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Overview

Laird S. Cermak was affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research focused primarily on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular emphasis on Molecular Biology as well as related subfields such as Immunology, Oncology, Genetics, and Plant Science.

The scientist's research topics covered a range of molecular and cellular processes, including:

  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • Cancer-related Molecular Pathways
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction

Cermak authored several papers that contributed to these areas. Notable publications included:

  • CRL4-DCAF12 Ubiquitin Ligase Controls MOV10 RNA Helicase during Spermatogenesis and T Cell Activation, 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • FBXO38 Ubiquitin Ligase Controls Sertoli Cell Maturation, 2022, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • FBXO38 Ubiquitin Ligase Controls Centromere Integrity via ZXDA/B Stability, 2022, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • FBXO38 is dispensable for PD-1 regulation, 2024, EMBO Reports
  • Differential requirements for Smarca5 expression during hematopoietic stem cell commitment, 2024, Communications Biology

Cermak frequently collaborated with other researchers, notably:

  • Nikol Dibus
  • Karolína Kolářová
  • Vladimír Kořínek
  • Radislav Sedláček
  • Alikhan Abdirov

The publication venues where their work appeared also showed diversity, including:

  • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • EMBO Reports
  • Communications Biology

Best Publications

  • Levels of processing in human memory.

    Laird S. Cermak;Fergus I. M. Craik

  • Profiles of demented and amnesic patients on the California verbal learning test : implications for the assessment of memory disorders

    Dean C. Delis;Paul J. Massman;Nelson Butters;David P. Salmon

  • Effects of Elaboration of Processing at Encoding and Retrieval: Trace Distinctiveness and Recovery of Initial Context

    Laird S. Cermak;Fergus I.M. Craik

  • Reduced Cerebral Grey Matter Observed in Alcoholics Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Terry L. Jernigan;Nelson Butters;Nelson Butters;Gina DiTraglia;Kimberly Schafer

  • Alcoholic Korsakoff's syndrome : an information-processing approach to amnesia

    Nelson Butters;Laird S. Cermak

  • The anterograde and retrograde retrieval ability of a patient with amnesia due to encephalitis

    Laird S. Cermak;Margaret O'Connor

  • Memory disorders associated with Huntington's disease: verbal recall, verbal recognition and procedural memory.

    Nelson Butters;Nelson Butters;Jessica Wolfe;Jessica Wolfe;Maryann Martone;Maryann Martone;Eric Granholm

  • The perceptual priming phenomenon in amnesia.

    Laird S. Cermak;Nancy Talbot;Karen Chandler;Lynn Reale Wolbarst

  • Differentiation of amnesic and demented patients with the wechsler memory scale -revised

    Nelson Butters;David P. Salmon;C. Munro Cullum;Patricia Cairns

  • Intact delay-eyeblink classical conditioning in amnesia.

    John D. E. Gabrieli;Regina McGlinchey-Berroth;Regina McGlinchey-Berroth;Maria C. Carrillo;Mark A. Gluck

  • The dissociation of anterograde and retrograde amnesia in a patient with herpes encephalitis

    Margaret O'connor;Nelson Butters;Patti Miliotis;Paul Eslinger

  • Some analyses of the verbal encoding deficit of alcoholic Korsakoff patients

    Laird S. Cermak;Laird S. Cermak;Nelson Butters;Nelson Butters;Judith Moreines;Judith Moreines

  • The role of interference and encoding in the short-term memory deficits of Korsakoff patients.

    Laird S. Cermak;Nelson Butters

  • The encoding capacity of a patient with amnesia due to encephalitis

    L. S. Cermak

  • The extent of the verbal encoding ability of Korsakoff patients

    Laird S. Cermak;Laird S. Cermak;Nelson Butters;Nelson Butters;John Gerrein;John Gerrein

  • Some Analyses of Amnesic Syndromes in Brain-Damaged Patients

    Nelson Butters;Laird Cermak

  • Magnetic resonance imaging of alcoholic Korsakoff patients.

    Jernigan Tl;Schafer K;Butters N;Cermak Ls

  • A case study of the forgetting of autobiographical knowledge: Implications for the study of retrograde amnesia.

    Nelson Butters;Laird S. Cermak

  • The extent of memory loss in Korsakoff patients.

    Laird S. Cermak;Nelson Butters;Harold Goodglass

  • Deficits in the implicit retention of new associations by alcoholic Korsakoff patients.

    Laird S. Cermak;Rebecca Pratt Bleich;Susan P. Blackford

  • An Elaborative Processing Explanation of Depth of Processing

    Laird S. Cermak;Fergus I.M. Craik

  • Four Points to Remember: A Tetrahedral Model of Memory Experiments

    Laird S. Cermak;Fergus I.M. Craik

  • Perspectives on Memory Research@@@Levels of Processing in Human Memory

    Eugene B. Zechmeister;Lars-Goran Nilsson;Laird S. Cermak;Fergus I. M. Craik

Frequent Co-Authors

Nelson Butters
Nelson Butters University of California, San Diego
Mieke Verfaellie
Mieke Verfaellie Boston University
Terry L. Jernigan
Terry L. Jernigan University of California, San Diego
Harold Goodglass
Harold Goodglass Boston University
Paula K. Shear
Paula K. Shear University of Cincinnati
Larry L. Jacoby
Larry L. Jacoby Washington University in St. Louis
William P. Milberg
William P. Milberg Boston University
David P. Salmon
David P. Salmon University of California, San Diego
John F. Disterhoft
John F. Disterhoft Northwestern University
Diane M. Jacobs
Diane M. Jacobs University of California, San Diego

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