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Nicholas H. Brown is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. Subfields also include Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, as well as Insect Science.

The scientist's body of work covers several main topics, including Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies, and Gene Expression and Cancer Classification.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nicholas H. Brown include Giulia Antonazzo, Helen Attrill, Jim Thurmond, Norbert Perrimon, and Steven J Marygold. Their collaborative efforts contribute to advancing research in their shared fields.

Scientific publications by Nicholas H. Brown have appeared in a variety of venues with multiple articles in notable journals. Common publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Genetics
  • Journal of Cell Science
  • Current Biology

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Nicholas H. Brown include:

  • "The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine," 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "FlyBase: a guided tour of highlighted features," 2022, Genetics
  • "FlyBase: updates to the Drosophila melanogaster knowledge base," 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "FlyBase: updates to the Drosophila genes and genomes database," 2024, Genetics
  • "Talin in mechanotransduction and mechanomemory at a glance," 2021, Journal of Cell Science

Best Publications

  • The Gene Ontology Resource: 20 years and still GOing strong

    S. Carbon;E. Douglass;N. Dunn;B. Good

  • The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine

    Seth Carbon;Eric Douglass;Benjamin M Good

  • Functional cDNA libraries from Drosophila embryos.

    Nicholas H. Brown;Fotis C. Kafatos;Fotis C. Kafatos

  • A conserved double-stranded RNA-binding domain.

    D St Johnston;N H Brown;J G Gall;M Jantsch

  • Gene ontology annotations and resources

    Blake Ja;Dolan M;Drabkin H

  • Integrins in development: moving on, responding to, and sticking to the extracellular matrix.

    Christian Bökel;Nicholas H. Brown

  • Drosophila integrin-linked kinase is required at sites of integrin adhesion to link the cytoskeleton to the plasma membrane.

    Christos G. Zervas;Stephen L. Gregory;Nicholas H. Brown

  • Rotation and asymmetry of the mitotic spindle direct asymmetric cell division in the developing central nervous system

    Julia A. Kaltschmidt;Catherine M. Davidson;Nicholas H. Brown;Andrea H. Brand

  • The Drosophila PS2 antigen is an invertebrate integrin that, like the fibronectin receptor, becomes localized to muscle attachments

    Thierry Bogaert;Nicholas Brown;Michael Wilcox

  • Rap1 GTPase regulation of adherens junction positioning and cell adhesion.

    Andrea L. Knox;Nicholas H. Brown

  • Talin – the master of integrin adhesions

    Benjamin Klapholz;Nicholas H. Brown

  • Integrins and the actin cytoskeleton.

    Isabelle Delon;Nicholas H Brown

  • Talin Is Essential for Integrin Function in Drosophila

    Nicholas H. Brown;Stephen L. Gregory;Wayne L. Rickoll;Liselotte I. Fessler

  • The Gene Ontology: Enhancements for 2011

    J. A. Blake;M. Dolan;H. Drabkin;D. P. Hill

  • Centralspindlin and α-catenin regulate Rho signalling at the epithelial zonula adherens

    Aparna Ratheesh;Guillermo A. Gomez;Rashmi Priya;Suzie Verma

  • Integrin-dependent anchoring of a stem-cell niche.

    Guy Tanentzapf;Danelle Devenport;Danelle Devenport;Dorothea Godt;Nicholas H. Brown

  • The 'spectraplakins': cytoskeletal giants with characteristics of both spectrin and plakin families.

    Katja Röper;Stephen L. Gregory;Nicholas H. Brown

  • kakapo, a Gene Required for Adhesion Between and Within Cell Layers in Drosophila, Encodes a Large Cytoskeletal Linker Protein Related to Plectin and Dystrophin

    Stephen L. Gregory;Nicholas H. Brown

  • Integrins as mediators of morphogenesis in Drosophila.

    Nicholas H. Brown;Stephen L. Gregory;Maria D. Martin-Bermudo

  • Null mutations in the alpha PS2 and beta PS integrin subunit genes have distinct phenotypes

    Nicholas H. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Fotis C. Kafatos
Fotis C. Kafatos Harvard University
Paul W. Sternberg
Paul W. Sternberg California Institute of Technology
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo Pompeu Fabra University
Jürg Bähler
Jürg Bähler University College London
Judith A. Blake
Judith A. Blake Edith Cowan University
Stephen G. Oliver
Stephen G. Oliver University of Cambridge
Monte Westerfield
Monte Westerfield University of Oregon
Paul D. Thomas
Paul D. Thomas University of Southern California
Christopher J. Mungall
Christopher J. Mungall Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Pascale Gaudet
Pascale Gaudet Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

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