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Molecular Biology

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110
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 1986 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Marianne Bronner-Fraser is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Cell Biology, Surgery, and Genetics as key subfields. The scientist's work involves various topics including Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation, Congenital heart defects research, MicroRNA in disease regulation, Congenital gastrointestinal and neural anomalies, RNA Research and Splicing, Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation.

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Guidelines and definitions for research on epithelial-mesenchymal transition," 2020, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • "Schwann cell precursors represent a neural crest-like state with biased multipotency," 2022, The EMBO Journal
  • "Riding the crest to get a head: neural crest evolution in vertebrates," 2021, Nature Reviews Neuroscience
  • "Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and different migration strategies as viewed from the neural crest," 2020, Current Opinion in Cell Biology
  • "Single-cell atlas of early chick development reveals gradual segregation of neural crest lineage from the neural plate border during neurulation," 2022, eLife

Frequent co-authors with whom Marianne Bronner-Fraser has collaborated include Jan Štundl, Michael L. Piacentino, Hugo A. Urrutia, Erica J. Hutchins, and Megan L. Martik. These collaborations span various projects intrinsic to their scientific focus.

The scientist has contributed frequently to publication venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Developmental Biology, eLife, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Development.

In recognition of their work, Marianne Bronner-Fraser was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1986.

Best Publications

  • Cancerous stem cells can arise from pediatric brain tumors

    Houman D. Hemmati;Ichiro Nakano;Jorge A. Lazareff;Michael Masterman-Smith

  • The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype

    Nicholas H. Putnam;Thomas Butts;David E. K. Ferrier;Rebecca F. Furlong

  • Epithelial-mesenchymal transitions: the importance of changing cell state in development and disease

    Hervé Acloque;Meghan S. Adams;Katherine Fishwick;Marianne Bronner-Fraser

  • A gene regulatory network orchestrates neural crest formation.

    Tatjana Sauka-Spengler;Marianne Bronner-Fraser

  • Cell lineage analysis reveals multipotency of some avian neural crest cells.

    Marianne Bronner-Fraser;Scott E. Fraser

  • Vertebrate cranial placodes I. Embryonic induction.

    Clare V.H. Baker;Marianne Bronner-Fraser

  • Ectodermal Wnt function as a neural crest inducer.

    Martı́n I. Garcı́a-Castro;Christophe Marcelle;Marianne Bronner-Fraser

  • The amphioxus genome illuminates vertebrate origins and cephalochordate biology

    Linda Z. Holland;Ricard Albalat;Kaoru Azumi;Èlia Benito-Gutiérrez

  • Neural crest induction in Xenopus: evidence for a two-signal model

    Carole LaBonne;Marianne Bronner-Fraser

  • Vital dye analysis of cranial neural crest cell migration in the mouse embryo

    George N. Serbedzija;Marianne Bronner-Fraser;Scott E. Fraser

  • Analysis of the Early Stages of Trunk Neural Crest Migration in Avian Embryos Using Monoclonal Antibody HNK-1

    Marianne Bronner-Fraser

  • Gene-Regulatory Interactions in Neural Crest Evolution and Development

    Daniel Meulemans;Marianne Bronner-Fraser

  • Origins of the avian neural crest: the role of neural plate-epidermal interactions.

    Mark A. J. Selleck;Marianne Bronner-Fraser

  • Interactions of Eph-related receptors and ligands confer rostrocaudal pattern to trunk neural crest migration

    Catherine E. Krull;Rusty Lansford;Nicholas W. Gale;Andres Collazo

  • Induction of the neural crest: a multigene process.

    Anne K. Knecht;Marianne Bronner-Fraser

  • Specification of the neural crest occurs during gastrulation and requires Pax7

    Martín L. Basch;Marianne Bronner-Fraser;Martín I. García-Castro;Martín I. García-Castro

  • Dorsalization of the neural tube by the non-neural ectoderm

    Mary E. Dickinson;Mark A. J. Selleck;Andrew P. McMahon;Marianne Bronner-Fraser

  • Coordinate actions of BMPs, Wnts, Shh and noggin mediate patterning of the dorsal somite

    Christophe Marcelle;Michael R. Stark;Marianne Bronner-Fraser

  • An antibody to a receptor for fibronectin and laminin perturbs cranial neural crest development in vivo

    Marianne Bronner-Fraser

  • Pathways of trunk neural crest cell migration in the mouse embryo as revealed by vital dye labelling

    George N. Serbedzija;Scott E. Fraser;Marianne E. Bronner-Fraser

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott E. Fraser
Scott E. Fraser University of Southern California
Tatjana Sauka-Spengler
Tatjana Sauka-Spengler University of Oxford
Roberto Perris
Roberto Perris University of Parma
Linda Z. Holland
Linda Z. Holland University of California, San Diego
Daniel S. Rokhsar
Daniel S. Rokhsar University of California, Berkeley
Claudio D. Stern
Claudio D. Stern University College London
Marc Robinson-Rechavi
Marc Robinson-Rechavi University of Lausanne
Yutaka Satou
Yutaka Satou Kyoto University
Len A. Pennacchio
Len A. Pennacchio Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Paul W. Sternberg
Paul W. Sternberg California Institute of Technology

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