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R. Brandon Pratt

Professor of Biology, California State University, Bakersfield
Verified email at csub.edu
Cited by 8286

Organocatalytic ring-opening polymerization

NE Kamber, W Jeong, RM Waymouth, RC Pratt… - Chemical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Modern synthetic methods have revolutionized polymer chemistry through the development
of new and powerful strategies for the controlled synthesis of complex polymer architectures. …

Lessons from the Genome Sequence of Neurospora crassa: Tracing the Path from Genomic Blueprint to Multicellular Organism

…, C Ishii, K Suzuki, W Sakai, R Pratt - Microbiology and …, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
We present an analysis of over 1,100 of the ∼10,000 predicted proteins encoded by the
genome sequence of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa. Seven major areas of …

Shades of gray: the world of quantitative disease resistance

JA Poland, PJ Balint-Kurti, RJ Wisser, RC Pratt… - Trends in plant …, 2009 - cell.com
… The loss or mutation of specific pathogen effector proteins enables avoidance of R-gene
recognition and virulence. R-gene recognition and corresponding losses and mutations of …

The Reuven Ramaty high-energy solar spectroscopic imager (RHESSI)

…, M Hashii, R Sterling, R Jackson, R Pratt… - The Reuven Ramaty …, 2003 - Springer
RHESSI is the sixth in the NASA line of Small Explorer (SMEX) missions and the first
managed in the Principal Investigator mode, where the PI is responsible for all aspects of the …

Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought

…, PJ Mitchell, A Nardini, J Pittermann, RB Pratt… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Shifts in rainfall patterns and increasing temperatures associated with climate change are
likely to cause widespread forest decline in regions where droughts are predicted to increase …

[HTML][HTML] The genome sequence of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa

…, C Cogoni, G Macino, D Catcheside, W Li, RJ Pratt… - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
… McLaughlin, DW Lee, R. Pratt and R. Aramayo, manuscript in preparation) in meiotic
silencing. Taken together, these results suggest that meiotic silencing and quelling represent two …

Gauss–Newton and full Newton methods in frequency–space seismic waveform inversion

RG Pratt, C Shin, GJ Hick - Geophysical journal international, 1998 - academic.oup.com
R represents the sum of the doubly scattered wavefields, each conjugated, and multiplied by
the data residuals. Thus R … We now see that the second term, R, predicts the artefacts in the …

Seismic waveform inversion in the frequency domain, Part 1: Theory and verification in a physical scale model

RG Pratt - Geophysics, 1999 - library.seg.org
Seismic waveforms contain much information that is ignored under standard processing
schemes; seismic waveform inversion seeks to use the full information content of the recorded …

Emergence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with extensive resistance to second-line drugs--worldwide, 2000-2004

…, V Riekstina, G Skenders, T Holtz, R Pratt… - Morbidity and Mortality …, 2006 - go.gale.com
During the 1990s, multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB), defined as resistance to at
least isoniazid and rifampin, emerged as a threat to TB control, both in the United States (1) …

Paracrine action accounts for marked protection of ischemic heart by Akt-modified mesenchymal stem cells

…, F Morello, H Mu, N Noiseux, L Zhang, RE Pratt… - Nature medicine, 2005 - nature.com
Intramyocardial injection of adult bone marrow–derived stem cells has recently been
proposed as a potential therapy to repair damaged myocardium after acute infarction1–4. The …