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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Ruth E. Stark is affiliated with the City College of New York in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these broader domains, their work touches on several subfields, including Epidemiology, Plant Science, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's main research topics include fungal infections and studies, antifungal resistance and susceptibility, mosquito-borne diseases and control, plant surface properties and treatments, postharvest quality and shelf life management, cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research, and potato plant research.

Frequent publication venues for Ruth E. Stark comprise bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with eight publications, Journal of Biological Chemistry with three, Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Journal of Fungi with two publications each, and The FASEB Journal with two.

Co-authors collaborating often with the scientist include Christine Chrissian, Arturo Casadevall, Emma Camacho, John E. Kelly, and Maggie P. Wear.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Ruth E. Stark include:

  • Melanin deposition in two Cryptococcus species depends on cell-wall composition and flexibility (2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry)
  • Cuticular profiling of insecticide resistant Aedes aegypti (2023, Scientific Reports)
  • Solid-state NMR spectroscopy identifies three classes of lipids in Cryptococcus neoformans melanized cell walls and whole fungal cells (2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry)
  • Cryptococcus neoformans melanization incorporates multiple catecholamines to produce polytypic melanin (2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry)
  • Tailoring NMR experiments for structural characterization of amorphous biological solids: A practical guide (2020, Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance)

In 2010, Ruth E. Stark received the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Cutin deficiency in the tomato fruit cuticle consistently affects resistance to microbial infection and biomechanical properties, but not transpirational water loss

    Tal Isaacson;Dylan K. Kosma;Antonio J. Matas;Gregory J. Buda

  • Structural evaluation of phospholipid bicelles for solution-state studies of membrane-associated biomolecules.

    Kerney J. Glover;Jennifer A. Whiles;Guohua Wu;Nan Jun Yu

  • Fungal Melanin: What do We Know About Structure?

    Joshua D. Nosanchuk;Ruth E. Stark;Arturo Casadevall

  • Tissue- and Cell-Type Specific Transcriptome Profiling of Expanding Tomato Fruit Provides Insights into Metabolic and Regulatory Specialization and Cuticle Formation

    Antonio J. Matas;Trevor H. Yeats;Gregory J. Buda;Yi Zheng

  • DETERMINATION OF BOND DISTANCES AND BOND ANGLES BY SOLID-STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE. CARBON-13 AND NITROGEN-14 NMR STUDY OF GLYCINE

    Haberkorn. R. A.;R. E. Stark;H. Van Willigen;R. G. Griffin

  • Flavonol glycosides and novel iridoid glycoside from the leaves of Morinda citrifolia

    Shengmin Sang;Xiaofang Cheng;Nanqun Zhu;Ruth E. Stark

  • Enzymatic synthesis of tea theaflavin derivatives and their anti-inflammatory and cytotoxic activities.

    Shengmin Sang;Joshua D. Lambert;Shiying Tian;Jungil Hong

  • 15N chemical shift and 15N-13C dipolar tensors for the peptide bond in [1-13C]glycyl[15N]glycine hydrochloride monohydrate

    G.S Harbison;L.W Jelinski;R.E Stark;D.A Torchia

  • Chemical studies on antioxidant mechanism of tea catechins: analysis of radical reaction products of catechin and epicatechin with 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl

    Shengmin Sang;Xiaofang Cheng;Ruth E. Stark;Robert T. Rosen

  • Tomato Cutin Deficient 1 (CD1) and putative orthologs comprise an ancient family of cutin synthase-like (CUS) proteins that are conserved among land plants.

    Trevor H. Yeats;Wenlin Huang;Subhasish Chatterjee;Helene Marie-France Viart

  • Glycerol is a suberin monomer. New experimental evidence for an old hypothesis

    Laurence Moire;Alain Schmutz;Antony Buchala;Bin Yan

  • Following Fungal Melanin Biosynthesis with Solid-State NMR: Biopolymer Molecular Structures and Possible Connections to Cell-Wall Polysaccharides†

    Junyan Zhong;Susana Frases;Hsin Wang;Arturo Casadevall

  • Synthesis and structure identification of thiol conjugates of (-)-epigallocatechin gallate and their urinary levels in mice.

    Shengmin Sang;Joshua D. Lambert;Jungil Hong;Shiying Tian

  • 13C chemical shift and 13C-15N dipolar tensors for the peptide bond: [1-13C]glycyl[15N]glycine·HCl·H2O

    R.E Stark;L.W Jelinski;D.J Ruben;D.A Torchia

  • The structural unit of melanin in the cell wall of the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

    Emma Camacho;Raghav Vij;Christine Chrissian;Rafael Prados-Rosales;Rafael Prados-Rosales

  • NMR studies of molecular structure in fruit cuticle polyesters.

    Xiuhua Fang;Feng Qiu;Bin Yan;Hsin Wang

  • Studies of Phospholipid Hydration by High-Resolution Magic-Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

    Zhe Zhou;Brian G. Sayer;Donald W. Hughes;Ruth E. Stark

  • Solution-state molecular structure of apo and oleate-liganded liver fatty acid-binding protein.

    Yan He;Xiaomin Yang;Hsin Wang;Rima Estephan

  • Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of cutin, an insoluble plant polyester

    Tatyana Zlotnik-Mazori;Ruth E. Stark

  • Modeling suberization with peroxidase-catalyzed polymerization of hydroxycinnamic acids: cross-coupling and dimerization reactions.

    Daniel Arrieta-Baez;Ruth E Stark

  • Chemical studies of the antioxidant mechanism of tea catechins: radical reaction products of epicatechin with peroxyl radicals.

    Shengmin Sang;Shiying Tian;Hsin Wang;Ruth E Stark

Frequent Co-Authors

Arturo Casadevall
Arturo Casadevall Johns Hopkins University
Shengmin Sang
Shengmin Sang North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Chi-Tang Ho
Chi-Tang Ho Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Robert T. Rosen
Robert T. Rosen Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Knute J. Nadelhoffer
Knute J. Nadelhoffer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Timothy R. Filley
Timothy R. Filley University of Oklahoma
Judith Storch
Judith Storch Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Chung S. Yang
Chung S. Yang Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jocelyn K. C. Rose
Jocelyn K. C. Rose Cornell University

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