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Joshua Z. Levin

Joshua Z. Levin

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Genetics

D-Index
70
Citations
49274
World Ranking
2226
National Ranking
1001

Overview

Joshua Z. Levin is affiliated with the Broad Institute in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular emphasis on molecular biology as indicated by a significant number of publications. Additional subfields of study include neurology, immunology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and genetics.

The topics central to their work cover various aspects of molecular and cellular biology. Notable research areas include single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, CRISPR and genetic engineering, pluripotent stem cells research, RNA research and splicing, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, and gene regulatory network analysis.

Joshua Z. Levin has contributed to numerous scientific papers published in multiple venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Nature Biotechnology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Cell

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Levin are:

  • "Systematic comparison of single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-sequencing methods," 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • "Benchmarking single-cell RNA-sequencing protocols for cell atlas projects," 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • "Autism genes converge on asynchronous development of shared neuron classes," 2022, Nature
  • "In vivo Perturb-Seq reveals neuronal and glial abnormalities associated with autism risk genes," 2020, Science
  • "The evolution, evolvability and engineering of gene regulatory DNA," 2022, Nature

Levin's collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Sean Simmons, Xian Adiconis, Aviv Regev, Paola Arlotta, and Kwanho Kim, reflecting an active engagement with other researchers in related fields.

Best Publications

  • Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome.

    Manfred G Grabherr;Brian J Haas;Moran Yassour;Moran Yassour;Joshua Z Levin

  • Ab initio reconstruction of cell type–specific transcriptomes in mouse reveals the conserved multi-exonic structure of lincRNAs

    Mitchell Guttman;Manuel Garber;Joshua Z Levin;Julie Donaghey

  • Single-cell transcriptomics reveals bimodality in expression and splicing in immune cells

    Alex K. Shalek;Rahul Satija;Xian Adiconis;Rona S. Gertner

  • Comprehensive Classification of Retinal Bipolar Neurons by Single-Cell Transcriptomics.

    Karthik Shekhar;Sylvain W. Lapan;Sylvain W. Lapan;Irene E. Whitney;Nicholas M. Tran

  • RNA-SeQC

    David S. DeLuca;Joshua Z. Levin;Andrey Sivachenko;Timothy Fennell

  • Individual brain organoids reproducibly form cell diversity of the human cerebral cortex

    Silvia Velasco;Amanda J. Kedaigle;Amanda J. Kedaigle;Sean K. Simmons;Allison Nash;Allison Nash

  • Comprehensive comparative analysis of strand-specific RNA sequencing methods

    Joshua Z Levin;Moran Yassour;Moran Yassour;Xian Adiconis;Chad Nusbaum

  • Systematic comparison of single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-sequencing methods.

    Jiarui Ding;Xian Adiconis;Sean K. Simmons;Monika S. Kowalczyk

  • Systematic identification of long noncoding RNAs expressed during zebrafish embryogenesis

    Andrea Pauli;Eivind Valen;Michael F. Lin;Manuel Garber

  • The African coelacanth genome provides insights into tetrapod evolution

    Chris T. Amemiya;Chris T. Amemiya;Jessica Alfoldi;Alison P. Lee;Shaohua Fan

  • Peptidomic discovery of short open reading frame–encoded peptides in human cells

    Sarah A Slavoff;Andrew J Mitchell;Adam G Schwaid;Moran N Cabili;Moran N Cabili

  • The SHOOT MERISTEMLESS gene is required for maintenance of undifferentiated cells in Arabidopsis shoot and floral meristems and acts at a different regulatory level than the meristem genes WUSCHEL and ZWILLE

    Karin Endrizzi;Bernard Moussian;Achim Haecker;Joshua Z. Levin

  • Metabolic labeling of RNA uncovers principles of RNA production and degradation dynamics in mammalian cells

    Michal Rabani;Joshua Z Levin;Lin Fan;Xian Adiconis

  • Single-Cell Profiles of Retinal Ganglion Cells Differing in Resilience to Injury Reveal Neuroprotective Genes.

    Nicholas M. Tran;Karthik Shekhar;Irene E. Whitney;Anne Jacobi

  • Single-cell transcriptomic profiling of the aging mouse brain.

    Methodios Ximerakis;Scott L Lipnick;Brendan T Innes;Sean K Simmons

  • Comparative functional genomics of the fission yeasts

    Nicholas Rhind;Zehua Chen;Moran Yassour;Moran Yassour;Dawn A. Thompson

  • Comparative analysis of RNA sequencing methods for degraded or low-input samples

    Xian Adiconis;Diego Borges-Rivera;Rahul Satija;David S DeLuca

  • The CLAVATA and SHOOT MERISTEMLESS loci competitively regulate meristem activity in Arabidopsis

    Steven E. Clark;Steven E. Jacobsen;Joshua Z. Levin;Elliot M. Meyerowitz

  • Benchmarking Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Protocols for Cell Atlas Projects

    Elisabetta Mereu;Atefeh Lafzi;Catia Moutinho;Christoph Ziegenhain

  • Targeted next-generation sequencing of a cancer transcriptome enhances detection of sequence variants and novel fusion transcripts

    Joshua Z Levin;Michael F Berger;Xian Adiconis;Peter Rogov

Frequent Co-Authors

Aviv Regev
Aviv Regev Genentech
Andreas Gnirke
Andreas Gnirke Broad Institute
Chad Nusbaum
Chad Nusbaum Cellarity
Nir Hacohen
Nir Hacohen Harvard University
Bruce W. Birren
Bruce W. Birren Broad Institute
Sarah Young
Sarah Young University of North Georgia
Qiandong Zeng
Qiandong Zeng LabCorp (United States)
Paola Arlotta
Paola Arlotta Harvard University
Eric S. Lander
Eric S. Lander Broad Institute
Kristian G. Andersen
Kristian G. Andersen Scripps Research Institute

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