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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Markus Hafner is a researcher affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their work primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology as a subfield. The research topics they cover include RNA Research and Splicing, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA regulation and disease, interferon and immune responses, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, and MicroRNA in disease regulation.

Their publication record comprises several notable papers, including:

  • CLIP and complementary methods (2021), published in Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • Dynamic imaging of nascent RNA reveals general principles of transcription dynamics and stochastic splice site selection (2021), published in Cell
  • Rapid image deconvolution and multiview fusion for optical microscopy (2020), published in Nature Biotechnology
  • Balancing of mitochondrial translation through METTL8-mediated m3C modification of mitochondrial tRNAs (2021), published in Molecular Cell
  • Cytokine-enhanced cytolytic activity of exosomes from NK Cells (2021), published in Cancer Gene Therapy

Hafner has frequently published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 19 publications, Nature Communications with 5, Nucleic Acids Research and The Journal of Immunology with 4 publications each, and Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature with 3 publications.

The scientist collaborates with several frequent co-authors, including Dimitrios G. Anastasakis, Xiantao Wang, Liu Y, Ahsan Polash, and Parker R. Murphy. These collaborations reflect an active engagement in diverse research projects within their areas of expertise.

Markus Hafner's work spans several topics with a strong emphasis on RNA-related biology and disease mechanisms, including cancer research and immune responses. The combination of these research interests with frequent contributions to prominent scientific journals highlights their role in advancing knowledge in molecular biology and related biomedical fields.

In recognition of scientific contributions, Hafner was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Transcriptome-wide Identification of RNA-Binding Protein and MicroRNA Target Sites by PAR-CLIP

    Markus Hafner;Markus Landthaler;Lukas Burger;Mohsen Khorshid

  • A census of human RNA-binding proteins.

    Stefanie Gerstberger;Markus Hafner;Thomas Tuschl

  • FMRP targets distinct mRNA sequence elements to regulate protein expression

    Manuel Ascano;Neelanjan Mukherjee;Pradeep Bandaru;Jason B. Miller

  • Integrative Regulatory Mapping Indicates that the RNA-Binding Protein HuR Couples Pre-mRNA Processing and mRNA Stability

    Neelanjan Mukherjee;David L. Corcoran;Jeffrey D. Nusbaum;Jeffrey D. Nusbaum;David W. Reid

  • Identification of microRNAs and other small regulatory RNAs using cDNA library sequencing.

    Markus Hafner;Pablo Landgraf;Janos Ludwig;Amanda Rice

  • Laboratory mice born to wild mice have natural microbiota and model human immune responses

    Stephan P. Rosshart;Jasmin Herz;Brian G. Vassallo;Ashli Hunter

  • Molecular characterization of human Argonaute-containing ribonucleoprotein complexes and their bound target mRNAs

    Markus Landthaler;Dimos Gaidatzis;Andrea Rothballer;Po Yu Chen

  • MicroRNA Sequence and Expression Analysis in Breast Tumors by Deep Sequencing

    Thalia A. Farazi;Hugo M. Horlings;Jelle J. ten Hoeve;Aleksandra Mihailovic

  • The viral and cellular microRNA targetome in lymphoblastoid cell lines

    Rebecca L. Skalsky;David L Corcoran;Eva Gottwein;Christopher L. Frank

  • RNA targets of wild-type and mutant FET family proteins

    Jessica I Hoell;Erik Larsson;Simon Runge;Jeffrey D Nusbaum

  • RNA-ligase-dependent biases in miRNA representation in deep-sequenced small RNA cDNA libraries.

    Markus Hafner;Neil Renwick;Miguel Brown;Aleksandra Mihailović

  • miRNA in situ hybridization in formaldehyde and EDC-fixed tissues.

    John T G Pena;Cherin Sohn-Lee;Sara H Rouhanifard;Janos Ludwig;Janos Ludwig

  • Viral MicroRNA Targetome of KSHV-Infected Primary Effusion Lymphoma Cell Lines

    Eva Gottwein;David L. Corcoran;Neelanjan Mukherjee;Rebecca L. Skalsky

  • PAR-CliP-a method to identify transcriptome-wide the binding sites of RNA binding proteins

    Markus Hafner;Markus Landthaler;Lukas Burger;Mohsen Khorshid

  • Inhibition of cytohesins by SecinH3 leads to hepatic insulin resistance

    Markus Hafner;Anton Schmitz;Imke Grüne;Seergazhi G. Srivatsan

  • DGCR8-dependent microRNA biogenesis is essential for skin development

    Rui Yi;H. Amalia Pasolli;Markus Landthaler;Markus Hafner

  • Identification of RNA-protein interaction networks using PAR-CLIP.

    Manuel Ascano;Markus Hafner;Pavol Cekan;Stefanie Gerstberger

  • microRNAs are biomarkers of oncogenic human papillomavirus infections.

    Xiaohong Wang;Hsu Kun Wang;Yang Li;Yang Li;Markus Hafner;Markus Hafner

  • Absolute quantification of microRNAs by using a universal reference

    Ute Bissels;Stefan Wild;Stefan Tomiuk;Angela Holste

  • Genome-wide identification of microRNA targets in human ES cells reveals a role for miR-302 in modulating BMP response

    Inna Lipchina;Yechiel Elkabetz;Markus Hafner;Robert Sheridan

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Tuschl
Thomas Tuschl Rockefeller University
Marcus E. Peter
Marcus E. Peter Northwestern University
Mihaela Zavolan
Mihaela Zavolan University of Basel
Markus Landthaler
Markus Landthaler Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Uwe Ohler
Uwe Ohler Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Richard J. Maraia
Richard J. Maraia National Institutes of Health
Michael Famulok
Michael Famulok University of Bonn
Hong-Wei Sun
Hong-Wei Sun National Institutes of Health
Chris Sander
Chris Sander Harvard University
Markus Sauer
Markus Sauer University of Würzburg

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