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Overview

Roger A. Garrett is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. The scientist's research spans multiple fields within the biological sciences, particularly Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work engages closely with subfields such as Molecular Biology, Insect Science, and Ecology.

The research topics addressed by Roger A. Garrett prominently include:

  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Several recent publications provide insight into their research focus. These include:

  • "CRISPR-Cas systems are widespread accessory elements across bacterial and archaeal plasmids," published in 2021 in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "CRISPR-Cas systems are widespread accessory elements across bacterial and archaeal plasmids," published in 2021 in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR-Cas systems including rare variants," published in 2025 in Nature Microbiology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Roger A. Garrett include:

  • Rafael Pinilla-Redondo
  • Shiraz A. Shah
  • Jakob Russel
  • David Mayo-Muñoz
  • Joseph Nesme

The scientist's work has been published chiefly in venues such as:

  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Microbiology

Best Publications

  • An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems

    Kira S. Makarova;Yuri I. Wolf;Omer S. Alkhnbashi;Fabrizio Costa

  • Evolutionary classification of CRISPR-Cas systems: a burst of class 2 and derived variants.

    Kira S. Makarova;Yuri I. Wolf;Jaime Iranzo;Sergey A. Shmakov

  • The complete genome of the crenarchaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus P2.

    Qunxin She;Rama K. Singh;Fabrice Confalonieri;Yvan Zivanovic

  • Viruses of the Archaea: a unifying view

    David Prangishvili;Patrick Forterre;Roger A. Garrett

  • Protospacer recognition motifs: mixed identities and functional diversity

    Shiraz A. Shah;Susanne Erdmann;Francisco J.M. Mojica;Roger A. Garrett

  • The Genome of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, a Model Organism of the Crenarchaeota

    Lamning Chen;Kim Brügger;Marie Skovgaard;Peter Redder

  • A putative viral defence mechanism in archaeal cells

    Reidun K Lillestøl;Peter Redder;Roger A Garrett;Kim Brügger

  • Dynamic properties of the Sulfolobus CRISPR/Cas and CRISPR/Cmr systems when challenged with vector-borne viral and plasmid genes and protospacers

    Soley Gudbergsdottir;Ling Deng;Zhengjun Chen;Jaide V K Jensen

  • Archaebacterial DNA-dependent RNA polymerases testify to the evolution of the eukaryotic nuclear genome

    Gabriela Puhler;Henrik Leffers;Felix Gropp;Peter Palm

  • The mosaic genome structure of the Wolbachia wRi strain infecting Drosophila simulans.

    Lisa Klasson;Joakim Westberg;Panagiotis Sapountzis;Kristina Näslund

  • CRISPR Families of the Crenarchaeal Genus Sulfolobus: Bidirectional Transcription and Dynamic Properties

    Reidun K. Lillestøl;Shiraz A. Shah;Kim Brügger;Peter Redder

  • A novel interference mechanism by a type IIIB CRISPR‐Cmr module in Sulfolobus

    Ling Deng;Roger A Garrett;Shiraz A Shah;Xu Peng

  • The Ribosome, Structure, Function, Antibiotics, and Cellular Interactions

    Roger A. Garrett

  • Identification of novel non-coding RNAs as potential antisense regulators in the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus

    Thean-Hock Tang;Norbert Polacek;Marek Zywicki;Marek Zywicki;Harald Huber

  • Evolutionary genomics of archaeal viruses : Unique viral genomes in the third domain of life

    David Prangishvili;Roger A. Garrett;Eugene V. Koonin

  • Virology: independent virus development outside a host.

    Monika Häring;Gisle Vestergaard;Reinhard Rachel;Lanming Chen

  • Structure of nucleic acid-poly base complexes.

    Margaret Haynes;R Garrett;W Gratzer

  • Fine structure of the peptidyl transferase centre on 23 S-like rRNAs deduced from chemical probing of antibiotic-ribosome complexes.

    Cristina Rodriguez-Fonseca;Ricardo Amils;Ricardo Amils;Roger A. Garrett;Roger A. Garrett

  • Selective and hyperactive uptake of foreign DNA by adaptive immune systems of an archaeon via two distinct mechanisms.

    Susanne Erdmann;Roger A. Garrett

  • Prediction of Individual Brain Maturity Using fMRI

    J. van der Oost;M. M. Jore;E. R. Westra;M. Lundgren

Frequent Co-Authors

David Prangishvili
David Prangishvili Institut Pasteur
Qunxin She
Qunxin She Shandong University
Bo T. Porse
Bo T. Porse University of Copenhagen
Wolfram Zillig
Wolfram Zillig Max Planck Society
Jørgen Kjems
Jørgen Kjems Aarhus University
Alexander S. Mankin
Alexander S. Mankin University of Illinois at Chicago
Reinhard Rachel
Reinhard Rachel University of Regensburg
Jens Lykke-Andersen
Jens Lykke-Andersen University of California, San Diego
Hans-Peter Klenk
Hans-Peter Klenk Newcastle University
Patrick Forterre
Patrick Forterre University of Paris-Saclay

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