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Overview

Robert C. Dickson is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on cellular and molecular mechanisms related to aging and longevity.

Dickson's work is concentrated within several subfields including Cell Biology, Aging, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Plant Science, and Molecular Biology. Their research topics cover diverse areas such as genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms; cellular transport and secretion; microtubule and mitosis dynamics; endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease; circadian rhythm and melatonin; plant molecular biology research; and autophagy in disease and therapy.

Recent publications from Dickson include:

  • Art2 mediates selective endocytosis of methionine transporters during adaptation to sphingolipid depletion, 2023, Journal of Cell Science
  • Enhancing lifespan of budding yeast by pharmacological lowering of amino acid pools, 2021, Aging
  • Reduced sphingolipid biosynthesis modulates proteostasis networks to enhance longevity, 2023, Aging
  • Art2 mediates selective endocytosis of methionine transporters during adaptation to sphingolipid depletion, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Enhancing lifespan of budding yeast by pharmacological lowering of amino acid pools, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Dickson include:

  • Nathaniel L. Hepowit
  • Jason A. MacGurn
  • Bradley Moon
  • Jéssica K. A. Macêdo
  • Lyndsay E.A. Young

The primary publication venues for Dickson's work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Aging
  • Journal of Cell Science
  • International Journal of Mental Health Nursing

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Biochemistry, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology of Lipids of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Gunther Daum;Norman D. Lees;Martin Bard;Robert Dickson

  • Molecular Cloning and Functional Characterization of Murine Sphingosine Kinase

    Takafumi Kohama;Ana Olivera;Lisa Edsall;M. Marek Nagiec

  • Sphingolipid Synthesis as a Target for Antifungal Drugs: COMPLEMENTATION OF THE INOSITOL PHOSPHORYLCERAMIDE SYNTHASE DEFECT IN A MUTANT STRAIN OF SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE BY THE AUR1 GENE *

    M. Marek Nagiec;Elzbieta E. Nagiec;Julie A. Baltisberger;Gerald B. Wells

  • Sphingolipid functions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: comparison to mammals.

    Robert C. Dickson

  • Functions and metabolism of sphingolipids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Robert C Dickson;Chiranthani Sumanasekera;Robert L Lester

  • Sphingolipids are potential heat stress signals in Saccharomyces.

    Robert C. Dickson;Elzbieta E. Nagiec;Marek Skrzypek;Philip Tillman

  • Sphingolipid functions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Robert C. Dickson;Robert L. Lester

  • The LCB2 gene of Saccharomyces and the related LCB1 gene encode subunits of serine palmitoyltransferase, the initial enzyme in sphingolipid synthesis

    M. Marek Nagiec;Julie A. Baltisberger;Gerald B. Wells;Robert L. Lester

  • Thematic Review Series: Sphingolipids. New insights into sphingolipid metabolism and function in budding yeast

    Robert C. Dickson

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • A suppressor gene that enables Saccharomyces cerevisiae to grow without making sphingolipids encodes a protein that resembles an Escherichia coli fatty acyltransferase.

    M M Nagiec;G B Wells;R L Lester;R C Dickson

  • The LCB4 (YOR171c) and LCB5 (YLR260w) genes of Saccharomyces encode sphingoid long chain base kinases.

    M. Marek Nagiec;Marek Skrzypek;Elizbieta E. Nagiec;Robert L. Lester

  • Cloning and characterization of LCB1, a Saccharomyces gene required for biosynthesis of the long-chain base component of sphingolipids.

    Rebecca Buede;Carrie Rinker-Schaffer;William J. Pinto;Robert L. Lester

  • A gene encoding a sphingolipid biosynthesis enzyme determines the sensitivity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to an antifungal plant defensin from dahlia (Dahlia merckii)

    Karin Thevissen;Bruno Cammue;Katleen Lemaire;Joris Winderickx

  • Synthesis of Mannose-(inositol-P)2-ceramide, the Major Sphingolipid in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Requires the IPT1 (YDR072c) Gene

    Robert C. Dickson;Elzbieta E. Nagiec;Gerald B. Wells;M. Marek Nagiec

  • Metabolism and selected functions of sphingolipids in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Robert C Dickson;Robert L Lester

  • A Mammalian Homolog of the Yeast LCB1 Encodes a Component of Serine Palmitoyltransferase, the Enzyme Catalyzing the First Step in Sphingolipid Synthesis

    Kentaro Hanada;Tomoko Hara;Masahiro Nishijima;Osamu Kuge

  • Direct selection of Saccharomyces cerevisiae resistant to the antibiotic G418 following transformation with a DNA vector carrying the kanamycin-resistance gene of Tn903

    Thomas D. Webster;Robert C. Dickson

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert L. Lester
Robert L. Lester University of Kentucky
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Shazib Pervaiz
Shazib Pervaiz National University of Singapore
Ian G. Mills
Ian G. Mills University of Oxford
Leonidas C. Platanias
Leonidas C. Platanias Northwestern University
Hsing Jien Kung
Hsing Jien Kung Taipei Medical University
Maurizio Molinari
Maurizio Molinari Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Yee-Joo Tan
Yee-Joo Tan National University of Singapore
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Zuzana Storchova
Zuzana Storchova Technical University of Kaiserslautern

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