Leung Lab Blog

Genomics

1. Shen SQ, Myers CA, Hughes AE, Byrne LC, Flannery JG, Corbo JC. Massively parallel cis-regulatory analysis in the mammalian central nervous system. Genome Res. 2016 Feb;26(2):238-55. doi: 10.1101/gr.193789.115. Epub 2015 Nov 17. PubMed PMID: 26576614.
2. Quick J, et al., . Real-time, portable genome sequencing for Ebola surveillance. Nature. 2016 Feb 3. doi: 10.1038/nature16996. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26840485.

Neuroscience

1. Ishiko N, Huberman AD. Life goes by: a visual circuit signals perceptual-motor mismatch. Nat Neurosci. 2016 Jan 27;19(2):177-9. doi: 10.1038/nn.4233. PubMed PMID: 26814584.
2. Tasic B, Menon V, Nguyen TN, Kim TK, Jarsky T, Yao Z, Levi B, Gray LT, Sorensen SA, Dolbeare T, Bertagnolli D, Goldy J, Shapovalova N, Parry S, Lee C, Smith K, Bernard A, Madisen L, Sunkin SM, Hawrylycz M, Koch C, Zeng H. Adult mouse cortical cell taxonomy revealed by single cell transcriptomics. Nat Neurosci. 2016 Feb;19(2):335-46. doi: 10.1038/nn.4216. Epub 2016 Jan 4. PubMed PMID: 26727548.
3. Chen HH, Arlotta P. Seq-ing the cortex one neuron at a time. Nat Neurosci. 2016 Jan 27;19(2):179-81. doi: 10.1038/nn.4230. PubMed PMID: 26814585.
4. Johnson MR, Shkura K, Langley SR, Delahaye-Duriez A, Srivastava P, Hill WD, Rackham OJ, Davies G, Harris SE, Moreno-Moral A, Rotival M, Speed D, Petrovski S, Katz A, Hayward C, Porteous DJ, Smith BH, Padmanabhan S, Hocking LJ, Starr JM, Liewald DC, Visconti A, Falchi M, Bottolo L, Rossetti T, Danis B, Mazzuferi M, Foerch P, Grote A, Helmstaedter C, Becker AJ, Kaminski RM, Deary IJ, Petretto E. Systems genetics identifies a convergent gene network for cognition and neurodevelopmental disease. Nat Neurosci. 2016 Feb;19(2):223-32. doi: 10.1038/nn.4205. Epub 2015 Dec 21. PubMed PMID: 26691832.
5. Yoshimatsu T, D’Orazi FD, Gamlin CR, Suzuki SC, Suli A, Kimelman D, Raible DW, Wong RO. Presynaptic partner selection during retinal circuit reassembly varies with timing of neuronal regeneration in vivo. Nat Commun. 2016 Feb 3;7:10590. doi: 10.1038/ncomms10590. PubMed PMID: 26838932.
6. Hoffman EJ, Turner KJ, Fernandez JM, Cifuentes D, Ghosh M, Ijaz S, Jain RA, Kubo F, Bill BR, Baier H, Granato M, Barresi MJ, Wilson SW, Rihel J, State MW, Giraldez AJ. Estrogens Suppress a Behavioral Phenotype in Zebrafish Mutants of the Autism Risk Gene, CNTNAP2. Neuron. 2016 Jan 27. pii: S0896-6273(15)01167-8. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.12.039. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26833134.

Development

1. Rister J, Razzaq A, Boodram P, Desai N, Tsanis C, Chen H, Jukam D, Desplan C. Single-base pair differences in a shared motif determine differential Rhodopsin expression. Science. 2015 Dec 4;350(6265):1258-61. doi: 10.1126/science.aab3417. PubMed PMID: 26785491.

Genome editing

1. Farasat I, Salis HM. A Biophysical Model of CRISPR/Cas9 Activity for Rational Design of Genome Editing and Gene Regulation. PLoS Comput Biol. 2016 Jan 29;12(1):e1004724. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004724. eCollection 2016 Jan. PubMed PMID: 26824432.
2.  Song J, Yang D, Xu J, Zhu T, Chen YE, Zhang J. RS-1 enhances CRISPR/Cas9- and TALEN-mediated knock-in efficiency. Nat Commun. 2016 Jan 28;7:10548. doi: 10.1038/ncomms10548. PubMed PMID: 26817820.
3. Jiang F, Taylor DW, Chen JS, Kornfeld JE, Zhou K, Thompson AJ, Nogales E, Doudna JA. Structures of a CRISPR-Cas9 R-loop complex primed for DNA cleavage. Science. 2016 Jan 14. pii: aad8282. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26841432.
4.  Jusiak B, Cleto S, Perez-Piñera P, Lu TK. Engineering Synthetic Gene Circuits in Living Cells with CRISPR Technology. Trends Biotechnol. 2016 Jan 22. pii: S0167-7799(15)00274-7. doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2015.12.014. [Epub ahead of print] Review. PubMed PMID: 26809780.