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Roger Chalkley is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research primarily intersects social sciences, health professions, and medicine, focusing notably on public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as general health professions and safety research. The scholar's work also engages with gender studies and elements of statistics, probability, and uncertainty.

The core topics they explore include health and medical research impacts, doctoral education challenges and solutions, and career development and diversity. Additionally, they have contributed to fields addressing diversity and career in medicine, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, and issues related to perfectionism, procrastination, anxiety, healthcare professionals' stress, and burnout.

Roger Chalkley's publication record includes a number of papers spanning recent years with venues such as PLoS ONE, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, PLoS Biology, and FASEB BioAdvances. Selected papers authored or co-authored by them are:

  • A cross-institutional analysis of the effects of broadening trainee professional development on research productivity, 2021, PLoS Biology
  • Biomedical graduate student experiences during the COVID-19 university closure, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Questioning the Value of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) in PhD Admissions in Biomedical Engineering, 2020, Annals of Biomedical Engineering
  • Career self-efficacy disparities in underrepresented biomedical scientist trainees, 2023, PLoS ONE
  • From goal to outcome: Analyzing the progression of biomedical sciences PhD careers in a longitudinal study using an expanded taxonomy, 2023, FASEB BioAdvances

Their collaborative work frequently involves co-authors such as Susi Varvayanis, Rebekah L. Layton, Janani Varadarajan, Kimberly A. Petrie, and Abigail M. Brown, with multiple publications alongside each.

Frequent publication venues for Chalkley include:

  • PLoS ONE (4 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)
  • UNC Libraries (2 publications)
  • PLoS Biology (1 publication)
  • FASEB BioAdvances (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • High resolution acrylamide gel electrophoresis of histones.

    Sakol Panyim;Roger Chalkley

  • The effect of sodium butyrate on histone modification

    Linda Sealy;Roger Chalkley

  • The heterogeneity of histones. I. A quantitative analysis of calf histones in very long polyacrylamide gels.

    Sakol Panyim;Roger Chalkley

  • A new histone found only in mammalian tissues with little cell division

    Sakol Panyim;Roger Chalkley

  • An electrophoretic comparison of vertebrate histones.

    Sakol Panyim;David Bilek;Roger Chalkley

  • The Molecular Weights of Vertebrate Histones Exploiting a Modified Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate Electrophoretic Method

    Sakol Panyim;Roger Chalkley

  • Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase is necessary for the integration of hepatic energy metabolism.

    Pengxiang She;Masakazu Shiota;Kathy D. Shelton;Roger Chalkley

  • Further studies of a thymus nucleohistone-associated protease.

    James Bartley;Roger Chalkley

  • A modified procedure for fractionating histones.

    Denis Oliver;K. R. Sommer;Sakol Panyim;Steven Spiker

  • Modifications to histones immediately after synthesis

    Vaughn Jackson;Ann Shires;Nongnuj Tanphaichitr;Roger Chalkley

  • Evidence for two asymmetric conformational states in the human erythrocyte sugar-transport system.

    J E Barnett;G D Holman;R A Chalkley;K A Munday

  • A new method for the isolation of replicative chromatin: Selective deposition of histone on both new and old DNA

    Vaughn Jackson;Roger Chalkley

  • Studies on highly metabolically active acetylation and phosphorylation of histones.

    V Jackson;A Shires;R Chalkley;D K Granner

  • Histone acetylation increases the solubility of chromatin and occurs sequentially over most of the chromatin. A novel model for the biological role of histone acetylation.

    M Perry;R Chalkley

  • DNA associated with hyperacetylated histone is preferentially digested by DNase I

    Linda Sealy;Roger Chalkley

  • Lysine-rich histone phosphorylation. A positive correlation with cell replication.

    Rod Balhorn;Roger Chalkley;Daryl Granner

  • The structure and assembly of active chromatin

    John Svaren;Roger Chalkley

  • A study of the structure of isolated chromatin.

    Roger. Chalkley;Ronald H. Jensen

  • The identification of distinct populations of acetylated histone.

    J Covault;R Chalkley

  • Proteolytic contamination of calf thymus nucleohistone and its inhibition

    Sakol Panyim;Sakol Panyim;Ronald H. Jensen;Ronald H. Jensen;Roger Chalkley;Roger Chalkley

Frequent Co-Authors

Daryl K. Granner
Daryl K. Granner Vanderbilt University
Rod Balhorn
Rod Balhorn Shal Technologies (United States)
Matthew Cotten
Matthew Cotten Wellcome Sanger Institute
Ross C. Hardison
Ross C. Hardison Pennsylvania State University
John Svaren
John Svaren University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mark A. Magnuson
Mark A. Magnuson Vanderbilt University
Kathleen L. Gould
Kathleen L. Gould Vanderbilt University
Catherine Postic
Catherine Postic Institut Cochin
Susan R. Wente
Susan R. Wente Wake Forest University
Paul M. Hassoun
Paul M. Hassoun Johns Hopkins University

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