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Overview

Simon Silver is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Health Professions. Major subfields include General Health Professions, Physiology, Clinical Biochemistry, Neurology, and Philosophy.

The scientist's work covers several interconnected topics, notably:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Advanced Glycation End Products research
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
  • Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
  • Health, Medicine and Society
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

Simon Silver's recent publications include:

  • Serum levels of 4-hydroxynonenal adducts and responding autoantibodies correlate with the pathogenesis from hyperglycemia to Alzheimer's disease, 2021, published in Clinical Biochemistry
  • Patenting a living microbial cell: 40th anniversary of US Supreme Court decision Diamond versus Chakrabarty, 2020, published in FEMS Microbiology Letters
  • APPLICATION OF NEXT GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES, 2021, published in Neuromuscular Disorders

Frequent collaborators in their work include Monika Renuka Sanotra, Wen-Chung Huang, Ching-Yu Lin, Tsuei-Chuan Chang, and Doan Phuong Quy Nguyen.

Simon Silver has published in diverse venues such as Clinical Biochemistry, FEMS Microbiology Letters, and Neuromuscular Disorders, reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of their research interests and expertise.

Best Publications

  • Bacterial silver resistance: molecular biology and uses and misuses of silver compounds

    Simon Silver

  • BACTERIAL HEAVY METAL RESISTANCE: New Surprises

    Simon Silver;Le T. Phung

  • Silver as biocides in burn and wound dressings and bacterial resistance to silver compounds

    Simon Silver;Le T. Phung;Gregg Silver

  • Bacterial resistances to toxic metal ions--a review.

    Simon Silver

  • Microbial arsenic: from geocycles to genes and enzymes.

    Rita Mukhopadhyay;Barry P. Rosen;Le T. Phung;Simon Silver

  • Ion efflux systems involved in bacterial metal resistances

    Dietrich H. Nies;Simon Silver

  • Genes and Enzymes Involved in Bacterial Oxidation and Reduction of Inorganic Arsenic

    Simon Silver;Le T. Phung

  • Molecular basis for resistance to silver cations in Salmonella

    Amit Gupta;Kazuaki Matsui;Jeng Fan Lo;Simon Silver

  • A bacterial view of the periodic table: genes and proteins for toxic inorganic ions

    Simon Silver;Le T. Phung

  • Plasmid-Mediated Heavy Metal Resistances

    Simon Silver;Tapan K. Misra

  • Antimicrobial silver: uses, toxicity and potential for resistance.

    Kristel Mijnendonckx;Natalie Leys;Jacques Mahillon;Simon Silver

  • Microbial transformations of metals.

    Anne O. Summers;Simon Silver

  • Gene regulation of plasmid- and chromosome-determined inorganic ion transport in bacteria.

    S Silver;M Walderhaug

  • Molecular evolution of an arsenate detoxification pathway by DNA shuffling.

    Andreas Crameri;Glenn Dawes;Emilio Rodriguez;Simon Silver

  • Chromium reduction in Pseudomonas putida.

    Y Ishibashi;C Cervantes;S Silver

  • Cadmium resistance from Staphylococcus aureus plasmid pI258 cadA gene results from a cadmium-efflux ATPase.

    Giuseppina Nucifora;Lien Chu;Tapan K. Misra;Simon Silver

  • Resistance to arsenic compounds in microorganisms

    Carlos Cervantes;Guangyong Ji;José Luis Ramírez;Simon Silver

  • Nucleotide sequence of the structural genes for an anion pump. The plasmid-encoded arsenical resistance operon.

    C M Chen;T K Misra;S Silver;B P Rosen

  • Expression and nucleotide sequence of a plasmid-determined divalent cation efflux system from Alcaligenes eutrophus.

    Dietrich H. Nies;Anke Nies;Lien Chu;Simon Silver

  • Silver as a biocide: will resistance become a problem?

    Amit Gupta;Simon Silver

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry P. Rosen
Barry P. Rosen Florida International University
Jack A. Gilbert
Jack A. Gilbert University of California, San Diego
David S. Holmes
David S. Holmes San Sebastián University
Giuseppina Nucifora
Giuseppina Nucifora University of Illinois at Chicago
Timothy J. Foster
Timothy J. Foster Campden BRI (United Kingdom)
Alison A. Weiss
Alison A. Weiss University of Cincinnati
Folker Meyer
Folker Meyer Argonne National Laboratory
Harry L. T. Mobley
Harry L. T. Mobley University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Dietrich H. Nies
Dietrich H. Nies Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Tomonobu Kusano
Tomonobu Kusano Tohoku University

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