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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Seth G. N. Grant is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields, with primary contributions to Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Neuroscience. The scientist's work delves into multiple subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Genetics.

The research topics covered by Seth G. N. Grant encompass Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology.

Several recent papers highlight the focus and scope of their research. These include "The synapse in traumatic brain injury" published in 2020 in Brain, "A brainwide atlas of synapses across the mouse life span" published in 2020 in Science, "Synapse pathology in Alzheimer's disease" from 2022 in Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, "A brain atlas of synapse protein lifetime across the mouse lifespan" published in 2022 in Neuron, and "Estimation of the number of synapses in the hippocampus and brain-wide by volume electron microscopy and genetic labeling," published in 2020 in Scientific Reports.

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Noboru H. Komiyama, Zhen Qiu, Edita Bulovaite, Fei Zhu, and Mathew H. Horrocks. Collaboration is evident across their extensive publication record.

Publication venues of note for Seth G. N. Grant include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Scientific Reports, Neuron, and the University of Edinburgh outlets. This distribution shows engagement with both preprint repositories and peer-reviewed journals.

Several academic distinctions have been awarded to Seth G. N. Grant during their career. They are a Member of Academia Europaea since 2018 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 2011.

Best Publications

  • An anatomically comprehensive atlas of the adult human brain transcriptome

    Michael J. Hawrylycz;Ed S. Lein;Angela L. Guillozet-Bongaarts;Elaine H. Shen

  • De novo mutations in schizophrenia implicate synaptic networks

    Menachem Fromer;Andrew Pocklington;David Kavanagh;Hywel John Williams

  • A polygenic burden of rare disruptive mutations in schizophrenia

    Shaun M Purcell;Jennifer L Moran;Menachem Fromer;Douglas Ruderfer

  • Differential plasmid rescue from transgenic mouse DNAs into Escherichia coli methylation-restriction mutants.

    Seth G. N. Grant;Joel Jessee;Fredric R. Bloom;Douglas Hanahan

  • Proteomic analysis of NMDA receptor-adhesion protein signaling complexes.

    Holger Husi;Malcolm A. Ward;Jyoti S. Choudhary;Walter P. Blackstock

  • Enhanced long-term potentiation and impaired learning in mice with mutant postsynaptic density-95 protein

    Martine Migaud;Paul Charlesworth;Maureen Dempster;Lorna C. Webster

  • Impaired Long-Term Potentiation, Spatial Learning, and Hippocampal Development in fyn Mutant Mice

    Seth G. N. Grant;Thomas J. O'Dell;Kevin A. Karl;Paul L. Stein

  • Arc/Arg3.1 Is Essential for the Consolidation of Synaptic Plasticity and Memories

    Niels Plath;Ora Ohana;Ora Ohana;Björn Dammermann;Mick L. Errington

  • De Novo CNV Analysis Implicates Specific Abnormalities of Postsynaptic Signalling Complexes in the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia

    George Kirov;Andrew Pocklington;Peter Alan Holmans;Dobril Ivanov

  • The HUPO PSI's molecular interaction format--a community standard for the representation of protein interaction data.

    Henning Hermjakob;Luisa Montecchi-Palazzi;Gary Bader;Jérôme Wojcik

  • Beta-cell lines derived from transgenic mice expressing a hybrid insulin gene-oncogene

    Shimon Efrat;Susanne Linde;Hans Kofod;David Spector

  • Long-term potentiation in the hippocampus is blocked by tyrosine kinase inhibitors

    Thomas J. O'Dell;Eric R. Kandel;Seth G. N. Grant

  • PDZ domain proteins: plug and play!

    Claire Nourry;Seth G. N. Grant;Jean-Paul Borg

  • A role for the Ras signalling pathway in synaptic transmission and long-term memory

    Riccardo Brambilla;Nerina Gnesutta;Liliana Minichiello;Gail White

  • Characterization of the proteome, diseases and evolution of the human postsynaptic density

    Àlex Bayés;Louie N van de Lagemaat;Mark O Collins;Mike D R Croning

  • Importance of the Intracellular Domain of NR2 Subunits for NMDA Receptor Function In Vivo

    Rolf Sprengel;Bettina Suchanek;Carla Amico;Rossella Brusa

  • Molecular characterization and comparison of the components and multiprotein complexes in the postsynaptic proteome.

    Mark O. Collins;Holger Husi;Lu Yu;Julia M. Brandon

  • Synapse-specific and developmentally regulated targeting of AMPA receptors by a family of MAGUK scaffolding proteins.

    Guillermo M. Elias;Lars Funke;Lars Funke;Valentin Stein;Seth G. Grant

  • Activation of cAMP-Responsive genes by stimuli that produce long-term facilitation in aplysia sensory neurons

    Bong-Kiun Kaang;Bong-Kiun Kaang;Eric R. Kandel;Seth G.N. Grant

  • Mutant mice and neuroscience: Recommendations concerning genetic background

    Alcino J. Silva;Elizabeth M. Simpson;Joseph S. Takahashi;Hans Peter Lipp

Frequent Co-Authors

Jyoti S. Choudhary
Jyoti S. Choudhary Institute of Cancer Research
Thomas J. O'Dell
Thomas J. O'Dell University of California, Los Angeles
Eric R. Kandel
Eric R. Kandel Columbia University
Kapil N. Bhalla
Kapil N. Bhalla The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Javier DeFelipe
Javier DeFelipe Technical University of Madrid
Timothy J. Bussey
Timothy J. Bussey University of Western Ontario
Lisa M. Saksida
Lisa M. Saksida University of Western Ontario
Peter C. Kind
Peter C. Kind University of Edinburgh
Andrew Holmes
Andrew Holmes National Institutes of Health
David J. A. Wyllie
David J. A. Wyllie University of Edinburgh

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