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Overview

Michael S. Kobor is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong focus on medicine. The core of their work centers on epigenetics and DNA methylation, alongside topics related to birth, development, and health.

The scientist's research prominently addresses various specialized areas, including:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Family Support in Illness

Kobor has contributed extensively to molecular biology and related subfields such as pediatrics, perinatology, and child health, immunology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and genetics.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Clinical Epigenetics
  • Nature Aging
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • UNC Libraries

Recent scholarly works authored or co-authored by Kobor include:

  • Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues, 2023, Nature Aging
  • Effect of long-term caloric restriction on DNA methylation measures of biological aging in healthy adults from the CALERIE trial, 2023, Nature Aging
  • Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Human T-bet Governs Innate and Innate-like Adaptive IFN-γ Immunity against Mycobacteria, 2020, Cell
  • DNA methylation networks underlying mammalian traits, 2023, Science

Kobor has collaborated frequently with several researchers, notably:

  • David Lin
  • Julia L. MacIsaac
  • Chaini Konwar
  • Sarah M. Merrill
  • Julie L. MacIsaac

Best Publications

  • Low early-life social class leaves a biological residue manifested by decreased glucocorticoid and increased proinflammatory signaling

    Gregory E. Miller;Edith Chen;Alexandra K. Fok;Hope Walker

  • DNA methylation and healthy human aging

    Meaghan J. Jones;Sarah J. Goodman;Michael S. Kobor

  • An epigenetic clock analysis of race/ethnicity, sex, and coronary heart disease

    Steve Horvath;Michael Gurven;Morgan E. Levine;Benjamin C. Trumble

  • A Protein Complex Containing the Conserved Swi2/Snf2-Related ATPase Swr1p Deposits Histone Variant H2A.Z into Euchromatin

    Michael. S Kobor;Shivkumar Venkatasubrahmanyam;Marc D Meneghini;Jennifer W Gin

  • Social stress up-regulates inflammatory gene expression in the leukocyte transcriptome via β-adrenergic induction of myelopoiesis

    Nicole D Powell;Erica Kate Sloan;Michael T Bailey;Jesusa Mg Arevalo

  • RNA polymerase II elongation factors of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a targeted proteomics approach.

    Nevan J. Krogan;Minkyu Kim;Seong Hoon Ahn;Guoqing Zhong

  • Epigenetic Vestiges of Early Developmental Adversity: Childhood Stress Exposure and DNA Methylation in Adolescence.

    Marilyn J. Essex;W. Thomas Boyce;Clyde Hertzman;Lucia L. Lam

  • Opposing effects of Ctk1 kinase and Fcp1 phosphatase at Ser 2 of the RNA polymerase II C-terminal domain

    Eun-Jung Cho;Michael S. Kobor;Minkyu Kim;Jack Greenblatt

  • Factors underlying variable DNA methylation in a human community cohort

    Lucia L. Lam;Eldon Emberly;Hunter B. Fraser;Sarah M. Neumann

  • Additional annotation enhances potential for biologically-relevant analysis of the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip array

    E Magda Price;E Magda Price;Allison M Cotton;Lucia L Lam;Pau Farré

  • Reversal of epigenetic aging and immunosenescent trends in humans.

    Gregory M. Fahy;Robert T. Brooke;James P. Watson;Zinaida Good

  • Maternal warmth buffers the effects of low early-life socioeconomic status on pro-inflammatory signaling in adulthood

    Edith Chen;Gregory E. Miller;Michael S. Kobor;Michael S. Kobor;Steve W. Cole

  • The effect of genotype and in utero environment on interindividual variation in neonate DNA methylomes

    Ai Ling Teh;Hong Pan;Li Chen;Mei-Lyn Ong

  • Population-specificity of human DNA methylation.

    Hunter B Fraser;Lucia L Lam;Lucia L Lam;Sarah M Neumann;Sarah M Neumann;Michael S Kobor;Michael S Kobor

  • Landscape of DNA methylation on the X chromosome reflects CpG density, functional chromatin state and X-chromosome inactivation

    Allison M. Cotton;Allison M. Cotton;E. Magda Price;E. Magda Price;Meaghan J. Jones;Meaghan J. Jones;Bradley P. Balaton;Bradley P. Balaton

  • The Specificity and Topology of Chromatin Interaction Pathways in Yeast

    Tineke L. Lenstra;Joris J. Benschop;Tae Soo Kim;Julia M. Schulze

  • Regulation of transcription elongation by phosphorylation.

    Michael S Kobor;Jack Greenblatt

  • R-loop-mediated genome instability in mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation mutants

    Peter C. Stirling;Yujia A. Chan;Sean W. Minaker;Maria J. Aristizabal

  • An unusual eukaryotic protein phosphatase required for transcription by RNA polymerase II and CTD dephosphorylation in S. cerevisiae.

    Michael S Kobor;Jacques Archambault;William Lester;Frank C.P Holstege

  • Genome-wide profiling of yeast DNA:RNA hybrid prone sites with DRIP-chip.

    Yujia A. Chan;Maria J. Aristizabal;Phoebe Y. T. Lu;Zongli Luo

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Meaney
Michael J. Meaney McGill University
Elisabeth B. Binder
Elisabeth B. Binder Max Planck Society
Lluis Quintana-Murci
Lluis Quintana-Murci Institut Pasteur
Claudia Buss
Claudia Buss University of California, Irvine
Gregory E. Miller
Gregory E. Miller Northwestern University
Peter D. Gluckman
Peter D. Gluckman University of Auckland
Edith Chen
Edith Chen Northwestern University
Jack Greenblatt
Jack Greenblatt University of Toronto
Wendy P. Robinson
Wendy P. Robinson University of British Columbia
W. Thomas Boyce
W. Thomas Boyce University of California, San Francisco

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