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Andrew W. Murray's Degrees

Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley
PhD Molecular Genetics Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Andrew W. Murray is a British-born American evolutionary biologist known for his research on budding yeast. He is the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor at Harvard University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.

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From molecular to modular cell biology (1999) (3585)
Cyclin is degraded by the ubiquitin pathway (1991) (2365)
Feedback control of mitosis in budding yeast (1991) (1315)
Cyclin synthesis drives the early embryonic cell cycle (1989) (1194)
Recycling the Cell Cycle Cyclins Revisited (2004) (1136)
The role of cyclin synthesis and degradation in the control of maturation promoting factor activity (1989) (1072)
Cell cycle extracts. (1991) (834)
Association of Spindle Assembly Checkpoint Component XMAD2 with Unattached Kinetochores (1996) (802)
Coding-Sequence Determinants of Gene Expression in Escherichia coli (2009) (781)
Integrating genetic approaches into the discovery of anticancer drugs. (1997) (728)
Creative blocks: cell-cycle checkpoints and feedback controls (1992) (717)
Dominoes and clocks: the union of two views of the cell cycle. (1989) (694)
Chapter 30 Cell Cycle Extracts (1991) (671)
Interphase chromosomes undergo constrained diffusional motion in living cells (1997) (638)
Budding yeast Cdc20: a target of the spindle checkpoint. (1998) (623)
GFP tagging of budding yeast chromosomes reveals that protein–protein interactions can mediate sister chromatid cohesion (1996) (611)
Anaphase is initiated by proteolysis rather than by the inactivation of maturation-promoting factor (1993) (577)
Localization of Mad2 to Kinetochores Depends on Microtubule Attachment, Not Tension (1998) (526)
The Cell Cycle: An Introduction (1993) (523)
Mitochondrial transmission during mating in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is determined by mitochondrial fusion and fission and the intramitochondrial segregation of mitochondrial DNA. (1997) (505)
The Cell Cycle (1989) (488)
Cell cycle: A snip separates sisters (1999) (451)
The conserved protein kinase Ipl1 regulates microtubule binding to kinetochores in budding yeast. (1999) (447)
The budding yeast protein kinase Ipl1/Aurora allows the absence of tension to activate the spindle checkpoint. (2001) (440)
Chromosome and Low Copy Plasmid Segregation in E. coli: Visual Evidence for Distinct Mechanisms (1997) (415)
A MAP kinase-dependent spindle assembly checkpoint in Xenopus egg extracts (1994) (409)
Mitosis in living budding yeast: anaphase A but no metaphase plate. (1997) (399)
Construction of artificial chromosomes in yeast (1983) (382)
Visualization of Mad2 Dynamics at Kinetochores, along Spindle Fibers, and at Spindle Poles in Living Cells (2000) (381)
Activation of the Budding Yeast Spindle Assembly Checkpoint Without Mitotic Spindle Disruption (1996) (379)
Pedigree analysis of plasmid segregation in yeast (1983) (363)
Spindle Checkpoint Protein Xmad1 Recruits Xmad2 to Unattached Kinetochores (1998) (343)
Phosphorylation by Cdc28 Activates the Cdc20-Dependent Activity of the Anaphase-Promoting Complex (2000) (343)
The Xenopus Chromokinesin Xkid Is Essential for Metaphase Chromosome Alignment and Must Be Degraded to Allow Anaphase Chromosome Movement (2000) (336)
Estimating the Per-Base-Pair Mutation Rate in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (2008) (319)
Dynamics of centromeres during metaphase-anaphase transition in fission yeast: Dis1 is implicated in force balance in metaphase bipolar spindle. (1998) (316)
MAD3 Encodes a Novel Component of the Spindle Checkpoint Which Interacts with Bub3p, Cdc20p, and Mad2p (2000) (292)
The Speed of Evolution and Maintenance of Variation in Asexual Populations (2007) (289)
The use of Xenopus egg extracts to study mitotic spindle assembly and function in vitro. (1999) (289)
S-phase feedback control in budding yeast independent of tyrosine phosphorylation of P34cdc28 (1992) (285)
Rapid Expansion and Functional Divergence of Subtelomeric Gene Families in Yeasts (2010) (277)
Mad1p, a phosphoprotein component of the spindle assembly checkpoint in budding yeast (1995) (263)
Time-Lapse Microscopy Reveals Unique Roles for Kinesins during Anaphase in Budding Yeast (1998) (256)
Requirement of the spindle checkpoint for proper chromosome segregation in budding yeast meiosis. (2000) (239)
Sister chromatid separation in frog egg extracts requires DNA topoisomerase II activity during anaphase (1992) (237)
Microinjection of Antibody to Mad2 Protein into Mammalian Cells in Mitosis Induces Premature Anaphase (1998) (233)
The spindle assembly checkpoint. (1996) (221)
Cell cycle checkpoints. (1994) (214)
The Centromeric Protein Sgo1 Is Required to Sense Lack of Tension on Mitotic Chromosomes (2005) (212)
Protein phosphatase 2A regulates MPF activity and sister chromatid cohesion in budding yeast (1996) (206)
The spindle checkpoint of budding yeast depends on a tight complex between the Mad1 and Mad2 proteins. (1999) (203)
Cloning, sequencing, and functional analysis of oriL, a herpes simplex virus type 1 origin of DNA synthesis (1985) (202)
Mutation of YCS4, a budding yeast condensin subunit, affects mitotic and nonmitotic chromosome behavior. (2002) (199)
Genetic selection of peptide inhibitors of biological pathways. (1999) (194)
Lack of tension at kinetochores activates the spindle checkpoint in budding yeast (2001) (182)
Niche engineering demonstrates a latent capacity for fungal-algal mutualism (2014) (182)
Chromosome segregation in mitosis and meiosis. (1985) (180)
Members of the NAP/SET family of proteins interact specifically with B- type cyclins (1995) (174)
Genes involved in sister chromatid separation and segregation in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (2001) (159)
The cost of gene expression underlies a fitness trade-off in yeast (2009) (157)
The genetics of cell cycle checkpoints. (1995) (157)
Genetic drift opposes mutualism during spatial population expansion (2014) (150)
Selective sweeps in growing microbial colonies (2012) (142)
Mutation Rates across Budding Yeast Chromosome VI Are Correlated with Replication Timing (2011) (141)
Exploring genetic suppression interactions on a global scale (2016) (141)
NAP1 acts with Clb1 to perform mitotic functions and to suppress polar bud growth in budding yeast (1995) (131)
Anaphase Inactivation of the Spindle Checkpoint (2006) (129)
Chromosome length controls mitotic chromosome segregation in yeast (1986) (128)
Improved use of a public good selects for the evolution of undifferentiated multicellularity (2013) (116)
Aberrantly segregating centromeres activate the spindle assembly checkpoint in budding yeast (1996) (109)
Positive-Feedback Loops as a Flexible Biological Module (2007) (109)
An alternative pathway for meiotic chromosome segregation in yeast. (1986) (105)
Can sequencing shed light on cell cycling? (2001) (99)
Cdc28 Activates Exit from Mitosis in Budding Yeast (2000) (98)
Spo13 protects meiotic cohesin at centromeres in meiosis I. (2002) (96)
Ploidy Controls the Success of Mutators and Nature of Mutations during Budding Yeast Evolution (2006) (91)
A Small-Molecule Inhibitor of Mps1 Blocks the Spindle-Checkpoint Response to a Lack of Tension on Mitotic Chromosomes (2005) (89)
A novel yeast screen for mitotic arrest mutants identifies DOC1, a new gene involved in cyclin proteolysis. (1997) (88)
Budding Yeast Mitotic Chromosomes Have an Intrinsic Bias to Biorient on the Spindle (2007) (88)
High-Resolution Mutation Mapping Reveals Parallel Experimental Evolution in Yeast (2006) (85)
Roles of the 2 microns gene products in stable maintenance of the 2 microns plasmid of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (1987) (79)
Cloning regulated yeast genes from a pool of lacZ fusions. (1983) (77)
The cell cycle as a cdc2 cycle (1989) (76)
Sucrose utilization in budding yeast as a model for the origin of undifferentiated multicellularity. (2011) (76)
Characterization of two telomeric DNA processing reactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (1988) (76)
Many, but not all, lineage-specific genes can be explained by homology detection failure (2020) (73)
The Ups and Downs of Modeling the Cell Cycle (2004) (70)
Mad2 binding by phosphorylated kinetochores links error detection and checkpoint action in mitosis (1999) (68)
Experimental Evolution of Mating Discrimination in Budding Yeast (2006) (66)
Evolutionary adaptation after crippling cell polarization follows reproducible trajectories (2015) (65)
Lesions in many different spindle components activate the spindle checkpoint in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (1999) (64)
Real time observation of anaphase in vitro. (1996) (63)
Seeing Mutations in Living Cells (2010) (62)
Mad2 and Mad3 Cooperate to Arrest Budding Yeast in Mitosis (2012) (62)
Sister chromatid cohesion in mitosis. (1998) (60)
What controls the cell cycle? (1991) (60)
Spindle Checkpoint Component Mad2 Contributes to Biorientation of Homologous Chromosomes (2003) (57)
The spindle checkpoint rescues the meiotic segregation of chromosomes whose crossovers are far from the centromere (2007) (55)
Recruiting a microtubule-binding complex to DNA directs chromosome segregation in budding yeast (2009) (53)
Cyclin-dependent kinases: regulators of the cell cycle and more. (1994) (50)
The spindle assembly checkpoint in budding yeast. (1997) (48)
Identification of xenopus CENP-A and an associated centromeric DNA repeat. (2005) (46)
The mitotic feedback control gene MAD2 encodes the α-subunit of a prenyltransferase (1993) (45)
Turning on mitosis (1993) (43)
Construction and behavior of circularly permuted and telocentric chromosomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (1986) (41)
A brief history of error (2011) (37)
Heterothallism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolates from nature: effect of HO locus on the mode of reproduction (2010) (37)
Novel repetitive sequence motifs in the alpha and beta subunits of prenyl-protein transferases and homology of the alpha subunit to the MAD2 gene product of yeast. (1992) (35)
Physical interactions reduce the power of natural selection in growing yeast colonies (2018) (35)
MAP Kinases in Meiosis (1998) (34)
A Putative Bet-Hedging Strategy Buffers Budding Yeast against Environmental Instability (2020) (33)
Asymmetry in Sexual Pheromones Is Not Required for Ascomycete Mating (2011) (33)
MAD 3 Encodes a Novel Component of the Spindle Checkpoint which Interacts with Bub 3 p , Cdc 20 p , and Mad 2 p (2000) (32)
Cyclin synthesis and degradation and the embryonic cell cycle (1989) (29)
High resolution multimode digital imaging system for mitosis studies in vivo and in vitro. (1994) (29)
How Obstacles Perturb Population Fronts and Alter Their Genetic Structure (2015) (28)
Heterozygous mutations cause genetic instability in a yeast model of cancer evolution (2019) (27)
Polymerization in the actin ATPase clan regulates hexokinase activity in yeast (2020) (25)
A Predictive Model for Yeast Cell Polarization in Pheromone Gradients (2016) (24)
Characterization of spindle assembly checkpoint in Xenopus egg extracts. (1997) (24)
Details Matter: Noise and Model Structure Set the Relationship between Cell Size and Cell Cycle Timing (2017) (24)
Growing Yeast into Cylindrical Colonies (2014) (24)
Reduced Mad2 expression keeps relaxed kinetochores from arresting budding yeast in mitosis (2011) (24)
Genetic drift and selection in many-allele range expansions (2017) (23)
Chromosomal attachments set length and microtubule number in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitotic spindle (2014) (23)
Cyclins in meiosis and mitosis (1987) (23)
Budding yeast Cdc20 (1998) (22)
Cohesion is established during DNA replication utilising chromosome associated cohesin rings as well as those loaded de novo onto nascent DNAs (2020) (22)
The evolutionary plasticity of chromosome metabolism allows adaptation to constitutive DNA replication stress (2020) (22)
How to Compact DNA (1998) (21)
Spatially Constrained Growth Enhances Conversional Meltdown. (2016) (21)
Sister chromatid cohesion in mitosis. (1999) (20)
A Model for Cell Wall Dissolution in Mating Yeast Cells: Polarized Secretion and Restricted Diffusion of Cell Wall Remodeling Enzymes Induces Local Dissolution (2014) (20)
Evolutionary Repair Experiments as a Window to the Molecular Diversity of Life (2020) (19)
A cycle is a cycle is a cycle (1987) (19)
History Matters (2002) (18)
Roles of the 2 , um Gene Products in Stable Maintenance of the 2 iim Plasmid of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (18)
Cell-size regulation in budding yeast does not depend on linear accumulation of Whi5 (2020) (18)
Evolving a 24-hr oscillator in budding yeast (2014) (18)
Mitosis: Kinetochores pass the IQ test (1994) (18)
Mixing genome annotation methods in a comparative analysis inflates the apparent number of lineage-specific genes (2022) (17)
Correction: Sucrose Utilization in Budding Yeast as a Model for the Origin of Undifferentiated Multicellularity (2011) (17)
Centrioles at the Checkpoint (2001) (16)
Genetically Engineered Transvestites Reveal Novel Mating Genes in Budding Yeast (2013) (15)
Multicellularity makes somatic differentiation evolutionarily stable (2014) (15)
Microbial Range Expansions on Liquid Substrates (2018) (14)
Rapid toxin sequestration modifies poison frog physiology (2020) (14)
A Model for the Evolution of Biological Specificity: a Cross-Reacting DNA-Binding Protein Causes Plasmid Incompatibility (2014) (14)
A mitotic inducer matures (1988) (14)
Can gene-inactivating mutations lead to evolutionary novelty? (2020) (13)
Coordinating cell cycle events. (1991) (13)
Chromosome structure and behaviour (1985) (12)
Evolutionary repair: Changes in multiple functional modules allow meiotic cohesin to support mitosis (2019) (12)
kinetochores in budding yeast The conserved protein kinase Ipl 1 regulates microtubule binding to (1999) (12)
Tethering Sister Centromeres to Each Other Suggests the Spindle Checkpoint Detects Stretch within the Kinetochore (2014) (12)
Whither genomics? (2000) (11)
Seasonal changes in diet and chemical defense in the Climbing Mantella frog (Mantella laevigata) (2018) (11)
Selecting for Altered Substrate Specificity Reveals the Evolutionary Flexibilityof ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters (2020) (11)
The mitotic feedback control gene MAD2 encodes the alpha-subunit of a prenyltransferase. (1993) (11)
Cell biology: the cell cycle as a cdc2 cycle. (1989) (10)
Remembrance of things past (1991) (9)
Don't make me mad, Bub! (2012) (9)
Cell cycle. Centrioles at the checkpoint. (2001) (8)
Rum tale of replication (1994) (8)
Conservation Weighting Functions Enable Covariance Analyses to Detect Functionally Important Amino Acids (2014) (8)
Bet hedging buffers budding yeast against environmental instability (2020) (7)
Independent evolution of polymerization in the Actin ATPase clan regulates hexokinase activity (2019) (7)
An in vitro assay for Cdc20-dependent mitotic anaphase-promoting complex activity from budding yeast. (2009) (7)
Escherichia coliin Coding-Sequence Determinants of Gene Expression (2009) (7)
Tense spindles can relax (1995) (7)
Cell size regulation in budding yeast does not depend on linear accumulation of Whi5 (2020) (7)
Signal transduction. History matters. (2002) (7)
Cell-cycle control: turning on mitosis. (1993) (5)
Antagonism between killer yeast strains as an experimental model for biological nucleation dynamics (2020) (5)
Journey to the centre of the cell (2000) (5)
Complications dawn for kinetochore regulation by Aurora (2012) (4)
Never-in-mitosis in mitosis (1991) (4)
Sunburnt fission yeast (1993) (4)
Cell cycle. Sunburnt fission yeast. (1993) (4)
Selecting for altered substrate specificity reveals the evolutionary flexibility of ATP-binding cassette transporters (2019) (4)
Salvador Luria and Max Delbrück on Random Mutation and Fluctuation Tests (2016) (4)
Spatially-constrained growth enhances conversional meltdown (2015) (3)
Selective sweeps in growing microbial (2012) (3)
A delay like no other (2005) (3)
Ploidy and recombination proficiency shape the evolutionary adaptation to constitutive DNA replication stress (2021) (3)
Modeling the impact of single-cell stochasticity and size control on the population growth rate in asymmetrically dividing cells (2020) (3)
The evolutionary plasticity of chromosome metabolism allows adaptation to DNA replication stress (2019) (3)
Telomeres and artificial chromosomes in yeast (1984) (3)
The mitotic feedback control gene MAD2 encodes the α-subunit of a prenyltransferase (1994) (3)
Seasonal Changes in Diet and Toxicity in the Climbing Mantella Frog (Mantella Laevigata) (2018) (3)
Rose is a rose… (1993) (2)
Cell cycle. Tense spindles can relax. (1995) (2)
Author response: The evolutionary plasticity of chromosome metabolism allows adaptation to constitutive DNA replication stress (2020) (1)
Crystal Structure of the S. cerevisiae glucokinase, Glk1 (2020) (1)
Spatial population genetics in a petri dish (2011) (1)
A Bayesian Approach to Detecting Amino Acid Covariance in Multiple Sequence Alignments (2010) (0)
The Cell Cycle1 (2016) (0)
BIG ENOUGH ? ADEQUATE NUTRIENTS ? STOP I DNA SYNTHESIS COMPLETE ? SPINDLE CORRECTLY ASSEMBLED ? (2006) (0)
Cell biology. Remembrance of things past. (1991) (0)
Construction andBehavior ofCircularly Permuted andTelocentric Chromosomes inSaccharomyces cerevisiae (1986) (0)
Article Seeing Mutations in Living Cells (2010) (0)
Centrioles at the Checkpoint Author ( s ) : (2008) (0)
Rocket yeast (2021) (0)
Paul Nurse and Pierre Thuriaux on wee Mutants and Cell Cycle Control (2016) (0)
Characterization ofTwoTelomeric DNA Processing Reactions inSaccharomyces cerevisiae (1988) (0)
Cell cycle. Rum tale of replication. (1994) (0)
Courtship and Mate-Choice in Yeast (2005) (0)
Range expansion of mutualists (2012) (0)
How evolvable are polarization machines (2012) (0)
Experimental evolution in budding yeast (2012) (0)
Box 2 A decision-making module in bacteriophage lambda (0)
Cytoplasmic Volume Modulates Spindle Size During Embryogenesis (2013) (0)
Diffusion and Selection in Many-Allele Range Expansions (2017) (0)
Artificial chromosomes. (1987) (0)
Supplementary information for "Selective sweeps in growing microbial colonies" (2012) (0)
Cell biology. Cyclins in meiosis and mitosis. (1987) (0)
Genome architecture shapes evolutionary adaptation to DNA replication stress (2020) (0)
Rolesofthe2,umGeneProducts inStable Maintenance ofthe2iim Plasmid ofSaccharomyces cerevisiae (1987) (0)
Selective Sweeps in Growing Microbial Colonies The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2012) (0)
Heterozygous mutations cause genetic instability in a yeast model of cancer evolution (2019) (0)
Cell Biology. Never-in-mitosis in mitosis. (1991) (0)
Correction: Evolving a 24-hr oscillator in budding yeast (2015) (0)
Population dynamics on heterogeneous bacterial substrates (2012) (0)
Experimental Population Dynamics in Fluid Flows (2017) (0)
Author response: Cohesion is established during DNA replication utilising chromosome associated cohesin rings as well as those loaded de novo onto nascent DNAs (2020) (0)
Beyond the reach of homology: successive computational filters find yeast pheromone genes (2021) (0)
Video: Rocket Yeast (2020) (0)
On Growth and Form of Range Expansions at Liquid Interfaces (2018) (0)
Zinc-finger protein Zpr1 is a bespoke chaperone essential for eEF1A biogenesis. (2023) (0)
MAD 2 is a novel gene and its gene product forms a tight complex with Mad 1 (1998) (0)
Alternating selection for dispersal and multicellularity favors regulated life cycles (2023) (0)

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