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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1993 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Paul Ahlquist is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans several scientific fields, including geophysics, environmental chemistry, astronomy and astrophysics, molecular biology, and plant science. Their work encompasses a range of topics, with notable focus areas in seismic waves and analysis, earthquake detection and analysis, methane hydrates and related phenomena, ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, viral infections and immunology research, HIV research and treatment, and plant virus research studies.

Ahlquist's recent publications cover diverse aspects of viral genome replication and related cellular functions. Key papers include:

  • "Subdomain cryo-EM structure of nodaviral replication protein A crown complex provides mechanistic insights into RNA genome replication," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "ESCRT components ISTL1 and LIP5 are required for tapetal function and pollen viability," 2021, The Plant Cell
  • "Crowning Touches in Positive-Strand RNA Virus Genome Replication Complex Structure and Function," 2022, Annual Review of Virology
  • "Positive-strand RNA virus genome replication organelles: structure, assembly, control," 2024, Trends in Genetics
  • "Coronavirus dons a new crown," 2020, Science

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ahlquist include Hong Zhan, Nuruddin Unchwaniwala, Janice Pennington, Masaki Nishikiori, and Irina Novikova. The most common venues for Ahlquist's publications are the OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), PLoS Pathogens, and Current Opinion in Virology.

Ahlquist has been recognized with several distinctions including election as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993 and being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Top 10 plant viruses in molecular plant pathology

    Karen Beth G. Scholthof;Scott Adkins;Henryk Czosnek;Peter Palukaitis

  • Detecting differential gene expression with a semiparametric hierarchical mixture method

    Michael A. Newton;Amine Noueiry;Deepayan Sarkar;Paul Ahlquist

  • Host Factors in Positive-Strand RNA Virus Genome Replication

    Paul Ahlquist;Amine O. Noueiry;Wai-Ming Lee;David B. Kushner

  • RNA-dependent RNA polymerases, viruses, and RNA silencing.

    Paul Ahlquist

  • Organelle-Like Membrane Compartmentalization of Positive-Strand RNA Virus Replication Factories

    Johan A den Boon;Paul Ahlquist;Paul Ahlquist

  • MicroRNA 29c is down-regulated in nasopharyngeal carcinomas, up-regulating mRNAs encoding extracellular matrix proteins

    Srikumar Sengupta;Johan A. den Boon;I-How Chen;Michael A. Newton

  • Drosophila RNAi screen identifies host genes important for influenza virus replication

    Linhui Hao;Akira Sakurai;Tokiko Watanabe;Ericka Sorensen

  • Fundamental differences in cell cycle deregulation in human papillomavirus-positive and human papillomavirus-negative head/neck and cervical cancers.

    Dohun Pyeon;Michael A. Newton;Paul F. Lambert;Johan A. den Boon

  • A Positive-Strand RNA Virus Replication Complex Parallels Form and Function of Retrovirus Capsids

    Michael Schwartz;Jianbo Chen;Michael Janda;Michael Sullivan

  • Establishment of Human Papillomavirus Infection Requires Cell Cycle Progression

    Dohun Pyeon;Shane M. Pearce;Simon M. Lank;Paul Ahlquist

  • Multicomponent RNA plant virus infection derived from cloned viral cDNA

    Paul Ahlquist;R French;M Janda;L S Loesch-Fries

  • Cytoplasmic Viral Replication Complexes

    Johan A. den Boon;Arturo Diaz;Paul Ahlquist

  • Parallels among positive-strand RNA viruses, reverse-transcribing viruses and double-stranded RNA viruses

    Paul Ahlquist

  • Three-dimensional analysis of a viral RNA replication complex reveals a virus-induced mini-organelle.

    Benjamin G Kopek;Guy Perkins;David J Miller;Mark H Ellisman

  • Involvement of host cellular multivesicular body functions in hepatitis B virus budding

    Tokiko Watanabe;Ericka M. Sorensen;Akira Naito;Meghan Schott

  • Bacterial Gene Inserted in an Engineered RNA Virus: Efficient Expression in Monocotyledonous Plant Cells

    Roy French;Michael Janda;Paul Ahlquist

  • Brome mosaic virus helicase- and polymerase-like proteins colocalize on the endoplasmic reticulum at sites of viral RNA synthesis.

    M A Restrepo-Hartwig;P Ahlquist

  • Systematic, genome-wide identification of host genes affecting replication of a positive-strand RNA virus.

    David B. Kushner;Brett D. Lindenbach;Valery Z. Grdzelishvili;Amine O. Noueiry

  • Striking similarities in amino acid sequence among nonstructural proteins encoded by RNA viruses that have dissimilar genomic organization

    James Haseloff;Philip Goelet;David Zimmern;Paul Ahlquist

  • Flock House Virus RNA Replicates on Outer Mitochondrial Membranes in Drosophila Cells

    David J. Miller;Michael D. Schwartz;Paul Ahlquist

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Kaesberg
Paul Kaesberg University of California, Davis
Paul F. Lambert
Paul F. Lambert University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robert L. Gilbertson
Robert L. Gilbertson University of California, Davis
Ming Yuan
Ming Yuan Columbia University
C. Cheng Kao
C. Cheng Kao Indiana University
Marisa S. Otegui
Marisa S. Otegui University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bill Sugden
Bill Sugden University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jim Haseloff
Jim Haseloff University of Cambridge
Allan Hildesheim
Allan Hildesheim National Institutes of Health
Mark Craven
Mark Craven University of Wisconsin–Madison

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