Joint Genetics and Developmental Biology Journal Club

Mondays in Genetics Library

Date Presenter Paper

5/4/20

Jess Rhodes

Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack

4/27/20

Zhuang Miao

T-Scan

4/20/20

Michael Hayes

COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California

4/20/20

Ann Lin

Discovering anti-cancer potential of non-oncology drugs

4/13/20

Sierra Bowden

Mechanistic insights of the Min oscillator via cell-free reconstitution and imaging

4/13/20

Subheksha Kc

Reward, Addiction and Emotion Regulation Systems Associated with Rejection in Love

4/6/20

Grace Jean

Misleading Data in the Time of Coronavirus

4/6/20

Connor Duffy

Clonally expanded CD8 T cells patrol the cerebrospinal fluid in Alzheimer’s disease

3/2/20

Sarah Stern

Grandmother Effect in Killer Whales

2/24/20

Alyssa Benjamin

Snake Venom Gland Organoids; The Indian cobra reference genome and transcriptome enables comprehensive identification of venom toxins

2/24/20

Mollie Friedlander

The Sorting Hat of Medicine: Why Hufflepuffs Wear Stethoscopes and Slytherins Carry Scalpels

2/10/20

Dylan Maghini

classifiying new ssRNA bacteriophages

2/10/20

Page Goddard

How we measure genetic similarity

2/3/20

Rosa Ma

A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms

2/3/20

Emily Greenwald

fMRI to assess people’s emotional responses to Harry Potter passages

1/27/20

Jason Cheng

Comprehensive AAV capsid fitness landscape reveals a viral gene and enables machine-guided design

1/13/20

Naz Koska

Human segmentation clock

1/13/20

Danny Cotter

Screening human embryos for polygenic scores has limited utility

1/6/20

Keri Ngo

Light-regulated collective contractility in choanoflagellates

1/6/20

Rachel Ungar

History of the Discovery of Sex Chromosomes

9/30/19

Hannah Rosenblatt

Biofluorescence in Catsharks (Scyliorhinidae): Fundamental Description and Relevance for Elasmobranch Visual Ecology

6/10/19

Alyssa Benjamin

Guiblet, W.M., Cremona, M.A., Cechova, M., Harris, R.S., Kejnovska, I., Kejnovsky, E., Eckert, K., Chiaromonte, F. and Makova, K.D., 2018. Long-read sequencing technology indicates genome-wide effects of non-B DNA on polymerization speed and error rate. Genome research28(12), pp.1767-1778.

6/10/19

Dylan Maghini

Hsu, B.B., Gibson, T.E., Yeliseyev, V., Liu, Q., Lyon, L., Bry, L., Silver, P.A. and Gerber, G.K., 2019. Dynamic Modulation of the Gut Microbiota and Metabolome by Bacteriophages in a Mouse Model. Cell host & microbe.

6/3/19

Rosa Ma

Velmeshev, D., Schirmer, L., Jung, D., Haeussler, M., Perez, Y., Mayer, S., Bhaduri, A., Goyal, N., Rowitch, D.H. and Kriegstein, A.R., 2019. Single-cell genomics identifies cell type–specific molecular changes in autism. Science364(6441), pp.685-689.

5/20/19

Hannah Rosenblatt

Kelley, L.C., Chi, Q., Cáceres, R., Hastie, E., Schindler, A.J., Jiang, Y., Matus, D.Q., Plastino, J. and Sherwood, D.R., 2019. Adaptive F-actin polymerization and localized ATP production drive basement membrane invasion in the absence of MMPs. Developmental cell48(3), pp.313-328.

5/20/19

Daniel Cotter

Gao, Z., Moorjani, P., Sasani, T.A., Pedersen, B.S., Quinlan, A.R., Jorde, L.B., Amster, G. and Przeworski, M., 2019. Overlooked roles of DNA damage and maternal age in generating human germline mutations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences116(19), pp.9491-9500.

5/13/19

Keri Ngo

Musilova, Z., Cortesi, F., Matschiner, M., Davies, W.I., Patel, J.S., Stieb, S.M., de Busserolles, F., Malmstrøm, M., Tørresen, O.K., Brown, C.J. and Mountford, J.K., 2019. Vision using multiple distinct rod opsins in deep-sea fishes. Science364(6440), pp.588-592.

5/13/19

Rachel Ungar

Dance, A., 2019. Why the sexes don't feel pain the same way. Nature567(7749), p.448.

5/6/19

Roshni Patel

Ponce, C.R., Xiao, W., Schade, P.F., Hartmann, T.S., Kreiman, G. and Livingstone, M.S., 2019. Evolving images for visual neurons using a deep generative network reveals coding principles and neuronal preferences. Cell177(4), pp.999-1009.

5/6/19

Jarod Rutledge

Nardou, R., Lewis, E.M., Rothhaas, R., Xu, R., Yang, A., Boyden, E. and Dölen, G., 2019. Oxytocin-dependent reopening of a social reward learning critical period with MDMA. Nature569(7754), p.116.

4/29/19

Kathryn Hanson

Grünewald, J., Zhou, R., Garcia, S.P., Iyer, S., Lareau, C.A., Aryee, M.J. and Joung, J.K., 2019. Transcriptome-wide off-target RNA editing induced by CRISPR-guided DNA base editors. Nature569(7756), p.433.

4/29/19

Eric Wong

Anumanchipalli, G.K., Chartier, J. and Chang, E.F., 2019. Speech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences. Nature568(7753), p.493.

4/22/19

Pagé Goddard

Vrselja, Z., Daniele, S.G., Silbereis, J., Talpo, F., Morozov, Y.M., Sousa, A.M., Tanaka, B.S., Skarica, M., Pletikos, M., Kaur, N. and Zhuang, Z.W., 2019. Restoration of brain circulation and cellular functions hours post-mortem. Nature568(7752), p.336.

4/22/19

Mollie Friedlander

Wu, J., Platero-Luengo, A., Sakurai, M., Sugawara, A., Gil, M.A., Yamauchi, T., Suzuki, K., Bogliotti, Y.S., Cuello, C., Valencia, M.M. and Okumura, D., 2017. Interspecies chimerism with mammalian pluripotent stem cells. Cell168(3), pp.473-486.

4/15/19

Mervenaz Koska

Hirose, K., Payumo, A.Y., Cutie, S., Hoang, A., Zhang, H., Guyot, R., Lunn, D., Bigley, R.B., Yu, H., Wang, J. and Smith, M., 2019. Evidence for hormonal control of heart regenerative capacity during endothermy acquisition. Science, p.eaar2038.

4/15/19

Kelly Tomins

Riddle, M.R., Aspiras, A.C., Gaudenz, K., Peuß, R., Sung, J.Y., Martineau, B., Peavey, M., Box, A.C., Tabin, J.A., McGaugh, S. and Borowsky, R., 2018. Insulin resistance in cavefish as an adaptation to a nutrient-limited environment. Nature555(7698), p.647.

4/8/19

Gabriel Amador

Lightfoot, J.W., Wilecki, M., Rödelsperger, C., Moreno, E., Susoy, V., Witte, H. and Sommer, R.J., 2019. Small peptide–mediated self-recognition prevents cannibalism in predatory nematodes. Science364(6435), pp.86-89.

4/8/19

Jason Cheng

Zada, D., Bronshtein, I., Lerer-Goldshtein, T., Garini, Y. and Appelbaum, L., 2019. Sleep increases chromosome dynamics to enable reduction of accumulating DNA damage in single neurons. Nature communications10(1), p.895.

3/18/19

Adele Xu

Farrelly, L.A., Thompson, R.E., Zhao, S., Lepack, A.E., Lyu, Y., Bhanu, N.V., Zhang, B., Loh, Y.H.E., Ramakrishnan, A., Vadodaria, K.C. and Heard, K.J., 2019. Histone serotonylation is a permissive modification that enhances TFIID binding to H3K4me3. Nature, p.1.

3/18/19

Adam Reeves

De Cecco, M., Ito, T., Petrashen, A.P., Elias, A.E., Skvir, N.J., Criscione, S.W., Caligiana, A., Brocculi, G., Adney, E.M., Boeke, J.D. and Le, O., 2019. L1 drives IFN in senescent cells and promotes age-associated inflammation. Nature566(7742), p.73.

3/11/19

Kyomi Igarashi

Pijuan-Sala, B., Griffiths, J.A., Guibentif, C., Hiscock, T.W., Jawaid, W., Calero-Nieto, F.J., Mulas, C., Ibarra-Soria, X., Tyser, R.C., Ho, D.L.L. and Reik, W., 2019. A single-cell molecular map of mouse gastrulation and early organogenesis. Nature, p.1.

3/11/19

Robin Meyers

Lebreton, G., Géminard, C., Lapraz, F., Pyrpassopoulos, S., Cerezo, D., Spéder, P., Ostap, E.M. and Noselli, S., 2018. Molecular to organismal chirality is induced by the conserved myosin 1D. Science362(6417), pp.949-952.

3/4/19

Veronica Behrens

Herrera-Alvarez, S., Karlsson, E., Ryder, O.A., Lindblad-Toh, K. and Crawford, A.J., 2018. How to make a rodent giant: Genomic basis and tradeoffs of gigantism in the capybara, the world's largest rodent. bioRxiv, p.424606.

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Evans, B.J., Upham, N.S., Golding, G.B., Ojeda, R.A. and Ojeda, A.A., 2017. Evolution of the largest mammalian genome. Genome biology and evolution9(6), pp.1711-1724.

3/4/19

Nicole Gay

Saner, N.J., Bishop, D.J. and Bartlett, J.D., 2018. Is exercise a viable therapeutic intervention to mitigate mitochondrial dysfunction and insulin resistance induced by sleep loss?. Sleep medicine reviews37, pp.60-68.

2/25/19

Rebecca Culver

Maier, L., Pruteanu, M., Kuhn, M., Zeller, G., Telzerow, A., Anderson, E.E., Brochado, A.R., Fernandez, K.C., Dose, H., Mori, H. and Patil, K.R., 2018. Extensive impact of non-antibiotic drugs on human gut bacteria. Nature555(7698), p.623.

2/25/19

Kelsey Fryer

Habig, M., Kema, G.H. and Stukenbrock, E.H., 2018. Meiotic drive of female-inherited supernumerary chromosomes in a pathogenic fungus. eLife7, p.e40251.

2/11/19

Katelyn McKown

Yokawa, K., Kagenishi, T., Pavlovič, A., Gall, S., Weiland, M., Mancuso, S. and Baluška, F., 2017. Anaesthetics stop diverse plant organ movements, affect endocytic vesicle recycling and ROS homeostasis, and block action potentials in Venus flytraps. Annals of Botany122(5), pp.747-756.

2/11/19

Vy Nguyen

Kaelberer, M.M., Buchanan, K.L., Klein, M.E., Barth, B.B., Montoya, M.M., Shen, X. and Bohórquez, D.V., 2018. A gut-brain neural circuit for nutrient sensory transduction. Science361(6408), p.eaat5236.

2/4/19

Akshay Sanghi

Bian, S., Hou, Y., Zhou, X., Li, X., Yong, J., Wang, Y., Wang, W., Yan, J., Hu, B., Guo, H. and Wang, J., 2018. Single-cell multiomics sequencing and analyses of human colorectal cancer. Science362(6418), pp.1060-1063.

2/4/19

Ching Pin Cheng

Hartwick, E.W., Costantino, D.A., MacFadden, A., Nix, J.C., Tian, S., Das, R. and Kieft, J.S., 2018. Ribosome-induced RNA conformational changes in a viral 3′-UTR sense and regulate translation levels. Nature communications9(1), p.5074.

1/28/19

Kei Yamaya

Ünal, E., Kinde, B. and Amon, A., 2011. Gametogenesis eliminates age-induced cellular damage and resets life span in yeast. Science332(6037), pp.1554-1557.

1/14/19

Sedona Murphy

Gurovich, Y., Hanani, Y., Bar, O., Nadav, G., Fleischer, N., Gelbman, D., Basel-Salmon, L., Krawitz, P.M., Kamphausen, S.B., Zenker, M. and Bird, L.M., 2019. Identifying facial phenotypes of genetic disorders using deep learning. Nature medicine25(1), p.60.

1/14/19

Jennifer Doherty

Peters, J.M., Koo, B.M., Patino, R., Heussler, G.E., Hearne, C.C., Qu, J., Inclan, Y.F., Hawkins, J.S., Lu, C.H., Silvis, M.R. and Harden, M.M., 2019. Enabling genetic analysis of diverse bacteria with Mobile-CRISPRi. Nature microbiology4(2), p.244.

1/14/19

Josh Tycko

TallBear, K., 2013. Native American DNA: tribal belonging and the false promise of genetic science. University of Minnesota Press.

1/7/19

Ben Siranosian

Suez, J., Zmora, N., Zilberman-Schapira, G., Mor, U., Dori-Bachash, M., Bashiardes, S., Zur, M., Regev-Lehavi, D., Brik, R.B.Z., Federici, S. and Horn, M., 2018. Post-antibiotic gut mucosal microbiome reconstitution is impaired by probiotics and improved by autologous FMT. Cell174(6), pp.1406-1423.

12/10/18

Leslie Mateo

Kragesteen, B.K., Spielmann, M., Paliou, C., Heinrich, V., Schöpflin, R., Esposito, A., Annunziatella, C., Bianco, S., Chiariello, A.M., Jerković, I. and Harabula, I., 2018. Dynamic 3D chromatin architecture contributes to enhancer specificity and limb morphogenesis. Nature genetics50(10), p.1463.

12/10/18

Ellen Bouchard

Herberg, S., Gert, K.R., Schleiffer, A. and Pauli, A., 2018. The Ly6/uPAR protein Bouncer is necessary and sufficient for species-specific fertilization. Science361(6406), pp.1029-1033.

12/10/18

Alex Colville

Jiankui He's slides from his recent talk at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong

12/3/18

Robert Coukos

Dawe, R.K., Lowry, E.G., Gent, J.I., Stitzer, M.C., Swentowsky, K.W., Higgins, D.M., Ross-Ibarra, J., Wallace, J.G., Kanizay, L.B., Alabady, M. and Qiu, W., 2018. A Kinesin-14 motor activates neocentromeres to promote meiotic drive in maize. Cell173(4), pp.839-850.

12/3/18

Alissa Severson

Cornejo, O.E., Yee, M.C., Dominguez, V., Andrews, M., Sockell, A., Strandberg, E., Livingstone, D., Stack, C., Romero, A., Umaharan, P. and Royaert, S., 2018. Population genomic analyses of the chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao L., provide insights into its domestication process. Communications Biology1(1), p.167.

11/12/18

Ben Ober-Reynolds

Sabari, B.R., Dall’Agnese, A., Boija, A., Klein, I.A., Coffey, E.L., Shrinivas, K., Abraham, B.J., Hannett, N.M., Zamudio, A.V., Manteiga, J.C. and Li, C.H., 2018. Coactivator condensation at super-enhancers links phase separation and gene control. Science361(6400), p.eaar3958.

11/12/18

Olivia de Goede

Theuerkauf, J., Kuehn, R., Rouys, S., Bloc, H. and Gula, R., 2018. Fraternal Polyandry and Clannish Spatial Organization in a Flightless Island Bird. Current Biology28(9), pp.1482-1488.

11/5/18

Trisha Chong

Guo, M.S., Haakonsen, D.L., Zeng, W., Schumacher, M.A. and Laub, M.T., 2018. A bacterial chromosome structuring protein binds overtwisted DNA to stimulate type II topoisomerases and enable DNA replication. Cell175(2), pp.583-597.

11/5/18

Aparna Rajpukar

Ney, P.M., Organick, L., Koscher, K., Kohno, T. and Ceze, L., 2018. Exploiting Index Cross-Talk to Modify Variant Calls. bioRxiv, p.332346.

10/29/18

BinBin Chen

Glanville, J., Huang, H., Nau, A., Hatton, O., Wagar, L.E., Rubelt, F., Ji, X., Han, A., Krams, S.M., Pettus, C. and Haas, N., 2017. Identifying specificity groups in the T cell receptor repertoire. Nature547(7661), p.94.

10/29/18

Laura Donohue

Carlos Bustamante’s 2018 genetic ancestry analysis of Elizabeth Warren

10/29/18

TzuChiao Hung

Li, P., Markson, J.S., Wang, S., Chen, S., Vachharajani, V. and Elowitz, M.B., 2018. Morphogen gradient reconstitution reveals Hedgehog pathway design principles. Science360(6388), pp.543-548.

10/22/18

David Yao

Alexander, J.M., Guan, J., Li, B., Maliskova, L., Song, M., Shen, Y., Huang, B., Lomvardas, S. and Weiner, O.D., 2019. Live-cell imaging reveals enhancer-dependent Sox2 transcription in the absence of enhancer proximity. eLife8, p.e41769.

10/22/18

Harmony Folse

Coux, R.X., Teixeira, F.K. and Lehmann, R., 2018. L (3) mbt and the LINT complex safeguard cellular identity in the Drosophila ovary. Development145(7), p.dev160721.

10/15/18

Matt Buckley

Cleary, B., Cong, L., Cheung, A., Lander, E.S. and Regev, A., 2017. Efficient generation of transcriptomic profiles by random composite measurements. Cell171(6), pp.1424-1436.

10/15/18

Kay Kobak

Johnson, S.K., Fitza, M.A., Lerner, D.A., Calhoun, D.M., Beldon, M.A., Chan, E.T. and Johnson, P.T., 2018. Risky business: linking Toxoplasma gondii infection and entrepreneurship behaviours across individuals and countries. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences285(1883), p.20180822.

10/1/18

Devon Harris

Yamashiro, C., Sasaki, K., Yabuta, Y., Kojima, Y., Nakamura, T., Okamoto, I., Yokobayashi, S., Murase, Y., Ishikura, Y., Shirane, K. and Sasaki, H., 2018. Generation of human oogonia from induced pluripotent stem cells in vitro. Science362(6412), pp.356-360.

10/1/18

Alex Kern

Scholes, E., Gillis, J.M. and Laman, T.G., 2017. Visual and acoustic components of courtship in the bird-of-paradise genus Astrapia (Aves: Paradisaeidae). PeerJ5, p.e3987.

6/11/2018

Adam Reeves

Elsner, D., Meusemann, K. and Korb, J., 2018. Longevity and transposon defense, the case of termite reproductives. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences115(21), pp.5504-5509.

6/11/2018

John Vaughen

Guo, C., Jeong, H.H., Hsieh, Y.C., Klein, H.U., Bennett, D.A., De Jager, P.L., Liu, Z. and Shulman, J.M., 2018. Tau activates transposable elements in Alzheimer’s disease. Cell reports23(10), pp.2874-2880.

6/4/2018

Alex Kern

Denby, C.M., Li, R.A., Vu, V.T., Costello, Z., Lin, W., Chan, L.J.G., Williams, J., Donaldson, B., Bamforth, C.W., Petzold, C.J. and Scheller, H.V., 2018. Industrial brewing yeast engineered for the production of primary flavor determinants in hopped beer. Nature communications9(1), p.965.

5/21/2018

Katelyn McKown

Raissig, M.T., Matos, J.L., Gil, M.X.A., Kornfeld, A., Bettadapur, A., Abrash, E., Allison, H.R., Badgley, G., Vogel, J.P., Berry, J.A. and Bergmann, D.C., 2017. Mobile MUTE specifies subsidiary cells to build physiologically improved grass stomata. Science355(6330), pp.1215-1218.

5/21/2018

Sedona Murphy

Ou, H.D., Phan, S., Deerinck, T.J., Thor, A., Ellisman, M.H. and O’shea, C.C., 2017. ChromEMT: Visualizing 3D chromatin structure and compaction in interphase and mitotic cells. Science357(6349), p.eaag0025.

5/14/2018

Akshay Sanghi

Borlido, J., Sakuma, S., Raices, M., Carrette, F., Tinoco, R., Bradley, L.M. and D’Angelo, M.A., 2018. Nuclear pore complex-mediated modulation of TCR signaling is required for naïve CD4+ T cell homeostasis. Nature immunology19(6), p.594.

5/14/2018

Kei Yamaya

Ratzke, C., Denk, J. and Gore, J., 2018. Ecological suicide in microbes. Nature ecology & evolution2(5), p.867.

5/7/2018

Ben Siranosian

Collins, J., Robinson, C., Danhof, H., Knetsch, C.W., Van Leeuwen, H.C., Lawley, T.D., Auchtung, J.M. and Britton, R.A., 2018. Dietary trehalose enhances virulence of epidemic Clostridium difficile. Nature553(7688), p.291.

5/7/2018

Ching Pin Cheng

Pamudurti, N.R., Bartok, O., Jens, M., Ashwal-Fluss, R., Stottmeister, C., Ruhe, L., Hanan, M., Wyler, E., Perez-Hernandez, D., Ramberger, E. and Shenzis, S., 2017. Translation of circRNAs. Molecular cell66(1), pp.9-21.

4/30/2018

Kelsey Fryer

Jagannathan, M., Cummings, R. and Yamashita, Y.M., 2018. A conserved function for pericentromeric satellite DNA. Elife7, p.e34122.

4/30/2018

Veronica Behrens

Ferris, E., Abegglen, L.M., Schiffman, J.D. and Gregg, C., 2018. Accelerated evolution in distinctive species reveals candidate elements for clinically relevant traits, including mutation and cancer resistance. Cell reports22(10), pp.2742-2755.

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Ilardo, M.A., Moltke, I., Korneliussen, T.S., Cheng, J., Stern, A.J., Racimo, F., de Barros Damgaard, P., Sikora, M., Seguin-Orlando, A., Rasmussen, S. and van den Munckhof, I.C., 2018. Physiological and genetic adaptations to diving in sea nomads. Cell173(3), pp.569-580.

4/23/2018

Vy Nguyen

Dekkers, J.F., Wiegerinck, C.L., De Jonge, H.R., Bronsveld, I., Janssens, H.M., De Winter-de Groot, K.M., Brandsma, A.M., De Jong, N.W., Bijvelds, M.J., Scholte, B.J. and Nieuwenhuis, E.E., 2013. A functional CFTR assay using primary cystic fibrosis intestinal organoids. Nature medicine19(7), p.939.

4/23/2018

Nicholas Hughes

Min, J., Noble, C., Najjar, D. and Esvelt, K.M., 2017. Daisyfield gene drive systems harness repeated genomic elements as a generational clock to limit spread. BioRxiv, p.104877.

4/16/2018

Rebecca Culver

Kim, W., Zhu, W., Hendricks, G.L., Van Tyne, D., Steele, A.D., Keohane, C.E., Fricke, N., Conery, A.L., Shen, S., Pan, W. and Lee, K., 2018. A new class of synthetic retinoid antibiotics effective against bacterial persisters. Nature556(7699), p.103.

4/16/2018

Kyomi Igarashi

Alemany, A., Florescu, M., Baron, C.S., Peterson-Maduro, J. and Van Oudenaarden, A., 2018. Whole-organism clone tracing using single-cell sequencing. Nature556(7699), p.108.

4/9/2018

Robin Meyers

Xu, L., Sin, S.Y.W., Grayson, P., Janes, D.E., Edwards, S.V. and Sackton, T.B., 2018. Evolutionary dynamics of sex chromosomes of palaeognathous birds. bioRxiv, p.295089.

4/9/2018

Nicole Gay

Zhu, Z., Zhang, F., Hu, H., Bakshi, A., Robinson, M.R., Powell, J.E., Montgomery, G.W., Goddard, M.E., Wray, N.R., Visscher, P.M. and Yang, J., 2016. Integration of summary data from GWAS and eQTL studies predicts complex trait gene targets. Nature genetics48(5), p.481.

3/19/2018

Jennifer Doherty

Pastuzyn, E.D., Day, C.E., Kearns, R.B., Kyrke-Smith, M., Taibi, A.V., McCormick, J., Yoder, N., Belnap, D.M., Erlendsson, S., Morado, D.R. and Briggs, J.A., 2018. The neuronal gene Arc encodes a repurposed retrotransposon Gag protein that mediates intercellular RNA transfer. Cell172(1-2), pp.275-288.

3/19/2018

Devon Harris

Gazoni, T., Haddad, C.F.B., Narimatsu, H., Cabral-de-Mello, D.C., Lyra, M.L. and Parise-Maltempi, P.P., 2018. More sex chromosomes than autosomes in the Amazonian frog Leptodactylus pentadactylus. Chromosoma127(2), pp.269-278.

3/12/2018

Leslie Mateo

Gou, L.T., Kang, J.Y., Dai, P., Wang, X., Li, F., Zhao, S., Zhang, M., Hua, M.M., Lu, Y., Zhu, Y. and Li, Z., 2017. Ubiquitination-deficient mutations in human Piwi cause male infertility by impairing histone-to-protamine exchange during spermiogenesis. Cell169(6), pp.1090-1104.

3/12/2018

Adele Xu

Parks, M.M., Kurylo, C.M., Dass, R.A., Bojmar, L., Lyden, D., Vincent, C.T. and Blanchard, S.C., 2018. Variant ribosomal RNA alleles are conserved and exhibit tissue-specific expression. Science advances4(2), p.eaao0665.

3/5/2018

Alissa Severson

Kardos, M., Åkesson, M., Fountain, T., Flagstad, Ø., Liberg, O., Olason, P., Sand, H., Wabakken, P., Wikenros, C. and Ellegren, H., 2018. Genomic consequences of intensive inbreeding in an isolated wolf population. Nature ecology & evolution2(1), p.124.

2/26/2018

Laura Donohue

Frank, E.T., Schmitt, T., Hovestadt, T., Mitesser, O., Stiegler, J. and Linsenmair, K.E., 2017. Saving the injured: Rescue behavior in the termite-hunting ant Megaponera analis. Science advances3(4), p.e1602187.

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Frank, E.T., Wehrhahn, M. and Linsenmair, K.E., 2018. Wound treatment and selective help in a termite-hunting ant. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences285(1872), p.20172457.

2/26/2018

TzuChiao Hung

Eom, D.S. and Parichy, D.M., 2017. A macrophage relay for long-distance signaling during postembryonic tissue remodeling. Science355(6331), pp.1317-1320.

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Eom, D.S., Bain, E.J., Patterson, L.B., Grout, M.E. and Parichy, D.M., 2015. Long-distance communication by specialized cellular projections during pigment pattern development and evolution. Elife4, p.e12401.

2/12/2018

Matt Buckley

Mukherjee, S., 2016. The gene: an intimidate history. Chapter

2/5/2018

BinBin Chen

Łuksza, M., Riaz, N., Makarov, V., Balachandran, V.P., Hellmann, M.D., Solovyov, A., Rizvi, N.A., Merghoub, T., Levine, A.J., Chan, T.A. and Wolchok, J.D., 2017. A neoantigen fitness model predicts tumour response to checkpoint blockade immunotherapy. Nature551(7681), p.517.

1/29/2018

John Gorzynski

Deane-Coe, P.E., Chu, E.T., Slavney, A., Boyko, A.R. and Sams, A.J., 2018. Direct-to-consumer DNA testing of 6,000 dogs reveals 98.6-kb duplication associated with blue eyes and heterochromia in Siberian Huskies. PLoS genetics14(10), p.e1007648.

1/29/2018

Aparna Rajpurkar

Shaw, H., 2017. A Cryptographic System Based upon the Principles of Gene Expression. Cryptography1(3), p.21.

1/22/2018

Trisha Chong

Ramamurthi, K.S. and Losick, R., 2009. Negative membrane curvature as a cue for subcellular localization of a bacterial protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences106(32), pp.13541-13545.

1/22/2018

Harmony Folse

Coux, R.X., Teixeira, F.K. and Lehmann, R., 2018. L (3) mbt and the LINT complex safeguard cellular identity in the Drosophila ovary. Development145(7), p.dev160721.

1/8/2018

Olivia de Goede

Wang, P., Xu, J., Wang, Y. and Cao, X., 2017. An interferon-independent lncRNA promotes viral replication by modulating cellular metabolism. Science358(6366), pp.1051-1055.

1/8/2018

Ellen Bouchard

Allen, G.E., 1978. Thomas Hunt Morgan: the man and his science.

12/11/2017

Stephanie Nevins

Wang, X., Kellner, A.W., Jiang, S., Cheng, X., Wang, Q., Ma, Y., Paidoula, Y., Rodrigues, T., Chen, H., Sayão, J.M. and Li, N., 2017. Egg accumulation with 3D embryos provides insight into the life history of a pterosaur. Science358(6367), pp.1197-1201.

12/11/2017

Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong

Kumasaka, N., Knights, A. and Gaffney, D., 2017. High resolution genetic mapping of causal regulatory interactions in the human genome. BioRxiv, p.227389.

12/4/2017

Alex Sockell

Prüfer, K., de Filippo, C., Grote, S., Mafessoni, F., Korlević, P., Hajdinjak, M., Vernot, B., Skov, L., Hsieh, P., Peyrégne, S. and Reher, D., 2017. A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Vindija Cave in Croatia. Science358(6363), pp.655-658.

12/4/2017

Ben Ober-Reynolds

Gospocic, J., Shields, E.J., Glastad, K.M., Lin, Y., Penick, C.A., Yan, H., Mikheyev, A.S., Linksvayer, T.A., Garcia, B.A., Berger, S.L. and Liebig, J., 2017. The neuropeptide corazonin controls social behavior and caste identity in ants. Cell170(4), pp.748-759.

11/27/2017

Alex Colville

Rivera, N., Boada, A., Bielsa, M.I., Fernández-Figueras, M.T., Carcereny, E., Moran, M.T. and Ferrándiz, C., 2017. Hair repigmentation during immunotherapy treatment with an anti–programmed cell death 1 and anti–programmed cell death ligand 1 agent for lung cancer. JAMA dermatology153(11), pp.1162-1165.

11/27/2017

Josh Tycko

Schumacher, A.J., Mohni, K.N., Kan, Y., Hendrickson, E.A., Stark, J.M. and Weller, S.K., 2012. The HSV-1 exonuclease, UL12, stimulates recombination by a single strand annealing mechanism. PLoS pathogens8(8), p.e1002862.

11/13/2017

Rachel Grant

Brennan, P.L., Gereg, I., Goodman, M., Feng, D. and Prum, R.O., 2017. Evidence of phenotypic plasticity of penis morphology and delayed reproductive maturation in response to male competition in waterfowl. The Auk: Ornithological Advances134(4), pp.882-893.

11/13/2017

Kelsey Roberts

Wojcinski, A., Lawton, A.K., Bayin, N.S., Lao, Z., Stephen, D.N. and Joyner, A.L., 2017. Cerebellar granule cell replenishment postinjury by adaptive reprogramming of Nestin+ progenitors. Nature neuroscience20(10), p.1361.

11/6/2017

Heidi Chen

Will, A.J., Cova, G., Osterwalder, M., Chan, W.L., Wittler, L., Brieske, N., Heinrich, V., de Villartay, J.P., Vingron, M., Klopocki, E. and Visel, A., 2017. Composition and dosage of a multipartite enhancer cluster control developmental expression of Ihh (Indian hedgehog). Nature genetics49(10), p.1539.

11/6/2017

Kristen Wells

Seberg, H.E., Van Otterloo, E., Loftus, S.K., Liu, H., Bonde, G., Sompallae, R., Gildea, D.E., Santana, J.F., Manak, J.R., Pavan, W.J. and Williams, T., 2017. TFAP2 paralogs regulate melanocyte differentiation in parallel with MITF. PLoS genetics13(3), p.e1006636.

10/30/2017

Tyler Shimko

Yona, A.H., Alm, E.J. and Gore, J., 2018. Random sequences rapidly evolve into de novo promoters. Nature communications9(1), p.1530.

10/30/2017

Roy Ang

Enge, M., Arda, H.E., Mignardi, M., Beausang, J., Bottino, R., Kim, S.K. and Quake, S.R., 2017. Single-cell analysis of human pancreas reveals transcriptional signatures of aging and somatic mutation patterns. Cell171(2), pp.321-330.

10/23/2017

Cameron Prybol

Paten, B., Novak, A.M., Eizenga, J.M. and Garrison, E., 2017. Genome graphs and the evolution of genome inference. Genome research27(5), pp.665-676.

10/23/2017

Dave Gennert

Lippert, C., Sabatini, R., Maher, M.C., Kang, E.Y., Lee, S., Arikan, O., Harley, A., Bernal, A., Garst, P., Lavrenko, V. and Yocum, K., 2017. Identification of individuals by trait prediction using whole-genome sequencing data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences114(38), pp.10166-10171.

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10/16/2017

Nikki Teran

Patel, A., Malinovska, L., Saha, S., Wang, J., Alberti, S., Krishnan, Y. and Hyman, A.A., 2017. ATP as a biological hydrotrope. Science356(6339), pp.753-756.

10/16/2017

Albert Hinman

Beach, R.R., Ricci-Tam, C., Brennan, C.M., Moomau, C.A., Hsu, P.H., Hua, B., Silberman, R.E., Springer, M. and Amon, A., 2017. Aneuploidy causes non-genetic individuality. Cell169(2), pp.229-242.

10/9/2017

Nathan Abell

Lello, L., Avery, S.G., Tellier, L., Vazquez, A.I., de los Campos, G. and Hsu, S.D., 2018. Accurate genomic prediction of human height. Genetics, 210(2), pp.477-497.

10/9/2017

Theo Susanto

Abudayyeh, O.O., Gootenberg, J.S., Essletzbichler, P., Han, S., Joung, J., Belanto, J.J., Verdine, V., Cox, D.B., Kellner, M.J., Regev, A. and Lander, E.S., 2017. RNA targeting with CRISPR–Cas13. Nature, 550(7675), p.280.

10/2/2017

Robert Coukos

Ben-David, E., Burga, A. and Kruglyak, L., 2017. A maternal-effect selfish genetic element in Caenorhabditis elegans. Science, 356(6342), pp.1051-1055.

10/2/2017

David Yao

Ma, H., Tu, L.C., Naseri, A., Chung, Y.C., Grunwald, D., Zhang, S. and Pederson, T., 2017. CRISPR-Based DNA Imaging in Living Cells Reveals Cell Cycle-Dependent Chromosome Dynamics. bioRxiv, p.195966.