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Virginia W. Cornish

Virginia W. Cornish

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
47
Citations
16493
World Ranking
18548
National Ranking
7575

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Virginia W. Cornish is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions across several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Pharmacology, Cell Biology, and Biophysics.

The main topics of Virginia W. Cornish's work include:

  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Biotin and Related Studies
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Microbial Metabolism and Applications
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research

Virginia W. Cornish's recent publications reflect a focus on synthetic biology, genetic code expansion, and microbial biosynthesis. Notable papers include:

  • Genetic Code Expansion: A Brief History and Perspective (2021, Biochemistry)
  • Heterologous Catalysis of the Final Steps of Tetracycline Biosynthesis by Saccharomyces cerevisiae (2021, ACS Chemical Biology)
  • FRAME-tags: genetically encoded fluorescent markers for multiplexed barcoding and time-resolved tracking of live cells (2021, bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Synthetic biology: at the crossroads of genetic engineering and human therapeutics-a Keystone Symposia report (2021, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)
  • High-Titer Production of the Fungal Anhydrotetracycline, TAN-1612, in Engineered Yeasts (2022, ACS Synthetic Biology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cornish include Arden Lee, Sonja Billerbeck, Ehud Herbst, Scott A. Snyder, and Jessica Castner. Collaborative efforts with these individuals have contributed to multiple publications.

The prominent venues where Virginia W. Cornish's work appears include:

  • Biochemistry
  • Journal of Emergency Nursing
  • ACS Chemical Biology
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • ACS Synthetic Biology

Virginia W. Cornish has been recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, receiving this distinction in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Regulation of Ferroptotic Cancer Cell Death by GPX4

    Wan Seok Yang;Rohitha SriRamaratnam;Matthew E. Welsch;Kenichi Shimada

  • Super-multiplex vibrational imaging

    Lu Wei;Zhixing Chen;Lixue Shi;Rong Long

  • Probing Protein Structure and Function with an Expanded Genetic Code

    Virginia W. Cornish;David Mendel;Peter G. Schultz

  • Site-Directed Mutagenesis with an Expanded Genetic Code

    D Mendel;V W Cornish;P G Schultz

  • Live-cell super-resolution imaging with trimethoprim conjugates

    Richard Wombacher;Meike Heidbreder;Sebastian van de Linde;Michael P Sheetz

  • Slow peptide bond formation by proline and other N-alkylamino acids in translation

    Michael Y. Pavlov;Richard E. Watts;Zhongping Tan;Virginia W. Cornish

  • Programming peptidomimetic syntheses by translating genetic codes designed de novo

    Anthony C. Forster;Zhongping Tan;Madhavi N. L. Nalam;Hening Lin

  • In vivo protein labeling with trimethoprim conjugates: a flexible chemical tag

    Lawrence W Miller;Yunfei Cai;Michael P Sheetz;Virginia W Cornish

  • Site-specific incorporation of biophysical probes into proteins.

    Virginia W. Cornish;David R. Benson;Christian A. Altenbach;Kalman Hideg

  • Ordered and Dynamic Assembly of Single Spliceosomes

    Aaron A. Hoskins;Larry J. Friedman;Sarah S. Gallagher;Daniel J. Crawford;Daniel J. Crawford

  • Site-specific protein modification using a ketone handle

    Virginia W. Cornish;Klaus Michael Hahn;Peter G. Schultz

  • The Genome Project-Write

    Jef D. Boeke;George Church;Andrew Hessel;Nancy J. Kelley

  • Chemical tags for labeling proteins inside living cells.

    Chaoran Jing;Virginia W. Cornish

  • Milestones in directed enzyme evolution.

    Haiyan Tao;Virginia W Cornish

  • Screening and selection methods for large-scale analysis of protein function.

    Hening Lin;Virginia W. Cornish

  • Cytoskeletal coherence requires myosin-IIA contractility

    Yunfei Cai;Olivier Rossier;Nils C. Gauthier;Nicolas Biais

  • An experimental approach to evaluating the role of backbone interactions in proteins using unnatural amino acid mutagenesis.

    John T. Koh;Virginia W. Cornish;Peter G. Schultz

  • Selective chemical labeling of proteins in living cells

    Lawrence W Miller;Virginia W Cornish

  • An In Vivo Covalent TMP-Tag Based on Proximity-Induced Reactivity

    Sarah S. Gallagher;Julia E. Sable;Michael P. Sheetz;Virginia W. Cornish

  • Chemical complementation: a reaction-independent genetic assay for enzyme catalysis

    Kathleen Baker;Colleen Bleczinski;Hening Lin;Gilda Salazar-Jimenez

Frequent Co-Authors

Hening Lin
Hening Lin Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Peter G. Schultz
Peter G. Schultz Scripps Research Institute
Michael P. Sheetz
Michael P. Sheetz The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Jeff Gelles
Jeff Gelles Brandeis University
Melissa J. Moore
Melissa J. Moore University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Stephen C. Blacklow
Stephen C. Blacklow Harvard University
Wei Min
Wei Min Columbia University
Jef D. Boeke
Jef D. Boeke New York University
Raul Rabadan
Raul Rabadan Columbia University
Rafael Yuste
Rafael Yuste Columbia University

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