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Overview

Timothy S. Baker is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans several fields related to medicine and molecular biology, focusing on areas that intersect biochemistry, genetics, and infectious diseases.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Their work also covers several subfields such as:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Epidemiology
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Infectious Diseases

Timothy S. Baker's research topics include:

  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Respiratory viral infections research

They have contributed to publications in the following venues:

  • Nature
  • Journal of Virology

Their recent published papers include:

  • Constructing protein polyhedra via orthogonal chemical interactions, 2020, Nature
  • Correction for Gurda et al., "Mapping a Neutralizing Epitope onto the Capsid of Adeno-Associated Virus Serotype 8", 2025, Journal of Virology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Timothy S. Baker are:

  • Eyal Golub
  • Rohit H. Subramanian
  • Julian Esselborn
  • Robert G. Alberstein
  • Jake Bailey

Best Publications

  • Structure of dengue virus: implications for flavivirus organization, maturation, and fusion.

    Richard J. Kuhn;Wei Zhang;Michael G. Rossmann;Sergei V. Pletnev

  • Structures of the native and swollen forms of cowpea chlorotic mottle virus determined by X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy.

    Jeffrey A Speir;Sanjeev Munshi;Guoji Wang;Timothy S Baker

  • Adding the Third Dimension to Virus Life Cycles: Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Icosahedral Viruses from Cryo-Electron Micrographs

    T. S. Baker;N. H. Olson;S. D. Fuller

  • Structures of immature flavivirus particles

    Ying Zhang;Jeroen Corver;Jeroen Corver;Paul R. Chipman;Wei Zhang

  • Structure of the bacteriophage φ29 DNA packaging motor

    Alan A. Simpson;Yizhi Jane Tao;Yizhi Jane Tao;Petr G Leiman;Mohammed O. Badasso

  • Visualization of membrane protein domains by cryo-electron microscopy of dengue virus

    Wei Zhang;Paul R Chipman;Jeroen Corver;Jeroen Corver;Peter R Johnson

  • Structures of bovine and human papillomaviruses. Analysis by cryoelectron microscopy and three-dimensional image reconstruction.

    T.S. Baker;W.W. Newcomb;N.H. Olson;L.M. Cowsert

  • Conformational changes of the flavivirus E glycoprotein.

    Ying Zhang;Wei Zhang;Steven Ogata;David Clements

  • A model-based approach for determining orientations of biological macromolecules imaged by cryoelectron microscopy

    Timothy S. Baker;R.Holland Cheng

  • Nucleocapsid and Glycoprotein Organization in an Enveloped Virus

    R Holland Cheng;Richard J Kuhn;Norman H Olson;Michael G Rossmann^Hok-Kin Choi

  • Structure of a human rhinovirus complexed with its receptor molecule.

    N H Olson;P R Kolatkar;M A Oliveira;R H Cheng

  • Polyoma virus capsid structure at 22.5 Å resolution

    I. Rayment;T. S. Baker;D. L. D. Caspar;W. T. Murakami

  • Metal-directed, chemically tunable assembly of one-, two- and three-dimensional crystalline protein arrays

    Jeffrey D. Brodin;X. I. Ambroggio;Chunyan Tang;Kristin N. Parent

  • Liquid-crystalline, phage-like packing of encapsidated DNA in herpes simplex virus.

    F.P. Booy;W.W. Newcomb;B.L. Trus;J.C. Brown

  • The structure and evolution of the major capsid protein of a large, lipid-containing DNA virus

    Narayanasamy Nandhagopal;Alan A. Simpson;James R. Gurnon;Xiadong Yan

  • Early steps in reovirus infection are associated with dramatic changes in supramolecular structure and protein conformation: analysis of virions and subviral particles by cryoelectron microscopy and image reconstruction.

    KA Dryden;G Wang;M Yeager;ML Nibert

  • Self-assembly of coherently dynamic, auxetic, two-dimensional protein crystals

    Yuta Suzuki;Giovanni Cardone;David Restrepo;Pablo D. Zavattieri

  • Interaction of the poliovirus receptor with poliovirus.

    Yongning He;Valorie D. Bowman;Steffen Mueller;Carol M. Bator

  • Structure of dengue virus: implications for flavivirus organization, maturation, and fusion

    M. Rossmann;R. Kuhn;W. Zhang;S. Pletnev

  • Structure of a human rhinovirus complexed with its receptor molecule

    Norman H. Olson;Prasanna R. Kolatkar;Marcos A. Oliveira;R. Holland Cheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael G. Rossmann
Michael G. Rossmann Purdue University West Lafayette
Max L. Nibert
Max L. Nibert Harvard University
Paul R. Chipman
Paul R. Chipman University of Florida
Richard Kuhn
Richard Kuhn Purdue University West Lafayette
Robert McKenna
Robert McKenna University of Florida
Mavis Agbandje-McKenna
Mavis Agbandje-McKenna University of Florida
John E. Johnson
John E. Johnson Scripps Research Institute
Thomas J. Smith
Thomas J. Smith Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Said A. Ghabrial
Said A. Ghabrial University of Kentucky
Donald L.D. Caspar
Donald L.D. Caspar Florida State University

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