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  • 1979 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Richard Calendar was affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spanned multiple fields including Environmental Science, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Immunology and Microbiology. Within these broad fields, their work particularly focused on the subfields of Ecology, Molecular Biology, and Microbiology.

The scientist contributed extensively to topics related to bacteriophages and microbial interactions, genomics and phylogenetic studies, as well as microbial infections and disease research. These areas were central to their research output.

Richard Calendar's recent published papers include:

  • High-throughput mapping of the phage resistance landscape in E. coli, 2020, PLoS Biology
  • High-throughput mapping of the phage resistance landscape in E. coli, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

They frequently published in venues such as PLoS Biology and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), contributing to the scientific discussion in their fields.

Throughout their career, Richard Calendar collaborated regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Vivek K. Mutalik
  • Benjamin A. Adler
  • Harneet S. Rishi
  • Denish Piya
  • Crystal Zhong

Recognition for their work included being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1979.

Best Publications

  • Construction, Characterization, and Use of Two Listeria monocytogenes Site-Specific Phage Integration Vectors

    Peter Lauer;Man Yin Nora Chow;Martin J. Loessner;Daniel A. Portnoy

  • Purification and physical characterization of tyrosyl ribonucleic acid synthetases from Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis.

    Richard Calendar;Paul Berg

  • Novel topologically knotted DNA from bacteriophage P4 capsids: studies with DNA topoisomerases

    Leroy F. Liu;John L. Davis;Richard Calendar

  • DNA sequences of the tail fiber genes of bacteriophage P2: evidence for horizontal transfer of tail fiber genes among unrelated bacteriophages.

    E Haggård-Ljungquist;C Halling;R Calendar

  • The Catalytic Properties of Tyrosyl Ribonucleic Acid Synthetases from Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis

    Richard Calendar;Paul Berg

  • Complete nucleotide sequence, molecular analysis and genome structure of bacteriophage A118 of Listeria monocytogenes : implications for phage evolution

    Martin J. Loessner;Ross B. Inman;Peter Lauer;Richard Calendar

  • Characterization of REP- mutants and their interaction with P2 phage.

    Richard Calendar;Richard Calendar;Bjorn Lindqvist;Bjorn Lindqvist;Gianpiero Sironi;Gianpiero Sironi;Alvin J. Clark;Alvin J. Clark

  • d-Tyrosyl RNA: Formation, hydrolysis and utilization for protein synthesis

    Richard Calendar;Paul Berg

  • Bacteriophage lambda; abortive infection of bacteria lysogenic for phage P2.

    Gunnar Lindahl;Gianpiero Sironi;Harvey Bialy;Richard Calendar

  • Mode of DNA packing within bacteriophage heads.

    K.E. Richards;R.C. Williams;R. Calendar

  • Mechanisms of genome propagation and helper exploitation by satellite phage P4.

    B H Lindqvist;G Dehò;R Calendar

  • Genome and proteome of Listeria monocytogenes phage PSA: an unusual case for programmed + 1 translational frameshifting in structural protein synthesis.

    Markus Zimmer;Elke Sattelberger;Ross B. Inman;Richard Calendar

  • P2 phage amber mutants: Characterization by use of a polarity supressor

    Melvin G. Sunshine;Martha Thorn;Warren Gibbs;Richard Calendar

  • The Terminally Redundant, Nonpermuted Genome of Listeria Bacteriophage A511: a Model for the SPO1-Like Myoviruses of Gram-Positive Bacteria

    Jochen Klumpp;Julia Dorscht;Rudi Lurz;Regula Bielmann

  • High-throughput mapping of the phage resistance landscape in E. coli.

    Vivek K. Mutalik;Benjamin A. Adler;Harneet S. Rishi;Denish Piya

  • A common sequence motif, -E-G-Y-A-T-A-, identified within the primase domains of plasmid-encoded I- and P-type DNA primases and the alpha protein of the Escherichia coli satellite phage P4.

    B Strack;M Lessl;R Calendar;E Lanka

  • Comparative Genome Analysis of Listeria Bacteriophages Reveals Extensive Mosaicism, Programmed Translational Frameshifting, and a Novel Prophage Insertion Site

    Julia Dorscht;Jochen Klumpp;Regula Bielmann;Mathias Schmelcher

  • Bacteriophage P2 head morphogenesis: cleavage of the major capsid protein.

    Judith A. Lengyel;Richard Neal Goldstein;Margaret Marsh;Melvin G. Sunshine

  • Gene insertion and replacement in Schizosaccharomyces pombe mediated by the Streptomyces bacteriophage phiC31 site-specific recombination system.

    Thomason Lc;Calendar R;Ow Dw

  • AUTHOR'S CORRECTION Construction, Characterization, and Use of Two Listeria monocytogenes Site-Specific Phage Integration Vectors

    Peter Lauer;Yin Nora Chow;Martin J. Loessner;Daniel A. Portnoy

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel A. Portnoy
Daniel A. Portnoy University of California, Berkeley
David W. Ow
David W. Ow Chinese Academy of Sciences
Adam P. Arkin
Adam P. Arkin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ross B. Inman
Ross B. Inman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Alvin J. Clark
Alvin J. Clark University of Arizona
Derrick E. Fouts
Derrick E. Fouts J. Craig Venter Institute
Timothy D. Read
Timothy D. Read Emory University
Patrick S. G. Chain
Patrick S. G. Chain Los Alamos National Laboratory
Hans H. Cheng
Hans H. Cheng Agricultural Research Service

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