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  • 2011 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Michael Y. Galperin is a researcher affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their work predominantly spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 59 publications in this area. Within this broad field, their subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Endocrinology, Ecology, and Biotechnology.

The main topics covered in Galperin's research encompass:

  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Vibrio bacteria research studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Enzyme Production and Characterization

Galperin has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • COG database update: focus on microbial diversity, model organisms, and widespread pathogens, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research

Galperin frequently collaborates with several co-authors. The most frequent include:

  • Shan-Ho Chou (8 co-authored publications)
  • Yuri I. Wolf (6 co-authored publications)
  • Roberto Vera Alvarez (6 co-authored publications)
  • Eugene V. Koonin (6 co-authored publications)
  • Jin He (5 co-authored publications)

The venues where Galperin's work is most regularly published include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Journal of Bacteriology
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Among their recognized achievements, Galperin was awarded the Hellman Fellow distinction in 2011.

Best Publications

  • The COG database: a tool for genome-scale analysis of protein functions and evolution

    Roman L. Tatusov;Michael Y. Galperin;Darren A. Natale;Eugene V. Koonin

  • The COG database: new developments in phylogenetic classification of proteins from complete genomes

    Roman L. Tatusov;Darren A. Natale;Igor V. Garkavtsev;Tatiana A. Tatusova

  • Cyclic di-GMP: the First 25 Years of a Universal Bacterial Second Messenger

    Ute Römling;Michael Y. Galperin;Mark Gomelsky

  • Expanded microbial genome coverage and improved protein family annotation in the COG database

    Michael Y. Galperin;Kira S. Makarova;Yuri I. Wolf;Eugene V. Koonin

  • Novel domains of the prokaryotic two-component signal transduction systems

    Michael Y. Galperin;Anastasia N. Nikolskaya;Eugene V. Koonin

  • C-di-GMP: the dawning of a novel bacterial signalling system

    Ute Römling;Mark Gomelsky;Michael Y. Galperin

  • COG database update: focus on microbial diversity, model organisms, and widespread pathogens.

    Michael Y Galperin;Yuri I Wolf;Kira S Makarova;Roberto Vera Alvarez

  • A genomic update on clostridial phylogeny: Gram-negative spore formers and other misplaced clostridia.

    Natalya Yutin;Michael Y. Galperin

  • PilZ domain is part of the bacterial c-di-GMP binding protein

    Dorit Amikam;Michael Y. Galperin

  • Structural Classification of Bacterial Response Regulators: Diversity of Output Domains and Domain Combinations

    Michael Y. Galperin

  • Bacterial cellulose biosynthesis: diversity of operons, subunits, products, and functions

    Ute Römling;Michael Y. Galperin

  • A census of membrane-bound and intracellular signal transduction proteins in bacteria: Bacterial IQ, extroverts and introverts

    Michael Y Galperin

  • Genome sequence of the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus marinus SS120, a nearly minimal oxyphototrophic genome

    Alexis Dufresne;Marcel Salanoubat;Frédéric Partensky;François Artiguenave

  • Algorithms for computing parsimonious evolutionary scenarios for genome evolution, the last universal common ancestor and dominance of horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of prokaryotes

    Boris G Mirkin;Trevor I Fenner;Michael Y Galperin;Eugene V Koonin

  • ‘Conserved hypothetical’ proteins: prioritization of targets for experimental study

    Michael Y. Galperin;Eugene V. Koonin

  • Origin of first cells at terrestrial, anoxic geothermal fields

    Armen Y. Mulkidjanian;Andrew Yu. Bychkov;Daria V. Dibrova;Michael Y. Galperin

  • Sequence ― Evolution ― Function: Computational Approaches in Comparative Genomics

    Eugene V. Koonin;Michael Y. Galperin

  • Bacterial signal transduction network in a genomic perspective.

    Michael Y. Galperin

  • Who's your neighbor? New computational approaches for functional genomics.

    Michael Y. Galperin;Eugene V. Koonin

  • Diversity of structure and function of response regulator output domains.

    Michael Y Galperin

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugene V. Koonin
Eugene V. Koonin National Institutes of Health
Kira S. Makarova
Kira S. Makarova National Institutes of Health
Daniel J. Rigden
Daniel J. Rigden University of Liverpool
Yuri I. Wolf
Yuri I. Wolf National Institutes of Health
Eugene Kolker
Eugene Kolker New York University
L. Aravind
L. Aravind National Institutes of Health
Ute Römling
Ute Römling Karolinska Institute
Mark Gomelsky
Mark Gomelsky University of Wyoming
Guy Cochrane
Guy Cochrane European Bioinformatics Institute
Samuel O. Purvine
Samuel O. Purvine Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

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