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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering contributions to the understanding of complex 3D magnetic field topologies and their application to the beneficial control of the plasma edge in high temperature fusion plasmas

Overview

Todd Evans is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has a research profile primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant work in medicine. Their research spans multiple subfields including molecular biology, infectious diseases, organic chemistry, surgery, and genetics.

Evans' main research topics include:

  • Congenital heart defects research
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research
  • Epigenetics and DNA methylation
  • Genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Pluripotent stem cells research
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes

The scientist's publication venues reflect their focus on stem cell research and infectious diseases. Frequent venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell stem cell
  • Cell Reports
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • iScience

Among recent papers, notable contributions are:

  • "A Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-based Platform to Study SARS-CoV-2 Tropism and Model Virus Infection in Human Cells and Organoids" (2020, Cell Stem Cell)
  • "Identification of SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors using lung and colonic organoids" (2020, Nature)
  • "SARS-CoV-2 infection induces beta cell transdifferentiation" (2021, Cell Metabolism)
  • "Inborn errors of OAS-RNase L in SARS-CoV-2-related multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children" (2022, Science)
  • "Identification of Candidate COVID-19 Therapeutics using hPSC-derived Lung Organoids" (2020, bioRxiv)

Evans has worked extensively with several collaborators, including:

  • Shuibing Chen
  • Tuo Zhang
  • Jenny Xiang
  • Robert E. Schwartz
  • Liuliu Yang

In recognition of contributions to their field, Evans was awarded the Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2009 for pioneering work in understanding complex 3D magnetic field topologies and their applications in plasma edge control for high-temperature fusion plasmas.

Best Publications

  • Cell type of origin influences the molecular and functional properties of mouse induced pluripotent stem cells

    Jose M. Polo;Susanna Liu;Maria Eugenia Figueroa;Warakorn Kulalert

  • Primary contribution to zebrafish heart regeneration by gata4+ cardiomyocytes

    Kazu Kikuchi;Jennifer E. Holdway;Andreas A. Werdich;Ryan M. Anderson

  • The erythroid-specific transcription factor Eryf1: a new finger protein

    Todd Evans;Gary Felsenfeld

  • A Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-based Platform to Study SARS-CoV-2 Tropism and Model Virus Infection in Human Cells and Organoids.

    Liuliu Yang;Yuling Han;Benjamin E. Nilsson-Payant;Vikas Gupta

  • An erythrocyte-specific DNA-binding factor recognizes a regulatory sequence common to all chicken globin genes.

    Todd Evans;Marc Reitman;Gary Felsenfeld

  • Direct interaction of hematopoietic transcription factors PU.1 and GATA-1: functional antagonism in erythroid cells

    Natasha Rekhtman;Farshid Radparvar;Todd Evans;Arthur I. Skoultchi

  • Identification of SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors using lung and colonic organoids.

    Yuling Han;Xiaohua Duan;Xiaohua Duan;Liuliu Yang;Benjamin E. Nilsson-Payant

  • Orchestrating liver development

    Miriam Gordillo;Todd Evans;Valerie Gouon-Evans

  • Colonic organoids derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells for modeling colorectal cancer and drug testing

    Miguel Crespo;Eduardo Vilar;Su Yi Tsai;Kyle Chang

  • Flow-Regulated Endothelial S1P Receptor-1 Signaling Sustains Vascular Development

    Bongnam Jung;Hideru Obinata;Sylvain Galvani;Karen Mendelson

  • Retinoic acid signaling pathways in development and diseases.

    Bhaskar C. Das;Pritam Thapa;Radha Karki;Sasmita Das

  • GATA-4 is a novel transcription factor expressed in endocardium of the developing heart.

    Clair Kelley;Heather Blumberg;Leonard I. Zon;Todd Evans

  • Sphingosine 1-phosphate signalling.

    Karen Mendelson;Todd Evans;Timothy Hla

  • Boron chemicals in diagnosis and therapeutics

    Bhaskar C Das;Pritam Thapa;Radha Karki;Caroline Schinke

  • Distinct Functions Are Implicated for the GATA-4, -5, and -6 Transcription Factors in the Regulation of Intestine Epithelial Cell Differentiation

    Xiaoping Gao;Tiffany Sedgwick;Yun-Bo Shi;Todd Evans

  • Evolutionarily conserved gene family important for fat storage

    Bert Kadereit;Pradeep Kumar;Wen Jun Wang;Diego Miranda

  • The Xenopus GATA-4/5/6 genes are associated with cardiac specification and can regulate cardiac-specific transcription during embryogenesis.

    Yongmei Jiang;Todd Evans

  • Conformation of promoter DNA: Fine mapping of S1-hypersensitive sites

    Eric Schon;Todd Evans;John Welsh;Argiris Efstratiadis

  • High-Content Screening in hPSC-Neural Progenitors Identifies Drug Candidates that Inhibit Zika Virus Infection in Fetal-like Organoids and Adult Brain

    Ting Zhou;Lei Tan;Gustav Y. Cederquist;Yujie Fan

  • Anthracycline-induced suppression of GATA-4 transcription factor: implication in the regulation of cardiac myocyte apoptosis.

    Yuri Kim;Al Guo Ma;Kazumi Kitta;Sarah N. Fitch

Frequent Co-Authors

Shuibing Chen
Shuibing Chen Cornell University
Timothy Hla
Timothy Hla Harvard University
Robert E. Schwartz
Robert E. Schwartz Cornell University
Gary Felsenfeld
Gary Felsenfeld National Institutes of Health
Benjamin R. tenOever
Benjamin R. tenOever Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
David D. Ho
David D. Ho Columbia University
Yaoxing Huang
Yaoxing Huang Columbia University
Hui Wang
Hui Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Leonard I. Zon
Leonard I. Zon Harvard University
Olivier Elemento
Olivier Elemento Cornell University

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