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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
  • 1994 - Gregori Aminoff Prize, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences For your fundamental methodological work on the utilization of non-crystallographic symmetry, with its especially important applications within protein and virus crystallography.
  • 1990 - Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Columbia University
  • 1987 - Canada Gairdner International Award
  • 1984 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Michael G. Rossmann was affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research spanned multiple fields, primarily focusing on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist contributed to key subfields including Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, Ecology, and Epidemiology.

Major research topics in their work included:

  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • Plant Virus Research Studies

Frequent publication venues where they published multiple papers included:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • Viruses
  • Cell Host & Microbe
  • Science Immunology

The following papers demonstrated their recent research contributions:

  • Human mAbs Broadly Protect against Arthritogenic Alphaviruses by Recognizing Conserved Elements of the Mxra8 Receptor-Binding Site, 2020, Cell Host & Microbe
  • Human antibodies neutralize enterovirus D68 and protect against infection and paralytic disease, 2020, Science Immunology
  • Cryo-EM structure of eastern equine encephalitis virus in complex with heparan sulfate analogues, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Structural morphing in a symmetry-mismatched viral vertex, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Near-atomic, non-icosahedrally averaged structure of giant virus Paramecium bursaria chlorella virus 1, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael G. Rossmann consisted of:

  • Thomas Klose
  • Richard Kühn
  • Qianglin Fang
  • Andrei Fokine
  • Geeta Buda

Michael G. Rossmann also contributed to the academic literature with a book published by World Scientific titled Caught by Viruses in 2021.

The scientist received several awards during their career, including:

  • Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, 2001
  • Gregori Aminoff Prize, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1994, for fundamental work on non-crystallographic symmetry applications in protein and virus crystallography
  • Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Columbia University, 1990
  • Canada Gairdner International Award, 1987
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1984

Best Publications

  • Structure of dengue virus: implications for flavivirus organization, maturation, and fusion.

    Richard J. Kuhn;Wei Zhang;Michael G. Rossmann;Sergei V. Pletnev

  • Chemical and biological evolution of nucleotide-binding protein.

    Michael G. Rossmann;Dino Moras;Kenneth W. Olsen

  • Structure of a human common cold virus and functional relationship to other picornaviruses

    Michael G. Rossmann;Edward Arnold;John W. Erickson;Elizabeth A. Frankenberger

  • Structure of Hæmoglobin: A Three-Dimensional Fourier Synthesis at 5.5-Å. Resolution, Obtained by X-Ray Analysis

    M. F. Perutz;M. G. Rossmann;Ann F. Cullis;Hilary Muirhead

  • A structural perspective of the flavivirus life cycle

    Suchetana Mukhopadhyay;Richard J. Kuhn;Michael G. Rossmann

  • The detection of sub‐units within the crystallographic asymmetric unit

    M. G. Rossmann;D. M. Blow

  • Comparison of super-secondary structures in proteins.

    S.T. Rao;Michael G. Rossmann

  • 4 Lactate Dehydrogenase

    J. John Holbrook;Anders Liljas;Steven J. Steindel;Michael G. Rossmann

  • X-ray Crystallographic Structure of the Norwalk Virus Capsid

    B. V. V. Prasad;Michele E. Hardy;Terje Dokland;Jordi Bella

  • The 3.8 Å resolution cryo-EM structure of Zika virus

    Devika Sirohi;Zhenguo Chen;Lei Sun;Thomas Klose

  • The molecular replacement method

    Michael G. Rossmann

  • Structure of the Immature Dengue Virus at Low pH Primes Proteolytic Maturation

    I-Mei Yu;Wei Zhang;Heather A. Holdaway;Long Li

  • Thermal stability and protein structure.

    Patrick Argos;Michael G. Rossmann;Ulrich M. Grau;Herbert Zuber

  • A virus-like particle vaccine for epidemic Chikungunya virus protects nonhuman primates against infection

    Wataru Akahata;Zhi Yong Yang;Hanne Andersen;Siyang Sun

  • The Flavivirus Precursor Membrane-Envelope Protein Complex: Structure and Maturation

    Long Li;Shee-Mei Lok;I-Mei Yu;Ying Zhang

  • Icosahedral RNA virus structure.

    Michael G. Rossmann;John E. Johnson

  • The three-dimensional structure of canine parvovirus and its functional implications

    Jun Tsao;Michael S. Chapman;Mavis Agbandje;Walter Keller

  • Structures of immature flavivirus particles

    Ying Zhang;Jeroen Corver;Jeroen Corver;Paul R. Chipman;Wei Zhang

  • Structure of the bacteriophage φ29 DNA packaging motor

    Alan A. Simpson;Yizhi Jane Tao;Yizhi Jane Tao;Petr G Leiman;Mohammed O. Badasso

  • Visualization of membrane protein domains by cryo-electron microscopy of dengue virus

    Wei Zhang;Paul R Chipman;Jeroen Corver;Jeroen Corver;Peter R Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Kuhn
Richard Kuhn Purdue University West Lafayette
Paul R. Chipman
Paul R. Chipman University of Florida
Timothy S. Baker
Timothy S. Baker University of California, San Diego
Ming Luo
Ming Luo Georgia State University
John E. Johnson
John E. Johnson Scripps Research Institute
Venigalla B. Rao
Venigalla B. Rao Catholic University of America
Patrick Argos
Patrick Argos Purdue University West Lafayette
Michael S. Diamond
Michael S. Diamond Washington University in St. Louis
Thomas J. Smith
Thomas J. Smith Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Robert McKenna
Robert McKenna University of Florida

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