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Philippe Collas

Philippe Collas

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Molecular Biology
Norway
2025

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
79
Citations
17506
World Ranking
1052
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Norway Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Philippe Collas is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and has produced a body of research primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including molecular biology, physiology, cancer research, epidemiology, and genetics.

The scientist's recent papers cover a range of topics in molecular and cellular biology. Notable publications include:

  • Lamina-associated domains: peripheral matters and internal affairs, 2020, Genome Biology
  • Unrestrained ESCRT-III drives micronuclear catastrophe and chromosome fragmentation, 2020, Nature Cell Biology
  • Mutations inhibiting KDM4B drive ALT activation in ATRX-mutated glioblastomas, 2021, Nature Communications
  • HOTAIR interacts with PRC2 complex regulating the regional preadipocyte transcriptome and human fat distribution, 2022, Cell Reports
  • Histone H3.3 phosphorylation promotes heterochromatin formation by inhibiting H3K9/K36 histone demethylase, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research

The research topics addressed in these papers include RNA research and splicing, genomics and chromatin dynamics, nuclear structure and function, epigenetics and DNA methylation, adipose tissue and metabolism, cancer-related molecular mechanisms, and RNA modifications related to cancer.

Philippe Collas frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Nolwenn Briand
  • Mohamed Abdelhalim
  • Sarah Hazell Pickering
  • Jonas Paulsen
  • Aurélie Bellanger

Publication venues where the scientist's work appears with higher frequency include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Genome Biology
  • Annales d Endocrinologie
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Cells

Their main fields of study, supported by 77 and 22 publications respectively, cover the broader areas of biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology as well as medicine. Within these, molecular biology is the predominant subfield, followed by physiology, cancer research, epidemiology, and genetics to a lesser extent.

Best Publications

  • Induction of Dedifferentiation, Genomewide Transcriptional Programming, and Epigenetic Reprogramming by Extracts of Carcinoma and Embryonic Stem Cells

    Christel K. Taranger;Agate Noer;Anita L. Sørensen;Anne Mari Håkelien

  • Isolation and transcription profiling of purified uncultured human stromal stem cells: alteration of gene expression after in vitro cell culture.

    Andrew C. Boquest;Aboulghassem Shahdadfar;Katrine Frønsdal;Olafur Sigurjonsson

  • Differentiation of human adipose tissue stem cells using extracts of rat cardiomyocytes

    Kristine G Gaustad;Andrew C Boquest;Brent E Anderson;A.Martin Gerdes

  • The Current State of Chromatin Immunoprecipitation

    Philippe Collas

  • Reprogramming fibroblasts to express T-cell functions using cell extracts.

    Anne Mari Håkelien;Helga B. Landsverk;James M. Robl;Bjørn S. Skålhegg

  • A rapid micro chromatin immunoprecipitation assay (microChIP).

    John Arne Dahl;Philippe Collas

  • Zebrafish mRNA sequencing deciphers novelties in transcriptome dynamics during maternal to zygotic transition

    Håvard Aanes;Cecilia L. Winata;Chi Ho Lin;Jieqi P. Chen

  • Epigenetic reprogramming of OCT4 and NANOG regulatory regions by embryonal carcinoma cell extract.

    Christel T. Freberg;John Arne Dahl;Sanna Timoskainen;Philippe Collas

  • Phosphodiesterase 4D and protein kinase a type II constitute a signaling unit in the centrosomal area.

    Kristin A. Taskén;Philippe Collas;Wolfram A. Kemmner;Oliwia Witczak

  • Browning of White Adipose Cells by Intermediate Metabolites:An Adaptive Mechanism to Alleviate Redox Pressure

    Audrey Carrière;Yannick Jeanson;Sandra Berger-Müller;Mireille André

  • Factors affecting the efficiency of nuclear transplantation in the rabbit embryo.

    Philippe Collas;James M. Robl

  • Differentiation of human adipose-derived stem cells into beating cardiomyocytes.

    Yu Suk Choi;Gregory J Dusting;Samantha Stubbs;Sandeep Arunothayaraj

  • Relationship between nuclear remodeling and development in nuclear transplant rabbit embryos.

    Philippe Collas;James M. Robl

  • Recruitment of Protein Phosphatase 1 to the Nuclear Envelope by a-Kinase Anchoring Protein Akap149 Is a Prerequisite for Nuclear Lamina Assembly

    Rikke L. Steen;Sandra B. Martins;Kjetil Taskén;Philippe Collas

  • Prepatterning of Developmental Gene Expression by Modified Histones before Zygotic Genome Activation

    Leif C. Lindeman;Ingrid S. Andersen;Andrew H. Reiner;Nan Li

  • Lamina-associated domains: peripheral matters and internal affairs

    Nolwenn Briand;Nolwenn Briand;Philippe Collas;Philippe Collas

  • The a-Kinase–Anchoring Protein Akap95 Is a Multivalent Protein with a Key Role in Chromatin Condensation at Mitosis

    Philippe Collas;Katherine Le Guellec;Kjetil Taskén

  • Genetic and epigenetic instability of human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells expanded in autologous serum or fetal bovine serum

    John-Arne Dahl;Shivali Duggal;Neralie Coulston;Douglas Millar

  • Influence of cell cycle stage of the donor nucleus on development of nuclear transplant rabbit embryos.

    Philippe Collas;John J. Balise;James M. Robl

  • The Nuclear Envelope

    Sue Shackleton;Philippe Collas;Eric C. Schirmer

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. Robl
James M. Robl University of Massachusetts Amherst
Kjetil Taskén
Kjetil Taskén Oslo University Hospital
Andreas Brech
Andreas Brech Oslo University Hospital
Rafael A. Fissore
Rafael A. Fissore University of Massachusetts Amherst
Tore Jahnsen
Tore Jahnsen University of Oslo
Harald Alfred Stenmark
Harald Alfred Stenmark University of Oslo
Etienne Sokal
Etienne Sokal Université Catholique de Louvain
Heidi Kiil Blomhoff
Heidi Kiil Blomhoff University of Oslo
Leonardo A. Meza-Zepeda
Leonardo A. Meza-Zepeda Oslo University Hospital
Jeffrey R. Mann
Jeffrey R. Mann Monash University

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