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  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Thomas H. Eickbush is affiliated with the University of Rochester in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with notable contributions also in Medicine.

Their subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering. The main topics of their work focus on bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, nanoparticles synthesis and applications, superconducting materials and their applications, spacecraft and cryogenic technologies, atomic and subatomic physics research, and CRISPR and genetic engineering.

Thomas H. Eickbush's recent publications illustrate a multidisciplinary approach. These include:

  • Design and test of a curved superconducting dipole magnet for proton therapy, 2020, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
  • A novel ruthenium-silver based antimicrobial potentiates aminoglycoside activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 2023, mSphere
  • A Novel Silver-Containing Antimicrobial potentiates aminoglycoside activity againstPseudomonas aeruginosa, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Investigating expression of a human optimizedcas9 transgene in Neurospora crassa, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Identification, characterization, and cellular localization of Leishmania major CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase, 2024, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Their frequent coauthors include Gracious Yoofi Donkor, Greg M. Anderson, Michael Stadler, Patrick Ofori Tawiah, and Carl D. Orellano, each collaborating on at least two publications.

Thomas H. Eickbush's work is published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, mSphere, and Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.

    Andrew G. Clark;Michael B. Eisen;Michael B. Eisen;Douglas R. Smith;Casey M. Bergman

  • Origin and evolution of retroelements based upon their reverse transcriptase sequences.

    Yue Xiong;T. H. Eickbush

  • Reverse transcription of R2Bm RNA is primed by a nick at the chromosomal target site: A mechanism for non-LTR retrotransposition

    Dongmei D. Luan;Malka H. Korman;John L. Jakubczak;Thomas H. Eickbush

  • Finely orchestrated movements: evolution of the ribosomal RNA genes.

    Thomas H. Eickbush;Danna G. Eickbush

  • The age and evolution of non-LTR retrotransposable elements.

    H S Malik;W D Burke;T H Eickbush

  • Poised for contagion: evolutionary origins of the infectious abilities of invertebrate retroviruses.

    Harmit S. Malik;Steve Henikoff;Thomas H. Eickbush

  • Isolation of multigene families and determination of homologies by filter hybridization methods.

    Gerald A. Beltz;Kenneth A. Jacobs;Thomas H. Eickbush;Peter T. Cherbas

  • RNA template requirements for target DNA-primed reverse transcription by the R2 retrotransposable element.

    D D Luan;T H Eickbush

  • Heterochromatin Formation Promotes Longevity and Represses Ribosomal RNA Synthesis

    Kimberly Larson;Shian Jang Yan;Shian Jang Yan;Amy Tsurumi;Jacqueline Liu

  • The diversity of retrotransposons and the properties of their reverse transcriptases.

    Thomas H. Eickbush;Varuni K. Jamburuthugoda

  • Telomerase and Retrotransposons: Which Came First?

    Thomas H. Eickbush

  • Origins and Evolution of Retrotransposons

    Thomas H. Eickbush;Harmit S. Malik

  • Phylogenetic Analysis of Ribonuclease H Domains Suggests a Late, Chimeric Origin of LTR Retrotransposable Elements and Retroviruses

    Harmit S. Malik;Thomas H. Eickbush

  • Similarity of reverse transcriptase-like sequences of viruses, transposable elements, and mitochondrial introns.

    Yue Xiong;T. H. Eickbush

  • Modular evolution of the integrase domain in the Ty3/Gypsy class of LTR retrotransposons.

    Harmit S. Malik;Thomas H. Eickbush

  • A "selfish" B chromosome that enhances its transmission by eliminating the paternal genome.

    Uzi Nur;John H. Werren;Danna G. Eickbush;William D. Burke

  • Retrotransposable elements R1 and R2 interrupt the rRNA genes of most insects.

    John L. Jakubczak;William D. Burke;Thomas H. Eickbush

  • Identification of the endonuclease domain encoded by R2 and other site-specific, non-long terminal repeat retrotransposable elements

    Jin Yang;Harmit S. Malik;Thomas H. Eickbush

  • Type I (R1) and type II (R2) ribosomal DNA insertions of Drosophila melanogaster are retrotransposable elements closely related to those of Bombyx mori.

    John L. Jakubczak;Yue Xiong;Thomas H. Eickbush

  • Functional expression of a sequence-specific endonuclease encoded by the retrotransposon R2Bm.

    Yue Xiong;Thomas H. Eickbush

Frequent Co-Authors

Harmit S. Malik
Harmit S. Malik Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Yue Xiong
Yue Xiong University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fotis C. Kafatos
Fotis C. Kafatos Harvard University
Douglas H. Turner
Douglas H. Turner University of Rochester
Gane Ka-Shu Wong
Gane Ka-Shu Wong University of Alberta
Michael B. Eisen
Michael B. Eisen University of California, Berkeley
Ruiqiang Li
Ruiqiang Li Novogene (China)
Alexander Stark
Alexander Stark Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
John H. Werren
John H. Werren University of Rochester

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