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2024

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1993 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy
  • 1933 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Paul M. Sharp is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work focuses on several subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Immunology, Virology, Molecular Biology, and Parasitology. Their notable research topics cover HIV Research and Treatment, Malaria Research and Control, Vector-borne Infectious Diseases, Mosquito-borne Diseases and Control, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, and Genetic Diversity and Population Structure.

Paul M. Sharp has contributed to multiple publications in key scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Trends in Parasitology
  • Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Journal of Virology
  • Annual Review of Microbiology

Their recent papers reflect a focus on infectious diseases and host-pathogen interactions:

  • "Ape Origins of Human Malaria," 2020, Annual Review of Microbiology
  • "Heightened resistance to host type 1 interferons characterizes HIV-1 at transmission and after antiretroviral therapy interruption," 2021, Science Translational Medicine
  • "CD4 receptor diversity represents an ancient protection mechanism against primate lentiviruses," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Zoonotic origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium malariae from African apes," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "The two parasite species formerly known as Plasmodium ovale," 2023, Trends in Parasitology

Collaborations with other researchers have been substantial. Frequent co-authors include Beatrice H. Hahn, Lindsey J. Plenderleith, Yingying Li, George M. Shaw, and Andrew Connell.

Paul M. Sharp has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom since 2013. They are also a Member of the Royal Irish Academy since 1993 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1933.

Best Publications

  • CLUSTAL: A package for performing multiple sequence alignment on a microcomputer

    Desmond G. Higgins;Paul M. Sharp

  • The codon Adaptation Index--a measure of directional synonymous codon usage bias, and its potential applications.

    Paul M. Sharp;Wen-Hsiung Li

  • Origin of HIV-1 in the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes

    Feng Gao;Elizabeth Bailes;David L. Robertson;Yalu Chen

  • Rates of nucleotide substitution vary greatly among plant mitochondrial, chloroplast, and nuclear DNAs.

    Kenneth H. Wolfe;Wen-Hsiung Li;Paul M. Sharp

  • Origins of HIV and the AIDS Pandemic

    Paul M. Sharp;Beatrice H. Hahn

  • Fast and sensitive multiple sequence alignments on a microcomputer

    Desmond G. Higgins;Paul M. Sharp

  • AIDS as a Zoonosis: Scientific and Public Health Implications

    Beatrice H. Hahn;George M. Shaw;Kevin M. De;Cock

  • HIV-1 Nomenclature Proposal

    DL Robertson;JP Anderson;JA Bradac;JK Carr

  • Chimpanzee reservoirs of pandemic and nonpandemic HIV-1.

    Brandon F. Keele;Fran Van Heuverswyn;Yingying Li;Elizabeth Bailes

  • Codon usage in yeast: cluster analysis clearly differentiates highly and lowly expressed genes

    Paul M. Sharp;Therese M.F. Tuohy;Krzysztof R. Mosurski

  • An evolutionary perspective on synonymous codon usage in unicellular organisms

    Paul M. Sharp;Wen-Hsiung Li

  • Evidence for two independent domestications of cattle

    Ronan T. Loftus;David E. MacHugh;Daniel G. Bradley;Paul M. Sharp

  • An African HIV-1 sequence from 1959 and implications for the origin of the epidemic

    Tuofu Zhu;Bette T. Korber;Bette T. Korber;Andre J. Nahmias;Edward Hooper

  • ERIC sequences: a novel family of repetitive elements in the genomes of Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium and other enterobacteria

    C. S. J. Hulton;C. F. Higgins;P. M. Sharp

  • Codon usage patterns in Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Drosophila melanogaster and Homo sapiens; a review of the considerable within-species diversity

    Paul M. Sharp;Elizabeth Cowe;Desmond G. Higgins;Denis C. Shields

  • Recombination in HIV-1.

    David L. Robertson;Paul M. Sharp;Francine E. McCutchan;Beatrice H. Hahn

  • Human infection by genetically diverse SIVsm-related HIV-2 in West Africa.

    Feng Gao;Ling Yue;Albert T. White;Peter G. Pappas

  • Mutation rates differ among regions of the mammalian genome

    Kenneth H. Wolfe;Paul M. Sharp;Wen-Hsiung Li

  • Codon usage in regulatory genes in Escherichia coli does not reflect selection for ‘rare’ codons

    Paul.M Sharp;Wen-Hsiung Li

  • Date of the monocot-dicot divergence estimated from chloroplast DNA sequence data

    Kenneth H. Wolfe;Manolo Gouy;Yau-Wen Yang;Paul M. Sharp

Frequent Co-Authors

Beatrice H. Hahn
Beatrice H. Hahn University of Pennsylvania
George M. Shaw
George M. Shaw University of Pennsylvania
Frederic Bibollet-Ruche
Frederic Bibollet-Ruche University of Pennsylvania
Gerald H. Learn
Gerald H. Learn University of Pennsylvania
Martine Peeters
Martine Peeters Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
feng gao
feng gao Duke University
Julian C. Rayner
Julian C. Rayner University of Cambridge
Brandon F. Keele
Brandon F. Keele National Institutes of Health
David Robertson
David Robertson Vanderbilt University
Wen-Hsiung Li
Wen-Hsiung Li Academia Sinica

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