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Molecular Biology

D-Index
137
Citations
84910
World Ranking
140
National Ranking
90

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award

Overview

Roy Parker is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a substantial body of work in related subfields such as Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Physiology.

Their scientific contributions are concentrated on a range of topics that include RNA research and splicing, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA regulation and disease, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, viral infections and immunology research, as well as interferon and immune responses.

Frequent publication venues for their work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, RNA, The Journal of Cell Biology, and Science Advances.

Roy Parker has collaborated regularly with a number of co-authors, including James M. Burke, Evan Lester, Leslie A. Leinwand, Daniel B. Larremore, and Carolyn J. Decker.

Some of their recent published papers are:

  • Test sensitivity is secondary to frequency and turnaround time for COVID-19 screening, 2021, Science Advances
  • Rethinking Covid-19 Test Sensitivity - A Strategy for Containment, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Test sensitivity is secondary to frequency and turnaround time for COVID-19 surveillance, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Modulation of RNA Condensation by the DEAD-Box Protein eIF4A, 2020, Cell
  • Endoplasmic reticulum contact sites regulate the dynamics of membraneless organelles, 2020, Science

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Control of translation and mRNA degradation by miRNAs and siRNAs

    Marco Antonio Valencia-Sanchez;Jidong Liu;Gregory J. Hannon;Roy Parker

  • Eukaryotic Stress Granules: The Ins and Outs of Translation

    J. Ross Buchan;J. Ross Buchan;Roy Parker;Roy Parker

  • Decapping and Decay of Messenger RNA Occur in Cytoplasmic Processing Bodies

    Ujwal Sheth;Roy Parker

  • MicroRNA-dependent localization of targeted mRNAs to mammalian P-bodies

    Jidong Liu;Marco Antonio Valencia-Sanchez;Gregory J. Hannon;Roy Parker

  • P Bodies and the Control of mRNA Translation and Degradation

    Roy Parker;Ujwal Sheth;Ujwal Sheth

  • Principles and Properties of Stress Granules

    David S.W. Protter;Roy Parker

  • Formation and Maturation of Phase-Separated Liquid Droplets by RNA-Binding Proteins

    Yuan Lin;David S.W. Protter;Michael K. Rosen;Michael K. Rosen;Michael K. Rosen;Roy Parker;Roy Parker;Roy Parker

  • ATPase-Modulated Stress Granules Contain a Diverse Proteome and Substructure.

    Saumya Jain;Joshua R. Wheeler;Robert W. Walters;Anurag Agrawal

  • Circular RNAs: diversity of form and function

    Erika Lasda;Roy Parker

  • Compositional Control of Phase-Separated Cellular Bodies

    Salman F. Banani;Allyson M. Rice;William B. Peeples;Yuan Lin

  • The enzymes and control of eukaryotic mRNA turnover.

    Roy Parker;Haiwei Song;Haiwei Song

  • Test sensitivity is secondary to frequency and turnaround time for COVID-19 screening.

    Daniel B. Larremore;Bryan Wilder;Evan Lester;Evan Lester;Soraya Shehata;Soraya Shehata

  • Movement of eukaryotic mRNAs between polysomes and cytoplasmic processing bodies.

    Muriel Brengues;Daniela Teixeira;Roy Parker

  • P-Bodies and Stress Granules: Possible Roles in the Control of Translation and mRNA Degradation

    Carolyn J. Decker;Roy Parker

  • Degradation of mRNA in eukaryotes

    Clare A Beelman;Roy Parker;Roy Parker

  • A role for the P-body component GW182 in microRNA function

    Jidong Liu;Fabiola V. Rivas;James Wohlschlegel;John R. Yates

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Processing bodies require RNA for assembly and contain nontranslating mRNAs

    Daniela Teixeira;Ujwal Sheth;Marco A. Valencia-Sanchez;Muriel Brengues

  • Endonucleolytic cleavage of eukaryotic mRNAs with stalls in translation elongation

    Meenakshi K. Doma;Roy Parker

Frequent Co-Authors

Haiwei Song
Haiwei Song Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
Michael K. Rosen
Michael K. Rosen The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Leslie A. Leinwand
Leslie A. Leinwand University of Colorado Boulder
Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
J. Paul Taylor
J. Paul Taylor St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Allan Jacobson
Allan Jacobson University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
David C. Schwartz
David C. Schwartz University of Wisconsin–Madison
Witold Filipowicz
Witold Filipowicz Friedrich Miescher Institute
Gregory J. Hannon
Gregory J. Hannon University of Cambridge
Harry C. Dietz
Harry C. Dietz Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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