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Laurie Davidson is affiliated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a total of 27 and 26 publications respectively in these main areas. The subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Oncology, Physiology, Genetics, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

Their work focuses on several main topics, which include:

  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Digestive system and related health
  • Infant Nutrition and Health
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer

Laurie Davidson has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, including:

  • Robert S. Chapkin
  • Ivan Ivanov
  • Stephen Safe
  • Arul Jayaraman
  • Clinton D. Allred

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in several journals, notably:

  • American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Poultry Science

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Laurie Davidson include:

  • Health Benefits of Coffee Consumption for Cancer and Other Diseases and Mechanisms of Action, 2023, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Loss of aryl hydrocarbon receptor potentiates FoxM1 signaling to enhance self-renewal of colonic stem and progenitor cells, 2020, The EMBO Journal
  • Effects of high-fat diet and intestinal aryl hydrocarbon receptor deletion on colon carcinogenesis, 2020, American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
  • Loss of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Promotes Colon Tumorigenesis in ApcS580/+; KrasG12D/+ Mice, 2021, Molecular Cancer Research
  • From crypts to enteroids: establishment and characterization of avian intestinal organoids, 2021, Poultry Science

Best Publications

  • Interleukin-2 receptor α chain regulates the size and content of the peripheral lymphoid compartment

    Dennis M. Willerford;Jianzhu Chen;Judith A. Ferry;Laurie Davidson

  • Defective B cell development and function in Btk-deficient mice

    Wasif N. Khan;Frederick W. Alt;Rachel M. Gerstein;Barbara A. Malynn

  • Impaired B Cell Development and Proliferation in Absence of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase p85α

    David A. Fruman;Scott B. Snapper;Claudine M. Yballe;Laurie Davidson

  • A Critical Role for DNA End-Joining Proteins in Both Lymphogenesis and Neurogenesis

    Yijie Gao;Yi Sun;Karen M. Frank;Pieter Dikkes

  • Late embryonic lethality and impaired V(D)J recombination in mice lacking DNA ligase IV.

    Karen M. Frank;Joann M. Sekiguchi;Katherine J. Seidl;Wojciech Swat

  • A Targeted DNA-PKcs-Null Mutation Reveals DNA-PK-Independent Functions for KU in V(D)J Recombination

    Yijie Gao;Jayanta Chaudhuri;Chengming Zhu;Laurie Davidson

  • Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein-Deficient Mice Reveal a Role for WASP in T but Not B Cell Activation

    Scott B. Snapper;Fred S. Rosen;Emiko Mizoguchi;Paul Cohen

  • Growth Retardation and Leaky SCID Phenotype of Ku70-Deficient Mice

    Yansong Gu;Katherine J. Seidl;Gary A. Rathbun;Chengming Zhu

  • Defects in actin-cap formation in Vav-deficient mice implicate an actin requirement for lymphocyte signal transduction

    L.J. Holsinger;I.A. Graef;W. Swat;T. Chi

  • Defective signalling through the T- and B-cell antigen receptors in lymphoid cells lacking the vav proto-oncogene

    Rong Zhang;Rong Zhang;Rong Zhang;Frederick W. Alt;Frederick W. Alt;Frederick W. Alt;Laurie Davidson;Stuart H. Orkin

  • N-myc can functionally replace c-myc in murine development, cellular growth, and differentiation

    Barbara A. Malynn;Ignacio Moreno de Alboran;Rónán C. O'Hagan;Roderick Bronson

  • Analysis of C-MYC Function in Normal Cells via Conditional Gene-Targeted Mutation

    Ignacio Moreno de Alboran;Rónán C O'Hagan;Frank Gärtner;Barbara Malynn

  • Increased T-cell apoptosis and terminal B-cell differentiation induced by inactivation of the Ets-1 proto-oncogene

    Jean-Christophe Bories;Dennis M. Willerford;Delphine Grévin;Laurie Davidson

  • N-WASP deficiency reveals distinct pathways for cell surface projections and microbial actin-based motility.

    Scott B. Snapper;Scott B. Snapper;Fuminao Takeshima;Inés Antón;Inés Antón;Ching-Hui Liu;Ching-Hui Liu

  • Delayed lymphoid repopulation with defects in IL-4-driven responses produced by inactivation of NF-ATc.

    Ann M Ranger;Martin R Hodge;Ellen M Gravallese;Mohammed Oukka

  • The TEL/ETV6 gene is required specifically for hematopoiesis in the bone marrow

    Li Chun Wang;Wojciech Swat;Yuko Fujiwara;Laurie Davidson

  • Ku70 Is Required for Late B Cell Development and Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Class Switching

    John P. Manis;Yansong Gu;Rusty Lansford;Eiichiro Sonoda

  • CD40-deficient mice generated by recombination-activating gene-2-deficient blastocyst complementation.

    Emanuela Castigli;Frederick W. Alt;Laurie Davidson;Andrea Bottaro

  • Bclx regulates the survival of double-positive thymocytes

    Averil Ma;John C. Pena;Brian Chang;Elisabeth Margosian

  • Cdc42 is required for PIP2-induced actin polymerization and early development but not for cell viability

    F. Chen;L. Ma;M.C. Parrini;M.C. Parrini;X. Mao;X. Mao

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederick W. Alt
Frederick W. Alt Boston Children's Hospital
Wojciech Swat
Wojciech Swat Washington University in St. Louis
Barry P. Sleckman
Barry P. Sleckman University of Alabama at Birmingham
John P. Manis
John P. Manis Boston Children's Hospital
Fred S. Rosen
Fred S. Rosen Harvard University
Stuart H. Orkin
Stuart H. Orkin Harvard University
Scott B. Snapper
Scott B. Snapper Boston Children's Hospital
Jo Ann Sekiguchi
Jo Ann Sekiguchi University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Raif S. Geha
Raif S. Geha Boston Children's Hospital
Roderick T. Bronson
Roderick T. Bronson Harvard University

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