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43
Citations
11521
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2953
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Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Salvador Aznar Benitah is affiliated with the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats in Spain. Their research spans multiple fields, predominantly within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions also to neuroscience and medicine.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Within these areas, the subfields of study explored consist of:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
  • Cancer Research
  • Physiology
  • Aging

Key topics researched by Salvador Aznar Benitah cover:

  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • Dietary Effects on Health
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Spaceflight effects on biology
  • Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism

The scientist has published in several notable venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Cell stem cell
  • Nature Metabolism
  • Science Advances

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Salvador Aznar Benitah are:

  • The role of lipids in cancer progression and metastasis, 2022, Cell Metabolism
  • Senescence atlas reveals an aged-like inflamed niche that blunts muscle regeneration, 2022, Nature
  • Dietary palmitic acid promotes a prometastatic memory via Schwann cells, 2021, Nature
  • Mitochondrial RNA modifications shape metabolic plasticity in metastasis, 2022, Nature
  • Integration of feeding behavior by the liver circadian clock reveals network dependency of metabolic rhythms, 2021, Science Advances

Salvador Aznar Benitah collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Patrick-Simon Welz
  • Pura Muñoz-Cánoves
  • Jacob G. Smith
  • Carolina M. Greco
  • Kevin B. Koronowski

Recognition of their scientific contributions includes membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • A complex secretory program orchestrated by the inflammasome controls paracrine senescence

    Juan Carlos Acosta;Ana Banito;Torsten Wuestefeld;Athena Georgilis

  • Targeting metastasis-initiating cells through the fatty acid receptor CD36

    Gloria Pascual;Alexandra Avgustinova;Stefania Mejetta;Mercè Martín

  • Nonoverlapping Functions of the Polycomb Group Cbx Family of Proteins in Embryonic Stem Cells

    Lluis Morey;Gloria Pascual;Luca Cozzuto;Guglielmo Roma

  • The circadian molecular clock creates epidermal stem cell heterogeneity

    Peggy Janich;Gloria Pascual;Anna Merlos-Suárez;Eduard Batlle

  • Rho GTPase expression in tumourigenesis: evidence for a significant link.

    Teresa Gómez del Pulgar;Salvador A. Benitah;Pilar F. Valerón;Carolina Espina

  • Circadian Reprogramming in the Liver Identifies Metabolic Pathways of Aging.

    Shogo Sato;Guiomar Solanas;Francisca Oliveira Peixoto;Leonardo Bee

  • Stem cell depletion through epidermal deletion of Rac1.

    Salvador Aznar Benitah;Michaela Frye;Michaela Frye;Michael Glogauer;Michael Glogauer;Fiona M. Watt;Fiona M. Watt

  • Epigenetic control of adult stem cell function

    Alexandra Avgustinova;Salvador Aznar Benitah

  • Defining the Independence of the Liver Circadian Clock

    Kevin B. Koronowski;Kenichiro Kinouchi;Patrick Simon Welz;Jacob G. Smith

  • Phf19 links methylated Lys36 of histone H3 to regulation of Polycomb activity.

    Cecilia Ballaré;Martin Lange;Audrone Lapinaite;Gloria Mas Martin

  • RYBP and Cbx7 Define Specific Biological Functions of Polycomb Complexes in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells

    Lluis Morey;Luigi Aloia;Luca Cozzuto;Salvador Aznar Benitah

  • Aged Stem Cells Reprogram Their Daily Rhythmic Functions to Adapt to Stress

    Guiomar Solanas;Francisca Oliveira Peixoto;Eusebio Perdiguero;Mercè Jardí

  • Identity Noise and Adipogenic Traits Characterize Dermal Fibroblast Aging.

    Marion Claudia Salzer;Atefeh Lafzi;Antoni Berenguer-Llergo;Catrin Youssif

  • Dnmt3a and Dnmt3b Associate with Enhancers to Regulate Human Epidermal Stem Cell Homeostasis

    Lorenzo Rinaldi;Debayan Datta;Judit Serrat;Lluis Morey

  • Regenerating the skin: a task for the heterogeneous stem cell pool and surrounding niche

    Guiomar Solanas;Salvador Aznar Benitah;Salvador Aznar Benitah

  • Rho GTPases in human cancer: an unresolved link to upstream and downstream transcriptional regulation.

    Salvador A. Benitah;Pilar F. Valerón;Linda van Aelst;Christopher J. Marshall

  • MYC in mammalian epidermis: how can an oncogene stimulate differentiation?

    Fiona M. Watt;Michaela Frye;Salvador Aznar Benitah

  • Dietary palmitic acid promotes a prometastatic memory via Schwann cells

    Gloria Pascual;Diana Domínguez;Marc Elosúa-Bayes;Felipe Beckedorff

  • The RNA-methyltransferase Misu (NSun2) poises epidermal stem cells to differentiate.

    Sandra Blanco;Agata Kurowski;Jennifer Nichols;Fiona M. Watt

  • Regulation of Human Epidermal Stem Cell Proliferation and Senescence Requires Polycomb- Dependent and -Independent Functions of Cbx4

    Nuno Miguel Luis;Lluis Morey;Stefania Mejetta;Gloria Pascual

Frequent Co-Authors

Luciano Di Croce
Luciano Di Croce Centre for Genomic Regulation
Fiona M. Watt
Fiona M. Watt King's College London
Michaela Frye
Michaela Frye University of Cambridge
Paolo Sassone-Corsi
Paolo Sassone-Corsi University of California, Irvine
Juan Carlos Lacal
Juan Carlos Lacal Spanish National Research Council
Guglielmo Roma
Guglielmo Roma Novartis (Switzerland)
Michael Glogauer
Michael Glogauer University of Toronto
Pura Muñoz-Cánoves
Pura Muñoz-Cánoves Pompeu Fabra University
Holger Heyn
Holger Heyn Pompeu Fabra University
Ben Lehner
Ben Lehner Wellcome Sanger Institute

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