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62
Citations
14147
World Ranking
2975
National Ranking
1299

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Nancy L. Craig is affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with notable contributions also in environmental science.

Their research focuses on several specific subfields including molecular biology, genetics, ecology, biotechnology, and cell biology. Major topics covered in their work include bacterial genetics and biotechnology, CRISPR and genetic engineering, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, DNA repair mechanisms, RNA interference and gene delivery, and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

Recent publications by Nancy L. Craig include:

  • Why reduce frequency of print issues if they are well read?, 2025, Canadian Medical Association Journal

Co-authors frequently collaborating with Nancy L. Craig include:

  • Carol W. Greider
  • Gisela Storz
  • Cynthia Wolberger
  • Orna Cohen-Fix
  • Rachel Green

Publication venues where Nancy L. Craig has appeared multiple times include:

  • Science
  • Canadian Medical Association Journal

Nancy L. Craig has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Oxford University Press:

  • Molecular Biology (2021)

Their work has been recognized by membership and fellowships in notable organizations, including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2010)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2002)

Best Publications

  • Mobile DNA III

    Nancy Lynn Craig;Michael Chandler;Martin Gellert;Alan M. Lambowitz

  • A hyperactive piggyBac transposase for mammalian applications.

    Kosuke Yusa;Liqin Zhou;Meng Amy Li;Allan Bradley

  • E. coli integration host factor binds to specific sites in DNA

    Nancy L. Craig;Howard A. Nash

  • The Mechanism of Conservative Site-Specific Recombination

    Nancy L. Craig

  • Escherichia coli recA gene product inactivates phage lambda repressor.

    Jeffrey W. Roberts;Christine W. Roberts;Nancy L. Craig

  • E. coli recA protein-directed cleavage of phage lambda repressor requires polynucleotide.

    Nancy L. Craig;Jeffrey W. Roberts

  • Target Site Selection in Transposition

    Nancy L. Craig

  • Preferential transposition of Drosophila P elements to nearby chromosomal sites.

    J Tower;G H Karpen;N Craig;A C Spradling

  • Function of nucleoside triphosphate and polynucleotide in Escherichia coli recA protein-directed cleavage of phage lambda repressor.

    Nancy L. Craig;Jeffrey W. Roberts

  • Tn7: smarter than we thought.

    Joseph E. Peters;Nancy L. Craig

  • Unity in Transposition Reactions

    Nancy L. Craig

  • Transposition of hAT elements links transposable elements and V(D)J recombination

    Liqin Zhou;Rupak Mitra;Peter W. Atkinson;Alison Burgess Hickman

  • piggyBac transposase tools for genome engineering

    Xianghong Li;Erin R. Burnight;Ashley L. Cooney;Nirav Malani

  • The mechanism of phage λ site-specific recombination: Site-specific breakage of DNA by Int topoisomerase

    Nancy L. Craig;Howard A. Nash

  • Haploinsufficiency‐based large‐scale forward genetic analysis of filamentous growth in the diploid human fungal pathogen C.albicans

    M.Andrew Uhl;Matt Biery;Nancy Craig;Alexander D. Johnson

  • piggyBac can bypass DNA synthesis during cut and paste transposition.

    Rupak Mitra;Jennifer Fain-Thornton;Nancy L Craig

  • Tn7 transposition: Target DNA recognition is mediated by multiple Tn7-encoded proteins in a purified in vitro system

    Roland J. Bainton;Kenneth M. Kubo;Jian nong Feng;Nancy L. Craig;Nancy L. Craig

  • Fast, easy and efficient: site-specific insertion of transgenes into enterobacterial chromosomes using Tn7 without need for selection of the insertion event.

    Gregory J McKenzie;Nancy L Craig

  • Tn7 transposition in vitro proceeds through an excised transposon intermediate generated by staggered breaks in DNA

    Roland Bainton;Pascal Gamas;Nancy L. Craig

  • Transposition of hAT elements links transposable elements and V(D)J

    Rupak Mitra;Peter W. Atkinson;Alison Burgess Hickman;Fred Dyda

Frequent Co-Authors

Fred Dyda
Fred Dyda National Institutes of Health
Peter W. Atkinson
Peter W. Atkinson University of California, Riverside
Cédric Feschotte
Cédric Feschotte Cornell University
Jeffrey W. Roberts
Jeffrey W. Roberts Cornell University
Frederic D. Bushman
Frederic D. Bushman University of Pennsylvania
Phoebe A. Rice
Phoebe A. Rice University of Chicago
Paul B. McCray
Paul B. McCray University of Iowa
Kosuke Yusa
Kosuke Yusa Kyoto University
Daniel F. Voytas
Daniel F. Voytas University of Minnesota
Allan C. Spradling
Allan C. Spradling Carnegie Institution for Science

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