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81
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30328
World Ranking
1507
National Ranking
705

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Ray Wu was affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research career focused on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with particular attention to Cell Biology and Molecular Biology as subfields.

The scientist's work covered several specialized topics, including:

  • Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics

Ray Wu's recent publications included the following paper:

  • Stress-driven tissue fluidization physically segments vertebrate somites, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Throughout their career, Ray Wu collaborated frequently with these coauthors:

  • Elijah Shelton
  • Sangwoo Kim
  • Ben Gross
  • Marie Pochitaloff
  • Irene Lim

Ray Wu published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

In recognition of their contributions, Ray Wu was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2003.

Best Publications

  • High-velocity microprojectiles for delivering nucleic acids into living cells

    T. M. Klein;E. D. Wolf;R. Wu;J. C. Sanford

  • Isolation and characterization of rat and human glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase cDNAs: genomic complexity and molecular evolution of the gene

    J. Yun Tso;Xiao Hong Sun;Teh Hui Kao;Kimberly S. Reece

  • Trehalose accumulation in rice plants confers high tolerance levels to different abiotic stresses

    Ajay K. Garg;Ju-Kon Kim;Thomas G. Owens;Anil P. Ranwala

  • Expression of a Late Embryogenesis Abundant Protein Gene, HVA1, from Barley Confers Tolerance to Water Deficit and Salt Stress in Transgenic Rice

    Deping Xu;Xiaolan Duan;Baiyang Wang;Bimei Hong

  • Isolation of an efficient actin promoter for use in rice transformation

    David McElroy;Wanggen Zhang;Jun Cao;Ray Wu

  • Unequal crossing over in the ribosomal DNA of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Jack W. Szostak;Ray Wu

  • Regulatory mechanisms in carbohydrate metabolism. III. Limiting factors in glycolysis of ascites tumor cells.

    Ray Wu;E. Racker

  • Overexpression of a Δ1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthetase gene and analysis of tolerance to water- and salt-stress in transgenic rice

    Baocheng Zhu;Jin Su;Menchi Chang;Desh Pal S. Verma

  • Engineering and utilization

    Shain-dow Kung;Ray Wu

  • Construction of expression vectors based on the rice actin 1 (Act1) 5' region for use in monocot transformation.

    David McElroy;Alan D. Blowers;Barnabás Jenes;Ray Wu

  • Transgenic rice plants harboring an introduced potato proteinase inhibitor II gene are insect resistant

    Xiaolan Duan;Xiaogang Li;Qingzhong Xue;Mahmoud Abo-El-Saad

  • Terminal labeling and addition of homopolymer tracts to duplex DNA fragments by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase

    Ranajit Roychoudhury;Ernest Jay;Ray Wu

  • HVA1, a LEA gene from barley confers dehydration tolerance in transgenic rice (Oryza sativa L.) via cell membrane protection

    R Chandra Babu;Jingxian Zhang;A Blum;T.-H David Ho

  • DNA sequence analysis: a general, simple and rapid method for sequencing large oligodeoxyribonucleotide fragments by mapping

    Ernest Jay;Robert Bambara;R. Padmanabhan;Ray Wu

  • Analysis of rice Act1 5' region activity in transgenic rice plants.

    Wanggen Zhang;David McElroy;Ray Wu

  • Efficient regeneration of transgenic plants from rice protoplasts and correctly regulated expression of the foreign gene in the plants.

    W. Zhang;R. Wu

  • Rice actin gene and promoter

    Ray Wu;David Mcelroy

  • Regeneration of herbicide resistant transgenic rice plants following microprojectile-mediated transformation of suspension culture cells.

    Jun Cao;Xiaolan Duan;David McEIroy;Ray Wu

  • Regulatory mechanisms in carbohydrate metabolism. V. Limiting factors of glycolysis in HeLa cells.

    Ray Wu

  • High-velocity microprojectiles for delivering nucleic acids into living cells. 1987.

    R M Klein;E D Wolf;R Wu;J C Sanford

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard C. Scarpulla
Richard C. Scarpulla Northwestern University
Teh-hui Kao
Teh-hui Kao Pennsylvania State University
Robert A. Bambara
Robert A. Bambara University of Rochester
Roland Brousseau
Roland Brousseau National Research Council Canada
Lester F. Lau
Lester F. Lau University of Illinois at Chicago
Jack W. Szostak
Jack W. Szostak University of Chicago
Ju-Kon Kim
Ju-Kon Kim Seoul National University
Kimberly S. Reece
Kimberly S. Reece Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Tuan-Hua David Ho
Tuan-Hua David Ho Academia Sinica
Harold A. Scheraga
Harold A. Scheraga Cornell University

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