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Overview

Thomas R. Broker is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, including Psychology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a considerable focus on Developmental and Educational Psychology and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics reflecting interdisciplinary interests, prominently featuring Educational Games and Gamification, Cervical Cancer and HPV Research, Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports, Flow Experience in Various Fields, Online Learning and Analytics, Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods, and Heat shock proteins research.

The following recent papers illustrate the diversity of their research contributions:

  • Current Competencies of Game Facilitators and Their Potential Optimization in Higher Education: Multimethod Study (2021, JMIR Serious Games)
  • COVID-19: The Pseudo-Environment and the Need for a Paradigm Change (2021, GERMS)
  • Vom Krisenmodus zum Change-Prozess (2021, MedienPädagogik Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung)
  • Human Hsp70 and Hsp40 Chaperone Proteins Facilitate Human Papillomavirus-11 E1 Protein Binding to the Origin and Stimulate Cell-free DNA Replication (2021, UNC Libraries)
  • Remodeling of the Human Papillomavirus Type 11 Replication Origin into Discrete Nucleoprotein Particles and Looped Structures by the E2 Protein (2020, UNC Libraries)

Frequent collaborators include Benjamin Zinger, Heinrich Söbke, Jack D. Griffith, Louise T. Chow, and Thomas Voït, indicating interdisciplinary engagement with colleagues across related subfields.

The scientist's publications appear most often in venues such as UNC Libraries, JMIR Serious Games, GERMS, and MedienPädagogik Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung, reflecting both scientific and educational research forums.

Best Publications

  • The biology and life-cycle of human papillomaviruses.

    John Doorbar;Wim Quint;Lawrence Banks;Ignacio G. Bravo

  • An amazing sequence arrangement at the 5′ ends of adenovirus 2 messenger RNA

    Louise T. Chow;Richard E. Gelinas;Thomas R. Broker;Richard J. Roberts

  • Complex splicing patterns of RNAs from the early regions of adenovirus-2

    Louise T. Chow;Thomas R. Broker;James B. Lewis

  • Human papillomavirus type 16 and 18 gene expression in cervical neoplasias.

    Mark H. Stoler;Cheryl R. Rhodes;Cheryl R. Rhodes;April Whitbeck;April Whitbeck;Steven M. Wolinsky;Steven M. Wolinsky

  • Differentiation-dependent up-regulation of the human papillomavirus E7 gene reactivates cellular DNA replication in suprabasal differentiated keratinocytes.

    Shinta Cheng;Delf-Christian Schmidt-Grimminger;Thomas Murant;Thomas R. Broker

  • Viral E1 and E2 proteins support replication of homologous and heterologous papillomaviral origins.

    Cheng Ming Chiang;Mart Ustav;Arne Stenlund;Thau F. Ho

  • A map of cytoplasmic RNA transcripts from lytic adenovirus type 2, determined by electron microscopy of RNA:DNA hybrids

    Louise T. Chow;James M. Roberts;James B. Lewis;Thomas R. Broker

  • Oncogenic HPV infection interrupts the expression of tumor-suppressive miR-34a through viral oncoprotein E6

    Xiaohong Wang;Hsu Kun Wang;J. Philip Mccoy;Nilam S. Banerjee

  • Differentiation-linked human papillomavirus types 6 and 11 transcription in genital condylomata revealed by in situ hybridization with message-specific RNA probes

    Mark H. Stoler;Steven M. Wolinsky;April Whitbeck;Thomas R. Broker

  • Human papillomavirus types 6 and 11 mRNAs from genital condylomata acuminata.

    L T Chow;M Nasseri;S M Wolinsky;T R Broker

  • In situ hybridization detection of human papillomavirus DNAs and messenger RNAs in genital condylomas and a cervical carcinoma.

    Mark H. Stoler;Thomas R. Broker

  • Production of human papillomavirus and modulation of the infectious program in epithelial raft cultures. OFF.

    S C Dollard;J L Wilson;L M Demeter;W Bonnez

  • The natural history of human papillomavirus infections of the mucosal epithelia

    Louise T. Chow;Thomas R. Broker;Bettie M. Steinberg

  • The spliced structures of adenovirus 2 fiber message and the other late mRNAs

    Louise T. Chow;Thomas R. Broker

  • Robust production and passaging of infectious HPV in squamous epithelium of primary human keratinocytes.

    Hsu-Kun Wang;Aaron A. Duffy;Thomas R. Broker;Louise T. Chow

  • Papillomavirus DNA Replication

    Louise T. Chow;Thomas R. Broker

  • Human papillomavirus type 11 E2 proteins repress the homologous E6 promoter by interfering with the binding of host transcription factors to adjacent elements.

    Gang Dong;T. R. Broker;L. T. Chow

  • A human papilloma virus type 11 transcript encoding an E1^E4 protein☆

    Mohammad Nasseri;Rei Hirochika;Thomas R. Broker;Louise T. Chow

  • Inversion of the G DNA segment of phage Mu controls phage infectivity

    Dietmar Kamp;Regine Kahmann;David Zipser;Thomas R. Broker

  • Clonal Selection for Transcriptionally Active Viral Oncogenes during Progression to Cancer

    Brian A. Van Tine;John C. Kappes;N. Sanjib Banerjee;Judith Knops

Frequent Co-Authors

Louise T. Chow
Louise T. Chow University of Alabama at Birmingham
Cheng Ming Chiang
Cheng Ming Chiang The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Steven M. Wolinsky
Steven M. Wolinsky Northwestern University
Richard J. Roberts
Richard J. Roberts New England Biolabs
Mark H. Stoler
Mark H. Stoler University of Virginia
Norman Davidson
Norman Davidson California Institute of Technology
Joseph Sambrook
Joseph Sambrook The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Daniel F. Klessig
Daniel F. Klessig Boyce Thompson Institute
Jack D. Griffith
Jack D. Griffith University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elliot J. Lefkowitz
Elliot J. Lefkowitz University of Alabama at Birmingham

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