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Roger A. Greenberg is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with additional work in Medicine. Subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Oncology, Immunology, Physiology, and Genetics.

The scientist's research topics encompass several areas including DNA Repair Mechanisms, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, PARP inhibition in cancer therapy, Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, interferon and immune responses, and Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence.

Frequent publication venues for the scientist include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Cancer Research, Molecular Cell, and Nature Cell Biology.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Combining PARP with ATR inhibition overcomes PARP inhibitor and platinum resistance in ovarian cancer models, 2020, Nature Communications
  • ALC1 links chromatin accessibility to PARP inhibitor response in homologous recombination-deficient cells, 2021, Nature Cell Biology
  • Nuclear body phase separation drives telomere clustering in ALT cancer cells, 2020, Molecular Biology of the Cell
  • Cell Cycle Checkpoints Cooperate to Suppress DNA- and RNA-Associated Molecular Pattern Recognition and Anti-Tumor Immune Responses, 2020, Cell Reports
  • The abscopal effect: a sense of DNA damage is in the air, 2021, Journal of Clinical Investigation

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers. Regular co-authors include Tianpeng Zhang, Haoyang Jiang, Martina Foglizzo, Elton Zeqiraj, and Arindam Datta.

Best Publications

  • Mitotic progression following DNA damage enables pattern recognition within micronuclei

    Shane M. Harding;Joseph L. Benci;Jerome Irianto;Dennis E. Discher

  • RAP80 targets BRCA1 to specific ubiquitin structures at DNA damage sites.

    Bijan Sobhian;Genze Shao;Dana R. Lilli;Aedín C. Culhane

  • ATM-Dependent Chromatin Changes Silence Transcription In cis to DNA Double-Strand Breaks

    Niraj M. Shanbhag;Ilona U. Rafalska-Metcalf;Carlo Balane-Bolivar;Susan M. Janicki

  • Network modeling links breast cancer susceptibility and centrosome dysfunction.

    Miguel Angel Pujana;Jing Dong J Han;Lea M. Starita;Kristen N. Stevens

  • HIF-α Effects on c-Myc Distinguish Two Subtypes of Sporadic VHL-Deficient Clear Cell Renal Carcinoma

    John D. Gordan;Priti Lal;Vijay R. Dondeti;Richard Letrero

  • Telomerase reverse transcriptase gene is a direct target of c-Myc but is not functionally equivalent in cellular transformation

    Roger A. Greenberg;Rónán C. O'Hagan;Hongyu Deng;Qiurong Xiao

  • Acetylation limits 53BP1 association with damaged chromatin to promote homologous recombination

    Jiangbo Tang;Nam Woo Cho;Gaofeng Cui;Erica M Manion

  • Short dysfunctional telomeres impair tumorigenesis in the INK4a(delta2/3) cancer-prone mouse.

    Roger A. Greenberg;Lynda Chin;Andrea M. Femino;Kee-Ho Lee

  • Expression of mouse telomerase reverse transcriptase during development, differentiation and proliferation.

    Roger A. Greenberg;Richard C. Allsopp;Richard C. Allsopp;Lynda Chin;Gregg B. Morin

  • Break-induced telomere synthesis underlies alternative telomere maintenance

    Robert L. Dilley;Priyanka Verma;Nam Woo Cho;Harrison D. Winters

  • Constitutive telomerase expression promotes mammary carcinomas in aging mice

    Steven E. Artandi;Steven E. Artandi;Scott Alson;Maja K. Tietze;Maja K. Tietze;Norman E. Sharpless

  • Multifactorial contributions to an acute DNA damage response by BRCA1/BARD1-containing complexes

    Roger A. Greenberg;Bijan Sobhian;Shailja Pathania;Sharon B. Cantor

  • Interchromosomal homology searches drive directional ALT telomere movement and synapsis

    Nam Woo Cho;Robert L. Dilley;Michael A. Lampson;Roger A. Greenberg

  • BRCA1 Supports XIST RNA Concentration on the Inactive X Chromosome

    Shridar Ganesan;Daniel P. Silver;Roger A. Greenberg;Dror Avni

  • Biallelic Mutations in BRCA1 Cause a New Fanconi Anemia Subtype

    Sarah L Sawyer;Lei Tian;Marketta Kähkönen;Jeremy Schwartzentruber

  • DNA Damage Follows Repair Factor Depletion and Portends Genome Variation in Cancer Cells after Pore Migration.

    Jerome Irianto;Yuntao Xia;Charlotte R. Pfeifer;Avathamsa Athirasala

  • ALTernative Telomere Maintenance and Cancer

    Robert L. Dilley;Roger A. Greenberg

  • Mechanosensing by the Lamina Protects against Nuclear Rupture, DNA Damage, and Cell-Cycle Arrest.

    Sangkyun Cho;Manasvita Vashisth;Amal Abbas;Stephanie Majkut

  • Role of Mxi1 in ageing organ systems and the regulation of normal and neoplastic growth

    Nicole Schreiber-Agus;Yong Meng;Tin Hoang;Harry Hou

  • The BRCA1-RAP80 complex regulates DNA repair mechanism utilization by restricting end resection.

    Kara A. Coleman;Roger A. Greenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis E. Discher
Dennis E. Discher University of Pennsylvania
Robert H. Mach
Robert H. Mach University of Pennsylvania
Ronald A. DePinho
Ronald A. DePinho The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Katherine L. Nathanson
Katherine L. Nathanson University of Pennsylvania
David M. Livingston
David M. Livingston Harvard University
David A. Mankoff
David A. Mankoff University of Pennsylvania
Gregg B. Morin
Gregg B. Morin University of British Columbia
Andy J. Minn
Andy J. Minn University of Pennsylvania
Susan M. Domchek
Susan M. Domchek University of Pennsylvania
Robert Winqvist
Robert Winqvist University of Oulu

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