Divyanshi Srivastava joins the lab

Divyanshi Srivastava, a graduate student in the MCIBS Bioinformatics & Genomics program, has joined our lab. Divyanshi has a BE in Computer Science, with an integrated MS in Biological Sciences from the Birla Institute of Technology, India. Her Master’s thesis was titled: ” Chromatin Mediated Antigenic Variation in Plasmodium falciparum“, and was carried out at the…

Lila awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Lila Rieber has been awarded a 2016 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation! This prestigiousfellowship will enable her to pursue thesis research that aims to characterize the three-dimensional organization of chromatin in high resolution. Congratulations, Lila!

Collaborative paper on the pioneer transcription factor, Foxa2, published in Molecular Cell

Our collaborative study with Ken Zaret and colleagues at University of Pennsylvania has been published. The manuscript, entitled “The pioneer transcription factor FoxA maintains an accessible nucleosome configuration at enhancers for tissue-specific gene activation“, appears in Molecular Cell. While nucleosomes are often thought to block transcription factor binding at tissue-specific enhancers, lead author Maki Iwafuchi-Doi in…

Group publication accepted to PSB 2016

Shefali Verma in our lab (co-advised with Marylyn Ritchie) has had a manuscript accepted for presentation and publication at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. The manuscript is titled “Phenome-wide interaction study (PheWIS) in AIDS clinical trials group data (ACTG)“. In this article, Shefali proposes a pipeline to identify interactions among genetic variants that are associated…

Co-authored paper published in Molecular and Cell Biology

A manuscript on which Shaun collaborated with Garam (Celine) Han and other members of Frank Pugh’s and Ross Hardison’s labs has been published. “Genome-wide organization of Gata1 and Tal1 determined at high resolution” appears in Molecular and Cell Biology. In the paper, Garam has used ChIP-exo to determine the positional organization of Gata1 and Tal1…

Collaboration with Arlotta lab published in Nature Neuroscience

A paper on which Shaun collaborated with Simona Lodato and colleagues in Paola Arlotta’s lab in Harvard University has been published in Nature Neuroscience. “Gene co-regulation by Fezf2 selects neurotransmitter identity and connectivity of corticospinal neurons” finds that Fezf2 is a selector gene that regulates the expression of gene sets that collectively define mouse corticospinal motor…