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Overview

Pawel Herzyk is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom and has a research focus that spans biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work includes extensive contributions to molecular biology and plant science, with additional interests in cardiology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and cancer research.

The scientist's research encompasses a variety of topics, prominently including photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, plant molecular biology research, plant stress responses and tolerance, and plant gene expression analysis. Other areas of study feature signaling pathways in disease, cardiac fibrosis and remodeling, and plant ecology and taxonomy studies.

Their publication record includes articles in respected journals and preprint servers, with the following recent papers highlighting specific research themes:

  • Metabolic adaptation of acute lymphoblastic leukemia to the central nervous system microenvironment depends on stearoyl-CoA desaturase, 2020, Nature Cancer
  • Updates on ion and water transport by the Malpighian tubule, 2021, Current Opinion in Insect Science
  • Positive selection and heat-response transcriptomes reveal adaptive features of the Brassicaceae desert model, Anastatica hierochuntica, 2022, New Phytologist
  • Histone Deacetylase Complex 1 and histone 1 epigenetically moderate stress responsiveness of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings, 2023, New Phytologist
  • M 1 muscarinic receptor activation reduces the molecular pathology and slows the progression of prion-mediated neurodegenerative disease, 2022, Science Signaling

Frequent coauthors who have contributed to multiple publications with Pawel Herzyk include:

  • Anna Amtmann (7 coauthored papers)
  • Graham Hamilton (7 coauthored papers)
  • Colin Nixon (4 coauthored papers)
  • Giorgio Perrella (3 coauthored papers)
  • Eilidh MacDonald (3 coauthored papers)

Herzyk's work has appeared most often in the following publication venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), 5 publications
  • New Phytologist, 3 publications
  • Nature Cancer, 1 publication
  • Current Opinion in Insect Science, 1 publication
  • Science Signaling, 1 publication

Best Publications

  • The control of human mesenchymal cell differentiation using nanoscale symmetry and disorder

    Matthew J. Dalby;Nikolaj Gadegaard;Rahul Tare;Abhay Andar

  • Rank products: a simple, yet powerful, new method to detect differentially regulated genes in replicated microarray experiments ☆

    Rainer Breitling;Patrick Armengaud;Anna Amtmann;Pawel Herzyk

  • A UV-B-specific signaling component orchestrates plant UV protection

    Bobby A. Brown;Catherine Cloix;Guang Huai Jiang;Eirini Kaiserli

  • Chromosome and gene copy number variation allow major structural change between species and strains of Leishmania

    Matthew B. Rogers;James D. Hilley;Nicholas J. Dickens;Jon Wilkes

  • Hyperosmotic priming of Arabidopsis seedlings establishes a long-term somatic memory accompanied by specific changes of the epigenome

    Emanuela Sani;Emanuela Sani;Pawel Herzyk;Giorgio Perrella;Vincent Colot

  • Transcriptome analysis of root transporters reveals participation of multiple gene families in the response to cation stress

    Frans J. M. Maathuis;Victor Filatov;Pawel Herzyk;Gerard C. Krijger

  • Alternative Splicing Mediates Responses of the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock to Temperature Changes

    Allan B. James;Naeem Hasan Syed;Simon Bordage;Jacqueline Marshall

  • High-resolution human cytomegalovirus transcriptome

    Derek Gatherer;Sepher Seirafian;Charles Cunningham;Mary Holton

  • Function-informed transcriptome analysis of Drosophila renal tubule

    Jing-jing Wang;Laura Kean;Jingli Yang;Adrian K Allan

  • Iterative Group Analysis (iGA): A simple tool to enhance sensitivity and facilitate interpretation of microarray experiments

    Rainer Breitling;Anna Amtmann;Pawel Herzyk

  • FlyAtlas: database of gene expression in the tissues of Drosophila melanogaster

    Scott W. Robinson;Pawel Herzyk;Julian A. T. Dow;David P. Leader

  • Scanning peptide array analyses identify overlapping binding sites for the signalling scaffold proteins, β-arrestin and RACK1, in cAMP-specific phosphodiesterase PDE4D5

    Graeme B. Bolger;George S. Baillie;Xiang Li;Martin J. Lynch

  • Beyond the consensus: dissecting within-host viral population diversity of foot-and-mouth disease virus by using next-generation genome sequencing.

    Caroline F. Wright;Marco J. Morelli;Gaël Thébaud;Nick J. Knowles

  • The role of microtopography in cellular mechanotransduction.

    Laura E. McNamara;Richard Burchmore;Mathis O. Riehle;Pawel Herzyk

  • Nanotopographical Effects on Mesenchymal Stem Cell Morphology and Phenotype

    Penelope Tsimbouri;Nikolaj Gadegaard;Karl Burgess;Kate White

  • Metal Selectivity Determinants in a Family of Transition Metal Transporters

    Dorina Podar;Dorina Podar;Judith Scherer;Zeenat Noordally;Pawel Herzyk

  • Nanomechanotransduction and Interphase Nuclear Organization influence on genomic control

    Matthew J Dalby;Nikolaj Gadegaard;Pawel Herzyk;Duncan Sutherland

  • Automated method for modeling seven-helix transmembrane receptors from experimental data

    P. Herzyk;R.E. Hubbard

  • Graph-based iterative group analysis enhances microarray interpretation

    Rainer Breitling;Anna Amtmann;Pawel Herzyk

  • Identification of Bacterial Target Proteins for the Salicylidene Acylhydrazide Class of Virulence-blocking Compounds

    Dai Wang;Caroline E. Zetterström;Mads Gabrielsen;Katherine S H Beckham

Frequent Co-Authors

Anna Amtmann
Anna Amtmann University of Glasgow
Matthew J. Dalby
Matthew J. Dalby University of Glasgow
Gareth I. Jenkins
Gareth I. Jenkins University of Glasgow
Roderick E. Hubbard
Roderick E. Hubbard University of York
Julian A. T. Dow
Julian A. T. Dow University of Glasgow
Rainer Breitling
Rainer Breitling University of Manchester
Nikolaj Gadegaard
Nikolaj Gadegaard University of Glasgow
Ruth N. Zadoks
Ruth N. Zadoks University of Sydney
Richard O.C. Oreffo
Richard O.C. Oreffo University of Southampton
Hugh G. Nimmo
Hugh G. Nimmo University of Glasgow

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