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Overview

Thomas J. Deerinck is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research output spans areas of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a notable focus on molecular biology and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's primary fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Subfields of particular interest encompass:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Cell Biology
  • Genetics
  • Infectious Diseases

Thematically, Thomas J. Deerinck's work addresses topics such as:

  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Dermatological and COVID-19 Studies
  • Pancreatic Function and Diabetes
  • Birth, Development, and Health

Among the recent publications attributed to Thomas J. Deerinck are:

  • Genetic requirements for cell division in a genomically minimal cell, 2021, Cell
  • Fibrin drives thromboinflammation and neuropathology in COVID-19, 2024, Nature
  • SARS-CoV-2 spike protein induces abnormal inflammatory blood clots neutralized by fibrin immunotherapy, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proximity proteomics in a marine diatom reveals a putative cell surface-to-chloroplast iron trafficking pathway, 2021, eLife
  • Calorie restriction increases insulin sensitivity to promote beta cell homeostasis and longevity in mice, 2024, Nature Communications

Thomas J. Deerinck has frequently published in certain scientific venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  • Cell
  • Nature

The scientist has collaborated often with several co-authors, notably:

  • Mark H. Ellisman
  • Sébastien Phan
  • Varda Lev-Ram
  • Melanie Cutler
  • Guy Perkins

Best Publications

  • STIM1 is a Ca2+ sensor that activates CRAC channels and migrates from the Ca2+ store to the plasma membrane

    Shenyuan L. Zhang;Ying Yu;Jack Roos;J. Ashot Kozak

  • Design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome

    Clyde A. Hutchison;Ray Yuan Chuang;Vladimir N. Noskov;Nacyra Assad-Garcia

  • The IKKβ Subunit of IκB Kinase (IKK) is Essential for Nuclear Factor κB Activation and Prevention of Apoptosis

    Zhi-Wei Li;Wenming Chu;Yinling Hu;Mireille Delhase

  • Directed evolution of APEX2 for electron microscopy and proximity labeling.

    Stephanie S Lam;Jeffrey D Martell;Kimberli J Kamer;Thomas J Deerinck

  • Multicolor and Electron Microscopic Imaging of Connexin Trafficking

    Guido Gaietta;Thomas J. Deerinck;Stephen R. Adams;James Bouwer

  • Abnormal Morphogenesis But Intact IKK Activation in Mice Lacking the IKKα Subunit of IκB Kinase

    Yinling Hu;Véronique Baud;Mireille Delhase;Peilin Zhang

  • The pituitary-specific transcription factor GHF-1 is a homeobox-containing protein

    Mordechai Bodner;José-Luis Castriilo;Lars E. Theill;Thomas Deerinck

  • A genetically encoded tag for correlated light and electron microscopy of intact cells, tissues, and organisms.

    Xiaokun Shu;Varda Lev-Ram;Thomas J. Deerinck;Yingchuan B Qi

  • ChromEMT: Visualizing 3D chromatin structure and compaction in interphase and mitotic cells

    Horng D. Ou;Sébastien Phan;Thomas J. Deerinck;Andrea Thor

  • Engineered ascorbate peroxidase as a genetically encoded reporter for electron microscopy

    Jeffrey D Martell;Thomas J Deerinck;Yasemin Sancak;Yasemin Sancak;Thomas L Poulos

  • Catastrophic Nuclear Envelope Collapse in Cancer Cell Micronuclei

    Emily M. Hatch;Andrew H. Fischer;Thomas J. Deerinck;Martin W. Hetzer

  • Activity-dependent regulation of dendritic synthesis and trafficking of AMPA receptors

    William Ju;Wade Morishita;Jennifer Tsui;Guido Gaietta

  • Fibrinogen-induced perivascular microglial clustering is required for the development of axonal damage in neuroinflammation

    Dimitrios Davalos;Jae Kyu Ryu;Mario Merlini;Kim M. Baeten

  • Translocation of RNA granules in living neurons.

    Roger B. Knowles;James H. Sabry;Maryann E. Martone;Thomas J. Deerinck

  • Correlated light and electron microscopic imaging of multiple endogenous proteins using Quantum dots

    Ben N G Giepmans;Thomas J Deerinck;Benjamin L Smarr;Ying Z Jones

  • Proteomic Analysis of Unbounded Cellular Compartments: Synaptic Clefts

    Ken H. Loh;Philipp S. Stawski;Austin S. Draycott;Namrata D. Udeshi

  • Abundant SAR11 viruses in the ocean

    Yanlin Zhao;Ben Temperton;J. Cameron Thrash;Michael S. Schwalbach

  • Designer diatom episomes delivered by bacterial conjugation

    Bogumil J. Karas;Rachel E. Diner;Rachel E. Diner;Stephane C. Lefebvre;Jeff McQuaid

  • Ryanodine and inositol trisphosphate receptors coexist in avian cerebellar Purkinje neurons.

    P D Walton;J A Airey;J L Sutko;C F Beck

  • In vivo analysis of the stability and transport of nuclear poly(A)+ RNA.

    Sui Huang;Thomas J. Deerinck;Mark H. Ellisman;David L. Spector

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark H. Ellisman
Mark H. Ellisman University of California, San Diego
Alice Y. Ting
Alice Y. Ting Stanford University
Roger Y. Tsien
Roger Y. Tsien University of California, San Diego
Andrew E. Allen
Andrew E. Allen J. Craig Venter Institute
Vamsi K. Mootha
Vamsi K. Mootha Harvard Medical School
John I. Glass
John I. Glass J. Craig Venter Institute
Per-Olof Berggren
Per-Olof Berggren Karolinska Institute
Ben N G Giepmans
Ben N G Giepmans University Medical Center Groningen
Guy A. Perkins
Guy A. Perkins University of California, San Diego
Martin W. Hetzer
Martin W. Hetzer Salk Institute for Biological Studies

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