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Robert J.M. Wilson is affiliated with The Francis Crick Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research portfolio spans primarily the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a total of 31 publications. Within these disciplines, Wilson's work covers subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Ceramics and Composites.

The main topics addressed by Wilson include:

  • Gene expression and cancer classification
  • Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Glass properties and applications
  • Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials

Wilson has published extensively in several scientific venues, most frequently in Nucleic Acids Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Mammalian Genome. Other publication venues include the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids and Solid State Ionics.

Recent papers authored by or including Wilson are:

  • The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog: knowledgebase and deposition resource, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research
  • The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium: comprehensive knockout phenotyping underpinning the study of human disease, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Structure of lead borate glasses by Raman, 11B MAS, and 207Pb NMR spectroscopies, 2022, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
  • Lithium ion sites and their contribution to the ionic conductivity of RLi2O-B2O3 glasses with R ≤ 1.85, 2020, Solid State Ionics
  • Comprehensive ECG reference intervals in C57BL/6N substrains provide a generalizable guide for cardiac electrophysiology studies in mice, 2023, Mammalian Genome

Frequent collaborators in Wilson's work include Helen Parkinson, Tudor Groza, Osman Güneş, Federico López, and Violeta Muñoz-Fuentes. These coauthors have contributed to multiple publications with Wilson, reflecting a recurrent research network.

Best Publications

  • Complete gene map of the plastid-like DNA of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

    Wilson Rj;Denny Pw;Preiser Pr;Rangachari K

  • Cellular mechanism for the protective effect of haemoglobin S against P. falciparum malaria.

    G. Pasvol;D. J. Weatherall;R. J. M. Wilson

  • Effects of foetal haemoglobin on susceptibility of red cells to Plasmodium falciparum

    G. Pasvol;D. J. Weatherall;R. J. M. Wilson

  • Recombination associated with replication of malarial mitochondrial DNA

    P. R. Preiser;R. J. M. Wilson;P. W. Moore;S. Mccready

  • Quantification of left ventricular trabeculae using fractal analysis.

    Gabriella Captur;Vivek Muthurangu;Vivek Muthurangu;Christopher P. Cook;Andrew S. Flett

  • Actomyosin motor in the merozoite of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum: implications for red cell invasion.

    J. C. Pinder;R. E. Fowler;A. R. Dluzewski;L. H. Bannister

  • Potentiation of the antimalarial activity of qinghaosu by methoxylated flavones

    Barry C. Elford;Margaret F. Roberts;J.David Phillipson;Robert J.M. Wilson

  • A circular DNA in malaria parasites encodes an RNA polymerase like that of prokaryotes and chloroplasts.

    Malcolm J. Gardner;Donald H. Williamson;Robert J.M. Wilson

  • Progress with Parasite Plastids

    R.J.M. (Iain) Wilson

  • Fetal haemoglobin and malaria.

    G. Pasvol;D.J. Weatherall;R.J.M. Wilson;D.H. Smith

  • The increased susceptibility of young red cells to invasion by the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

    G. Pasvol;D. J. Weatherall;R. J. M. Wilson

  • Enzymes for heme biosynthesis are found in both the mitochondrion and plastid of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

    Shigeharu Sato;Barbara Clough;Leighton Coates;R.J.M. Wilson

  • The evolutionary origin of the 35 kb circular DNA of Plasmodium falciparum: new evidence supports a possible rhodophyte ancestry.

    Donald H. Williamson;Malcolm J. Gardner;Peter Preiser;Daphne J. Moore

  • Homologies between the contiguous and fragmented rRNAs of the two Plasmodium falciparum extrachromosomal DNAs are limited to core sequences

    Jean E. Feagin;Erica Werner;Malcolm J. Gardner;Donald H. Williamson

  • Selective stage-specific changes in the permeability to small hydrophilic solutes of human erythrocytes infected with Plasmodium falciparum.

    Barry C. Elford;J.David Haynes;Jeffrey D. Chulay;Robert J.M. Wilson

  • Plasmodium falciparum: Protease inhibitors and inhibition of erythrocyte invasion

    A.R. Dluzewski;K. Rangachari;R.J.M. Wilson;W.B. Gratzer

  • Nifs and Sufs in malaria.

    K. E. S. Ellis;B. Clough;J. W. Saldanha;R. J. M. Wilson

  • A simple method for isolating viable mature parasites of Plasmodium falciparum from cultures

    A.R. Dluzewski;Irene T. Ling;Kaveri Rangachari;P.A. Bates

  • Basis of unique red cell membrane properties in hereditary ovalocytosis

    Ann E. Schofield;M.J.A. Tanner;Jennifer C. Pinder;Barbara Clough

  • Organisation and expression of small subunit ribosomal RNA genes encoded by a 35-kilobase circular DNA in Plasmodium falciparum.

    Malcolm J. Gardner;Jean E. Feagin;Daphne J. Moore;David F. Spencer

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy J. Mohun
Timothy J. Mohun The Francis Crick Institute
Peter R. Preiser
Peter R. Preiser Nanyang Technological University
Gerard B. Nash
Gerard B. Nash University of Birmingham
Wolfgang Weninger
Wolfgang Weninger Medical University of Vienna
Paul A. Bates
Paul A. Bates Lancaster University
James C. Moon
James C. Moon University College London
David J. Weatherall
David J. Weatherall University of Oxford
Chris I. Newbold
Chris I. Newbold Wellcome Sanger Institute
David J. Adams
David J. Adams Wellcome Sanger Institute
David Walliker
David Walliker University of Edinburgh

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