Publications

Original Research Papers
Cryo-EM structure of a neuronal functional amyloid implicated in memory persistence in Drosophila.
Hervas R, Rau MJ, Park Y, Zhang W, Murzin AG, Fitzpatrick JAJ, Scheres SHW, Si K. Science. 2020;367:1230-1234.
Original Data
NRBP1-Containing Cul2/Cul4A regulates amyloid beta production by targeting BRI2 and BRI3 for degradation
Yasukawa T, Tsutsui A, Tomomori-Sato C, Soto S, Saraf A, Washburn MP, Florens L, Terada T, Shimizu K, Conaway RC, Conaway JW, Aso T. Cell Rep. 2020;30:3478-3491.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.02.059.
Original Data
Regulation of the RNAPII Pool Is Integral to the DNA Damage Response
Vidakovic AT, Mitter R, Kelly GP, Neumann M, Harreman M, Martinez MR, Herlihy A, Weems J, Boeing S, Encheva V, Gaul L, Milligan L, Tollervey D, Conaway R, Conaway J, Snijders AP, Stewart A, Svejstrup JQ. [published ahead of print March 2020]. Cell. 2020.
Original Data
Inter-rhombomeric interactions reveal roles for fibroblast growth factors signaling in segmental regulation of EphA4 expression
Cambronero F, Ariza-McNaughton L, Wiedemann LM, Krumlauf R. Dev Dyn. 2020;249:354-368.
Original Data
The role of Mediator and Little Elongation Complex in transcription termination
Takahashi H, Ranjan A, Chen S, Suzuki H, Shibata M, Hirose T, Hirose H, Sasaki K, Abe R, Chen K, He Y, Zhang Y, Takigawa I, Tsukiyama T, Watanabe M, Fujii S, Iida M, Yamamoto J, Yamaguchi Y, Suzuki Y, Matsumoto M, Nakayama KI, Washburn MP, Saraf A, Florens L, Sato S, Tomomori-Sato C, Conaway RC, Conaway JW, Hatakeyama S. Nat Commun. 2020;11:1063. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-14849-1.
Original Data
Visualizing mesoderm and neural crest cell dynamics during chick head morphogenesis
McKinney MC, McLennan R, Giniunaite R, Baker RE, Maini PK, Othmer HG, Kulesa PM. Dev Biol. 2020.
Original Data
Super-resolution Microscopy-based Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation to Study Protein Complex Assembly and Co-localization
Chen J, Yu Z, Unruh JR, Slaughter BD, Jaspersen SL. Bio-Protocol. 2020;10:e3524. doi: 3510.21769/BioProtoc.23524.
Vertebrate diapause preserves organisms long term through Polycomb complex members
Hu CK, Wang W, Brind'Amour J, Singh PP, Reeves GA, Lorincz MC, Sánchez Alvarado A, Brunet A. Science. 2020;367:870-874.
Original Data
Drosophila YBX1 homolog YPS promotes ovarian germ line stem cell development by preferentially recognizing 5-methylcytosine RNAs
Zou F, Tu R, Duan B, Yang Z, Ping Z, Song X, Chen S, Price A, Li H, Scott A, Perera A, Li S, Xie T. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020;117:3603-3609.
Original Data
Dramatically diverse Schizosaccharomyces pombe wtf meiotic drivers all display high gamete-killing efficiency
Bravo Nunez MA, Sabbarini IM, Eickbush MT, Liang Y, Lange JJ, Kent AM, Zanders SE. PLOS Genet. 2019.
Original Data
Synaptonemal Complex-Deficient Drosophila melanogaster Females Exhibit Rare DSB Repair Events, Recurrent Copy-Number Variation, and an Increased Rate of de Novo Transposable Element Movement
Miller DE. G3 (Bethesda). 2020;10:525-537.
Original Data
Comparative transcriptome analysis of wild and lab populations of Astyanax mexicanus uncovers differential effects of environment and morphotype on gene expression
Krishnan J, Persons JL, Peuss R, Hassan H, Kenzior A, Xiong S, Olsen L, Maldonado E, Kowalko JE, Rohner N. [published ahead of print February 6 2020]. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 2020.
Original Data
The Chromatin Bound Proteome of the Human Malaria Parasite
Batugedara G, Lu XM, Saraf A, Sardiu ME, Cort A, Abel S, Prudhomme J, Washburn MP, Florens L, Bunnik EM, Le Roch KG. [published ahead of print February 6 2020]. Microb Genom. 2020.
Original Data
Regulation of Polo Kinase by Matrimony Is Required for Cohesin Maintenance during Drosophila melanogaster Female Meiosis
Bonner AM, Hughes SE, Hawley RS. [published ahead of print January 30 2020]. Curr Biol. 2019.
Original Data
STRIPAK directs PP2A activity toward MAP4K4 to promote oncogenic transformation
Kim JW, Berrios C, Kim M, Schade AE, Adelmant G, Yeerna H, Damato E, Iniguez AB, Florens L, Washburn MP, Stegmaier K, Gray NS, Tamayo P, Gjoerup O, Marto JA, DeCaprio J, Hahn WC. eLife. 2020;9. doi: 10.7554/eLife.53003.
Original Data
Multisite Evaluation of Next-Generation Methods for Small RNA Quantification
Herbert ZT, Thimmapuram J, Xie S, Kershner JP, Kolling FW, Ringelberg CS, LeClerc A, Alekseyev YO, Fan J, Podnar JW, Stevenson HS, Sommerville G, Gupta S, Berkeley M, Koeman J, Perera A, Scott AR, Grenier JK, Malik J, Ashton JM, Pivarski KL, Wang X, Kuffel G, Mesa TE, Smith AT, Shen J, Takata Y, Volkert TL, Love JA, Zhang Y, Wang J, Xuei X, Adams M, Levine SS. [published ahead of print January 23 2020]. J Biomol Tech. 2020.
The Monarch Initiative in 2019: an integrative data and analytic platform connecting phenotypes to genotypes across species.
Shefchek KA, Harris NL, Gargano M, Matentzoglu N, Unni D, Brush M, Keith D, Conlin T, Vasilevsky N, Zhang XA, Balhoff JP, Babb L, Bello SM, Blau H, Bradford Y, Carbon S, Carmody L, Chan LE, Cipriani V, Cuzick A, Rocca MD, Dunn N, Essaid S, Fey P, Grove C, Gourdine JP, Hamosh A, Harris M, Helbig I, Hoatlin M, Joachimiak M, Jupp S, Lett KB, Lewis SE, McNamara C, Pendlington ZM, Pilgrim C, Putman T, Ravanmehr V, Reese J, Riggs E, Robb S, Roncaglia P, Seager J, Segerdell E, Similuk M, Storm AL, Thaxon C, Thessen A, Jacobsen JOB, McMurry JA, Groza T, Kohler S, Smedley D, Robinson PN, Mungall CJ, Haendel MA, Munoz-Torres MC, Osumi-Sutherland D. Nucleic Acids Res. 2020;48:D704-D715.
Reviews, Commentaries, Chapters or Books
Continuing the advancement of Journal of Histotechnology - one issue at a time
Wang Y. J Histotechnol. 2019;42:165-166.
Exogenous pyruvate represses histone gene expression and inhibits cancer cell proliferation via the NAMPT-NAD+-SIRT1 pathway
Ma R, Wu Y, Zhai Y, Hu B, Ma W, Yang W, Yu Q, Chen Z, Workman JL, Yu X, Li S. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019;47:11132-11150.
The Joy of Balancers
Miller DE, Cook KR, Hawley RS. PLoS Genet. 2019;15:e1008421. doi: 1008410.1001371/journal.pgen.1008421.
Rebooting the Epigenome: Erasure of Parental Histone Marks for Establishing the Regulatory Landscape in Zygotes
Bhattacharya S, Workman JL. [published ahead of print October 23 2019]. Biochemistry. 2019.
Beyond Basic at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Bland K, Orr AA. Mo Med. 2019;116:457-460.
An interdisciplinary approach to investigate collective cell migration in neural crest
Giniunaite R, McLennan R, McKinney MC, Baker RE, Kulesa PM, Maini PK. [published ahead of print October 18 2019]. Dev Dyn. 2019.
Purification and enzymatic assay of class I histone deacetylase enzymes
Adams MK, Banks CAS, Miah S, Killer M, Washburn MP. Methods Enzymol. 2019;626:23-40.
Original Data
Comparing Sensory Organs to Define the Path for Hair Cell Regeneration
Denans N, Baek S, Piotrowski T. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol. 2019;35:568-589.
NSL complex acetylates Lamin A/C
Popova VV, Workman JL. Nat Cell Biol. 2019;21:1177-1178.
Patrolling the nucleus: inner nuclear membrane-associated degradation
Smoyer CJ, Jaspersen SL. Curr Genet. 2019;65:1099-1106.
The hunt for RNA polymerase II elongation factors: a historical perspective
Conaway RC, Conaway JW. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2019;26:771-776.
Regulation of Genomic Output and (Pluri)potency in Regeneration
Duncan EM, Sánchez Alvarado A. Annu Rev Genet. 2019;53:16.1–16.20.
Cnidofest 2018: The future is bright for cnidarian research
He S, Grasis JA, Nicotra ML, Juliano CE, Schnitzler CE. EvoDevo. 2019;10:20. doi: 10.1186/s13227-13019-10134-13225.
Histone lysine de-beta-hydroxybutyrylation by SIRT3
Abmayr SM, Workman JL. Cell Res. 2019;29:694-695.
Gene conversion generates evolutionary novelty that fuels genetic conflicts
Daugherty MD, Zanders SE. v.Curr Opin Genet De 2019;58:49-54.
A family of killers
De Carvalho M, Zanders SE. eLife. 2019;8:e46454. doi: 46410.47554/eLife.46454.
When mothers leave their mark​
Barajas-Azpeleta R, Si K. eLife. 2019;8:e48899. doi: 48810.47554/eLife.48899.
Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Self-renewal and Expansion
Li Z, He XC, Li L. Curr Opin Hematol. 2019;26:258-265.
Fertility costs of Meiotic Drivers
Zanders SE, Unckless RL. Curr Biol. 2019;29:R512-R520.
Cornelia de Lange syndrome, related disorders, and the Cohesin complex: Abstracts from the 8th biennial scientific and educational symposium 2018
Kline AD, Krantz ID, Bando M, Shirahige K, Chea S, Sakata T, Rao S, Dorsett D, Singh VP, Gerton JL, Horsfield JA, Calof AL, Katz O, Grados M, Raible S, Baranano K, Lyon G, Musio A, Carrico CS, Clemens DK, Caudill P, Massa V, McGill BE, Dommestrup A, O'Connor J, Haaland RE. Am J Med Genet A. 2019;179:1030-1090.
Hox genes: Downstream "effectors" of retinoic acid signaling in vertebrate embryogenesis
Nolte C, De Kumar B, Krumlauf R. Genesis. 2019:e23306. doi: 10.1002/dvg.23306.
Niche cells rewired to maintain HSCs ex vivo
Venkatraman A, Li L. Nat Cell Biol. 2019;21:540-541.
Commentary on "Regeneration, duplication and transdetermination in fragments of the leg disc of Drosophila melanogaster": Schubiger, G. (1971). Dev Biol. 2019;449:63-82.
Gibson MC. Dev Biol. 2019;449:63-82.
In ovo electroporation of plasmid DNA and morpholinos into specific tissues during early embryogenesis
McLennan R, Kulesa PM. Methods Mol Biol. 2019;1976:71-82.
Original Data
Mouse embryo culture for the study of neural crest cells
Munoz WA, Trainor PA. Methods Mol Biol: Meiosis. 2019;1976:107-119.
Observation of two separate bipolar spindles in the human zygote
Xu, X., Li L, Zhang C, Meng L. J Assist Reprod Genet. 2019;36:601-602. Correction: J Assist Reprod Genet. 2019 Jul 31. pii: 10.1007/s10815-019-01539-1. doi: 10.1007/s10815-019-01539-1.
Sweet fish: Fish models for the study of hyperglycemia and diabetes
Krishnan J, Rohner N. J Diabetes. 2019;11:193-203.
Ribosomal DNA instability and genome adaptability
Salim D, Gerton JL. Chromosome Res. 2019;27:73-87.
Ribosomal DNA and the nucleolus in the context of genome organization
Potapova TA, Gerton JL. Chromosome Res. 2019;27:109-127.
The Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology 41st Annual Meeting
Taneyhill LA, Moody SA, Cox T, Klein OD, Marcucio R, Schneider RA, Trainor PA. Am J Med Genet A. 2019;179:864-869.
Manipulation of developmental function in turtles with notes on alligators
Moustakas-Verho JE, McLennan R, Spengler J, Kulesa PM, Cebra-Thomas JA. Methods Mol Biol. 2019;1920:247-263. Author's Correction: Methods Mol Biol. 2019;1920:C1.
Original Data
An integrative view of Lepidosaur cranial anatomy, development and diversification
Diaz Jr. RE, Trainor PA. In: Ziermann, D Jr., and Diogo, eds. Heads, Jaws and Muscles Anatomical, Functional and Developmental Diversity in Chordate Evolution, Springer; 2019:207-227.
Ribosomal DNA-connecting ribosome biogenesis and chromosome biology
Porokhovnik L, Gerton JL. Chromosome Res. 2019;27:1-3.
Recent advances in understanding intestinal stem cell regulation
Hu D, Yan H, He XC, Li L.  F1000Res. 2019;8:F1000 Faculty Rev-72. Published 2019 Jan 18. doi:10.12688/f1000research.16793.1