Rate My Professor Michael Lisbin

Lisbin's scholarly work centers on molecular biology, genetics, RNA processing, and biochemistry. He has published in leading journals on topics such as Drosophila neuronal RNA-binding proteins and bacterial tRNA deaminases. Key publications include "Two distinct temperature-sensitive alleles at the elav locus of Drosophila are suppressed nonsense mutations of the same tryptophan codon" (Genetics, 1995, co-authored with Samson ML and White K); "ELAV, a Drosophila neuron-specific protein, mediates the generation of an alternatively spliced neural protein isoform" (Current Biology, 1996); "Function of RRM Domains of Drosophila melanogaster ELAV: RNP1 Mutations and RRM Domain Replacements With ELAV Family Proteins and SXL" (Genetics, 2000); "The neuron-specific RNA-binding protein ELAV regulates neuroglian alternative splicing in neurons and binds directly to its pre-mRNA" (Genes & Development, 2001); "Interactions of the A1 heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein and its proteolytic derivative, UP1, with RNA and DNA: Evidence for multiple RNA binding domains and salt-dependent binding mode transitions" (Biochemistry, 1991); "Biochemical and Structural Studies of A-to-I Editing by tRNA Deaminase TadA" (Biochemistry, 2005); and "Structural and Kinetic Characterization of Escherichia coli TadA, the Wobble-Specific tRNA Deaminase" (Biochemistry, 2006). These contributions stem from research affiliations including Brandeis University. His Academia.edu profile lists research interests in pattern formation, functional morphology, vertebrate evolution, ichthyology, and biology.