléoc;Kiyoto Kurima;Valentina Labay;Valentina Labay

  • TMC1 and TMC2 are components of the mechanotransduction channel in hair cells of the mammalian inner ear.

    Bifeng Pan;Gwenaelle S. Géléoc;Yukako Asai;Geoffrey C. Horwitz

  • Differential Distribution of Stem Cells in the Auditory and Vestibular Organs of the Inner Ear

    Kazuo Oshima;Kazuo Oshima;Christian M. Grimm;C. Eduardo Corrales;C. Eduardo Corrales;Pascal Senn

  • A Chemical-Genetic Strategy Implicates Myosin-1c in Adaptation by Hair Cells

    Jeffrey R. Holt;Susan K.H. Gillespie;D.William Provance;Kavita Shah

  • Continuous evolution of base editors with expanded target compatibility and improved activity

    Benjamin W. Thuronyi;Benjamin W. Thuronyi;Benjamin W. Thuronyi;Luke W. Koblan;Luke W. Koblan;Jonathan M. Levy;Jonathan M. Levy;Wei-Hsi Yeh;Wei-Hsi Yeh

  • TMC1 Forms the Pore of Mechanosensory Transduction Channels in Vertebrate Inner Ear Hair Cells.

    Bifeng Pan;Nurunisa Akyuz;Xiao-Ping Liu;Yukako Asai

  • Generation of inner ear organoids containing functional hair cells from human pluripotent stem cells

    Karl R. Koehler;Jing Nie;Emma Longworth-Mills;Xiao Ping Liu

  • A synthetic AAV vector enables safe and efficient gene transfer to the mammalian inner ear

    Lukas D Landegger;Lukas D Landegger;Lukas D Landegger;Bifeng Pan;Bifeng Pan;Charles Askew;Charles Askew;Charles Askew;Sarah J Wassmer;Sarah J Wassmer

  • Calcium imaging of single stereocilia in hair cells: localization of transduction channels at both ends of tip links

    Winfried Denk;Jeffrey R. Holt;Jeffrey R. Holt;Gordon M.G. Shepherd;David P. Corey;David P. Corey

  • Gene therapy restores auditory and vestibular function in a mouse model of Usher syndrome type 1c

    Bifeng Pan;Charles Askew;Charles Askew;Alice Galvin;Selena Heman-Ackah;Selena Heman-Ackah

  • Tmc gene therapy restores auditory function in deaf mice

    Charles Askew;Charles Askew;Cylia Rochat;Bifeng Pan;Yukako Asai

  • Sound Strategies for Hearing Restoration

    Gwenaëlle S. G. Géléoc;Jeffrey R. Holt

  • The Very Large G-Protein-Coupled Receptor VLGR1: A Component of the Ankle Link Complex Required for the Normal Development of Auditory Hair Bundles

    JoAnn McGee;Richard J. Goodyear;D. Randy McMillan;Eric A. Stauffer

  • TMC1 and TMC2 Localize at the Site of Mechanotransduction in Mammalian Inner Ear Hair Cell Stereocilia.

    Kiyoto Kurima;Seham Ebrahim;Bifeng Pan;Miloslav Sedlacek

  • Allele-specific gene editing prevents deafness in a model of dominant progressive hearing loss

    Bence György;Carl Nist-Lund;Bifeng Pan;Yukako Asai

  • Tonotopic gradient in the developmental acquisition of sensory transduction in outer hair cells of the mouse cochlea.

    Andrea Lelli;Yukako Asai;Andrew Forge;Jeffrey R. Holt

  • Physical and Functional Interaction between Protocadherin 15 and Myosin VIIa in Mechanosensory Hair Cells

    Mathias Senften;Martin Schwander;Piotr Kazmierczak;Concepcion Lillo

  • Improved TMC1 gene therapy restores hearing and balance in mice with genetic inner ear disorders.

    Carl A. Nist-Lund;Bifeng Pan;Bifeng Pan;Amy Patterson;Yukako Asai;Yukako Asai

  • Generation of inner ear organoids with functional hair cells from human pluripotent stem cells

    Karl R. Koehler;Jing Nie;Emma Longworth-Mills;Xiao-Ping Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Griffith
Andrew J. Griffith National Institutes of Health
Andrew Forge
Andrew Forge University College London
Daniel B. Polley
Daniel B. Polley Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Christine D. Wilson
Christine D. Wilson McMaster University
Ulrich Müller
Ulrich Müller Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Michael Lovett
Michael Lovett Washington University in St. Louis
Hannie Kremer
Hannie Kremer Radboud University
M. Christian Brown
M. Christian Brown Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Tobias Moser
Tobias Moser University of Göttingen
Huda Y. Zoghbi
Huda Y. Zoghbi Baylor College of Medicine

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