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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Joseph L. DeRisi is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their work is predominantly situated within the field of Medicine, with a focus on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The principal topics of their research include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Gut microbiota and health

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by DeRisi consist of:

  • Amplification-free detection of SARS-CoV-2 with CRISPR-Cas13a and mobile phone microscopy, 2020, Cell
  • Clonally expanded B cells in multiple sclerosis bind EBV EBNA1 and GlialCAM, 2022, Nature
  • Rapid pathogen detection by metagenomic next-generation sequencing of infected body fluids, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • IDseq-An open source cloud-based pipeline and analysis service for metagenomic pathogen detection and monitoring, 2020, GigaScience
  • Type I interferon autoantibodies are associated with systemic immune alterations in patients with COVID-19, 2021, Science Translational Medicine

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Michael R. Wilson
  • Charles Langelier
  • Kelsey C. Zorn
  • Mark S. Anderson
  • Norma Neff

Joseph L. DeRisi has published extensively in several academic venues. The most common publication outlets used are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • eLife
  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

The scientist has been recognized as a member of prestigious academic institutions, including the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, both in 2016, and they were named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Exploring the Metabolic and Genetic Control of Gene Expression on a Genomic Scale

    Joseph L. DeRisi;Vishwanath R. Iyer;Patrick O. Brown

  • A novel coronavirus associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome.

    Ksiazek Tg;Erdman D;Goldsmith Cs;Zaki

  • Characterization of a novel coronavirus associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome.

    Paul A. Rota;M. Steven Oberste;Stephan S. Monroe;W. Allan Nix

  • Use of a cDNA microarray to analyse gene expression patterns in human cancer.

    Joseph L. DeRisi;Lolita Penland;Patrick O. Brown;M. L. Bittner

  • The Transcriptional Program of Sporulation in Budding Yeast

    S. Chu;J. DeRisi;M. Eisen;J. Mulholland

  • The Transcriptome of the Intraerythrocytic Developmental Cycle of Plasmodium falciparum

    Zbynek Bozdech;Manuel Llinás;Brian Lee Pulliam;Edith D Wong

  • Single-cell proteomic analysis of S. cerevisiae reveals the architecture of biological noise

    John R. S. Newman;Sina Ghaemmaghami;Sina Ghaemmaghami;Jan Ihmels;David K. Breslow

  • Microarray-based detection and genotyping of viral pathogens

    David Wang;Laurent Coscoy;Maxine Zylberberg;Pedro C. Avila

  • Actionable Diagnosis of Neuroleptospirosis by Next-Generation Sequencing

    Michael R. Wilson;Samia N. Naccache;Erik Samayoa;Mark Biagtan

  • Yeast microarrays for genome wide parallel genetic and gene expression analysis.

    Deval A. Lashkari;Joseph L. DeRisi;John H. McCusker;Allen F. Namath

  • Clinical Metagenomic Sequencing for Diagnosis of Meningitis and Encephalitis

    Michael R Wilson;Hannah A Sample;Kelsey C Zorn;Shaun Arevalo

  • Drug target validation and identification of secondary drug target effects using DNA microarrays

    Matthew J. Marton;Joseph L. Derisi;Holly A. Bennett;Vishwanath R. Iyer

  • Exploring drug-induced alterations in gene expression in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by microarray hybridization

    Michael Wilson;Joseph DeRisi;Hans-Henrik Kristensen;Paul Imboden

  • Amplification-free detection of SARS-CoV-2 with CRISPR-Cas13a and mobile phone microscopy.

    Parinaz Fozouni;Sungmin Son;María Díaz de León Derby;Gavin J. Knott;Gavin J. Knott

  • Identification of a Novel Gammaretrovirus in Prostate Tumors of Patients Homozygous for R462Q RNASEL Variant

    Anatoly Urisman;Ross J Molinaro;Ross J Molinaro;Nicole Fischer;Sarah J Plummer

  • Chemical genetics of Plasmodium falciparum.

    W. Armand Guiguemde;Anang A. Shelat;David Bouck;Sandra Duffy

  • Assemblathon 1: A competitive assessment of de novo short read assembly methods

    Dent Earl;Keith Bradnam;John St. John;Aaron Darling

  • New Components of a System for Phosphate Accumulation and Polyphosphate Metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Revealed by Genomic Expression Analysis

    Nobuo Ogawa;Joseph DeRisi;Patrick O. Brown

  • Global mapping of meiotic recombination hotspots and coldspots in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Jennifer L. Gerton;Joseph DeRisi;Robert Shroff;Michael Lichten

  • Structural characterization of the glycoprotein GP2 core domain from the CAS virus, a novel arenavirus-like species

    Jayne F. Koellhoffer;Zhou Dai;Vladimir N. Malashkevich;Mark D. Stenglein

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Y. Chiu
Charles Y. Chiu University of California, San Francisco
Don Ganem
Don Ganem Via Nova Therapeutics
Alexander L. Greninger
Alexander L. Greninger University of Washington
Patrick O. Brown
Patrick O. Brown Stanford University
R. Kiplin Guy
R. Kiplin Guy University of Kentucky
Carolyn S. Calfee
Carolyn S. Calfee University of California, San Francisco
Katherine S. Pollard
Katherine S. Pollard University of California, San Francisco
Diane V. Havlir
Diane V. Havlir University of California, San Francisco
Jens H. Kuhn
Jens H. Kuhn National Institutes of Health
David J. Erle
David J. Erle University of California, San Francisco

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