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Citations
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9588
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1983 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1971 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Michael Menaker was affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Throughout their career, Menaker contributed to the scientific community primarily through research activities linked to their institutional role.

Over the course of their professional work, Menaker received several recognitions for their contributions to science. These included being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1983, and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1971.

No detailed information on specific research topics, papers, coauthors, publication venues, or book publications was available for Michael Menaker. Similarly, there is no data on primary or subfields of study, nor on main topics addressed during their career.

Menaker was noted as deceased, thus all references to their career and achievements are made in the past tense.

Best Publications

  • PERIOD2::LUCIFERASE real-time reporting of circadian dynamics reveals persistent circadian oscillations in mouse peripheral tissues

    Seung Hee Yoo;Shin Yamazaki;Shin Yamazaki;Phillip L. Lowrey;Kazuhiro Shimomura

  • Transplanted suprachiasmatic nucleus determines circadian period

    Martin R. Ralph;Russell G. Foster;Fred C. Davis;Michael Menaker

  • Resetting Central and Peripheral Circadian Oscillators in Transgenic Rats

    Shin Yamazaki;Rika Numano;Michikazu Abe;Akiko Hida

  • Entrainment of the Circadian Clock in the Liver by Feeding

    Karl-Arne Stokkan;Shin Yamazaki;Hajime Tei;Yoshiyuki Sakaki

  • Positional Syntenic Cloning and Functional Characterization of the Mammalian Circadian Mutation tau

    Phillip L. Lowrey;Kazuhiro Shimomura;Marina P. Antoch;Shin Yamazaki

  • The circadian rhythm of body temperature.

    Roberto Refinetti;Michael Menaker

  • A Mutation of the Circadian System in Golden Hamsters

    Martin R. Ralph;Michael Menaker

  • Circadian rhythms in cultured mammalian retina.

    Gianluca Tosini;Michael Menaker

  • Circadian rhythms in isolated brain regions.

    Michikazu Abe;Erik D. Herzog;Erik D. Herzog;Shin Yamazaki;Marty Straume

  • Spectral sensitivity of a novel photoreceptive system mediating entrainment of mammalian circadian rhythms.

    Joseph S. Takahashi;Joseph S. Takahashi;Patricia J. Decoursey;Patricia J. Decoursey;Lisa Bauman;Lisa Bauman;Michael Menaker

  • Circadian photoreception in the retinally degenerate mouse (rd/rd).

    R. G. Foster;I. Provencio;D. Hudson;S. Fiske

  • Dysregulation of Inflammatory Responses by Chronic Circadian Disruption

    Oscar Castanon-Cervantes;Mingwei Wu;J. Christopher Ehlen;Ketema Paul

  • Pineal Function: The Biological Clock in the Sparrow?

    Suzanne Gaston;Michael Menaker

  • Chronic jet-lag increases mortality in aged mice

    A. J. Davidson;M. T. Sellix;J. Daniel;Shin Yamazaki

  • Genetic control of melatonin synthesis in the pineal gland of the mouse.

    Shizufumi Ebihara;Theodore Marks;David J. Hudson;Michael Menaker

  • Photoperiodic Control of Hamster Testis

    Suzanne Gaston;Michael Menaker

  • Retinal rhythms in chicks: circadian variation in melantonin and serotonin N-acetyltransferase activity

    Heidi E. Hamm;Michael Menaker

  • Is the avian circadian system a neuroendocrine loop

    Vincent M. Cassone;Michael Menaker

  • Effects of aging on central and peripheral mammalian clocks

    Shin Yamazaki;Marty Straume;Hajime Tei;Yoshiyuki Sakaki

  • Dose-response relationship between light irradiance and the suppression of plasma melatonin in human volunteers.

    George C. Brainard;Alfred J. Lewy;Michael Menaker;Richard H. Fredrickson

Frequent Co-Authors

Shin Yamazaki
Shin Yamazaki The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Gene D. Block
Gene D. Block University of California, Los Angeles
Joseph S. Takahashi
Joseph S. Takahashi The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Gianluca Tosini
Gianluca Tosini Morehouse School of Medicine
Yoshiyuki Sakaki
Yoshiyuki Sakaki Toyohashi University of Technology
Russell G. Foster
Russell G. Foster University of Oxford
Christopher S. Colwell
Christopher S. Colwell University of California, Los Angeles
Martin R. Ralph
Martin R. Ralph University of Toronto
Heidi E. Hamm
Heidi E. Hamm Vanderbilt University
Mark Quigg
Mark Quigg University of Virginia

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