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Maureen R. Hanson

Maureen R. Hanson

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Genetics

D-Index
77
Citations
19170
World Ranking
1776
National Ranking
812

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Maureen R. Hanson is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and focuses on research that spans medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their scientific output demonstrates substantial engagement with molecular biology and neurological-related subfields such as psychiatry, mental health, rehabilitation, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The main research topics covered by Maureen R. Hanson's work include:

  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Exercise and Physiological Responses
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease

Frequent publication venues where their work appears include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Translational Medicine
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • The Journal of Immunology

Among the notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Maureen R. Hanson are:

  • Improving the efficiency of Rubisco by resurrecting its ancestors in the family Solanaceae, 2022, Science Advances
  • Comprehensive Circulatory Metabolomics in ME/CFS Reveals Disrupted Metabolism of Acyl Lipids and Steroids, 2020, Metabolites
  • Small subunits can determine enzyme kinetics of tobacco Rubisco expressed in Escherichia coli, 2020, Nature Plants
  • Plasma metabolomics reveals disrupted response and recovery following maximal exercise in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, 2022, JCI Insight
  • Absence of carbonic anhydrase in chloroplasts affects C 3 plant development but not photosynthesis, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Collaborators with whom Maureen R. Hanson has frequently co-authored include:

  • Arnaud Germain
  • Susan Levine
  • Carl J. Franconi
  • Ludovic Giloteaux
  • Andrew Grimson

Maureen R. Hanson's contributions to science have been recognized in part by being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1989.

Best Publications

  • Redesigning photosynthesis to sustainably meet global food and bioenergy demand

    Donald R. Ort;Donald R. Ort;Sabeeha S. Merchant;Jean Alric;Alice Barkan

  • Interactions of Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genes That Affect Male Gametophyte Development

    Maureen R. Hanson;Steéphane Bentolila

  • Exchange of Protein Molecules Through Connections Between Higher Plant Plastids

    Rainer H. Köhler;Jun Cao;Warren R. Zipfel;Watt W. Webb

  • A pentatricopeptide repeat-containing gene restores fertility to cytoplasmic male-sterile plants.

    Stéphane Bentolila;Antonio A. Alfonso;Maureen R. Hanson

  • Plant Mitochondrial Mutations and Male Sterility

    Maureen R. Hanson

  • A faster Rubisco with potential to increase photosynthesis in crops

    Myat T. Lin;Alessandro Occhialini;P. John Andralojc;Martin A. J. Parry

  • Chloroplast RNA metabolism.

    David B Stern;Michel P. Goldschmidt-Clermont;Maureen R Hanson

  • Mobilization of Rubisco and Stroma-Localized Fluorescent Proteins of Chloroplasts to the Vacuole by an ATG Gene-Dependent Autophagic Process

    Hiroyuki Ishida;Kohki Yoshimoto;Masanori Izumi;Daniel Reisen

  • A fused mitochondrial gene associated with cytoplasmic male sterility is developmentally regulated.

    Ellora G. Young;Maureen R. Hanson

  • Reduced diversity and altered composition of the gut microbiome in individuals with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome

    Ludovic Giloteaux;Julia K. Goodrich;William A. Walters;Susan M. Levine

  • The green fluorescent protein as a marker to visualize plant mitochondria in vivo

    Rainer H. Kohler;Warren R. Zipfel;Watt W. Webb;Maureen R. Hanson

  • Functioning and Variation of Cytoplasmic Genomes: Lessons from Cytoplasmic–Nuclear Interactions Affecting Male Fertility in Plants

    Maureen R. Hanson;Mary F. Conde

  • Programmed cell death during pollination-induced petal senescence in petunia.

    Yan Xu;Maureen R. Hanson

  • RIP1, a member of an Arabidopsis protein family, interacts with the protein RARE1 and broadly affects RNA editing

    Stephane Bentolila;Wade P. Heller;Tao Sun;Arianne M. Babina

  • GFP imaging: methodology and application to investigate cellular compartmentation in plants.

    Maureen R. Hanson;Rainer H. Köhler

  • Plastid tubules of higher plants are tissue-specific and developmentally regulated.

    Rainer H. Köhler;Maureen R. Hanson

  • The Arabidopsis AtRaptor genes are essential for post-embryonic plant growth

    Garrett H Anderson;Bruce Veit;Maureen R Hanson

  • A guide to RNA editing.

    Harold C. Smith;Jonatha M. Gott;Maureen R. Hanson

  • Active protein transport through plastid tubules: velocity quantified by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.

    Rainer H. Köhler;Petra Schwille;Watt W. Webb;Maureen R. Hanson

  • Comprehensive High-Resolution Analysis of the Role of an Arabidopsis Gene Family in RNA Editing

    Stéphane Bentolila;Julyun Oh;Maureen R. Hanson;Robert Bukowski

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin A. J. Parry
Martin A. J. Parry Lancaster University
Lawrence Bogorad
Lawrence Bogorad Harvard University
Bingwei Lu
Bingwei Lu Stanford University
David Ruppert
David Ruppert Cornell University
Klaas J. van Wijk
Klaas J. van Wijk Cornell University
Frederick M. Ausubel
Frederick M. Ausubel Harvard University
Stephen P. Long
Stephen P. Long University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alice Barkan
Alice Barkan University of Oregon
David B. Stern
David B. Stern Boyce Thompson Institute
Phillip E. McClean
Phillip E. McClean North Dakota State University

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