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Overview

John J. Tyson is affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States. Their research centers on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant emphasis on molecular biology. Other areas of focus include cell biology, plant science, endocrine and autonomic systems, and genetics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to research topics such as gene regulatory network analysis, microtubule and mitosis dynamics, fungal and yeast genetics research, plant molecular biology research, circadian rhythm and melatonin, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, and the effects of light on plants.

Frequent coauthors in their work include Béla Novák, Pavel Kraikivski, Teeraphan Laomettachit, Yang Cao, and Calin-Mihai Dragoi.

John J. Tyson has published in several scientific venues. Notable among these are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Biology of the Cell, Interface Focus, npj Systems Biology and Applications, and PLoS Computational Biology.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by John J. Tyson include:

  • Misuse of the Michaelis-Menten rate law for protein interaction networks and its remedy, 2020, PLoS Computational Biology
  • A Dynamical Paradigm for Molecular Cell Biology, 2020, Trends in Cell Biology
  • Mechanisms of the Osteogenic Switch of Smooth Muscle Cells in Vascular Calcification: WNT Signaling, BMPs, Mechanotransduction, and EndMT, 2020, Bioengineering
  • Time-keeping and decision-making in the cell cycle, 2022, Interface Focus
  • Mechanisms of signalling-memory governing progression through the eukaryotic cell cycle, 2021, Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Best Publications

  • Sniffers, buzzers, toggles and blinkers: dynamics of regulatory and signaling pathways in the cell

    John J Tyson;Katherine C Chen;Bela Novak

  • Design principles of biochemical oscillators.

    Béla Novák;John J. Tyson

  • Singular perturbation theory of traveling waves in excitable media (a review)

    John J. Tyson;James P. Keener

  • Integrative Analysis of Cell Cycle Control in Budding Yeast

    Katherine C. Chen;Laurence Calzone;Attila Csikasz-Nagy;Frederick R. Cross

  • Computational cell biology

    Christopher P Fall;Eric S. Marland;John M. Wagner;John J. Tyson

  • Network dynamics and cell physiology

    John J. Tyson;Kathy Chen;Bela Novak

  • Kinetic Analysis of a Molecular Model of the Budding Yeast Cell Cycle

    Katherine C. Chen;Attila Csikasz-Nagy;Bela Gyorffy;John Val

  • Target patterns in a realistic model of the Belousov–Zhabotinskii reaction

    John J. Tyson;Paul C. Fife

  • Hysteresis drives cell-cycle transitions in Xenopus laevis egg extracts

    Wei Sha;Jonathan Moore;Katherine Chen;Antonio D. Lassaletta

  • Modeling the cell division cycle: cdc2 and cyclin interactions.

    John J. Tyson

  • Spiral waves in the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction

    James P. Keener;John J. Tyson

  • Numerical analysis of a comprehensive model of M-phase control in Xenopus oocyte extracts and intact embryos

    Bela Novak;John J. Tyson

  • The Dynamics of Feedback Control Circuits in Biochemical Pathways

    John J. Tyson

  • Regulation of the eukaryotic cell cycle: molecular antagonism, hysteresis, and irreversible transitions.

    John J Tyson;Bela Novak

  • The dynamics of cell cycle regulation

    John J. Tyson;Attila Csikasz‐Nagy;Bela Novak

  • The Belousov-Zhabotinskii Reaction

    John J. Tyson

  • A model for restriction point control of the mammalian cell cycle

    Béla Novák;John J. Tyson

  • Endocrine resistance in breast cancer--An overview and update.

    Robert Clarke;John J. Tyson;J. Michael Dixon

  • A cellular automation model of excitable media including curvature and dispersion

    Martin Gerhardt;Heike Schuster;John J. Tyson

  • Functional Motifs in Biochemical Reaction Networks

    John J. Tyson;Béla Novák

Frequent Co-Authors

Bela Novak
Bela Novak University of Oxford
Layne T. Watson
Layne T. Watson Virginia Tech
Robert Clarke
Robert Clarke University of Oxford
James P. Keener
James P. Keener University of Utah
Liwu Li
Liwu Li Virginia Tech
Frederick R. Cross
Frederick R. Cross Rockefeller University
Laurence Calzone
Laurence Calzone PSL University
Naren Ramakrishnan
Naren Ramakrishnan Virginia Tech
Yue Wang
Yue Wang Zhejiang University
Pedro Mendes
Pedro Mendes University of Connecticut

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