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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco is affiliated with The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with significant contributions to several interconnected subfields.

Their main areas of study encompass molecular biology, infectious diseases, immunology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and public health, environmental and occupational health. Within these broader fields, the scientist's work focuses on specific topics such as RNA research and splicing, immune cell function and interaction, viral infections and immunology research, mosquito-borne diseases and control, RNA modifications and cancer, viral infections and vectors, and interferon and immune responses.

Garcia-Blanco has published extensively, contributing to numerous journal venues. Frequent publication outlets for their work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nucleic Acids Research, Antiviral Research, RNA, and Nature Communications.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Garcia-Blanco include:

  • A high-throughput neutralizing antibody assay for COVID-19 diagnosis and vaccine evaluation, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Discovery of Widespread Host Protein Interactions with the Pre-replicated Genome of CHIKV Using VIR-CLASP, 2020, Molecular Cell
  • A high-throughput neutralizing antibody assay for COVID-19 diagnosis and vaccine evaluation, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ribosomal stalk proteins RPLP1 and RPLP2 promote biogenesis of flaviviral and cellular multi-pass transmembrane proteins, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Role of Alternative Splicing in Regulating Host Response to Viral Infection, 2021, Cells

The scientist has collaborated with a range of frequent co-authors including Shelton S. Bradrick, W. Samuel Fagg, Geraldine Schott, Gaddiel Galarza-Muñoz, and Steven G. Widen. Such collaborations indicate an interdisciplinary approach spanning molecular biology and virology.

Recognition of Garcia-Blanco's contributions includes election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011. Additionally, they are a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Interleukin 7 receptor α chain (IL7R) shows allelic and functional association with multiple sclerosis

    Simon G. Gregory;Silke Schmidt;Puneet Seth;Jorge R. Oksenberg

  • Protein-protein interactions and 5'-splice-site recognition in mammalian mRNA precursors

    Jhumku D. Kohtz;Sharon F. Jamison;Cindy L. Will;Ping Zuo;Ping Zuo

  • Zika virus: History, emergence, biology, and prospects for control.

    Scott C. Weaver;Federico Costa;Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco;Albert I. Ko

  • Circulating tumor cells from patients with advanced prostate and breast cancer display both epithelial and mesenchymal markers.

    Andrew J. Armstrong;Matthew S. Marengo;Sebastian Oltean;Sebastian Oltean;Gabor Kemeny

  • Alternative splicing in disease and therapy

    Mariano A Garcia-Blanco;Andrew P Baraniak;Erika L Lasda

  • A Screen of FDA-Approved Drugs for Inhibitors of Zika Virus Infection

    Nicholas J. Barrows;Nicholas J. Barrows;Rafael K. Campos;Rafael K. Campos;Steven T. Powell;K. Reddisiva Prasanth

  • N6-Methyladenosine in Flaviviridae Viral RNA Genomes Regulates Infection.

    Nandan S. Gokhale;Alexa B.R. McIntyre;Michael J. McFadden;Allison E. Roder

  • Reversible cross-linking combined with immunoprecipitation to study RNA-protein interactions in vivo.

    Somashe Niranjanakumari;Erika Lasda;Robert Brazas;Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco

  • Autoregulation of Polypyrimidine Tract Binding Protein by Alternative Splicing Leading to Nonsense-Mediated Decay

    Matthew C Wollerton;Clare Gooding;Eric J Wagner;Mariano A Garcia-Blanco

  • Polypyrimidine Tract Binding Protein Antagonizes Exon Definition

    Eric J. Wagner;Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco

  • Identification and purification of a 62,000-dalton protein that binds specifically to the polypyrimidine tract of introns.

    Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco;Sharon F. Jamison;Phillip A. Sharp

  • Dengue subgenomic RNA binds TRIM25 to inhibit interferon expression for epidemiological fitness

    Gayathri Manokaran;Esteban Finol;Esteban Finol;Chunling Wang;Jayantha Gunaratne;Jayantha Gunaratne

  • Discovery of insect and human dengue virus host factors

    October M. Sessions;Nicholas J. Barrows;Jayme A. Souza-Neto;Timothy J. Robinson

  • Characterization of cDNAs encoding the polypyrimidine tract-binding protein.

    Anna Gil;Phillip A. Sharp;Sharon F. Jamison;Sharon F. Jamison;Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco;Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco

  • A high-throughput neutralizing antibody assay for COVID-19 diagnosis and vaccine evaluation.

    Antonio E. Muruato;Camila R. Fontes-Garfias;Ping Ren;Mariano A Garcia-Blanco;Mariano A Garcia-Blanco

  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Flaviviruses

    Nicholas J. Barrows;Nicholas J. Barrows;Rafael K. Campos;Rafael K. Campos;Kuo Chieh Liao;K. Reddisiva Prasanth

  • G3BP1, G3BP2 and CAPRIN1 Are Required for Translation of Interferon Stimulated mRNAs and Are Targeted by a Dengue Virus Non-coding RNA

    Katell Bidet;Dhivya Dadlani;Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco

  • Identification and characterization of a HeLa nuclear protein that specifically binds to the trans-activation-response (TAR) element of human immunodeficiency virus

    Robert A. Marciniak;Robert A. Marciniak;Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco;Phillip A. Sharp

  • Alternative splicing of fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGF-R2) in human prostate cancer

    Russ P. Carstens;James V. Eaton;Hannah R. Krigman;Philip J. Walther

  • SR proteins escort the U4/U6.U5 tri-snRNP to the spliceosome.

    Robert F. Roscigno;Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco

Frequent Co-Authors

Pei-Yong Shi
Pei-Yong Shi GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)
Daniel J. George
Daniel J. George Duke University
Eng Eong Ooi
Eng Eong Ooi National University of Singapore
Xuping Xie
Xuping Xie The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Simon G. Gregory
Simon G. Gregory Duke University
Vineet D. Menachery
Vineet D. Menachery The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Nikos Vasilakis
Nikos Vasilakis The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Peter Lengyel
Peter Lengyel Yale University
Diane E. Griffin
Diane E. Griffin Johns Hopkins University

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