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79
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24642
World Ranking
1033
National Ranking
544

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1972 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1968 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1963 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Joseph G. Gall is affiliated with the Carnegie Institution for Science in the United States. Their primary research focus lies in the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a specialization in Molecular Biology. They have contributed significantly to several subfields, including Cancer Research, Biophysics, Structural Biology, and Ecology.

The main topics covered in their work involve RNA modifications and cancer, RNA research and splicing, cancer-related gene regulation, cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, genomics and chromatin dynamics, DNA repair mechanisms, and photosynthetic processes and mechanisms.

Gall has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • "Identification of novel synaptonemal complex components in C. elegans", 2020, The Journal of Cell Biology
  • "Stable lariats bearing a snoRNA (slb-snoRNA) in eukaryotic cells: A level of regulation for guide RNAs", 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Nopp140-chaperoned 2'-O-methylation of small nuclear RNAs in Cajal bodies ensures splicing fidelity", 2021, Genes & Development
  • "Superresolution imaging of chromatin fibers to visualize epigenetic information on replicative DNA", 2020, Nature Protocols
  • "SnoRNA guide activities: real and ambiguous", 2021, RNA

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gall include Svetlana Deryusheva, Zehra F. Nizami, Gaëlle J.S. Talross, Matthew Wooten, and Jonathan Bizarro.

Their publications often appear in venues such as Experimental Cell Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, The Journal of Cell Biology, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Gall's career includes recognition by major scientific bodies, having been awarded fellowships and memberships:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1963
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1968
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1972

Best Publications

  • FORMATION AND DETECTION OF RNA-DNA HYBRID MOLECULES IN CYTOLOGICAL PREPARATIONS

    Joseph G. Gall;Mary Lou Pardue

  • A tandemly repeated sequence at the termini of the extrachromosomal ribosomal RNA genes in Tetrahymena

    Elizabeth H. Blackburn;Joseph G. Gall

  • Chromosomal localization of mouse satellite DNA.

    Mary Lou Pardue;Joseph G. Gall

  • MOLECULAR HYBRIDIZATION OF RADIOACTIVE DNA TO THE DNA OF CYTOLOGICAL PREPARATIONS

    Mary Lou Pardue;Joseph G. Gall

  • A conserved double-stranded RNA-binding domain.

    D St Johnston;N H Brown;J G Gall;M Jantsch

  • Cajal Bodies: The First 100 Years

    Joseph G. Gall

  • Reptitive DNA sequences in drosophila.

    Joseph G. Gall;Edward H. Cohen;Mary Lake Polan

  • [38] Nucleic acid hybridization in cytological preparations

    Joseph G Gall;Mary Lou Pardue

  • Differential synthesis of the genes for ribosomal RNA during amphibian oögenesis.

    Joseph G. Gall

  • Nucleic acid hybridization to the DNA of cytological preparations.

    Mary Lou Pardue;Joseph G. Gall

  • Efficient gene targeting in Drosophila by direct embryo injection with zinc-finger nucleases

    Kelly J. Beumer;Jonathan K. Trautman;Ana Bozas;Ji Long Liu

  • H3 uridine incorporation in lampbrush chromosomes.

    J. G. Gall;H. G. Callan

  • Assembly of the nuclear transcription and processing machinery: Cajal bodies (coiled bodies) and transcriptosomes.

    Joseph G. Gall;Michel Bellini;Zheng’an Wu;Christine Murphy

  • The centennial of the Cajal body.

    Joseph G. Gall

  • Cajal bodies, nucleoli, and speckles in the Xenopus oocyte nucleus have a low-density, sponge-like structure.

    Korie E. Handwerger;Jason A. Cordero;Joseph G. Gall

  • Self-cleaving transcripts of satellite DNA from the newt

    Lloyd M. Epstein;Joseph G. Gall

  • Cytological localization of DNA complementary to ribosomal RNA in polytene chromosomes of Diptera

    Mary Lou Pardue;Susan A. Gerbi;Ronald A. Eckhardt;Joseph G. Gall

  • The Cajal body and histone locus body.

    Zehra Nizami;Svetlana Deryusheva;Joseph G. Gall

  • Subnuclear organelles: new insights into form and function.

    Korie E. Handwerger;Joseph G. Gall

  • Satellite DNA sequences in Drosophila virilis

    Joseph G. Gall;Diane D. Atherton

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven L. McKnight
Steven L. McKnight The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Sharyn A. Endow
Sharyn A. Endow Duke University
Dana Carroll
Dana Carroll University of Utah
Meng-Chao Yao
Meng-Chao Yao Academia Sinica
Nicholas H. Brown
Nicholas H. Brown University of Cambridge
Edwin M. Southern
Edwin M. Southern University of Oxford
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Elizabeth H. Blackburn University of California, San Francisco
Jean-David Rochaix
Jean-David Rochaix University of Geneva
Allan C. Spradling
Allan C. Spradling Carnegie Institution for Science

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