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16474
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6819

Overview

Oliver D. King is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with additional work in Medicine. The scientist's publication record includes 24 contributions in Molecular Biology and 17 in Medicine, reflecting a focused expertise in life sciences.

Their research topics cover Muscle Physiology and Disorders, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Down syndrome and intellectual disability research, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA Research and Splicing, and Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Frequent collaborators include Kathryn R. Wagner, Lawrence J. Hayward, Charles P. Emerson, Dongsheng Guo, and Katelyn Daman, indicating a strong network within their research community.

King has published several recent papers, notable among them:

  • Applying genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 screens for therapeutic discovery in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (2020, Science Translational Medicine)
  • Poly(GR) and poly(GA) in cerebrospinal fluid as potential biomarkers for C9ORF72-ALS/FTD (2022, Nature Communications)
  • iMyoblasts for ex vivo and in vivo investigations of human myogenesis and disease modeling (2021, eLife)
  • Salivary metabolite levels in perinatally HIV-infected youth with periodontal disease (2020, Metabolomics)
  • Large-scale organoid study suggests effects of trisomy 21 on early fetal neurodevelopment are more subtle than variability between isogenic lines and experiments (2023, Frontiers in Neuroscience)

Their published work appears in venues including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Science Translational Medicine, Nature Communications, and eLife. This demonstrates a presence both in preprint repositories and peer-reviewed journals.

Best Publications

  • Mutations in prion-like domains in hnRNPA2B1 and hnRNPA1 cause multisystem proteinopathy and ALS

    Hong Joo Kim;Nam Chul Kim;Yong Dong Wang;Emily A. Scarborough

  • A systematic survey identifies prions and illuminates sequence features of prionogenic proteins

    Simon Alberti;Randal Halfmann;Oliver King;Oliver King;Atul Kapila

  • The Rat Grimace Scale: a partially automated method for quantifying pain in the laboratory rat via facial expressions.

    Susana G Sotocinal;Robert E Sorge;Austin Zaloum;Alexander H Tuttle

  • Stress granules as crucibles of ALS pathogenesis

    Yun R. Li;Yun R. Li;Oliver D. King;James Shorter;Aaron D. Gitler

  • The tip of the iceberg: RNA-binding proteins with prion-like domains in neurodegenerative disease

    Oliver D. King;Aaron D. Gitler;James Shorter

  • Characterizing gene sets with FuncAssociate.

    Gabriel F. Berriz;Oliver D. King;Barbara Bryant;Chris Sander

  • PLAAC: a web and command-line application to identify proteins with prion-like amino acid composition

    Alex K. Lancaster;Andrew Nutter-Upham;Susan Lindquist;Oliver D. King

  • A yeast functional screen predicts new candidate ALS disease genes

    Julien Couthouis;Michael P. Hart;James Shorter;Mariely DeJesus-Hernandez

  • Nuclear-Import Receptors Reverse Aberrant Phase Transitions of RNA-Binding Proteins with Prion-like Domains

    Lin Guo;Hong Joo Kim;Hejia Wang;John Monaghan

  • Intensity-based protein identification by machine learning from a library of tandem mass spectra

    Joshua E Elias;Francis D Gibbons;Oliver D King;Frederick P Roth

  • Prion-like disorders: blurring the divide between transmissibility and infectivity

    Mimi Cushman;Brian S. Johnson;Oliver D. King;Aaron D. Gitler

  • Evaluating the role of the FUS/TLS-related gene EWSR1 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Julien Couthouis;Michael P. Hart;Michael P. Hart;Renske Erion;Oliver D. King

  • Bridging high-throughput genetic and transcriptional data reveals cellular responses to alpha-synuclein toxicity

    Esti Yeger-Lotem;Laura Riva;Linhui Julie Su;Aaron D Gitler;Aaron D Gitler

  • Learning a semantic space from user's relevance feedback for image retrieval

    Xiaofei He;O. King;Wei-Ying Ma;Mingjing Li

  • Combining biological networks to predict genetic interactions.

    Sharyl L. Wong;Lan V. Zhang;Amy H. Y. Tong;Zhijian Li

  • Predicting Protein Complex Membership Using Probabilistic Network Reliability

    Saurabh Asthana;Oliver D. King;Francis D. Gibbons;Frederick P. Roth

  • Prion-like domains as epigenetic regulators, scaffolds for subcellular organization, and drivers of neurodegenerative disease.

    Zachary M. March;Oliver D. King;James Shorter

  • Predicting co-complexed protein pairs using genomic and proteomic data integration

    Lan V Zhang;Sharyl L Wong;Oliver D King;Frederick P Roth

  • Using the Mouse Grimace Scale to Reevaluate the Efficacy of Postoperative Analgesics in Laboratory Mice

    Lynn C Matsumiya;Robert E Sorge;Susana G Sotocinal;John M Tabaka

  • Motifs, themes and thematic maps of an integrated Saccharomyces cerevisiae interaction network

    Lan V Zhang;Oliver D King;Sharyl L Wong;Debra S Goldberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles P. Emerson
Charles P. Emerson University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Frederick P. Roth
Frederick P. Roth Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Aaron D. Gitler
Aaron D. Gitler Stanford University
James Shorter
James Shorter University of Pennsylvania
Louis M. Kunkel
Louis M. Kunkel Boston Children's Hospital
Ian P. Blair
Ian P. Blair Macquarie University
John Q. Trojanowski
John Q. Trojanowski University of Pennsylvania
Garth A. Nicholson
Garth A. Nicholson University of Sydney
Yun Li
Yun Li University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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