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Molecular Biology

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132
Citations
121068
World Ranking
167
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in France Leader Award
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Patrick Wincker is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on ecology and molecular biology. Their work integrates themes related to oceanography, plant science, and global and planetary change.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Protist Diversity and Phylogeny
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Patrick Wincker has contributed to several publishing venues frequently, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Nature

Among recent papers, notable publications include:

  • "Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology," 2020, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "Biosynthetic potential of the global ocean microbiome," 2022, Nature
  • "Cryptic and abundant marine viruses at the evolutionary origins of Earth's RNA virome," 2022, Science
  • "Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics," 2021, Nature
  • "Telomere-to-telomere gapless chromosomes of banana using nanopore sequencing," 2021, Communications Biology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with colleagues including Chris Bowler, Julie Poulain, Colomban de Vargas, Shinichi Sunagawa, and Stéphane Pesant.

In addition to journal articles, Patrick Wincker has authored books published by the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement. One such work is "Prospective scientifique pour la recherche française sur la biodiversité - 2023."

Patrick Wincker has been recognized as a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

    Eric S. Lander;Lauren M. Linton;Bruce Birren;Chad Nusbaum

  • The map-based sequence of the rice genome

    Takashi Matsumoto;Jianzhong Wu;Hiroyuki Kanamori;Yuichi Katayose

  • The grapevine genome sequence suggests ancestral hexaploidization in major angiosperm phyla.

    Olivier Jaillon;Jean Marc Aury;Benjamin Noel;Alberto Policriti

  • Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome

    Shinichi Sunagawa;Luis Pedro Coelho;Samuel Chaffron;Jens Roat Kultima

  • Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome

    Rudi Appels;Rudi Appels;Kellye Eversole;Nils Stein;Nils Stein

  • The Genome Sequence of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

    Robert A. Holt;G. Mani Subramanian;Aaron Halpern;Granger G. Sutton

  • Early allopolyploid evolution in the post-Neolithic Brassica napus oilseed genome

    Boulos Chalhoub;Shengyi Liu;Isobel A.P. Parkin

  • Genome duplication in the teleost fish Tetraodon nigroviridis reveals the early vertebrate proto-karyotype

    Olivier Jaillon;Jean-Marc Aury;Frédéric Brunet;Jean-Louis Petit

  • A chromosome-based draft sequence of the hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome

    Klaus F. X. Mayer;Jane Rogers;Jaroslav Doležel

  • Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

    Colomban de Vargas;Colomban de Vargas;Stéphane Audic;Stéphane Audic;Nicolas Henry;Nicolas Henry;Johan Decelle;Johan Decelle

  • Genome evolution in yeasts

    Bernard Dujon;David Sherman;Gilles Fischer;Pascal Durrens

  • Genome sequence of the metazoan plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne incognita

    Pierre Abad;Pierre Abad;Jérôme Gouzy;Jean-Marc Aury;Jean-Marc Aury;Philippe Castagnone-Sereno;Philippe Castagnone-Sereno

  • Deciphering the evolution and metabolism of an anammox bacterium from a community genome

    Marc Strous;Eric Pelletier;Sophie Mangenot;Thomas Rattei

  • The Complete Genome Sequence of the Lactic Acid Bacterium Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis IL1403

    Alexander Bolotin;Patrick Wincker;Stéphane Mauger;Olivier Jaillon

  • The Medicago genome provides insight into the evolution of rhizobial symbioses

    Nevin D Young;Frédéric Debellé;Frédéric Debellé;Giles E D Oldroyd;Rene Geurts

  • The banana (Musa acuminata) genome and the evolution of monocotyledonous plants

    Angélique D'hont;Jean Marc Aury;Franc Christophe Baurens

  • Genome sequence and gene compaction of the eukaryote parasite Encephalitozoon cuniculi

    Michaël D. Katinka;Simone Duprat;Emmanuel Cornillot;Guy Méténier

  • Genome sequence of the plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum

    Marcel Salanoubat;S. Genin;François Artiguenave;J. Gouzy

  • Generation and analysis of a 29,745 unique Expressed Sequence Tags from the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) assembled into a publicly accessible database: the GigasDatabase

    Elodie Fleury;Arnaud Huvet;Christophe Lelong;Julien de Lorgeril

  • Genome Evolution in Yeasts

    Bernard Dujon

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Marc Aury
Jean-Marc Aury University of Paris-Saclay
Julie Poulain
Julie Poulain French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Corinne Da Silva
Corinne Da Silva University of Paris-Saclay
Olivier Jaillon
Olivier Jaillon University of Paris-Saclay
Jean Weissenbach
Jean Weissenbach Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Arnaud Couloux
Arnaud Couloux French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Chris Bowler
Chris Bowler École Normale Supérieure
Fabrice Not
Fabrice Not Roscoff Marine Station
Hiroyuki Ogata
Hiroyuki Ogata Kyoto University

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