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64
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25693
World Ranking
2750
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1209

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology
  • 2009 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Terry Gaasterland is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, prominently Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a notable focus on Molecular Biology, Ophthalmology, Oncology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Ecology.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Glaucoma and retinal disorders
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer
  • Cancer-related gene regulation
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Cancer, Stress, Anesthesia, and Immune Response

Terry Gaasterland has published several research articles in various venues. Recent papers include:

  • "Selective activation of FZD7 promotes mesendodermal differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells," 2020, eLife
  • "Novel Dormancy Mechanism of Castration Resistance in Bone Metastatic Prostate Cancer Organoids," 2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "A Machine Learning Method to Identify Genetic Variants Potentially Associated With Alzheimer's Disease," 2021, Frontiers in Genetics
  • "Dominance of Sulfurospirillum in Metagenomes Associated with the Methane Ice Worm (Sirsoe methanicola)," 2022, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • "Dynamic transcriptome landscape in the song nucleus HVC between juvenile and adult zebra finches," 2020, Advanced Genetics

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Michelle Muldong, Nicholas A. Cacalano, Anna Kulidjian, Christina Jamieson, and Jamillah Murtadha.

Publication venues where Terry Gaasterland has appeared repeatedly include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • The Journal of Urology
  • Cancer Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • eLife

In terms of scholarly contributions beyond articles, Terry Gaasterland has authored a book titled "Mathematical and Computational Oncology," published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2021.

Their recognition includes becoming a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2018 and being awarded the ACM Senior Member status in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Minimum information about a microarray experiment (MIAME)-toward standards for microarray data.

    Alvis Brazma;Pascal Hingamp;John Quackenbush;Gavin Sherlock

  • Analysis of the mouse transcriptome based on functional annotation of 60,770 full-length cDNAs

    Y. Okazaki;M. Furuno;T. Kasukawa;J. Adachi

  • The complete genome of the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus

    Gerard Deckert;Patrick V. Warren;Terry Gaasterland;William G. Young

  • The genome of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.

    Erica Sodergren;George M. Weinstock;Eric H. Davidson;R. Andrew Cameron

  • The small RNA profile during Drosophila melanogaster development

    Alexei A. Aravin;Mariana Lagos-Quintana;Abdullah Yalcin;Mihaela Zavolan

  • The complete genome of the crenarchaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus P2.

    Qunxin She;Rama K. Singh;Fabrice Confalonieri;Yvan Zivanovic

  • Functional annotation of a full-length mouse cDNA collection

    J. Kawai;A. Shinagawa;K. Shibata;M. Yoshino

  • The tiny eukaryote Ostreococcus provides genomic insights into the paradox of plankton speciation

    Brian Palenik;Jane Grimwood;Andrea Aerts;Pierre Rouzé

  • Reprogramming of the Macrophage Transcriptome in Response to Interferon-γ and Mycobacterium tuberculosis Signaling Roles of Nitric Oxide Synthase-2 and Phagocyte Oxidase

    Sabine Ehrt;Dirk Schnappinger;Stefan Bekiranov;Jorg Drenkow

  • An RNA map predicting Nova-dependent splicing regulation

    Jernej Ule;Giovanni Stefani;Giovanni Stefani;Aldo Mele;Matteo Ruggiu

  • Prediction and identification of Arabidopsis thaliana microRNAs and their mRNA targets

    Xiu-Jie Wang;José L Reyes;Nam-Hai Chua;Terry Gaasterland

  • Structural genomics: beyond the human genome project.

    Stephen K. Burley;Stephen K. Burley;Steven C. Almo;Jeffrey B. Bonanno;Jeffrey B. Bonanno;Malcolm Capel

  • The analysis of 100 genes supports the grouping of three highly divergent amoebae: Dictyostelium, Entamoeba, and Mastigamoeba

    Eric Bapteste;Henner Brinkmann;Jennifer A. Lee;Dorothy V. Moore

  • Spliced leader RNA trans-splicing in dinoflagellates.

    Huan Zhang;Yubo Hou;Lilibeth Miranda;David A. Campbell

  • Complete Sequence of a 184-Kilobase Catabolic Plasmid from Sphingomonas aromaticivorans F199

    Margaret F. Romine;Lisa C. Stillwell;Kwong Kwok Wong;Sarah J. Thurston

  • Common Variants at 9p21 and 8q22 Are Associated with Increased Susceptibility to Optic Nerve Degeneration in Glaucoma

    Janey L. Wiggs;Brian L. Yaspan;Michael A. Hauser;Jae H. Kang

  • Genome-wide prediction and identification of cis-natural antisense transcripts in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Xiu-Jie Wang;Xiu-Jie Wang;Terry Gaasterland;Terry Gaasterland;Nam-Hai Chua

  • An overview of cooperative answering

    Terry Gaasterland;Parke Godfrey;Jack Minker

  • Prediction and identification of herpes simplex virus 1-encoded microRNAs

    Can Cui;Anthony Griffiths;Guanglin Li;Lindsey M. Silva

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies TXNRD2 , ATXN2 and FOXC1 as susceptibility loci for primary open-angle glaucoma

    Jessica N.Cooke Bailey;Stephanie J. Loomis;Jae H. Kang;R. Rand Allingham

Frequent Co-Authors

Christoph Wilhelm Sensen
Christoph Wilhelm Sensen Graz University of Technology
Louis R. Pasquale
Louis R. Pasquale Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Janey L. Wiggs
Janey L. Wiggs Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Michael A. Hauser
Michael A. Hauser Duke University
Yutao Liu
Yutao Liu Augusta University
Donald J. Zack
Donald J. Zack Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Robert N. Weinreb
Robert N. Weinreb University of California, San Diego
Joel S. Schuman
Joel S. Schuman Wills Eye Hospital
Margaret A. Pericak-Vance
Margaret A. Pericak-Vance University of Miami
Julia E. Richards
Julia E. Richards University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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