Publications
2024
Targeted design of synthetic enhancers for selected tissues in the Drosophila embryo.
Nature. 626(7997):207-211Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 evolution by a centralised pipeline and weekly focused sequencing, Austria, January 2021 to March 2023.
Euro Surveill. 29(23)Proteome-scale tagging and functional screening in mammalian cells by ORFtag.
Nat Methods.2023
An unbiased AAV-STARR-seq screen revealing the enhancer activity map of genomic regions in the mouse brain in vivo.
Sci Rep. 13(1):6745Widespread regulatory specificities between transcriptional co-repressors and enhancers in Drosophila.
Science. 381(6654):198-204Systematic identification and characterization of repressive domains in Drosophila transcription factors.
EMBO J. 42(3):e112100Enhancers display constrained sequence flexibility and context-specific modulation of motif function.
Genome Res.Functionally distinct promoter classes initiate transcription via different mechanisms reflected in focused versus dispersed initiation patterns.
EMBO J. :e1135192022
DeepSTARR predicts enhancer activity from DNA sequence and enables the de novo design of synthetic enhancers.
Nat Genet. 54(5):613-624Developmental and housekeeping transcriptional programs in Drosophila require distinct chromatin remodelers.
Mol Cell. 82(19):3598-3612.e7Proteome-scale identification of transcriptional activators in human cells.
Mol Cell. 82(3):497-499Differential cofactor dependencies define distinct types of human enhancers.
Nature. 606(7913):406-4132021
PHF3 regulates neuronal gene expression through the Pol II CTD reader domain SPOC.
Nat Commun. 12(1):6078Insights into gene regulation: From regulatory genomic elements to DNA-protein and protein-protein interactions.
Curr Opin Cell Biol. 70:58-66Multiplexed detection of SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory infections in high throughput by SARSeq.
Nat Commun. 12(1):31322019
Transcriptional cofactors display specificity for distinct types of core promoters.
Nature. 570(7759):122-126STARR-seq and UMI-STARR-seq: Assessing Enhancer Activities for Genome-Wide-, High-, and Low-Complexity Candidate Libraries.
Curr Protoc Mol Biol. 128(1):e1052018
A high-throughput method to identify trans-activation domains within transcription factor sequences.
EMBO J. 37(16)Assessing sufficiency and necessity of enhancer activities for gene expression and the mechanisms of transcription activation.
Genes Dev. 32(3-4):202-223Eukaryotic core promoters and the functional basis of transcription initiation.
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 19(10):621-637Resolving systematic errors in widely used enhancer activity assays in human cells.
Nat Methods. 15(2):141-1492017
Genome-wide assessment of sequence-intrinsic enhancer responsiveness at single-base-pair resolution.
Nat Biotechnol. 35(2):136-144Promoting transcription over long distances.
Nat Genet. 49(7):972-973A reversible haploid mouse embryonic stem cell biobank resource for functional genomics.
Nature. 550(7674):114-118Probing the canonicity of the Wnt/Wingless signaling pathway.
PLoS Genet. 13(4):e1006700Combinatorial function of transcription factors and cofactors.
Curr Opin Genet Dev. 43:73-812016
Gene Regulation: Activation through Space.
Curr Biol. 26(19):R895-R898An Evolutionary Conserved Epigenetic Mark of Polycomb Response Elements Implemented by Trx/MLL/COMPASS.
Mol Cell. 63(2):318-328Genome-Wide Ultrabithorax Binding Analysis Reveals Highly Targeted Genomic Loci at Developmental Regulators and a Potential Connection to Polycomb-Mediated Regulation.
PLoS One. 11(8):e0161997RNA-binding profiles of Drosophila CPEB proteins Orb and Orb2.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 113(45):E7030-E7038Regulatory Enhancer-Core-Promoter Communication via Transcription Factors and Cofactors.
Trends Genet. 32(12):801-8142015
STARR-seq - principles and applications.
Genomics. 106(3):145-150Transcriptional plasticity promotes primary and acquired resistance to BET inhibition.
Nature. 525(7570):543-547The RNA-binding protein Arrest (Bruno) regulates alternative splicing to enable myofibril maturation in Drosophila flight muscle.
EMBO Rep. 16(2):178-91Transcriptional regulators form diverse groups with context-dependent regulatory functions.
Nature. 528(7580):147-51Enhancer-core-promoter specificity separates developmental and housekeeping gene regulation.
Nature. 518(7540):556-92014
Quantitative genome-wide enhancer activity maps for five Drosophila species show functional enhancer conservation and turnover during cis-regulatory evolution.
Nat Genet. 46(7):685-92Genome-scale functional characterization of Drosophila developmental enhancers in vivo.
Nature. 512(7512):91-5cis-regulatory requirements for tissue-specific programs of the circadian clock.
Curr Biol. 24(1):1-10A conserved role for Snail as a potentiator of active transcription.
Genes Dev. 28(2):167-81Transcriptional enhancers: from properties to genome-wide predictions.
Nat Rev Genet. 15(4):272-86Hormone-responsive enhancer-activity maps reveal predictive motifs, indirect repression, and targeting of closed chromatin.
Mol Cell. 54(1):180-192Dissection of thousands of cell type-specific enhancers identifies dinucleotide repeat motifs as general enhancer features.
Genome Res. 24(7):1147-562013
Genome-wide quantitative enhancer activity maps identified by STARR-seq.
Science. 339(6123):1074-7Identification of transcription factor binding sites from ChIP-seq data at high resolution.
Bioinformatics. 29(21):2705-13Drosophila Embryo Stage Annotation using Label Propagation
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). Springer. Dec:1089–1096Regulatory Genomics - Decoding Drosophila Regulatory Sequences.
Biomed Tech (Berl). 58 Suppl 1Deciphering the transcriptional cis-regulatory code.
Trends Genet. 29(1):11-222012
A histone deacetylase adjusts transcription kinetics at coding sequences during Candida albicans morphogenesis.
PLoS Genet. 8(12):e1003118HOT regions function as patterned developmental enhancers and have a distinct cis-regulatory signature.
Genes Dev. 26(9):908-13Uncovering cis-regulatory sequence requirements for context-specific transcription factor binding.
Genome Res. 22(10):2018-302011
A computational pipeline for comparative ChIP-seq analyses.
Nat Protoc. 7(1):45-61Forward and reverse genetics through derivation of haploid mouse embryonic stem cells.
Cell Stem Cell. 9(6):563-74A systematic analysis of Drosophila TUDOR domain-containing proteins identifies Vreteno and the Tdrd12 family as essential primary piRNA pathway factors.
EMBO J. 30(19):3977-93High conservation of transcription factor binding and evidence for combinatorial regulation across six Drosophila species.
Nat Genet. 43(5):414-20Neural-specific elongation of 3' UTRs during Drosophila development.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108(38):15864-9A high-resolution map of human evolutionary constraint using 29 mammals.
Nature. 478(7370):476-822010
Diverse endonucleolytic cleavage sites in the mammalian transcriptome depend upon microRNAs, Drosha, and additional nucleases.
Mol Cell. 38(6):781-8The Tasmanian devil transcriptome reveals Schwann cell origins of a clonally transmissible cancer.
Science. 327(5961):84-7Systematic genetic analysis of muscle morphogenesis and function in Drosophila.
Nature. 464(7286):287-91Developmental gene regulation in the era of genomics.
Dev Biol. 339(2):230-9Mouse MOV10L1 associates with Piwi proteins and is an essential component of the Piwi-interacting RNA (piRNA) pathway.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 107(26):11841-62009
Histone modifications at human enhancers reflect global cell-type-specific gene expression.
Nature. 459(7243):108-12Specialized piRNA pathways act in germline and somatic tissues of the Drosophila ovary.
Cell. 137(3):522-35Comparative genomics of gene regulation-conservation and divergence of cis-regulatory information.
Curr Opin Genet Dev. 19(6):565-70Accurate prediction of peptide binding sites on protein surfaces.
PLoS Comput Biol. 5(3):e1000335Loss of the Mili-interacting Tudor domain-containing protein-1 activates transposons and alters the Mili-associated small RNA profile.
Nat Struct Mol Biol. 16(6):639-46Coherent but overlapping expression of microRNAs and their targets during vertebrate development.
Genes Dev. 23(4):466-81The TDRD9-MIWI2 complex is essential for piRNA-mediated retrotransposon silencing in the mouse male germline.
Dev Cell. 17(6):775-872008
An epigenetic role for maternally inherited piRNAs in transposon silencing.
Science. 322(5906):1387-92Temporal reciprocity of miRNAs and their targets during the maternal-to-zygotic transition in Drosophila.
Curr Biol. 18(7):501-6An endogenous small interfering RNA pathway in Drosophila.
Nature. 453(7196):798-802Conservation of small RNA pathways in platypus.
Genome Res. 18(6):995-1004A single Hox locus in Drosophila produces functional microRNAs from opposite DNA strands.
Genes Dev. 22(1):8-13Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution.
Nature. 453(7192):175-832007
Discrete small RNA-generating loci as master regulators of transposon activity in Drosophila.
Cell. 128(6):1089-103Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.
Nature. 450(7167):203-18Reliable prediction of regulator targets using 12 Drosophila genomes.
Genome Res. 17(12):1919-31Evolution, biogenesis, expression, and target predictions of a substantially expanded set of Drosophila microRNAs.
Genome Res. 17(12):1850-64Systematic discovery and characterization of fly microRNAs using 12 Drosophila genomes.
Genome Res. 17(12):1865-79Discovery of functional elements in 12 Drosophila genomes using evolutionary signatures.
Nature. 450(7167):219-32RNA polymerase stalling at developmental control genes in the Drosophila melanogaster embryo.
Nat Genet. 39(12):1512-6Whole-genome ChIP-chip analysis of Dorsal, Twist, and Snail suggests integration of diverse patterning processes in the Drosophila embryo.
Genes Dev. 21(4):385-902006
mRNA degradation by miRNAs and GW182 requires both CCR4:NOT deadenylase and DCP1:DCP2 decapping complexes.
Genes Dev. 20(14):1885-98Denoising feedback loops by thresholding--a new role for microRNAs.
Genes Dev. 20(20):2769-72Genome-wide analysis of mRNAs regulated by Drosha and Argonaute proteins in Drosophila melanogaster.
Mol Cell Biol. 26(8):2965-752005
Not miR-ly muscular: microRNAs and muscle development.
Genes Dev. 19(19):2261-4Principles of microRNA-target recognition.
PLoS Biol. 3(3):e85Systematic discovery of new recognition peptides mediating protein interaction networks.
PLoS Biol. 3(12):e405Animal MicroRNAs confer robustness to gene expression and have a significant impact on 3'UTR evolution.
Cell. 123(6):1133-462004
Finding functional sites in structural genomics proteins.
Structure. 12(8):1405-122003
The relationship between sequence and interaction divergence in proteins.
J Mol Biol. 332(5):989-98Predictions without templates: new folds, secondary structure, and contacts in CASP5.
Proteins. 53 Suppl 6:436-56bantam encodes a developmentally regulated microRNA that controls cell proliferation and regulates the proapoptotic gene hid in Drosophila.
Cell. 113(1):25-36Crystal structure of an archaeal class I aldolase and the evolution of (betaalpha)8 barrel proteins.
J Biol Chem. 278(47):47253-60Identification of Drosophila MicroRNA targets.
PLoS Biol. 1(3):E60Annotation in three dimensions. PINTS: Patterns in Non-homologous Tertiary Structures.
Nucleic Acids Res. 31(13):3341-4A model for statistical significance of local similarities in structure.
J Mol Biol. 326(5):1307-162002
A dynamic structural model for estrogen receptor-alpha activation by ligands, emphasizing the role of interactions between distant A and E domains.
Mol Cell. 10(5):1019-322000
The mitochondrial permeability transition augments Fas-induced apoptosis in mouse hepatocytes.
J Biol Chem. 275(16):11814-23