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Peter D. Currie

Peter D. Currie

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
51
Citations
11019
World Ranking
17061
National Ranking
483

Overview

Peter D. Currie is affiliated with Monash University in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant portion of their work also related to medicine.

The main research areas of Peter D. Currie include:

  • Muscle Physiology and Disorders
  • Congenital Heart Defects Research
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Extracellular Vesicles in Disease
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

Their publications have appeared frequently in journals such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Disease Models & Mechanisms
  • Nature
  • Science

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Evolution of tissue-specific expression of ancestral genes across vertebrates and insects, 2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Low mutation rate in epaulette sharks is consistent with a slow rate of evolution in sharks, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Macrophages provide a transient muscle stem cell niche via NAMPT secretion, 2021, Nature
  • Integrated Value of Influence: An Integrative Method for the Identification of the Most Influential Nodes within Networks, 2020, Patterns
  • Machine learning discriminates a movement disorder in a zebrafish model of Parkinson's disease, 2020, Disease Models & Mechanisms

Peter D. Currie has collaborated frequently with a group of co-authors, including:

  • Avnika A. Ruparelia
  • Mirana Ramialison
  • Adrian Salavaty
  • Joachim Berger
  • Frank J. Tulenko

Best Publications

  • Animal models of human disease: zebrafish swim into view.

    Graham J Lieschke;Peter David Currie

  • Notochord induction of zebrafish slow muscle mediated by Sonic hedgehog

    Chris S. Blagden;Peter D. Currie;Philip W. Ingham;Philip W. Ingham;Simon M. Hughes

  • Induction of a specific muscle cell type by a hedgehog-like protein in zebrafish

    Peter D. Currie;Phillip W. Ingham

  • The genetics of vertebrate myogenesis.

    Robert James Bryson-Richardson;Robert James Bryson-Richardson;Peter David Currie;Peter David Currie

  • Fgf-Dependent Glial Cell Bridges Facilitate Spinal Cord Regeneration in Zebrafish

    Yona Goldshmit;Tamar E. Sztal;Patricia R. Jusuf;Thomas E. Hall

  • Dystrophin is required for the formation of stable muscle attachments in the zebrafish embryo.

    David I Bassett;Robert James Bryson-Richardson;David F Daggett;Phillipe Gautier

  • Whole-Somite Rotation Generates Muscle Progenitor Cell Compartments in the Developing Zebrafish Embryo

    Georgina E Hollway;Robert James Bryson-Richardson;Silke Berger;Nicholas J Cole

  • The zebrafish candyfloss mutant implicates extracellular matrix adhesion failure in laminin α2-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy

    Thomas E Hall;Robert James Bryson-Richardson;Silke Berger;Arie S Jacoby

  • Evolutionary origins of vertebrate appendicular muscle.

    C. Neyt;K. Jagla;C. Thisse;B. Thisse

  • The zebrafish as a model for muscular dystrophy and congenital myopathy

    David I Bassett;Peter David Currie

  • The structure and evolution of the melanocortin and MCH receptors in fish and mammals

    Darren W Logan;Robert James Bryson-Richardson;Kathleen E Pagan;Kathleen E Pagan;Martin S Taylor

  • Control of muscle cell-type specification in the zebrafish embryo by Hedgehog signalling

    K. E. Lewis;P. D. Currie;S. Roy;H. Schauerte

  • Macrophages provide a transient muscle stem cell niche via NAMPT secretion

    Dhanushika Ratnayake;Dhanushika Ratnayake;Phong D. Nguyen;Phong D. Nguyen;Fernando J. Rossello;Fernando J. Rossello;Verena C. Wimmer;Verena C. Wimmer

  • Haematopoietic stem cell induction by somite-derived endothelial cells controlled by meox1

    Phong Dang Nguyen;Georgina Elizabeth Hollway;Carmen Sonntag;Lee Barry Miles

  • Asymmetric division of clonal muscle stem cells coordinates muscle regeneration in vivo

    David B. Gurevich;Phong Dang Nguyen;Ashley L. Siegel;Ophelia V. Ehrlich

  • Scube2 mediates Hedgehog signalling in the zebrafish embryo.

    Georgina E Hollway;John Maule;Philippe Gautier;Timothy M Evans

  • Rapamycin increases neuronal survival, reduces inflammation and astrocyte proliferation after spinal cord injury.

    Yona Goldshmit;Yona Goldshmit;Sivan Kanner;Maria Zacs;Frisca Frisca;Frisca Frisca

  • Cadherin-Mediated Differential Cell Adhesion Controls Slow Muscle Cell Migration in the Developing Zebrafish Myotome

    Fernando Cortés;David Daggett;Robert J. Bryson-Richardson;Christine Neyt

  • A Splice Site Mutation in Laminin-α2 Results in a Severe Muscular Dystrophy and Growth Abnormalities in Zebrafish

    Vandana A Gupta;Genri Kawahara;Jennifer A Myers;Aye T Chen

  • Macrophages provide a transient muscle stem cell niche via NAMPT secretion

    Dhanushika Ratnayake;Dhanushika Ratnayake;Phong D. Nguyen;Fernando J. Rossello;Fernando J. Rossello;Verena C. Wimmer;Verena C. Wimmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip W. Ingham
Philip W. Ingham University of Bath
Graham J. Lieschke
Graham J. Lieschke Monash University
Jan Kaslin
Jan Kaslin Monash University
Nigel G. Laing
Nigel G. Laing University of Western Australia
Jeroen Bakkers
Jeroen Bakkers Utrecht University
Thomas F. Schilling
Thomas F. Schilling University of California, Irvine
Simon M. Hughes
Simon M. Hughes King's College London
Jose M. Polo
Jose M. Polo Monash University
Ian J. Jackson
Ian J. Jackson University of Edinburgh
Christine Thisse
Christine Thisse University of Virginia

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