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Alexander Stark

The regulation of gene expression in response to developmental or environmental stimuli is a crucial mechanism in all organisms. We are fascinated by the question how transcription is regulated at the level of enhancer and core-promoter DNA elements, and the transcription factor and cofactor proteins that mediate transcription activation. We use genome-wide functional assays, bioinformatics, and mass-spectrometry; and develop highly-controllable reporter assays that provide direct functional readouts. Our goal is to understand transcription and – ultimately – how transcriptional networks define cellular and developmental programs.

Publications

2026

Chen, S., Loubiere, V., Hollingsworth, EW., Murakami, K., Mandlburger, N., Jacinto, SH., Dizehchi, A., Schreiber, J., Kvon, EZ., Stark, A. (2026)

Predictive design of tissue-specific mammalian enhancers that function in the mouse embryo.

Nat Genet. 58(9):2129-2133

2025

Chen, S., Loubiere, V., Hollingsworth, EW., Jacinto, SH., Dizehchi, A., Schreiber, J., Kvon, EZ., Stark, A. (2025)

Predictive design of tissue-specific mammalian enhancers that function in vivo in the mouse embryo.

bioRxiv.
Pachano, T., Leng, H., Dugied, G., Tribble, T., Loubiere, V., Rauh, F., Lee, Y., Schleiffer, A., Young, V., Weller, B., Lyons, EA., Hass, MR., Kottayan, LC., Weirauch, MT., Fuxman Bass, JI., Newton, HJ., Ensminger, AW., Braun, PF., Schramek, D., Stark, A., Taipale, M. (2025)

Systematic Discovery of Pathogen Effector Functions across Human Pathogens and Pathways.

bioRxiv.
Nemčko, F., Stark, A. (2025)

A tighter grip on gene expression.

Science. 389(6755):31-32
Thomas, HF., Feng, S., Haslhofer, F., Huber, M., García Gallardo, M., Loubiere, V., Vanina, D., Pitasi, M., Stark, A., Buecker, C. (2025)

Enhancer cooperativity can compensate for loss of activity over large genomic distances.

Mol Cell. 85(2):362-375.e9

2024

Hofbauer, L., Pleyer, LM., Reiter, F., Schleiffer, A., Vlasova, A., Serebreni, L., Huang, A., Stark, A. (2024)

A genome-wide screen identifies silencers with distinct chromatin properties and mechanisms of repression.

Mol Cell. 84(23):4503-4521.e14
Nemčko, F., Himmelsbach, M., Loubiere, V., Yelagandula, R., Pagani, M., Fasching, N., Brennecke, J., Elling, U., Stark, A., Ameres, SL. (2024)

Proteome-scale tagging and functional screening in mammalian cells by ORFtag.

Nat Methods.
Frank, O., Balboa, DA., Novatchkova, M., Özkan, E., Strobl, MM., Yelagandula, R., Albanese, TG., Endler, L., Amman, F., Felsenstein, V., Gavrilovic, M., Acosta, M., Patocka, T., Vogt, A., Tamir, I., Klikovits, J., Zoufaly, A., Seitz, T., Födinger, M., Bergthaler, A., Indra, A., Schmid, D., Klimek, P., Stark, A., Allerberger, F., Benka, B., Reich, K., Cochella, L., Elling, U. (2024)

Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 evolution by a centralised pipeline and weekly focused sequencing, Austria, January 2021 to March 2023.

Euro Surveill. 29(23)
de Almeida, BP., Schaub, C., Pagani, M., Secchia, S., Furlong, EEM., Stark, A. (2024)

Targeted design of synthetic enhancers for selected tissues in the Drosophila embryo.

Nature. 626(7997):207-211

2023

Jacobs, J., Pagani, M., Wenzl, C., Stark, A. (2023)

Widespread regulatory specificities between transcriptional co-repressors and enhancers in Drosophila.

Science. 381(6654):198-204
Chan, YC., Kienle, E., Oti, M., Di Liddo, A., Mendez-Lago, M., Aschauer, DF., Peter, M., Pagani, M., Arnold, C., Vonderheit, A., Schön, C., Kreuz, S., Stark, A., Rumpel, S. (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):6745
Serebreni, L., Pleyer, LM., Haberle, V., Hendy, O., Vlasova, A., Loubiere, V., Nemčko, F., Bergauer, K., Roitinger, E., Mechtler, K., Stark, A. (2023)

Functionally distinct promoter classes initiate transcription via different mechanisms reflected in focused versus dispersed initiation patterns.

EMBO J. :e113519
Klaus, L., de Almeida, BP., Vlasova, A., Nemčko, F., Schleiffer, A., Bergauer, K., Hofbauer, L., Rath, M., Stark, A. (2023)

Systematic identification and characterization of repressive domains in Drosophila transcription factors.

EMBO J. 42(3):e112100

2022

Hendy, O., Serebreni, L., Bergauer, K., Muerdter, F., Huber, L., Nemčko, F., Stark, A. (2022)

Developmental and housekeeping transcriptional programs in Drosophila require distinct chromatin remodelers.

Mol Cell. 82(19):3598-3612.e7
Neumayr, C., Haberle, V., Serebreni, L., Karner, K., Hendy, O., Boija, A., Henninger, JE., Li, CH., Stejskal, K., Lin, G., Bergauer, K., Pagani, M., Rath, M., Mechtler, K., Arnold, CD., Stark, A. (2022)

Differential cofactor dependencies define distinct types of human enhancers.

Nature. 606(7913):406-413
de Almeida, BP., Reiter, F., Pagani, M., Stark, A. (2022)

DeepSTARR predicts enhancer activity from DNA sequence and enables the de novo design of synthetic enhancers.

Nat Genet. 54(5):613-624
Nemčko, F., Stark, A. (2022)

Proteome-scale identification of transcriptional activators in human cells.

Mol Cell. 82(3):497-499

2021

Appel, LM., Franke, V., Bruno, M., Grishkovskaya, I., Kasiliauskaite, A., Kaufmann, T., Schoeberl, UE., Puchinger, MG., Kostrhon, S., Ebenwaldner, C., Sebesta, M., Beltzung, E., Mechtler, K., Lin, G., Vlasova, A., Leeb, M., Pavri, R., Stark, A., Akalin, A., Stefl, R., Bernecky, C., Djinovic-Carugo, K., Slade, D. (2021)

PHF3 regulates neuronal gene expression through the Pol II CTD reader domain SPOC.

Nat Commun. 12(1):6078
Yelagandula, R., Bykov, A., Vogt, A., Heinen, R., Özkan, E., Strobl, MM., Baar, JC., Uzunova, K., Hajdusits, B., Kordic, D., Suljic, E., Kurtovic-Kozaric, A., Izetbegovic, S., Schaeffer, J., Hufnagl, P., Zoufaly, A., Seitz, T., Födinger, M., Allerberger, F., Stark, A., Cochella, L., Elling, U. (2021)

Multiplexed detection of SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory infections in high throughput by SARSeq.

Nat Commun. 12(1):3132

2019

Neumayr, C., Pagani, M., Stark, A., Arnold, CD. (2019)

STARR-seq and UMI-STARR-seq: Assessing Enhancer Activities for Genome-Wide-, High-, and Low-Complexity Candidate Libraries.

Curr Protoc Mol Biol. 128(1):e105

2016

Stepien, BK., Oppitz, C., Gerlach, D., Dag, U., Novatchkova, M., Krüttner, S., Stark, A., Keleman, K. (2016)

RNA-binding profiles of Drosophila CPEB proteins Orb and Orb2.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 113(45):E7030-E7038

2013

Stark, A. (2013)

Regulatory Genomics - Decoding Drosophila Regulatory Sequences.

Biomed Tech (Berl). 58 Suppl 1

2019

Haberle, V., Arnold, CD., Pagani, M., Rath, M., Schernhuber, K., Stark, A. (2019)

Transcriptional cofactors display specificity for distinct types of core promoters.

Nature. 570(7759):122-126

2018

Haberle, V., Stark, A. (2018)

Eukaryotic core promoters and the functional basis of transcription initiation.

Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 19(10):621-637
Muerdter, F., Boryń, ŁM., Woodfin, AR., Neumayr, C., Rath, M., Zabidi, MA., Pagani, M., Haberle, V., Kazmar, T., Catarino, RR., Schernhuber, K., Arnold, CD., Stark, A. (2018)

Resolving systematic errors in widely used enhancer activity assays in human cells.

Nat Methods. 15(2):141-149
Arnold, CD., Nemčko, F., Woodfin, AR., Wienerroither, S., Vlasova, A., Schleiffer, A., Pagani, M., Rath, M., Stark, A. (2018)

A high-throughput method to identify trans-activation domains within transcription factor sequences.

EMBO J. 37(16)

2016

Muerdter, F., Stark, A. (2016)

Gene Regulation: Activation through Space.

Curr Biol. 26(19):R895-R898

2017

Elling, U., Wimmer, RA., Leibbrandt, A., Burkard, T., Michlits, G., Leopoldi, A., Micheler, T., Abdeen, D., Zhuk, S., Aspalter, IM., Handl, C., Liebergesell, J., Hubmann, M., Husa, AM., Kinzer, M., Schuller, N., Wetzel, E., van de Loo, N., Martinez, JAZ., Estoppey, D., Riedl, R., Yang, F., Fu, B., Dechat, T., Ivics, Z., Agu, CA., Bell, O., Blaas, D., Gerhardt, H., Hoepfner, D., Stark, A., Penninger, JM. (2017)

A reversible haploid mouse embryonic stem cell biobank resource for functional genomics.

Nature. 550(7674):114-118
Reiter, F., Wienerroither, S., Stark, A. (2017)

Combinatorial function of transcription factors and cofactors.

Curr Opin Genet Dev. 43:73-81

2016

Zabidi, MA., Stark, A. (2016)

Regulatory Enhancer-Core-Promoter Communication via Transcription Factors and Cofactors.

Trends Genet. 32(12):801-814

2017

Catarino, RR., Neumayr, C., Stark, A. (2017)

Promoting transcription over long distances.

Nat Genet. 49(7):972-973

2016

Rickels, R., Hu, D., Collings, CK., Woodfin, AR., Piunti, A., Mohan, M., Herz, HM., Kvon, E., Shilatifard, A. (2016)

An Evolutionary Conserved Epigenetic Mark of Polycomb Response Elements Implemented by Trx/MLL/COMPASS.

Mol Cell. 63(2):318-328

2017

Arnold, CD., Zabidi, MA., Pagani, M., Rath, M., Schernhuber, K., Kazmar, T., Stark, A. (2017)

Genome-wide assessment of sequence-intrinsic enhancer responsiveness at single-base-pair resolution.

Nat Biotechnol. 35(2):136-144
Franz, A., Shlyueva, D., Brunner, E., Stark, A., Basler, K. (2017)

Probing the canonicity of the Wnt/Wingless signaling pathway.

PLoS Genet. 13(4):e1006700

2015

Muerdter, F., Boryń, ŁM., Arnold, CD. (2015)

STARR-seq - principles and applications.

Genomics. 106(3):145-150
Stampfel, G., Kazmar, T., Frank, O., Wienerroither, S., Reiter, F., Stark, A. (2015)

Transcriptional regulators form diverse groups with context-dependent regulatory functions.

Nature. 528(7580):147-51
Haberle, V., Stark, A. (2015)

Coordinating the human looks.

Cell. 163(1):24-6
Spletter, ML., Barz, C., Yeroslaviz, A., Schönbauer, C., Ferreira, IR., Sarov, M., Gerlach, D., Stark, A., Habermann, BH., Schnorrer, F. (2015)

The RNA-binding protein Arrest (Bruno) regulates alternative splicing to enable myofibril maturation in Drosophila flight muscle.

EMBO Rep. 16(2):178-91
Rathert, P., Roth, M., Neumann, T., Muerdter, F., Roe, JS., Muhar, M., Deswal, S., Cerny-Reiterer, S., Peter, B., Jude, J., Hoffmann, T., Boryń, ŁM., Axelsson, E., Schweifer, N., Tontsch-Grunt, U., Dow, LE., Gianni, D., Pearson, M., Valent, P., Stark, A., Kraut, N., Vakoc, CR., Zuber, J. (2015)

Transcriptional plasticity promotes primary and acquired resistance to BET inhibition.

Nature. 525(7570):543-547
Zabidi, MA., Arnold, CD., Schernhuber, K., Pagani, M., Rath, M., Frank, O., Stark, A. (2015)

Enhancer-core-promoter specificity separates developmental and housekeeping gene regulation.

Nature. 518(7540):556-9

2014

Yáñez-Cuna, JO., Arnold, CD., Stampfel, G., Boryń, LM., Gerlach, D., Rath, M., Stark, A. (2014)

Dissection of thousands of cell type-specific enhancers identifies dinucleotide repeat motifs as general enhancer features.

Genome Res. 24(7):1147-56
Muerdter, F., Stark, A. (2014)

Genomics: Hiding in plain sight.

Nature. 512(7515):374-5
Kvon, EZ., Kazmar, T., Stampfel, G., Yáñez-Cuna, JO., Pagani, M., Schernhuber, K., Dickson, BJ., Stark, A. (2014)

Genome-scale functional characterization of Drosophila developmental enhancers in vivo.

Nature. 512(7512):91-5
Arnold, CD., Gerlach, D., Spies, D., Matts, JA., Sytnikova, YA., Pagani, M., Lau, NC., Stark, A. (2014)

Quantitative genome-wide enhancer activity maps for five Drosophila species show functional enhancer conservation and turnover during cis-regulatory evolution.

Nat Genet. 46(7):685-92
Meireles-Filho, ACA., Bardet, AF., Yáñez-Cuna, JO., Stampfel, G., Stark, A. (2014)

cis-regulatory requirements for tissue-specific programs of the circadian clock.

Curr Biol. 24(1):1-10
Shlyueva, D., Stelzer, C., Gerlach, D., Yáñez-Cuna, JO., Rath, M., Boryń, ŁM., Arnold, CD., Stark, A. (2014)

Hormone-responsive enhancer-activity maps reveal predictive motifs, indirect repression, and targeting of closed chromatin.

Mol Cell. 54(1):180-192
Shlyueva, D., Stampfel, G., Stark, A. (2014)

Transcriptional enhancers: from properties to genome-wide predictions.

Nat Rev Genet. 15(4):272-86

2013

Bardet, AF., Steinmann, J., Bafna, S., Knoblich, JA., Zeitlinger, J., Stark, A. (2013)

Identification of transcription factor binding sites from ChIP-seq data at high resolution.

Bioinformatics. 29(21):2705-13

2014

Rembold, M., Ciglar, L., Yáñez-Cuna, JO., Zinzen, RP., Girardot, C., Jain, A., Welte, MA., Stark, A., Leptin, M., Furlong, EE. (2014)

A conserved role for Snail as a potentiator of active transcription.

Genes Dev. 28(2):167-81

2013

Yáñez-Cuna, JO., Kvon, EZ., Stark, A. (2013)

Deciphering the transcriptional cis-regulatory code.

Trends Genet. 29(1):11-22

2012

Hnisz, D., Bardet, AF., Nobile, CJ., Petryshyn, A., Glaser, W., Schöck, U., Stark, A., Kuchler, K. (2012)

A histone deacetylase adjusts transcription kinetics at coding sequences during Candida albicans morphogenesis.

PLoS Genet. 8(12):e1003118

2013

Arnold, CD., Gerlach, D., Stelzer, C., Boryń, ŁM., Rath, M., Stark, A. (2013)

Genome-wide quantitative enhancer activity maps identified by STARR-seq.

Science. 339(6123):1074-7

2012

Yáñez-Cuna, JO., Dinh, HQ., Kvon, EZ., Shlyueva, D., Stark, A. (2012)

Uncovering cis-regulatory sequence requirements for context-specific transcription factor binding.

Genome Res. 22(10):2018-30
Kvon, EZ., Stampfel, G., Yáñez-Cuna, JO., Dickson, BJ., Stark, A. (2012)

HOT regions function as patterned developmental enhancers and have a distinct cis-regulatory signature.

Genes Dev. 26(9):908-13

2011

Bardet, AF., He, Q., Zeitlinger, J., Stark, A. (2011)

A computational pipeline for comparative ChIP-seq analyses.

Nat Protoc. 7(1):45-61
Elling, U., Taubenschmid, J., Wirnsberger, G., O'Malley, R., Demers, SP., Vanhaelen, Q., Shukalyuk, AI., Schmauss, G., Schramek, D., Schnuetgen, F., von Melchner, H., Ecker, JR., Stanford, WL., Zuber, J., Stark, A., Penninger, JM. (2011)

Forward and reverse genetics through derivation of haploid mouse embryonic stem cells.

Cell Stem Cell. 9(6):563-74
Lindblad-Toh, K., Garber, M., Zuk, O., Lin, MF., Parker, BJ., Washietl, S., Kheradpour, P., Ernst, J., Jordan, G., Mauceli, E., Ward, LD., Lowe, CB., Holloway, AK., Clamp, M., Gnerre, S., Alföldi, J., Beal, K., Chang, J., Clawson, H., Cuff, J., Di Palma, F., Fitzgerald, S., Flicek, P., Guttman, M., Hubisz, MJ., Jaffe, DB., Jungreis, I., Kent, WJ., Kostka, D., Lara, M., Martins, AL., Massingham, T., Moltke, I., Raney, BJ., Rasmussen, MD., Robinson, J., Stark, A., Vilella, AJ., Wen, J., Xie, X., Zody, MC., Baldwin, J., Bloom, T., Chin, CW., Heiman, D., Nicol, R., Nusbaum, C., Young, S., Wilkinson, J., Worley, KC., Kovar, CL., Muzny, DM., Gibbs, RA., Cree, A., Dihn, HH., Fowler, G., Jhangiani, S., Joshi, V., Lee, S., Lewis, LR., Nazareth, LV., Okwuonu, G., Santibanez, J., Warren, WC., Mardis, ER., Weinstock, GM., Wilson, RK., Delehaunty, K., Dooling, D., Fronik, C., Fulton, L., Fulton, B., Graves, T., Minx, P., Sodergren, E., Birney, E., Margulies, EH., Herrero, J., Green, ED., Haussler, D., Siepel, A., Goldman, N., Pollard, KS., Pedersen, JS., Lander, ES., Kellis, M. (2011)

A high-resolution map of human evolutionary constraint using 29 mammals.

Nature. 478(7370):476-82
Handler, D., Olivieri, D., Novatchkova, M., Gruber, FS., Meixner, K., Mechtler, K., Stark, A., Sachidanandam, R., Brennecke, J. (2011)

A systematic analysis of Drosophila TUDOR domain-containing proteins identifies Vreteno and the Tdrd12 family as essential primary piRNA pathway factors.

EMBO J. 30(19):3977-93
Hilgers, V., Perry, MW., Hendrix, D., Stark, A., Levine, M., Haley, B. (2011)

Neural-specific elongation of 3' UTRs during Drosophila development.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108(38):15864-9
He, Q., Bardet, AF., Patton, B., Purvis, J., Johnston, J., Paulson, A., Gogol, M., Stark, A., Zeitlinger, J. (2011)

High conservation of transcription factor binding and evidence for combinatorial regulation across six Drosophila species.

Nat Genet. 43(5):414-20

2010

Zheng, K., Xiol, J., Reuter, M., Eckardt, S., Leu, NA., McLaughlin, KJ., Stark, A., Sachidanandam, R., Pillai, RS., Wang, PJ. (2010)

Mouse 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):11841-6
Karginov, FV., Cheloufi, S., Chong, MM., Stark, A., Smith, AD., Hannon, GJ. (2010)

Diverse endonucleolytic cleavage sites in the mammalian transcriptome depend upon microRNAs, Drosha, and additional nucleases.

Mol Cell. 38(6):781-8
Zeitlinger, J., Stark, A. (2010)

Developmental gene regulation in the era of genomics.

Dev Biol. 339(2):230-9

2009

Stark, A. (2009)

Learning the transcriptional regulatory code.

Mol Syst Biol. 5:329

2010

Schnorrer, F., Schönbauer, C., Langer, CC., Dietzl, G., Novatchkova, M., Schernhuber, K., Fellner, M., Azaryan, A., Radolf, M., Stark, A., Keleman, K., Dickson, BJ. (2010)

Systematic genetic analysis of muscle morphogenesis and function in Drosophila.

Nature. 464(7286):287-91

2009

Meireles-Filho, AC., Stark, A. (2009)

Comparative genomics of gene regulation-conservation and divergence of cis-regulatory information.

Curr Opin Genet Dev. 19(6):565-70
Shoji, M., Tanaka, T., Hosokawa, M., Reuter, M., Stark, A., Kato, Y., Kondoh, G., Okawa, K., Chujo, T., Suzuki, T., Hata, K., Martin, SL., Noce, T., Kuramochi-Miyagawa, S., Nakano, T., Sasaki, H., Pillai, RS., Nakatsuji, N., Chuma, S. (2009)

The TDRD9-MIWI2 complex is essential for piRNA-mediated retrotransposon silencing in the mouse male germline.

Dev Cell. 17(6):775-87

2010

Murchison, EP., Tovar, C., Hsu, A., Bender, HS., Kheradpour, P., Rebbeck, CA., Obendorf, D., Conlan, C., Bahlo, M., Blizzard, CA., Pyecroft, S., Kreiss, A., Kellis, M., Stark, A., Harkins, TT., Marshall Graves, JA., Woods, GM., Hannon, GJ., Papenfuss, AT. (2010)

The Tasmanian devil transcriptome reveals Schwann cell origins of a clonally transmissible cancer.

Science. 327(5961):84-7

2009

Reuter, M., Chuma, S., Tanaka, T., Franz, T., Stark, A., Pillai, RS. (2009)

Loss 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):639-46
Malone, CD., Brennecke, J., Dus, M., Stark, A., McCombie, WR., Sachidanandam, R., Hannon, GJ. (2009)

Specialized piRNA pathways act in germline and somatic tissues of the Drosophila ovary.

Cell. 137(3):522-35
Heintzman, ND., Hon, GC., Hawkins, RD., Kheradpour, P., Stark, A., Harp, LF., Ye, Z., Lee, LK., Stuart, RK., Ching, CW., Ching, KA., Antosiewicz-Bourget, JE., Liu, H., Zhang, X., Green, RD., Lobanenkov, VV., Stewart, R., Thomson, JA., Crawford, GE., Kellis, M., Ren, B. (2009)

Histone modifications at human enhancers reflect global cell-type-specific gene expression.

Nature. 459(7243):108-12
Petsalaki, E., Stark, A., García-Urdiales, E., Russell, RB. (2009)

Accurate prediction of peptide binding sites on protein surfaces.

PLoS Comput Biol. 5(3):e1000335
Shkumatava, A., Stark, A., Sive, H., Bartel, DP. (2009)

Coherent but overlapping expression of microRNAs and their targets during vertebrate development.

Genes Dev. 23(4):466-81

2008

Brennecke, J., Malone, CD., Aravin, AA., Sachidanandam, R., Stark, A., Hannon, GJ. (2008)

An epigenetic role for maternally inherited piRNAs in transposon silencing.

Science. 322(5906):1387-92
Bushati, N., Stark, A., Brennecke, J., Cohen, SM. (2008)

Temporal reciprocity of miRNAs and their targets during the maternal-to-zygotic transition in Drosophila.

Curr Biol. 18(7):501-6
Murchison, EP., Kheradpour, P., Sachidanandam, R., Smith, C., Hodges, E., Xuan, Z., Kellis, M., Grützner, F., Stark, A., Hannon, GJ. (2008)

Conservation of small RNA pathways in platypus.

Genome Res. 18(6):995-1004
Czech, B., Malone, CD., Zhou, R., Stark, A., Schlingeheyde, C., Dus, M., Perrimon, N., Kellis, M., Wohlschlegel, JA., Sachidanandam, R., Hannon, GJ., Brennecke, J. (2008)

An endogenous small interfering RNA pathway in Drosophila.

Nature. 453(7196):798-802
Warren, WC., Hillier, LW., Marshall Graves, JA., Birney, E., Ponting, CP., Grützner, F., Belov, K., Miller, W., Clarke, L., Chinwalla, AT., Yang, SP., Heger, A., Locke, DP., Miethke, P., Waters, PD., Veyrunes, F., Fulton, L., Fulton, B., Graves, T., Wallis, J., Puente, XS., López-Otín, C., Ordóñez, GR., Eichler, EE., Chen, L., Cheng, Z., Deakin, JE., Alsop, A., Thompson, K., Kirby, P., Papenfuss, AT., Wakefield, MJ., Olender, T., Lancet, D., Huttley, GA., Smit, AF., Pask, A., Temple-Smith, P., Batzer, MA., Walker, JA., Konkel, MK., Harris, RS., Whittington, CM., Wong, ES., Gemmell, NJ., Buschiazzo, E., Vargas Jentzsch, IM., Merkel, A., Schmitz, J., Zemann, A., Churakov, G., Kriegs, JO., Brosius, J., Murchison, EP., Sachidanandam, R., Smith, C., Hannon, GJ., Tsend-Ayush, E., McMillan, D., Attenborough, R., Rens, W., Ferguson-Smith, M., Lefèvre, CM., Sharp, JA., Nicholas, KR., Ray, DA., Kube, M., Reinhardt, R., Pringle, TH., Taylor, J., Jones, RC., Nixon, B., Dacheux, JL., Niwa, H., Sekita, Y., Huang, X., Stark, A., Kheradpour, P., Kellis, M., Flicek, P., Chen, Y., Webber, C., Hardison, R., Nelson, J., Hallsworth-Pepin, K., Delehaunty, K., Markovic, C., Minx, P., Feng, Y., Kremitzki, C., Mitreva, M., Glasscock, J., Wylie, T., Wohldmann, P., Thiru, P., Nhan, MN., Pohl, CS., Smith, SM., Hou, S., Nefedov, M., de Jong, PJ., Renfree, MB., Mardis, ER., Wilson, RK. (2008)

Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution.

Nature. 453(7192):175-83
Stark, A., Bushati, N., Jan, CH., Kheradpour, P., Hodges, E., Brennecke, J., Bartel, DP., Cohen, SM., Kellis, M. (2008)

A single Hox locus in Drosophila produces functional microRNAs from opposite DNA strands.

Genes Dev. 22(1):8-13

2007

Kheradpour, P., Stark, A., Roy, S., Kellis, M. (2007)

Reliable prediction of regulator targets using 12 Drosophila genomes.

Genome Res. 17(12):1919-31
Stark, A., Kheradpour, P., Parts, L., Brennecke, J., Hodges, E., Hannon, GJ., Kellis, M. (2007)

Systematic discovery and characterization of fly microRNAs using 12 Drosophila genomes.

Genome Res. 17(12):1865-79
Ruby, JG., Stark, A., Johnston, WK., Kellis, M., Bartel, DP., Lai, EC. (2007)

Evolution, biogenesis, expression, and target predictions of a substantially expanded set of Drosophila microRNAs.

Genome Res. 17(12):1850-64
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(2007)

Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.

Nature. 450(7167):203-18
Stark, A., Lin, MF., Kheradpour, P., Pedersen, JS., Parts, L., Carlson, JW., Crosby, MA., Rasmussen, MD., Roy, S., Deoras, AN., Ruby, JG., Brennecke, J., Hodges, E., Hinrichs, AS., Caspi, A., Paten, B., Park, SW., Han, MV., Maeder, ML., Polansky, BJ., Robson, BE., Aerts, S., van Helden, J., Hassan, B., Gilbert, DG., Eastman, DA., Rice, M., Weir, M., Hahn, MW., Park, Y., Dewey, CN., Pachter, L., Kent, WJ., Haussler, D., Lai, EC., Bartel, DP., Hannon, GJ., Kaufman, TC., Eisen, MB., Clark, AG., Smith, D., Celniker, SE., Gelbart, WM., Kellis, M. (2007)

Discovery of functional elements in 12 Drosophila genomes using evolutionary signatures.

Nature. 450(7167):219-32
Zeitlinger, J., Stark, A., Kellis, M., Hong, JW., Nechaev, S., Adelman, K., Levine, M., Young, RA. (2007)

RNA polymerase stalling at developmental control genes in the Drosophila melanogaster embryo.

Nat Genet. 39(12):1512-6
Brennecke, J., Aravin, AA., Stark, A., Dus, M., Kellis, M., Sachidanandam, R., Hannon, GJ. (2007)

Discrete small RNA-generating loci as master regulators of transposon activity in Drosophila.

Cell. 128(6):1089-103
Zeitlinger, J., Zinzen, RP., Stark, A., Kellis, M., Zhang, H., Young, RA., Levine, M. (2007)

Whole-genome ChIP-chip analysis of Dorsal, Twist, and Snail suggests integration of diverse patterning processes in the Drosophila embryo.

Genes Dev. 21(4):385-90

2005

Neduva, V., Linding, R., Su-Angrand, I., Stark, A., de Masi, F., Gibson, TJ., Lewis, J., Serrano, L., Russell, RB. (2005)

Systematic discovery of new recognition peptides mediating protein interaction networks.

PLoS Biol. 3(12):e405

2006

Cohen, SM., Brennecke, J., Stark, A. (2006)

Denoising feedback loops by thresholding--a new role for microRNAs.

Genes Dev. 20(20):2769-72
Behm-Ansmant, I., Rehwinkel, J., Doerks, T., Stark, A., Bork, P., Izaurralde, E. (2006)

mRNA degradation by miRNAs and GW182 requires both CCR4:NOT deadenylase and DCP1:DCP2 decapping complexes.

Genes Dev. 20(14):1885-98
Rehwinkel, J., Natalin, P., Stark, A., Brennecke, J., Cohen, SM., Izaurralde, E. (2006)

Genome-wide analysis of mRNAs regulated by Drosha and Argonaute proteins in Drosophila melanogaster.

Mol Cell Biol. 26(8):2965-75

2005

Brennecke, J., Stark, A., Russell, RB., Cohen, SM. (2005)

Principles of microRNA-target recognition.

PLoS Biol. 3(3):e85
Stark, A., Brennecke, J., Bushati, N., Russell, RB., Cohen, SM. (2005)

Animal MicroRNAs confer robustness to gene expression and have a significant impact on 3'UTR evolution.

Cell. 123(6):1133-46

2003

Stark, A., Brennecke, J., Russell, RB., Cohen, SM. (2003)

Identification of Drosophila MicroRNA targets.

PLoS Biol. 1(3):E60

2005

Brennecke, J., Stark, A., Cohen, SM. (2005)

Not miR-ly muscular: microRNAs and muscle development.

Genes Dev. 19(19):2261-4

2004

Stark, A., Shkumatov, A., Russell, RB. (2004)

Finding functional sites in structural genomics proteins.

Structure. 12(8):1405-12

2003

Lorentzen, E., Pohl, E., Zwart, P., Stark, A., Russell, RB., Knura, T., Hensel, R., Siebers, B. (2003)

Crystal structure of an archaeal class I aldolase and the evolution of (betaalpha)8 barrel proteins.

J Biol Chem. 278(47):47253-60
Aloy, P., Stark, A., Hadley, C., Russell, RB. (2003)

Predictions without templates: new folds, secondary structure, and contacts in CASP5.

Proteins. 53 Suppl 6:436-56
Aloy, P., Ceulemans, H., Stark, A., Russell, RB. (2003)

The relationship between sequence and interaction divergence in proteins.

J Mol Biol. 332(5):989-98
Stark, A., Russell, RB. (2003)

Annotation in three dimensions. PINTS: Patterns in Non-homologous Tertiary Structures.

Nucleic Acids Res. 31(13):3341-4
Stark, A., Sunyaev, S., Russell, RB. (2003)

A model for statistical significance of local similarities in structure.

J Mol Biol. 326(5):1307-16

2002

Métivier, R., Stark, A., Flouriot, G., Hübner, MR., Brand, H., Penot, G., Manu, D., Denger, S., Reid, G., Kos, M., Russell, RB., Kah, O., Pakdel, F., Gannon, F. (2002)

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):1019-32

2000

Hatano, E., Bradham, CA., Stark, A., Iimuro, Y., Lemasters, JJ., Brenner, DA. (2000)

The mitochondrial permeability transition augments Fas-induced apoptosis in mouse hepatocytes.

J Biol Chem. 275(16):11814-23

2013

Kazmar, T., Kvon EZ., Stark, A., Lampert, CH.. (2013)

Drosophila Embryo Stage Annotation using Label Propagation

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). Springer. Dec:1089–1096