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2024
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2024

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147
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91609
World Ranking
149
National Ranking
26

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2011 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2010 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Wolf Reik is affiliated with the Babraham Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the broad category of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, Aging, and Biophysics as subfields of study.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Renal and related cancers
  • RNA modifications and cancer

Wolf Reik has contributed extensively to a variety of publication venues. These include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature
  • Cell stem cell
  • Genome biology

Notable recent papers authored by Wolf Reik include:

  • "Integration of spatial and single-cell transcriptomic data elucidates mouse organogenesis" (2021, Nature Biotechnology)
  • "Active turnover of DNA methylation during cell fate decisions" (2020, Nature Reviews Genetics)
  • "LifeTime and improving European healthcare through cell-based interceptive medicine" (2020, Nature)
  • "Multi-omic rejuvenation of human cells by maturation phase transient reprogramming" (2022, eLife)
  • "8C-like cells capture the human zygotic genome activation program in vitro" (2022, Cell stem cell)

Wolf Reik collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Stephen J. Clark
  • Tim Lohoff
  • Ricard Argelaguet
  • Ferdinand von Meyenn
  • Jennifer Nichols

The scientist has been recognized with various honors, such as:

  • Member of Academia Europaea (2011)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2010)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Best Publications

  • Evolution and functions of long noncoding RNAs

    Chris P. Ponting;Peter L. Oliver;Wolf Reik

  • Epigenetic Reprogramming in Mammalian Development

    Wolf Reik;Wendy Dean;Jörn Walter

  • Genomic imprinting: parental influence on the genome

    Wolf Reik;Jörn Walter;Jörn Walter

  • Stability and flexibility of epigenetic gene regulation in mammalian development

    Wolf Reik

  • Epigenetic reprogramming in mammals

    Hugh D. Morgan;Fátima Santos;Kelly Green;Wendy Dean

  • The Human Cell Atlas

    Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Sarah A Teichmann;Sarah A Teichmann;Sarah A Teichmann;Eric S Lander;Eric S Lander;Eric S Lander;Ido Amit

  • Dynamic reprogramming of DNA methylation in the early mouse embryo.

    Fátima Santos;Brian Hendrich;Wolf Reik;Wendy Dean

  • Epigenetic reprogramming in mouse primordial germ cells.

    Petra Hajkova;Sylvia Erhardt;Natasha Lane;Thomas Haaf

  • SC3: consensus clustering of single-cell RNA-seq data

    Vladimir Yu Kiselev;Kristina Kirschner;Michael T Schaub;Michael T Schaub;Tallulah Andrews

  • Epigenetic reprogramming in plant and animal development.

    Suhua Feng;Steven E. Jacobsen;Wolf Reik

  • Dynamic regulation of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in mouse ES cells and during differentiation

    Gabriella Ficz;Miguel R. Branco;Stefanie Seisenberger;Fátima Santos

  • Active genes dynamically colocalize to shared sites of ongoing transcription.

    Cameron S Osborne;Lyubomira Chakalova;Karen E Brown;David Carter;David Carter

  • Placental-specific IGF-II is a major modulator of placental and fetal growth

    Miguel Constância;Myriam Hemberger;Jennifer Hughes;Wendy Dean

  • Active demethylation of the paternal genome in the mouse zygote.

    J. Oswald;S Engemann;N Lane;W. Mayer

  • Conservation of methylation reprogramming in mammalian development: aberrant reprogramming in cloned embryos.

    Wendy Dean;Fátima Santos;Miodrag Stojkovic;Valeri Zakhartchenko

  • Single-cell genome-wide bisulfite sequencing for assessing epigenetic heterogeneity

    Sébastien A Smallwood;Heather J Lee;Heather J Lee;Christof Angermueller;Felix Krueger

  • Quantitative Sequencing of 5-Methylcytosine and 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine at Single-Base Resolution

    Michael J. Booth;Miguel R. Branco;Miguel R. Branco;Gabriella Ficz;David Oxley

  • Genome-wide erasure of DNA methylation in mouse primordial germ cells is affected by Aid deficiency

    Christian Popp;Wendy Dean;Suhua Feng;Shawn J. Cokus

  • The Dynamics of Genome-wide DNA Methylation Reprogramming in Mouse Primordial Germ Cells

    Stefanie Seisenberger;Simon Andrews;Felix Krueger;Julia Arand

  • Resetting Transcription Factor Control Circuitry toward Ground-State Pluripotency in Human

    Yasuhiro Takashima;Ge Guo;Remco Loos;Jennifer Nichols

Frequent Co-Authors

Wendy Dean
Wendy Dean Babraham Institute
Gavin Kelsey
Gavin Kelsey Babraham Institute
Oliver Stegle
Oliver Stegle German Cancer Research Center
Jörn Walter
Jörn Walter Saarland University
John C. Marioni
John C. Marioni European Bioinformatics Institute
Eamonn R. Maher
Eamonn R. Maher University of Cambridge
Simon Andrews
Simon Andrews Babraham Institute
Jennifer Nichols
Jennifer Nichols University of Cambridge
Anne C. Ferguson-Smith
Anne C. Ferguson-Smith University of Cambridge
Austin Smith
Austin Smith University of Exeter

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