Publications
2025
Enhancer cooperativity can compensate for loss of activity over large genomic distances.
Mol Cell. 85(2):362-375.e9Predictive design of tissue-specific mammalian enhancers that function in vivo in the mouse embryo.
bioRxiv.Systematic Discovery of Pathogen Effector Functions across Human Pathogens and Pathways.
bioRxiv.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.A genome-wide screen identifies silencers with distinct chromatin properties and mechanisms of repression.
Mol Cell. 84(23):4503-4521.e14Developmental and housekeeping transcriptional programs display distinct modes of enhancer-enhancer cooperativity in Drosophila.
Nat Commun. 15(1):85842023
Systematic 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. :e113519Widespread regulatory specificities between transcriptional co-repressors and enhancers in Drosophila.
Science. 381(6654):198-204An unbiased AAV-STARR-seq screen revealing the enhancer activity map of genomic regions in the mouse brain in vivo.
Sci Rep. 13(1):67452022
Differential cofactor dependencies define distinct types of human enhancers.
Nature. 606(7913):406-413DeepSTARR predicts enhancer activity from DNA sequence and enables the de novo design of synthetic enhancers.
Nat Genet. 54(5):613-624Proteome-scale identification of transcriptional activators in human cells.
Mol Cell. 82(3):497-499Developmental and housekeeping transcriptional programs in Drosophila require distinct chromatin remodelers.
Mol Cell. 82(19):3598-3612.e72021
Insights 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):3132PHF3 regulates neuronal gene expression through the Pol II CTD reader domain SPOC.
Nat Commun. 12(1):60782019
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
Resolving systematic errors in widely used enhancer activity assays in human cells.
Nat Methods. 15(2):141-149Assessing sufficiency and necessity of enhancer activities for gene expression and the mechanisms of transcription activation.
Genes Dev. 32(3-4):202-223A high-throughput method to identify trans-activation domains within transcription factor sequences.
EMBO J. 37(16)Eukaryotic core promoters and the functional basis of transcription initiation.
Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 19(10):621-6372017
Genome-wide assessment of sequence-intrinsic enhancer responsiveness at single-base-pair resolution.
Nat Biotechnol. 35(2):136-144Combinatorial function of transcription factors and cofactors.
Curr Opin Genet Dev. 43:73-81Probing the canonicity of the Wnt/Wingless signaling pathway.
PLoS Genet. 13(4):e1006700A reversible haploid mouse embryonic stem cell biobank resource for functional genomics.
Nature. 550(7674):114-118Promoting transcription over long distances.
Nat Genet. 49(7):972-9732016
Gene Regulation: Activation through Space.
Curr Biol. 26(19):R895-R898Genome-Wide Ultrabithorax Binding Analysis Reveals Highly Targeted Genomic Loci at Developmental Regulators and a Potential Connection to Polycomb-Mediated Regulation.
PLoS One. 11(8):e0161997Regulatory Enhancer-Core-Promoter Communication via Transcription Factors and Cofactors.
Trends Genet. 32(12):801-814An Evolutionary Conserved Epigenetic Mark of Polycomb Response Elements Implemented by Trx/MLL/COMPASS.
Mol Cell. 63(2):318-328RNA-binding profiles of Drosophila CPEB proteins Orb and Orb2.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 113(45):E7030-E70382015
Transcriptional plasticity promotes primary and acquired resistance to BET inhibition.
Nature. 525(7570):543-547STARR-seq - principles and applications.
Genomics. 106(3):145-150The RNA-binding protein Arrest (Bruno) regulates alternative splicing to enable myofibril maturation in Drosophila flight muscle.
EMBO Rep. 16(2):178-91Enhancer-core-promoter specificity separates developmental and housekeeping gene regulation.
Nature. 518(7540):556-9Transcriptional regulators form diverse groups with context-dependent regulatory functions.
Nature. 528(7580):147-512014
cis-regulatory requirements for tissue-specific programs of the circadian clock.
Curr Biol. 24(1):1-10Transcriptional enhancers: from properties to genome-wide predictions.
Nat Rev Genet. 15(4):272-86Quantitative genome-wide enhancer activity maps for five Drosophila species show functional enhancer conservation and turnover during cis-regulatory evolution.
Nat Genet. 46(7):685-92Hormone-responsive enhancer-activity maps reveal predictive motifs, indirect repression, and targeting of closed chromatin.
Mol Cell. 54(1):180-192A conserved role for Snail as a potentiator of active transcription.
Genes Dev. 28(2):167-81Dissection of thousands of cell type-specific enhancers identifies dinucleotide repeat motifs as general enhancer features.
Genome Res. 24(7):1147-56Genome-scale functional characterization of Drosophila developmental enhancers in vivo.
Nature. 512(7512):91-52013
Deciphering the transcriptional cis-regulatory code.
Trends Genet. 29(1):11-22Genome-wide quantitative enhancer activity maps identified by STARR-seq.
Science. 339(6123):1074-7Drosophila Embryo Stage Annotation using Label Propagation
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). Springer. Dec:1089–1096Identification of transcription factor binding sites from ChIP-seq data at high resolution.
Bioinformatics. 29(21):2705-13Regulatory Genomics - Decoding Drosophila Regulatory Sequences.
Biomed Tech (Berl). 58 Suppl 12012
HOT 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):2018-30A histone deacetylase adjusts transcription kinetics at coding sequences during Candida albicans morphogenesis.
PLoS Genet. 8(12):e10031182011
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):3977-93A high-resolution map of human evolutionary constraint using 29 mammals.
Nature. 478(7370):476-82Neural-specific elongation of 3' UTRs during Drosophila development.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108(38):15864-9Forward and reverse genetics through derivation of haploid mouse embryonic stem cells.
Cell Stem Cell. 9(6):563-74A computational pipeline for comparative ChIP-seq analyses.
Nat Protoc. 7(1):45-61High conservation of transcription factor binding and evidence for combinatorial regulation across six Drosophila species.
Nat Genet. 43(5):414-202010
The 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):11841-6Diverse endonucleolytic cleavage sites in the mammalian transcriptome depend upon microRNAs, Drosha, and additional nucleases.
Mol Cell. 38(6):781-82009
Coherent but overlapping expression of microRNAs and their targets during vertebrate development.
Genes Dev. 23(4):466-81Loss 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):639-46Specialized piRNA pathways act in germline and somatic tissues of the Drosophila ovary.
Cell. 137(3):522-35Accurate prediction of peptide binding sites on protein surfaces.
PLoS Comput Biol. 5(3):e1000335Histone modifications at human enhancers reflect global cell-type-specific gene expression.
Nature. 459(7243):108-12Comparative genomics of gene regulation-conservation and divergence of cis-regulatory information.
Curr Opin Genet Dev. 19(6):565-70The TDRD9-MIWI2 complex is essential for piRNA-mediated retrotransposon silencing in the mouse male germline.
Dev Cell. 17(6):775-872008
Conservation of small RNA pathways in platypus.
Genome Res. 18(6):995-1004Temporal reciprocity of miRNAs and their targets during the maternal-to-zygotic transition in Drosophila.
Curr Biol. 18(7):501-6Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution.
Nature. 453(7192):175-83An endogenous small interfering RNA pathway in Drosophila.
Nature. 453(7196):798-802An epigenetic role for maternally inherited piRNAs in transposon silencing.
Science. 322(5906):1387-92A single Hox locus in Drosophila produces functional microRNAs from opposite DNA strands.
Genes Dev. 22(1):8-132007
Evolution, 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):1512-6Discrete small RNA-generating loci as master regulators of transposon activity in Drosophila.
Cell. 128(6):1089-103Whole-genome ChIP-chip analysis of Dorsal, Twist, and Snail suggests integration of diverse patterning processes in the Drosophila embryo.
Genes Dev. 21(4):385-90Reliable prediction of regulator targets using 12 Drosophila genomes.
Genome Res. 17(12):1919-31Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.
Nature. 450(7167):203-182006
Denoising feedback loops by thresholding--a new role for microRNAs.
Genes Dev. 20(20):2769-72mRNA degradation by miRNAs and GW182 requires both CCR4:NOT deadenylase and DCP1:DCP2 decapping complexes.
Genes Dev. 20(14):1885-98Genome-wide analysis of mRNAs regulated by Drosha and Argonaute proteins in Drosophila melanogaster.
Mol Cell Biol. 26(8):2965-752005
Principles of microRNA-target recognition.
PLoS Biol. 3(3):e85Animal MicroRNAs confer robustness to gene expression and have a significant impact on 3'UTR evolution.
Cell. 123(6):1133-46Not miR-ly muscular: microRNAs and muscle development.
Genes Dev. 19(19):2261-4Systematic discovery of new recognition peptides mediating protein interaction networks.
PLoS Biol. 3(12):e4052004
Finding functional sites in structural genomics proteins.
Structure. 12(8):1405-122003
Annotation in three dimensions. PINTS: Patterns in Non-homologous Tertiary Structures.
Nucleic Acids Res. 31(13):3341-4Identification of Drosophila MicroRNA targets.
PLoS Biol. 1(3):E60bantam 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):47253-60A model for statistical significance of local similarities in structure.
J Mol Biol. 326(5):1307-16The 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 6:436-562002
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