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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2009 - Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
  • 1987 - Distinguished Scientist Award, Mineralogical Society of America
  • 1984 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Marilyn G. Farquhar was affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research focused on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with particular emphasis on molecular biology, genetics, and cell biology alongside contributions to neurology and epidemiology.

Their recent scientific publications covered a range of topics, including cellular transport and secretion, protein kinase regulation and GTPase signaling, CRISPR and genetic engineering, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, microtubule and mitosis dynamics, and amyloidosis diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes.

  • Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes

Their published papers included:

  • "A circuit for secretion-coupled cellular autonomy in multicellular eukaryotic cells," 2023, Molecular Systems Biology
  • "A Circuit for Secretion-coupled Cellular Autonomy in Multicellular Eukaryotes," 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Table of Contents," 2020, Kidney International
  • "RGS12 and RGS14 GoLoco Motifs Are Gα i Interaction Sites with Guanine Nucleotide Dissociation Inhibitor Activity," 2021, UNC Libraries

The scientist frequently collaborated with colleagues such as Lingxia Qiao, Saptarshi Sinha, Amer Ali Abd El-Hafeez, I-Chung Lo, and Krishna Midde, each contributing to multiple publications.

The principal venues for their research output included Molecular Systems Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Kidney International, and UNC Libraries.

Marilyn G. Farquhar was recognized with several awards during their career, including the distinction of being a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America in 2009, the Distinguished Scientist Award from the same society in 1987, and membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 1984.

Best Publications

  • JUNCTIONAL COMPLEXES IN VARIOUS EPITHELIA

    Marilyn G. Farquhar;George E. Palade

  • The Golgi apparatus (complex)-(1954-1981)-from artifact to center stage.

    M G Farquhar;G E Palade

  • CELL JUNCTIONS IN AMPHIBIAN SKIN

    Marilyn G. Farquhar;George E. Palade

  • Measurement of cytosolic, mitochondrial, and Golgi pH in single living cells with green fluorescent proteins.

    J Llopis;J M McCaffery;A Miyawaki;M G Farquhar

  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEUTROPHILIC POLYMORPHONUCLEAR LEUKOCYTES IN HUMAN BONE MARROW ORIGIN AND CONTENT OF AZUROPHIL AND SPECIFIC GRANULES

    Dorothy Ford Bainton;Joan L. Ullyot;Marilyn G. Farquhar

  • FUNCTIONS OF COATED VESICLES DURING PROTEIN ABSORPTION IN THE RAT VAS DEFERENS

    Daniel S. Friend;Marilyn G. Farquhar

  • Increased permeability of the glomerular basement membrane to ferritin after removal of glycosaminoglycans (heparan sulfate) by enzyme digestion.

    Yashpal S. Kanwar;Alfred Linker;Marilyn Gist Farquhar

  • GLOMERULAR PERMEABILITY : I. FERRITIN TRANSFER ACROSS THE NORMAL GLOMERULAR CAPILLARY WALL

    Marilyn G. Farquhar;Steven L. Wissig;George E. Palade

  • The regulator of G protein signaling family.

    Luc De Vries;Bin Zheng;Thierry Fischer;Eric Elenko

  • Complete cloning and sequencing of rat gp330/"megalin," a distinctive member of the low density lipoprotein receptor gene family

    Akihiko Saito;Salvatore Pietromonaco;Alvin Kwor-Chieh Loo;Marilyn Gist Farquhar

  • Presence of heparan sulfate in the glomerular basement membrane.

    Yashpal S. Kanwar;Marilyn G. Farquhar

  • The pathogenic antigen of Heymann nephritis is a membrane glycoprotein of the renal proximal tubule brush border

    Dontscho Kerjaschki;Marilyn Gist Farquhar

  • Origin of granules in polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Two types derived from opposite faces of the Golgi complex in developing granulocytes.

    Dorothy Ford Bainton;Marilyn G. Farquhar

  • Identification and characterization of podocalyxin--the major sialoprotein of the renal glomerular epithelial cell

    D Kerjaschki;D J Sharkey;M G Farquhar

  • Immunocytochemical localization of the Heymann nephritis antigen (GP330) in glomerular epithelial cells of normal Lewis rats

    D Kerjaschki;MG Farquhar

  • FUNCTIONAL EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF A THIRD CELL TYPE IN THE RENAL GLOMERULUS : Phagocytosis of Filtration Residues by a Distinctive "Third" Cell

    Marilyn G. Farquhar;George E. Palade

  • DIFFERENCES IN ENZYME CONTENT OF AZUROPHIL AND SPECIFIC GRANULES OF POLYMORPHONUCLEAR LEUKOCYTES: II. Cytochemistry and Electron Microscopy of Bone Marrow Cells

    Dorothy Ford Bainton;Marilyn G. Farquhar

  • Vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein is sorted and concentrated during export from the endoplasmic reticulum

    William E. Balch;J.Michael McCaffery;Helen Plutner;Marilyn Gist Farquhar

  • GOLPH3 Bridges Phosphatidylinositol-4- Phosphate and Actomyosin to Stretch and Shape the Golgi to Promote Budding

    Holly C. Dippold;Michelle M. Ng;Suzette E. Farber-Katz;Sun-Kyung Lee

  • The Golgi apparatus: 100 years of progress and controversy.

    Marilyn G. Farquhar;George E. Palade

Frequent Co-Authors

Dontscho Kerjaschki
Dontscho Kerjaschki Medical University of Vienna
Jennifer L. Stow
Jennifer L. Stow University of Queensland
Paul A. Insel
Paul A. Insel University of California, San Diego
Yashpal S. Kanwar
Yashpal S. Kanwar Northwestern University
David M. Roth
David M. Roth University of California San Diego
Hemal H. Patel
Hemal H. Patel University of California, San Diego
J. Michael McCaffery
J. Michael McCaffery Johns Hopkins University
Huilin Zhou
Huilin Zhou University of California, San Diego
Meng-Qiu Dong
Meng-Qiu Dong Tsinghua University
George E. Palade
George E. Palade Rockefeller University

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