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Shankar Balasubramanian

Shankar Balasubramanian

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Genetics and Molecular Biology
UK
2024

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Chemistry

D-Index
114
Citations
55479
World Ranking
653
National Ranking
31

Molecular Biology

D-Index
114
Citations
58396
World Ranking
316
National Ranking
21

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Shankar Balasubramanian is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology. Other subfields of study include Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Artificial Intelligence; Cancer Research; and Condensed Matter Physics.

The scientist's work covers topics related to advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, epigenetics and DNA methylation, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA interference and gene delivery, quantum computing algorithms and architecture, and cancer genomics and diagnostics.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include David Tannahill, Angela Simeone, Dario Bressan, Gregory J. Hannon, and Oscar M. Rueda.

Frequently chosen publication venues are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Chemistry
  • Genome Biology
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent published papers by Shankar Balasubramanian include:

  • "The regulation and functions of DNA and RNA G-quadruplexes", 2020, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • "Early detection of cancer", 2022, Science
  • "Expansion sequencing: Spatially precise in situ transcriptomics in intact biological systems", 2021, Science
  • "Single-molecule visualization of DNA G-quadruplex formation in live cells", 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • "Imaging mass cytometry and multiplatform genomics define the phenogenomic landscape of breast cancer", 2020, Nature Cancer

Shankar Balasubramanian was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Accurate whole human genome sequencing using reversible terminator chemistry

    David R. Bentley;Shankar Balasubramanian;Harold P. Swerdlow;Harold P. Swerdlow;Geoffrey P. Smith

  • Quantitative visualization of DNA G-quadruplex structures in human cells

    Giulia Biffi;David Tannahill;John McCafferty;Shankar Balasubramanian

  • Prevalence of quadruplexes in the human genome

    Julian L. Huppert;Shankar Balasubramanian

  • Targeting G-quadruplexes in gene promoters: a novel anticancer strategy?

    Shankar Balasubramanian;Laurence H. Hurley;Stephen Neidle

  • G-quadruplexes in promoters throughout the human genome

    Julian L. Huppert;Shankar Balasubramanian

  • Early detection of cancer

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  • Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing

    Ryan E. Mills;Klaudia Walter;Chip Stewart;Robert E. Handsaker

  • High-throughput sequencing of DNA G-quadruplex structures in the human genome

    Vicki S Chambers;Giovanni Marsico;Jonathan M Boutell;Marco Di Antonio

  • The regulation and functions of DNA and RNA G-quadruplexes.

    Dhaval Varshney;Jochen Spiegel;Katherine Zyner;David Tannahill

  • DNA sequencing at 40: past, present and future

    Jay Shendure;Shankar Balasubramanian;George M. Church;Walter Gilbert

  • Quantitative Sequencing of 5-Methylcytosine and 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine at Single-Base Resolution

    Michael J. Booth;Miguel R. Branco;Miguel R. Branco;Gabriella Ficz;David Oxley

  • G-quadruplex structures mark human regulatory chromatin

    Robert Hänsel-Hertsch;Dario Beraldi;Stefanie V Lensing;Giovanni Marsico

  • An RNA G-quadruplex in the 5' UTR of the NRAS proto-oncogene modulates translation

    Sunita Kumari;Anthony Bugaut;Julian L Huppert;Shankar Balasubramanian

  • The Structure and Function of DNA G-Quadruplexes.

    Jochen Spiegel;Santosh Adhikari;Shankar Balasubramanian

  • DNA G-quadruplexes in the human genome: detection, functions and therapeutic potential.

    Robert Hänsel-Hertsch;Marco Di Antonio;Shankar Balasubramanian

  • Small-molecule–induced DNA damage identifies alternative DNA structures in human genes

    Raphaël Rodriguez;Kyle M Miller;Josep V Forment;Charles R Bradshaw

  • 5′-UTR RNA G-quadruplexes: translation regulation and targeting

    Anthony Bugaut;Shankar Balasubramanian

  • Arrayed biomolecules and their use in sequencing

    Shankar Balasubramanian;David Klenerman;Colin Barnes;Mark Allen Osborne

  • Putative DNA Quadruplex Formation within the Human c-kit Oncogene

    Sarah Rankin;Anthony P. Reszka;Julian Huppert;Mire Zloh

  • Visualization and selective chemical targeting of RNA G-quadruplex structures in the cytoplasm of human cells

    Giulia Biffi;Marco Di Antonio;David Tannahill;Shankar Balasubramanian

  • G-quadruplex nucleic acids as therapeutic targets

    Shankar Balasubramanian;Stephen Neidle

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolf Reik
Wolf Reik Babraham Institute
David Klenerman
David Klenerman University of Cambridge
Stephen Neidle
Stephen Neidle University College London
David Tannahill
David Tannahill University of Cambridge
Chris Abell
Chris Abell University of Cambridge
Eric A. Miska
Eric A. Miska University of Cambridge
John R. Coggins
John R. Coggins University of Glasgow
Jeremy K. M. Sanders
Jeremy K. M. Sanders University of Cambridge
David Bentley
David Bentley University of Colorado Denver
Carlos Caldas
Carlos Caldas University of Cambridge

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