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2025

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Molecular Biology

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Citations
59114
World Ranking
184
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Robert H. Singer is affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, contributing notably to subfields such as Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Genetics, Biophysics, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

Robert H. Singer has published research extensively, with recent notable papers including:

  • Intracellular mRNA transport and localized translation, 2021, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • A DNA repair pathway can regulate transcriptional noise to promote cell fate transitions, 2021, Science
  • Single-molecule imaging of transcription dynamics in somatic stem cells, 2020, Nature
  • Presynaptic FMRP and local protein synthesis support structural and functional plasticity of glutamatergic axon terminals, 2022, Neuron
  • Cellular variability of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, 2021, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with this scientist include Gary D. Rhodes, Sulagna Das, Pablo E. Castillo, Young J. Yoon, and Hanae Sato.

The scientist has contributed publications to various venues, frequently publishing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Methods in molecular biology
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

In addition to research articles, Robert H. Singer has published books with Edinburgh University Press, including titles such as Consuming Images (2020).

Professional recognition includes:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2014
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009

Best Publications

  • Localization of ASH1 mRNA Particles in Living Yeast

    Edouard Bertrand;Pascal Chartrand;Matthias Schaefer;Shailesh M. Shenoy

  • Visualization of Single RNA Transcripts in Situ

    Andrea M. Femino;Fredric S. Fay;Fredric S. Fay;Kevin E. Fogarty;Kevin E. Fogarty;Robert H. Singer;Robert H. Singer

  • A general method to improve fluorophores for live-cell and single-molecule microscopy

    Jonathan B Grimm;Brian P English;Jiji Chen;Joel P Slaughter

  • Single-RNA counting reveals alternative modes of gene expression in yeast.

    Daniel Zenklusen;Daniel R Larson;Robert H Singer

  • Fluorescence in situ hybridization: past, present and future.

    Jeffrey M. Levsky;Robert H. Singer

  • Transcriptional pulsing of a developmental gene.

    Jonathan R. Chubb;Jonathan R. Chubb;Tatjana Trcek;Shailesh M. Shenoy;Robert H. Singer

  • From silencing to gene expression: real-time analysis in single cells.

    Susan M Janicki;Toshiro Tsukamoto;Simone E Salghetti;William P Tansey

  • Spatial regulation of beta-actin translation by Src-dependent phosphorylation of ZBP1.

    Stefan Huttelmaier;Stefan Huttelmaier;Daniel Zenklusen;Marcell Lederer;Jason B. Dictenberg

  • In vivo dynamics of RNA polymerase II transcription

    Xavier Darzacq;Yaron Shav-Tal;Yaron Shav-Tal;Valeria de Turris;Yehuda Brody

  • Intracellular localization of messenger RNAs for cytoskeletal proteins

    Jeanne Bentley Lawrence;Robert H. Singer

  • Characterization of a beta-actin mRNA zipcode-binding protein.

    Anthony F. Ross;Yuri Oleynikov;Edward H. Kislauskis;Krishan L. Taneja

  • Real-time observation of transcription initiation and elongation on an endogenous yeast gene.

    Daniel R. Larson;Daniel Zenklusen;Daniel Zenklusen;Bin Wu;Jeffrey A. Chao

  • Sensitive, high-resolution chromatin and chromosome mapping in situ: presence and orientation of two closely integrated copies of EBV in a lymphoma line.

    Jeanne Bentley Lawrence;Carol A. Villnave;Robert H. Singer

  • Foci of trinucleotide repeat transcripts in nuclei of myotonic dystrophy cells and tissues.

    Krishan L. Taneja;Mila McCurrach;Martin Schalling;David Housman

  • Single mRNA molecules demonstrate probabilistic movement in living mammalian cells.

    Dahlene Fusco;Nathalie Accornero;Brigitte Lavoie;Shailesh M. Shenoy

  • Expansion of a CUG trinucleotide repeat in the 3′ untranslated region of myotonic dystrophy protein kinase transcripts results in nuclear retention of transcripts

    Brigid M. Davis;Mila E. McCurrach;Mila E. McCurrach;Krishan L. Taneja;Robert H. Singer

  • Single-Cell Gene Expression Profiling

    Jeffrey M. Levsky;Shailesh M. Shenoy;Rossanna C. Pezo;Robert H. Singer

  • Mating Type Switching in Yeast Controlled by Asymmetric Localization of ASH1 mRNA

    Roy M. Long;Robert H. Singer;Robert H. Singer;Xiuhua Meng;Xiuhua Meng;Isabel Gonzalez;Isabel Gonzalez

  • Sequences responsible for intracellular localization of beta-actin messenger RNA also affect cell phenotype.

    Edward H. Kislauskis;Xiaochun Zhu;Robert H. Singer

  • Highly localized tracks of specific transcripts within interphase nuclei visualized by in situ hybridization

    Jeanne Bentley Lawrence;Robert H. Singer;Lisa M. Marselle

Frequent Co-Authors

John S. Condeelis
John S. Condeelis Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Jeanne B. Lawrence
Jeanne B. Lawrence University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Xavier Darzacq
Xavier Darzacq University of California, Berkeley
Edouard Bertrand
Edouard Bertrand Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Stefan Hüttelmaier
Stefan Hüttelmaier Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
David L. Stern
David L. Stern Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Gary J. Bassell
Gary J. Bassell Emory University
David Grunwald
David Grunwald University of Utah
Ulrich Steidl
Ulrich Steidl Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Michael Rosbash
Michael Rosbash Brandeis University

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