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Overview

Maitreya J. Dunham is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States, focusing on research in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their scholarly output includes 90 publications primarily in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology and 38 within Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their research encompasses several subfields, notably Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Genetics, Food Science, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. This positions them within a broad spectrum of biological and genetic study areas.

Main topics in Dunham's work include:

  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Fermentation and Sensory Analysis
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Horticultural and Viticultural Research
  • Neonatal Health and Biochemistry
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases

The publication record spans various venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Genetics
  • PLoS Genetics
  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics

Among their recent papers are:

  • Massively parallel characterization of CYP2C9 variant enzyme activity and abundance, 2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • A modified fluctuation assay reveals a natural mutator phenotype that drives mutation spectrum variation within Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 2021, eLife
  • The environmental stress response causes ribosome loss in aneuploid yeast cells, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Transposable Element Mobilization in Interspecific Yeast Hybrids, 2021, Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Genomic stability and adaptation of beer brewing yeasts during serial repitching in the brewery, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Dunham frequently collaborates with a group of coauthors including Renee C. Geck, Clara J. Amorosi, Pengyao Jiang, Christopher R. L. Large, and Chiann-Ling C Yeh, each having contributed to multiple publications alongside them.

Best Publications

  • Protein microarrays for highly parallel detection and quantitation of specific proteins and antibodies in complex solutions

    Brian B Haab;Brian B Haab;Maitreya J Dunham;Patrick O Brown;Patrick O Brown

  • Effects of Aneuploidy on Cellular Physiology and Cell Division in Haploid Yeast

    Eduardo M. Torres;Tanya Sokolsky;Tanya Sokolsky;Cheryl M. Tucker;Cheryl M. Tucker;Leon Y. Chan;Leon Y. Chan

  • Asymmetric leaves1 mediates leaf patterning and stem cell function in Arabidopsis

    Mary E Byrne;Ross Barley;Mark Curtis;Mark Curtis;Juana Maria Arroyo

  • Characteristic genome rearrangements in experimental evolution of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Maitreya J. Dunham;Hassan Badrane;Tracy Ferea;Julian Adams

  • Single-molecule sequencing and chromatin conformation capture enable de novo reference assembly of the domestic goat genome

    Derek M Bickhart;Benjamin D Rosen;Sergey Koren;Brian L Sayre

  • The repertoire and dynamics of evolutionary adaptations to controlled nutrient-limited environments in yeast.

    David Gresham;Michael M. Desai;Cheryl M. Tucker;Harry T. Jenq

  • Identification of aneuploidy-tolerating mutations

    Eduardo Martin Torres;Noah Dephoure;Amudha Panneerselvam;Cheryl M. Tucker

  • The Awesome Power of Yeast Evolutionary Genetics: New Genome Sequences and Strain Resources for the Saccharomyces sensu stricto Genus

    Devin R. Scannell;Oliver A. Zill;Antonis Rokas;Celia Payen

  • Variant Interpretation: Functional Assays to the Rescue

    Lea M. Starita;Nadav Ahituv;Maitreya J. Dunham;Jacob O. Kitzman

  • Genome-wide detection of polymorphisms at nucleotide resolution with a single DNA microarray.

    David Gresham;Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephen C. Pratt;Joseph Schacherer

  • Comparing whole genomes using DNA microarrays.

    David Gresham;Maitreya J. Dunham;David Botstein

  • Transcriptional consequences of aneuploidy

    Jason Meyer Sheltzer;Eduardo Martin Torres;Maitreya J. Dunham;Angelika B. Amon

  • Species-level deconvolution of metagenome assemblies with Hi-C-based contact probability maps

    Joshua N. Burton;Ivan Liachko;Maitreya J. Dunham;Jay Shendure

  • Genome-wide consequences of deleting any single gene

    Xinchen Teng;Margaret Dayhoff-Brannigan;Wen Chih Cheng;Catherine E. Gilbert

  • Accurate detection of aneuploidies in array CGH and gene expression microarray data

    Chad L. Myers;Maitreya J. Dunham;S. Y. Kung;Olga G. Troyanskaya

  • Functional analysis of gene duplications in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Yuanfang Guan;Maitreya J. Dunham;Olga G. Troyanskaya

  • Integrative phenomics reveals insight into the structure of phenotypic diversity in budding yeast

    Daniel A. Skelly;Gennifer E. Merrihew;Michael Riffle;Caitlin F. Connelly

  • A low cost, customizable turbidostat for use in synthetic circuit characterization.

    Chris N. Takahashi;Aaron W. Miller;Felix Ekness;Maitreya J. Dunham

  • Whole-genome sequencing of a laboratory-evolved yeast strain.

    Carlos L Araya;Celia Payen;Maitreya J Dunham;Stanley Fields

  • Predicting Cellular Growth from Gene Expression Signatures

    Edoardo M. Airoldi;Curtis Huttenhower;David Gresham;Charles Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay Shendure
Jay Shendure University of Washington
Olga G. Troyanskaya
Olga G. Troyanskaya Princeton University
David Botstein
David Botstein Princeton University
William Stafford Noble
William Stafford Noble University of Washington
Bonita J. Brewer
Bonita J. Brewer University of Washington
Allan E. Rettie
Allan E. Rettie University of Washington
Matt Kaeberlein
Matt Kaeberlein University of Washington
Stanley Fields
Stanley Fields University of Washington
Patrick O. Brown
Patrick O. Brown Stanford University

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