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2169
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983

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Nobel Prize for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm
  • 2007 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Michael W. Young is affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States and works primarily within the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, including General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Forestry, Ecology, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Anthropology.

The scientist's recent publications illustrate a focus on agricultural systems and livestock management, particularly sheep farming and mixed enterprise farm businesses. Notable works include:

  • "An economic analysis of sheep flock structures for mixed enterprise Australian farm businesses" (2020), published in the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  • "Optimal sheep stocking rates for broad-acre farm businesses in Western Australia: a review" (2022), published in Animal Production Science
  • "Identifying high-value tactical livestock decisions on a mixed enterprise farm in a variable environment" (2024), published in Animal Production Science
  • "Representing weather-year variation in whole-farm optimisation models: Four-stage single-sequence vs eight-stage multi-sequence" (2023), published in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  • "Reading and Remembering the Anthropologist James F. Weiner" (2021), published in Oceania

Frequent publication venues for this scientist include:

  • Animal Production Science
  • Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  • Oceania
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

The scientist has collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors, including Ross Kingwell and Philip E. Vercoe, each with five joint publications. Other frequent collaborators include J. M. Young, Aletta Biersack, and Laurence Goldman.

Their work covers a range of topics within agriculture, focusing on:

  • Pasture and Agricultural Systems
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
  • Agricultural Economics and Policy
  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture

Michael W. Young has received notable recognition, including the Nobel Prize in 2017 for discoveries related to molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm. Additionally, they were elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Time zones: a comparative genetics of circadian clocks.

    Michael W. Young;Steve A. Kay

  • double-time Is a Novel Drosophila Clock Gene that Regulates PERIOD Protein Accumulation

    Jeffrey L Price;Justin Blau;Adrian Rothenfluh;Marla Abodeely

  • The Drosophila Clock Gene double-time Encodes a Protein Closely Related to Human Casein Kinase Iε

    Brian Kloss;Jeffrey L. Price;Lino Saez;Justin Blau

  • Loss of circadian behavioral rhythms and per RNA oscillations in the Drosophila mutant timeless

    Amita Sehgal;Jeffrey L. Price;Bernice Man;Michael W. Young

  • A Role for the Segment Polarity Gene shaggy/GSK-3 in the Drosophila Circadian Clock

    Sebastian Martinek;Susan Inonog;Armen S. Manoukian;Michael W. Young

  • vrille, Pdp1, and dClock form a second feedback loop in the Drosophila circadian clock

    Shawn A. Cyran;Anna M. Buchsbaum;Karen L. Reddy;Meng Chi Lin

  • Light-Induced Degradation of TIMELESS and Entrainment of the Drosophila Circadian Clock

    Michael P. Myers;Karen Wager-Smith;Adrian Rothenfluh-Hilfiker;Michael W. Young

  • Sequence of the notch locus of Drosophila melanogaster: relationship of the encoded protein to mammalian clotting and growth factors.

    S Kidd;M R Kelley;M W Young

  • Antineurogenic phenotypes induced by truncated Notch proteins indicate a role in signal transduction and may point to a novel function for Notch in nuclei.

    Toby Lieber;Simon Kidd;Elizabeth Alcamo;Victoria Corbin

  • Restoration of circadian behavioural rhythms by gene transfer in Drosophila

    Bargiello Ta;Jackson Fr;Young Mw

  • Cycling vrille expression is required for a functional Drosophila clock.

    Justin Blau;Michael W Young

  • Circadian regulation of gene expression systems in the Drosophila head

    Adam Claridge-Chang;Herman Wijnen;Felix Naef;Catharine Boothroyd

  • Isolation of timeless by PER Protein Interaction: Defective Interaction Between timeless Protein and Long-Period Mutant PERL

    Nicholas Gekakis;Lino Saez;Anne-Marie Delahaye-Brown;Michael P. Myers

  • Block in nuclear localization of period protein by a second clock mutation, timeless

    Leslie B. Vosshall;Jeffrey L. Price;Amita Sehgal;Lino Saez

  • Mammalian Circadian Autoregulatory Loop: A Timeless Ortholog and mPer1 Interact and Negatively Regulate CLOCK-BMAL1-Induced Transcription

    Ashvin M Sangoram;Lino Saez;Marina P Antoch;Nicholas Gekakis

  • Rhythmic Expression of timeless: A Basis for Promoting Circadian Cycles in period Gene Autoregulation

    Amita Sehgal;Adrian Rothenfluh-Hilfiker;Melissa Hunter-Ensor;Yifeng Chen

  • Regulation of nuclear entry of the Drosophila clock proteins period and timeless.

    Lino Saez;Michael W Young

  • Positional cloning and sequence analysis of the Drosophila clock gene, timeless

    Michael P. Myers;Karen Wager-Smith;Cedric S. Wesley;Michael W. Young

  • Repeated Gene Families in Drosophila melanogaster

    D. J. Finnegan;G. M. Rubin;M. W. Young;D. S. Hogness

  • Mutation of the Human Circadian Clock Gene CRY1 in Familial Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder

    Alina Patke;Patricia J. Murphy;Onur Emre Onat;Ana C. Krieger

Frequent Co-Authors

Amita Sehgal
Amita Sehgal University of Pennsylvania
Leslie B. Vosshall
Leslie B. Vosshall Rockefeller University
Joseph S. Takahashi
Joseph S. Takahashi The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Felix Naef
Felix Naef École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Brian R. Crane
Brian R. Crane Cornell University
Steve A. Kay
Steve A. Kay University of Southern California
David C. Spray
David C. Spray Albert Einstein College of Medicine
John B. Hogenesch
John B. Hogenesch Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Till Roenneberg
Till Roenneberg Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Michael Rosbash
Michael Rosbash Brandeis University

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