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2016-02-01 new articles we read this week

Molecular Biology

  1. Weingarten-Gabbay S, Elias-Kirma S, Nir R, Gritsenko AA, Stern-Ginossar N, Yakhini Z, Weinberger A, Segal E. Comparative genetics. Systematic discovery of cap-independent translation sequences in human and viral genomes. Science. 2016 Jan 15;351(6270). pii: aad4939. doi: 10.1126/science.aad4939. Epub 2016 Jan 14. PubMed PMID: 26816383.
  2. Bernecky C, Herzog F, Baumeister W, Plitzko JM, Cramer P. Structure of transcribing mammalian RNA polymerase II. Nature. 2016 Jan 20. doi: 10.1038/nature16482. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26789250.

Systems Biology

  1. Bartocci E, Lió P. Computational Modeling, Formal Analysis, and Tools for Systems Biology. PLoS Comput Biol. 2016 Jan 21;12(1):e1004591. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004591. eCollection 2016 Jan. Review. PubMed PMID: 26795950.

Neuroscience

  1. Oliveira RF, Simões JM, Teles MC, Oliveira CR, Becker JD, Lopes JS. Assessment of fight outcome is needed to activate socially driven transcriptional changes in the zebrafish brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Jan 19. pii: 201514292. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26787876.
  2. Randlett O, Wee CL, Naumann EA, Nnaemeka O, Schoppik D, Fitzgerald JE, Portugues R, Lacoste AM, Riegler C, Engert F, Schier AF. Whole-brain activity mapping onto a zebrafish brain atlas. Nat Methods. 2015 Nov;12(11):1039-1046. Epub 2015 Sep 14. PubMed PMID: 26778924; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4710481.
  3. Liu Z, Li X, Zhang JT, Cai YJ, Cheng TL, Cheng C, Wang Y, Zhang CC, Nie YH, Chen ZF, Bian WJ, Zhang L, Xiao J, Lu B, Zhang YF, Zhang XD, Sang X, Wu JJ, Xu X, Xiong ZQ, Zhang F, Yu X, Gong N, Zhou WH, Sun Q, Qiu Z. Autism-like behaviours and germline transmission in transgenic monkeys overexpressing MeCP2. Nature. 2016 Jan 25. doi: 10.1038/nature16533. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26808898.
  4. Dunn TW, Gebhardt C, Naumann EA, Riegler C, Ahrens MB, Engert F, Del Bene F. Neural Circuits Underlying Visually Evoked Escapes in Larval Zebrafish. Neuron. 2016 Jan 19. pii: S0896-6273(15)01123-X. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.12.021. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26804997.

Genome editing

  1. Where genome editing is needed. Nat Genet. 2016 Jan 27;48(2):103. doi: 10.1038/ng.3505. PubMed PMID: 26813758.
  2. Huang S, Weigel D, Beachy RN, Li J. A proposed regulatory framework for genome-edited crops. Nat Genet. 2016 Jan 27;48(2):109-11. doi: 10.1038/ng.3484. PubMed PMID: 26813761.
  3. Kleinstiver BP, Pattanayak V, Prew MS, Tsai SQ, Nguyen NT, Zheng Z, Joung JK. High-fidelity CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases with no detectable genome-wide off-target effects. Nature. 2016 Jan 6. doi: 10.1038/nature16526. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26735016.
  4.  Slaymaker IM, Gao L, Zetsche B, Scott DA, Yan WX, Zhang F. Rationally engineered Cas9 nucleases with improved specificity. Science. 2016 Jan 1;351(6268):84-8. doi: 10.1126/science.aad5227. Epub 2015 Dec 1. PubMed PMID: 26628643; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4714946.
  5. Urnov F. Genome editing: The domestication of Cas9. Nature. 2016 Jan 28;529(7587):468-9. doi: 10.1038/529468a. PubMed PMID: 26819037.

Eye diseases

  1. Fritsche LG, et al., A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants. Nat Genet. 2015 Dec 21. doi: 10.1038/ng.3448. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26691988.
  2. Saksens NT, Krebs MP, Schoenmaker-Koller FE, Hicks W, Yu M, Shi L, Rowe L, Collin GB, Charette JR, Letteboer SJ, Neveling K, van Moorsel TW, Abu-Ltaif S, De Baere E, Walraedt S, Banfi S, Simonelli F, Cremers FP, Boon CJ, Roepman R, Leroy BP, Peachey NS, Hoyng CB, Nishina PM, den Hollander AI. Mutations in CTNNA1 cause butterfly-shaped pigment dystrophy and perturbed retinal pigment epithelium integrity. Nat Genet. 2015 Dec 21. doi: 10.1038/ng.3474. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26691986.
  3. Bailey JN, et al., Genome-wide association analysis identifies TXNRD2, ATXN2 and FOXC1 as susceptibility loci for primary open-angle glaucoma. Nat Genet. 2016 Jan 11. doi: 10.1038/ng.3482. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26752265.

Development

  1. Rajagopal J, Stanger BZ. Plasticity in the Adult: How Should the Waddington Diagram Be Applied to Regenerating Tissues? Dev Cell. 2016 Jan 25;36(2):133-137. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.12.021. Review. PubMed PMID: 26812013.
  2. Stegmaier J, Amat F, Lemon WC, McDole K, Wan Y, Teodoro G, Mikut R, Keller PJ. Real-Time Three-Dimensional Cell Segmentation in Large-Scale Microscopy Data of Developing Embryos. Dev Cell. 2016 Jan 25;36(2):225-240. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.12.028. PubMed PMID: 26812020.
  3. Yamauchi Y, Riel JM, Ruthig VA, Ortega EA, Mitchell MJ, Ward MA. Two genes substitute for the mouse Y chromosome for spermatogenesis and reproduction. Science. 2016 Jan 29;351(6272):514-6. doi: 10.1126/science.aad1795. PubMed PMID: 26823431.
  4. Quan XJ, Yuan L, Tiberi L, Claeys A, De Geest N, Yan J, van der Kant R, Xie WR, Klisch TJ, Shymkowitz J, Rousseau F, Bollen M, Beullens M, Zoghbi HY, Vanderhaeghen P, Hassan BA. Post-translational Control of the Temporal Dynamics of Transcription Factor Activity Regulates Neurogenesis. Cell. 2016 Jan 28;164(3):460-75. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.048. PubMed PMID: 26824657.

Disease

  1. Kaufman CK, Mosimann C, Fan ZP, Yang S, Thomas AJ, Ablain J, Tan JL, Fogley RD, van Rooijen E, Hagedorn EJ, Ciarlo C, White RM, Matos DA, Puller AC, Santoriello C, Liao EC, Young RA, Zon LI. A zebrafish melanoma model reveals emergence of neural crest identity during melanoma initiation. Science. 2016 Jan 29;351(6272):aad2197. doi: 10.1126/science.aad2197. Epub 2016 Jan 28. PubMed PMID: 26823433.
 

2016-01-25 new articles we read this week

Eye diseases

  1. Bailey JN, Loomis SJ, Kang JH, Allingham RR, Gharahkhani P, Khor CC, Burdon KP, Aschard H, Chasman DI, Igo RP Jr, Hysi PG, Glastonbury CA, Ashley-Koch A, Brilliant M, Brown AA, Budenz DL, Buil A, Cheng CY, Choi H, Christen WG, Curhan G, De Vivo I, Fingert JH, Foster PJ, Fuchs C, Gaasterland D, Gaasterland T, Hewitt AW, Hu F, Hunter DJ, Khawaja AP, Lee RK, Li Z, Lichter PR, Mackey DA, McGuffin P, Mitchell P, Moroi SE, Perera SA, Pepper KW, Qi Q, Realini T, Richards JE, Ridker PM, Rimm E, Ritch R, Ritchie M, Schuman JS, Scott WK, Singh K, Sit AJ, Song YE, Tamimi RM, Topouzis F, Viswanathan AC, Verma SS, Vollrath D, Wang JJ, Weisschuh N, Wissinger B, Wollstein G, Wong TY, Yaspan BL, Zack DJ, Zhang K, Study EE; ANZRAG Consortium, Weinreb RN, Pericak-Vance MA, Small K, Hammond CJ, Aung T, Liu Y, Vithana EN, MacGregor S, Craig JE, Kraft P, Howell G, Hauser MA, Pasquale LR, Haines JL, Wiggs JL. Genome-wide association analysis identifies TXNRD2, ATXN2 and FOXC1 as susceptibility loci for primary open-angle glaucoma. Nat Genet. 2016 Jan 11. doi: 10.1038/ng.3482. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26752265.

Development

  1. Lacomme M, Tarchini B, Boudreau-Pinsonneault C, Monat C, Cayouette M. The LGN protein promotes planar proliferative divisions in the neocortex but apicobasal asymmetric terminal divisions in the retina. Development. 2016 Jan 11. pii: dev.129783. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26755700.

Genome Editing

  1. Hendriks WT, Warren CR, Cowan CA. Genome Editing in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Approaches, Pitfalls, and Solutions. Cell Stem Cell. 2016 Jan 7;18(1):53-65. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2015.12.002. Review. PubMed PMID: 26748756; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4709030.
  2. Korkmaz G, Lopes R, Ugalde AP, Nevedomskaya E, Han R, Myacheva K, Zwart W, Elkon R, Agami R. Functional genetic screens for enhancer elements in the human genome using CRISPR-Cas9. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Jan 11. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3450. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26751173.
  3. Amitai G, Sorek R. CRISPR-Cas adaptation: insights into the mechanism of action. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2016 Jan 11. doi: 10.1038/nrmicro.2015.14. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26751509.
  4. Lander ES. The Heroes of CRISPR. Cell. 2016 Jan 14;164(1-2):18-28. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.041. Review. PubMed PMID: 26771483.
  5. Wright AV, Nuñez JK, Doudna JA. Biology and Applications of CRISPR Systems: Harnessing Nature’s Toolbox for Genome Engineering. Cell. 2016 Jan 14;164(1-2):29-44. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.035. Review. PubMed PMID: 26771484.
  6. Araki M, Ishii T. Providing Appropriate Risk Information on Genome Editing for Patients. Trends Biotechnol. 2016 Feb;34(2):86-90. doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2015.12.002. PubMed PMID: 26802361.
  7. Ledford H. Bitter fight over CRISPR patent heats up. Nature. 2016 Jan 21;529(7586):265. doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.17961. PubMed PMID: 26791698.

Development

  1. Sugimura K, Lenne PF, Graner F. Measuring forces and stresses in situ in living tissues. Development. 2016 Jan 15;143(2):186-96. doi: 10.1242/dev.119776. Review. PubMed PMID: 26786209.
  2. Cembrowski MS, Bachman JL, Wang L, Sugino K, Shields BC, Spruston N. Spatial Gene-Expression Gradients Underlie Prominent Heterogeneity of CA1 Pyramidal Neurons. Neuron. 2016 Jan 13. pii: S0896-6273(15)01086-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.12.013. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26777276.

Genetics

  1. Snyder MW, Kircher M, Hill AJ, Daza RM, Shendure J. Cell-free DNA Comprises an In Vivo Nucleosome Footprint that Informs Its Tissues-Of-Origin. Cell. 2016 Jan 14;164(1-2):57-68. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.11.050. PubMed PMID: 26771485; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4715266.
  2. Khurana E, Fu Y, Chakravarty D, Demichelis F, Rubin MA, Gerstein M. Role of non-coding sequence variants in cancer. Nat Rev Genet. 2016 Jan 19. doi: 10.1038/nrg.2015.17. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26781813.
  3. Andrews KR, Good JM, Miller MR, Luikart G, Hohenlohe PA. Harnessing the power of RADseq for ecological and evolutionary genomics. Nat Rev Genet. 2016 Jan 5. doi: 10.1038/nrg.2015.28. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26729255.

Evolution

  1. Indjeian VB, Kingman GA, Jones FC, Guenther CA, Grimwood J, Schmutz J, Myers RM, Kingsley DM. Evolving New Skeletal Traits by cis-Regulatory Changes in Bone Morphogenetic Proteins. Cell. 2016 Jan 14;164(1-2):45-56. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.007. Epub 2016 Jan 7. PubMed PMID: 26774823.

Science career

My adviser’s best advice

Neuroscience

  1. Yang W, Miller JK, Carrillo-Reid L, Pnevmatikakis E, Paninski L, Yuste R, Peterka DS. Simultaneous Multi-plane Imaging of Neural Circuits. Neuron. 2016 Jan 5. pii: S0896-6273(15)01085-5. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.12.012. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26774159.
  2. Silbereis JC, Pochareddy S, Zhu Y, Li M, Sestan N. The Cellular and Molecular Landscapes of the Developing Human Central Nervous System. Neuron. 2016 Jan 20;89(2):248-68. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.12.008. Review. PubMed PMID: 26796689.

2016-01-18 new articles we read this week

Genome editing

  1. Whitworth KM, Rowland RR, Ewen CL, Trible BR, Kerrigan MA, Cino-Ozuna AG, Samuel MS, Lightner JE, McLaren DG, Mileham AJ, Wells KD, Prather RS. Gene-edited pigs are protected from porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Jan;34(1):20-2. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3434. Epub 2015 Dec 7. PubMed PMID: 26641533.
  2. Hammond A, Galizi R, Kyrou K, Simoni A, Siniscalchi C, Katsanos D, Gribble M, Baker D, Marois E, Russell S, Burt A, Windbichler N, Crisanti A, Nolan T. A CRISPR-Cas9 gene drive system targeting female reproduction in the malaria mosquito vector Anopheles gambiae. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Jan;34(1):78-83. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3439. Epub 2015 Dec 7. PubMed PMID: 26641531.
  3. Porteus MH. Towards a new era in medicine: therapeutic genome editing. Genome Biol. 2015 Dec 22;16(1):286. doi: 10.1186/s13059-015-0859-y. PubMed PMID: 26694713; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4699361.
  4. Wojtal D, Kemaladewi DU, Malam Z, Abdullah S, Wong TW, Hyatt E, Baghestani Z, Pereira S, Stavropoulos J, Mouly V, Mamchaoui K, Muntoni F, Voit T, Gonorazky HD, Dowling JJ, Wilson MD, Mendoza-Londono R, Ivakine EA, Cohn RD. Spell Checking Nature: Versatility of CRISPR/Cas9 for Developing Treatments for Inherited Disorders. Am J Hum Genet. 2016 Jan 7;98(1):90-101. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2015.11.012. Epub 2015 Dec 10. PubMed PMID: 26686765.

Genetics

  1. Browning BL, Browning SR. Genotype Imputation with Millions of Reference Samples. Am J Hum Genet. 2016 Jan 7;98(1):116-126. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2015.11.020. PubMed PMID: 26748515.
  2. Mak AC, Lai YY, Lam ET, Kwok TP, Leung AK, Poon A, Mostovoy Y, Hastie AR, Stedman W, Anantharaman T, Andrews W, Zhou X, Pang AW, Dai H, Chu C, Lin C, Wu JJ, Li CM, Li JW, Yim AK, Chan S, Sibert J, Džakula Ž, Cao H, Yiu SM, Chan TF, Yip KY, Xiao M, Kwok PY. Genome-Wide Structural Variation Detection by Genome Mapping on Nanochannel Arrays. Genetics. 2016 Jan;202(1):351-62. doi: 10.1534/genetics.115.183483. Epub 2015 Oct 28. PubMed PMID: 26510793; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4701098.

Science career

  1. Norman-Burgdolf HL, Vanderford NL. Preparing future professionals by enhancing workforce readiness. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Jan 8;34(1):111-3. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3459. PubMed PMID: 26744984.

Imaging

  1. Buckley CE, Moore RE, Reade A, Goldberg AR, Weiner OD, Clarke JD. Reversible Optogenetic Control of Subcellular Protein Localization in a Live Vertebrate Embryo. Dev Cell. 2016 Jan 11;36(1):117-26. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.12.011. PubMed PMID: 26766447.
  2. Heller D, Hoppe A, Restrepo S, Gatti L, Tournier AL, Tapon N, Basler K, Mao Y. EpiTools: An Open-Source Image Analysis Toolkit for Quantifying Epithelial Growth Dynamics. Dev Cell. 2016 Jan 11;36(1):103-16. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.12.012. PubMed PMID: 26766446.

2016-01-11 new articles we read this week

Development

  1. Eom DS, Bain EJ, Patterson LB, Grout ME, Parichy DM. Long-distance communication by specialized cellular projections during pigment pattern development and evolution. Elife. 2015 Dec 23;4. pii: e12401. doi: 10.7554/eLife.12401. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26701906.

Stem cells

  1. Shirai H, Mandai M, Matsushita K, Kuwahara A, Yonemura S, Nakano T, Assawachananont J, Kimura T, Saito K, Terasaki H, Eiraku M, Sasai Y, Takahashi M. Transplantation of human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal tissue in two primate models of retinal degeneration. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Dec 22. pii: 201512590. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26699487.

Zebrafish

  1. Stapel LC, Lombardot B, Broaddus C, Kainmueller D, Jug F, Myers EW, Vastenhouw NL. Automated detection and quantification of single RNAs at cellular resolution in zebrafish embryos. Development. 2015 Dec 23. pii: dev.128918. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26700682.

Genome editing

  1. Shmakov S, Abudayyeh OO, Makarova KS, Wolf YI, Gootenberg JS, Semenova E, Minakhin L, Joung J, Konermann S, Severinov K, Zhang F, Koonin EV. Discovery and Functional Characterization of Diverse Class 2 CRISPR-Cas Systems. Mol Cell. 2015 Nov 5;60(3):385-97. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.10.008. Epub 2015 Oct 22. PubMed PMID: 26593719; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4660269.
  2. Bolukbasi MF, Gupta A, Wolfe SA. Creating and evaluating accurate CRISPR-Cas9 scalpels for genomic surgery. Nat Methods. 2015 Dec 30;13(1):41-50. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3684. PubMed PMID: 26716561.
  3. Kleinstiver BP, Pattanayak V, Prew MS, Tsai SQ, Nguyen NT, Zheng Z, Keith Joung J. High-fidelity CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases with no detectable genome-wide off-target effects. Nature. 2016 Jan 6. doi: 10.1038/nature16526. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26735016.
  4. Dominguez AA, Lim WA, Qi LS. Beyond editing: repurposing CRISPR-Cas9 for precision genome regulation and interrogation. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2016 Jan;17(1):5-15. doi: 10.1038/nrm.2015.2. Epub 2015 Dec 16. PubMed PMID: 26670017.
  5. Tabebordbar M, Zhu K, Cheng JK, Chew WL, Widrick JJ, Yan WX, Maesner C, Wu EY, Xiao R, Ran FA, Cong L, Zhang F, Vandenberghe LH, Church GM, Wagers AJ. In vivo gene editing in dystrophic mouse muscle and muscle stem cells. Science. 2015 Dec 31. pii: aad5177. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26721686.
  6. Nelson CE, Hakim CH, Ousterout DG, Thakore PI, Moreb EA, Rivera RM, Madhavan S, Pan X, Ran FA, Yan WX, Asokan A, Zhang F, Duan D, Gersbach CA. In vivo genome editing improves muscle function in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Science. 2015 Dec 31. pii: aad5143. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26721684.
  7. Long C, Amoasii L, Mireault AA, McAnally JR, Li H, Sanchez-Ortiz E, Bhattacharyya S, Shelton JM, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN. Postnatal genome editing partially restores dystrophin expression in a mouse model of muscular dystrophy. Science. 2015 Dec 31. pii: aad5725. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26721683.

Neuroscience

  1. Paonessa F, Criscuolo S, Sacchetti S, Amoroso D, Scarongella H, Pecoraro Bisogni F, Carminati E, Pruzzo G, Maragliano L, Cesca F, Benfenati F. Regulation of neural gene transcription by optogenetic inhibition of the RE1-silencing transcription factor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Dec 23. pii: 201507355. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26699507.

Imaging

  1. Tomer R, Lovett-Barron M, Kauvar I, Andalman A, Burns VM, Sankaran S, Grosenick L, Broxton M, Yang S, Deisseroth K. SPED Light Sheet Microscopy: Fast Mapping of Biological System Structure and Function. Cell. 2015 Dec 17;163(7):1796-806. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.11.061. PubMed PMID: 26687363.


				

2016-01-04 new articles we read this week

Eye disease

  1. Fritsche LG, et al. A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants. Nat Genet. 2015 Dec 21. doi: 10.1038/ng.3448. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26691988.

Zebrafish Behaviour

  1. Prykhozhij SV, Rajan V, Berman JN. A Guide to Computational Tools and Design Strategies for Genome Editing Experiments in Zebrafish Using CRISPR/Cas9. Zebrafish. 2015 Dec 18. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26683213.
  2. Gao Y, Zhang G, Jelfs B, Carmer R, Venkatraman P, Ghadami M, Brown SA, Pang CP, Leung YF, Chan RH, Zhang M. Computational classification of different wild-type zebrafish strains based on their variation in light-induced locomotor response. Comput Biol Med. 2015 Nov 30;69:1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2015.11.012. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26688204.

Genome Editing

  1. Sakuma T, Nakade S, Sakane Y, Suzuki KT, Yamamoto T. MMEJ-assisted gene knock-in using TALENs and CRISPR-Cas9 with the PITCh systems. Nat Protoc. 2016 Jan;11(1):118-33. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2015.140. Epub 2015 Dec 17. PubMed PMID: 26678082.
  2. Lackner DH, Carré A, Guzzardo PM, Banning C, Mangena R, Henley T, Oberndorfer S, Gapp BV, Nijman SM, Brummelkamp TR, Bürckstümmer T. A generic strategy for CRISPR-Cas9-mediated gene tagging. Nat Commun. 2015 Dec 17;6:10237. doi: 10.1038/ncomms10237. PubMed PMID: 26674669.
  3. Prykhozhij SV, Rajan V, Berman JN. A Guide to Computational Tools and Design Strategies for Genome Editing Experiments in Zebrafish Using CRISPR/Cas9. Zebrafish. 2015 Dec 18. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26683213. Doudna J. Genome-editing revolution: My whirlwind year with CRISPR. Nature. 2015 Dec 24;528(7583):469-71. doi: 10.1038/528469a. PubMed PMID: 26701037.
  4. Gagnon KT, Corey DR. Stepping toward therapeutic CRISPR. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Dec 22;112(51):15536-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1521670112. Epub 2015 Dec 7. PubMed PMID: 26644585.
  5. Rahdar M, McMahon MA, Prakash TP, Swayze EE, Bennett CF, Cleveland DW. Synthetic CRISPR RNA-Cas9-guided genome editing in human cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Dec 22;112(51):E7110-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1520883112. Epub 2015 Nov 16. PubMed PMID: 26589814.

Diseases

  1. Pankow S, Bamberger C, Calzolari D, Martínez-Bartolomé S, Lavallée-Adam M, Balch WE, Yates JR 3rd. ∆F508 CFTR interactome remodelling promotes rescue of cystic fibrosis. Nature. 2015 Dec 24;528(7583):510-6. doi: 10.1038/nature15729. Epub 2015 Nov 30. PubMed PMID: 26618866.

Imaging

  1. Barna L, Dudok B, Miczán V, Horváth A, László ZI, Katona I. Correlated confocal and super-resolution imaging by VividSTORM. Nat Protoc. 2016 Jan;11(1):163-183. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2016.002. Epub 2015 Dec 30. PubMed PMID: 26716705.
  2. Murray E, Cho JH, Goodwin D, Ku T, Swaney J, Kim SY, Choi H, Park YG, Park JY, Hubbert A, McCue M, Vassallo S, Bakh N, Frosch MP, Wedeen VJ, Seung HS, Chung K. Simple, Scalable Proteomic Imaging for High-Dimensional Profiling of Intact Systems. Cell. 2015 Dec 3;163(6):1500-14. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.11.025. PubMed PMID: 26638076.
  3. Errico C, Pierre J, Pezet S, Desailly Y, Lenkei Z, Couture O, Tanter M. Ultrafast ultrasound localization microscopy for deep super-resolution vascular imaging. Nature. 2015 Nov 26;527(7579):499-502. doi: 10.1038/nature16066. PubMed PMID: 26607546.

Development

  1. Camp JG, Badsha F, Florio M, Kanton S, Gerber T, Wilsch-Bräuninger M, Lewitus E, Sykes A, Hevers W, Lancaster M, Knoblich JA, Lachmann R, Pääbo S, Huttner WB, Treutlein B. Human cerebral organoids recapitulate gene expression programs of fetal neocortex development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Dec 22;112(51):15672-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1520760112. Epub 2015 Dec 7. PubMed PMID: 26644564.


				

When you are away for Christmas 2015

Something happens to the office… just like 2012, 2013 and 2014 (office left-right flipped) …

 

Cats.. Cats… Kitties… everywhere

seriously… everywhere…

And a cute cat cushion~

 

 

2015-12-29 New articles we read this week

Genomics

  1. Blomen VA, Májek P, Jae LT, Bigenzahn JW, Nieuwenhuis J, Staring J, Sacco R, van Diemen FR, Olk N, Stukalov A, Marceau C, Janssen H, Carette JE, Bennett KL, Colinge J, Superti-Furga G, Brummelkamp TR. Gene essentiality and synthetic lethality in haploid human cells. Science. 2015 Nov 27;350(6264):1092-6. doi: 10.1126/science.aac7557. Epub 2015 Oct 15. PubMed PMID: 26472760.
  2. Wang T, Birsoy K, Hughes NW, Krupczak KM, Post Y, Wei JJ, Lander ES, Sabatini DM. Identification and characterization of essential genes in the human genome. Science. 2015 Nov 27;350(6264):1096-101. doi: 10.1126/science.aac7041. Epub 2015 Oct 15. PubMed PMID: 26472758; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4662922.
    • Commentary: Boone C, Andrews BJ. HUMAN GENOME. The indispensable genome. Science. 2015 Nov 27;350(6264):1028-9. doi: 10.1126/science.aad7925. PubMed PMID: 26612934.
  3. Hart T, Chandrashekhar M, Aregger M, Steinhart Z, Brown KR, MacLeod G, Mis M, Zimmermann M, Fradet-Turcotte A, Sun S, Mero P, Dirks P, Sidhu S, Roth FP, Rissland OS, Durocher D, Angers S, Moffat J. High-Resolution CRISPR Screens Reveal Fitness Genes and Genotype-Specific Cancer Liabilities. Cell. 2015 Nov 25. pii: S0092-8674(15)01495-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.11.015. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26627737.

Neuroscience

  1. Barker AJ, Baier H. Sensorimotor Decision Making in the Zebrafish Tectum. Curr Biol. 2015 Nov 2;25(21):2804-14. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.055. Epub 2015 Oct 22. PubMed PMID: 26592341.

Retina

  1. Lahne M, Li J, Marton RM, Hyde DR. Actin-Cytoskeleton- and Rock-Mediated INM Are Required for Photoreceptor Regeneration in the Adult Zebrafish Retina. J Neurosci. 2015 Nov 25;35(47):15612-34. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5005-14.2015. PubMed PMID: 26609156.
  2. Wilson SG, Wen W, Kastoori LP, Morris AC. Tracking the fate of her4 expressing cells in the regenerating retina using her4:Kaede zebrafish. Exp Eye Res. 2015 Nov 23. pii: S0014-4835(15)30061-0. doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2015.11.002. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26616101.
  3. Aldiri I, Ajioka I, Xu B, Zhang J, Chen X, Benavente C, Finkelstein D, Johnson D, Akiyama J, Pennacchio LA, Dyer MA. Brg1 coordinates multiple processes during retinogenesis and is a tumor suppressor in retinoblastoma. Development. 2015 Dec 1;142(23):4092-106. doi: 10.1242/dev.124800. PubMed PMID: 26628093.

Genome editing

  1. van der Oost J, Brouns SJ. CRISPR sabotage. Genome Biol. 2015 Nov 9;16(1):248. doi: 10.1186/s13059-015-0820-0. PubMed PMID: 26553202; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4638106.
  2. Kühn R, Chu VT. Pop in, pop out: a novel gene-targeting strategy for use with CRISPR-Cas9. Genome Biol. 2015 Nov 10;16(1):244. doi: 10.1186/s13059-015-0810-2. PubMed PMID: 26553112; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4640370.
  3. Xi L, Schmidt JC, Zaug AJ, Ascarrunz DR, Cech TR. A novel two-step genome editing strategy with CRISPR-Cas9 provides new insights into telomerase action and TERT gene expression. Genome Biol. 2015 Nov 10;16(1):231. doi: 10.1186/s13059-015-0791-1. PubMed PMID: 26553065; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4640169.
  4. Graham DB, Root DE. Resources for the design of CRISPR gene editing experiments. Genome Biol. 2015 Nov 27;16(1):260. doi: 10.1186/s13059-015-0823-x. PubMed PMID: 26612492; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4661947.
  5. Friedland AE, Baral R, Singhal P, Loveluck K, Shen S, Sanchez M, Marco E, Gotta GM, Maeder ML, Kennedy EM, Kornepati AV, Sousa A, Collins MA, Jayaram H, Cullen BR, Bumcrot D. Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus Cas9: a smaller Cas9 for all-in-one adeno-associated virus delivery and paired nickase applications. Genome Biol. 2015 Nov 24;16(1):257. doi: 10.1186/s13059-015-0817-8. PubMed PMID: 26596280; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4657203.

Development

  1. Briscoe J, Small S. Morphogen rules: design principles of gradient-mediated embryo patterning. Development. 2015 Dec 1;142(23):3996-4009. doi: 10.1242/dev.129452. Review. PubMed PMID: 26628090.




				

2015-12-07 New articles we read this week

Genome Editing

  1. Bolukbasi MF, Gupta A, Oikemus S, Derr AG, Garber M, Brodsky MH, Zhu LJ, Wolfe SA. DNA-binding-domain fusions enhance the targeting range and precision of Cas9. Nat Methods. 2015 Oct 19. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3624. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26480473.
  2. Thakore PI, D’Ippolito AM, Song L, Safi A, Shivakumar NK, Kabadi AM, Reddy TE, Crawford GE, Gersbach CA. Highly specific epigenome editing by CRISPR-Cas9 repressors for silencing of distal regulatory elements. Nat Methods. 2015 Oct 26. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3630. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26501517.
  3. Nature Outlook: Genome Editing

Science Career

  1. Ma A, Mondragón RJ, Latora V. Anatomy of funded research in science. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Oct 26. pii: 201513651. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26504240.
  2. Gould J. How to build a better PhD. Nature. 2015 Dec 2;528(7580):22-5. doi: 10.1038/528022a. PubMed PMID: 26632571.
  3. Make the most of PhDs. Nature. 2015 Dec 2;528(7580):7. doi: 10.1038/528007a. PubMed PMID: 26632550.

Neuroscience

  1. Nikolaou N, Meyer MP. Lamination Speeds the Functional Development of Visual Circuits. Neuron. 2015 Nov 18. pii: S0896-6273(15)00886-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.10.020. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26607001.

Medicine

  1. Pankow S, Bamberger C, Calzolari D, Martínez-Bartolomé S, Lavallée-Adam M, Balch WE, Yates JR 3rd. ∆F508 CFTR interactome remodelling promotes rescue of cystic fibrosis. Nature. 2015 Nov 30. doi: 10.1038/nature15729. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26618866.

Development

  1. Li IJ, Chang CJ, Liu SC, Abe G, Ota KG. Postembryonic staging of wild-type goldfish, with brief reference to skeletal systems. Dev Dyn. 2015 Aug 28. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.24340. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26316229.

Systems Biology

  1. Keren L, van Dijk D, Weingarten-Gabbay S, Davidi D, Jona G, Weinberger A, Milo R, Segal E. Noise in gene expression is coupled to growth rate. Genome Res. 2015 Dec;25(12):1893-902. doi: 10.1101/gr.191635.115. Epub 2015 Sep 9. PubMed PMID: 26355006.

2015-11-30 New articles we read this week

Imaging

  1. Ariotti N, Hall TE, Rae J, Ferguson C, McMahon KA, Martel N, Webb RE, Webb RI, Teasdale RD, Parton RG. Modular Detection of GFP-Labeled Proteins for Rapid Screening by Electron Microscopy in Cells and Organisms. Dev Cell. 2015 Nov 11. pii: S1534-5807(15)00681-4. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.10.016. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26585296.

Genomics

  1. Bhaduri A, Ungewickell A, Boxer LD, Lopez-Pajares V, Zarnegar BJ, Khavari PA. Network Analysis Identifies Mitochondrial Regulation of Epidermal Differentiation by MPZL3 and FDXR. Dev Cell. 2015 Nov 23;35(4):444-57. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.10.023. PubMed PMID: 26609959.
  2. Jin W, Tang Q, Wan M, Cui K, Zhang Y, Ren G, Ni B, Sklar J, Przytycka TM, Childs R, Levens D, Zhao K. Genome-wide detection of DNase I hypersensitive sites in single cells and FFPE tissue samples. Nature. 2015 Nov 25. doi: 10.1038/nature15740. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26605532.
  3. Mathieson I, Lazaridis I, Rohland N, Mallick S, Patterson N, Roodenberg SA, Harney E, Stewardson K, Fernandes D, Novak M, Sirak K, Gamba C, Jones ER, Llamas B, Dryomov S, Pickrell J, Arsuaga JL, de Castro JM, Carbonell E, Gerritsen F, Khokhlov A, Kuznetsov P, Lozano M, Meller H, Mochalov O, Moiseyev V, Guerra MA, Roodenberg J, Vergès JM, Krause J, Cooper A, Alt KW, Brown D, Anthony D, Lalueza-Fox C, Haak W, Pinhasi R, Reich D. Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians. Nature. 2015 Nov 23. doi: 10.1038/nature16152. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26595274.

Medicine

  1. Tanaka A, Nagayoshi M, Takemoto Y, Tanaka I, Kusunoki H, Watanabe S, Kuroda K, Takeda S, Ito M, Yanagimachi R. Fourteen babies born after round spermatid injection into human oocytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Nov 2. pii: 201517466. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26575628.
  2. Fischer KR, Durrans A, Lee S, Sheng J, Li F, Wong ST, Choi H, El Rayes T, Ryu S, Troeger J, Schwabe RF, Vahdat LT, Altorki NK, Mittal V, Gao D. Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition is not required for lung metastasis but contributes to chemoresistance. Nature. 2015 Nov 11. doi: 10.1038/nature15748. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26560033. Nature Reversal of phenotypes in MECP2 duplication mice using genetic rescue or antisense oligonucleotides

Neuroscience

  1. Hawrylycz M, Miller JA, Menon V, Feng D, Dolbeare T, Guillozet-Bongaarts AL, Jegga AG, Aronow BJ, Lee CK, Bernard A, Glasser MF, Dierker DL, Menche J, Szafer A, Collman F, Grange P, Berman KA, Mihalas S, Yao Z, Stewart L, Barabási AL, Schulkin J, Phillips J, Ng L, Dang C, Haynor DR, Jones A, Van Essen DC, Koch C, Lein E. Canonical genetic signatures of the adult human brain. Nat Neurosci. 2015 Nov 16. doi: 10.1038/nn.4171. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26571460.
  2. Sharma K, Schmitt S, Bergner CG, Tyanova S, Kannaiyan N, Manrique-Hoyos N, Kongi K, Cantuti L, Hanisch UK, Philips MA, Rossner MJ, Mann M, Simons M. Cell type- and brain region-resolved mouse brain proteome. Nat Neurosci. 2015 Nov 2. doi: 10.1038/nn.4160. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26523646.
  3. Rost BR, Schneider F, Grauel MK, Wozny C, G Bentz C, Blessing A, Rosenmund T, Jentsch TJ, Schmitz D, Hegemann P, Rosenmund C. Optogenetic acidification of synaptic vesicles and lysosomes. Nat Neurosci. 2015 Nov 9. doi: 10.1038/nn.4161. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26551543.

Genome editing

  1. Nuñez JK, Harrington LB, Kranzusch PJ, Engelman AN, Doudna JA. Foreign DNA capture during CRISPR-Cas adaptive immunity. Nature. 2015 Oct 21. doi: 10.1038/nature15760. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26503043.

 

2015-11-23 New articles we read … for a while

Genome editing

  1. Knight SC, Xie L, Deng W, Guglielmi B, Witkowsky LB, Bosanac L, Zhang ET, El Beheiry M, Masson JB, Dahan M, Liu Z, Doudna JA, Tjian R. Dynamics of CRISPR-Cas9 genome interrogation in living cells. Science. 2015 Nov 13;350(6262):823-6. doi: 10.1126/science.aac6572. PubMed PMID: 26564855.
  2. Kiani S, Chavez A, Tuttle M, Hall RN, Chari R, Ter-Ovanesyan D, Qian J, Pruitt BW, Beal J, Vora S, Buchthal J, Kowal EJ, Ebrahimkhani MR, Collins JJ, Weiss R, Church G. Cas9 gRNA engineering for genome editing, activation and repression. Nat Methods. 2015 Nov;12(11):1051-4. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3580. Epub 2015 Sep 7. PubMed PMID: 26344044.
  3. Reardon S. Leukaemia success heralds wave of gene-editing therapies. Nature. 2015 Nov 12;527(7577):146-7. doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.18737. PubMed PMID: 26560278.
  4. Mathews DJ, Lovell-Badge R, Chan S, Donovan PJ, Douglas T, Gyngell C, Harris J, Regenberg A. CRISPR: A path through the thicket. Nature. 2015 Nov 12;527(7577):159-61. doi: 10.1038/527159a. PubMed PMID: 26560284.
  5. Canver MC, Smith EC, Sher F, Pinello L, Sanjana NE, Shalem O, Chen DD, Schupp PG, Vinjamur DS, Garcia SP, Luc S, Kurita R, Nakamura Y, Fujiwara Y, Maeda T, Yuan GC, Zhang F, Orkin SH, Bauer DE. BCL11A enhancer dissection by Cas9-mediated in situ saturating mutagenesis. Nature. 2015 Sep 16.
  6. Weber J, Öllinger R, Friedrich M, Ehmer U, Barenboim M, Steiger K, Heid I, Mueller S, Maresch R, Engleitner T, Gross N, Geumann U, Fu B, Segler A, Yuan D, Lange S, Strong A, de la Rosa J, Esposito I, Liu P, Cadiñanos J, Vassiliou GS, Schmid RM, Schneider G, Unger K, Yang F, Braren R, Heikenwälder M, Varela I, Saur D, Bradley A, Rad R. CRISPR/Cas9 somatic multiplex-mutagenesis for high-throughput functional cancer genomics in mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Oct 27. pii: 201512392. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26508638.
  7. Carroll D, Charo RA. The societal opportunities and challenges of genome editing. Genome Biol. 2015 Nov 5;16(1):242.
  8. Ma E, Harrington LB, O’Connell MR, Zhou K, Doudna JA. Single-Stranded DNA Cleavage by Divergent CRISPR-Cas9 Enzymes. Mol Cell. 2015 Nov 5;60(3):398-407.
  9. Zetsche B, Gootenberg JS, Abudayyeh OO, Slaymaker IM, Makarova KS,
    Essletzbichler P, Volz SE, Joung J, van der Oost J, Regev A, Koonin EV, Zhang F.  Cpf1 Is a Single RNA-Guided Endonuclease of a Class 2 CRISPR-Cas System. Cell. 2015 Sep 23. pii: S0092-8674(15)01200-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.038. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26422227.
  10. Carrington B, Varshney GK, Burgess SM, Sood R. CRISPR-STAT: an easy and reliable PCR-based method to evaluate target-specific sgRNA activity. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 Aug 7. pii: gkv802. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26253739.
  11. Varshney GK, Pei W, LaFave MC, Idol J, Xu L, Gallardo V, Carrington B, Bishop K, Jones M, Li M, Harper U, Huang SC, Prakash A, Chen W, Sood R, Ledin J, Burgess SM. High-throughput gene targeting and phenotyping in zebrafish using CRISPR/Cas9. Genome Res. 2015 Jul;25(7):1030-42. doi: 10.1101/gr.186379.114. Epub 2015 Jun 5. PubMed PMID: 26048245; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4484386.
  12. Bachu R, Bergareche I, Chasin LA. CRISPR-Cas targeted plasmid integration into mammalian cells via non-homologous end joining. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2015 May 5. doi: 10.1002/bit.25629. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25943095.

Genomics

  1. Grün D, van Oudenaarden A. Design and Analysis of Single-Cell Sequencing Experiments. Cell. 2015 Nov 5;163(4):799-810. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.10.039. Review. PubMed PMID: 26544934.
  2. Duttke SH, Lacadie SA, Ibrahim MM, Glass CK, Corcoran DL, Benner C, Heinz S, Kadonaga JT, Ohler U. Human promoters are intrinsically directional. Mol Cell. 2015 Feb 19;57(4):674-84.
  3. Spisák S, Lawrenson K, Fu Y, Csabai I, Cottman RT, Seo JH, Haiman C, Han Y, Lenci R, Li Q, Tisza V, Szállási Z, Herbert ZT, Chabot M, Pomerantz M, Solymosi N; GAME-ON/ELLIPSE Consortium, Gayther SA, Joung JK, Freedman ML. CAUSEL: an epigenome- and genome-editing pipeline for establishing function of noncoding GWAS variants. Nat Med. 2015 Sep 23. doi: 10.1038/nm.3975. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26398868.
  4. Sudmant PH, Rausch T, Gardner EJ, Handsaker RE, Abyzov A, Huddleston J, Zhang Y, Ye K, Jun G, Hsi-Yang Fritz M, Konkel MK, Malhotra A, Stütz AM, Shi X, Paolo Casale F, Chen J, Hormozdiari F, Dayama G, Chen K, Malig M, Chaisson MJ, Walter K, Meiers S, Kashin S, Garrison E, Auton A, Lam HY, Jasmine Mu X, Alkan C, Antaki D, Bae T, Cerveira E, Chines P, Chong Z, Clarke L, Dal E, Ding L, Emery S, Fan X, Gujral M, Kahveci F, Kidd JM, Kong Y, Lameijer EW, McCarthy S, Flicek P, Gibbs RA, Marth G, Mason CE, Menelaou A, Muzny DM, Nelson BJ, Noor A, Parrish NF, Pendleton M, Quitadamo A, Raeder B, Schadt EE, Romanovitch M, Schlattl A, Sebra R, Shabalin AA, Untergasser A, Walker JA, Wang M, Yu F, Zhang C, Zhang J, Zheng-Bradley X, Zhou W, Zichner T, Sebat J, Batzer MA, McCarroll SA; 1000 Genomes Project Consortium, Mills RE, Gerstein MB, Bashir A, Stegle O, Devine SE, Lee C, Eichler EE, Korbel JO. An integrated map of structural variation in 2,504 human genomes. Nature. 2015 Oct 1;526(7571):75-81. doi: 10.1038/nature15394.PubMed PMID: 26432246; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4617611.
  5. Cho MK. Preventive Genomic Sequencing in the General Population: Do PGS Fly? Am J Bioeth. 2015 Jul;15(7):1-2. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2015.1054160. PubMed PMID: 26147253.

Science Magazine Special Issue—Hunting Mutations, Targeting Disease

Statistics

  1. Lo A, Chernoff H, Zheng T, Lo SH. Why significant variables aren’t automatically good predictors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Oct 26. pii:201518285. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26504198.

Development

  1. Barsi JC, Tu Q, Calestani C, Davidson EH. Genome-wide assessment of differential effector gene use in embryogenesis. Development. 2015 Sep 28. pii: dev.127746. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26417044.
  2. Siklenka K, Erkek S, Godmann M, Lambrot R, McGraw S, Lafleur C, Cohen T, Xia J, Suderman M, Hallett M, Trasler J, Peters AH, Kimmins S. Disruption of histone methylation in developing sperm impairs offspring health transgenerationally. Science. 2015 Nov 6;350(6261):aab2006. doi: 10.1126/science.aab2006. Epub 2015 Oct 8. PubMed PMID: 26449473.

Stem cells

  1. Choi J, Lee S, Mallard W, Clement K, Tagliazucchi GM, Lim H, Choi IY, Ferrari F, Tsankov AM, Pop R, Lee G, Rinn JL, Meissner A, Park PJ, Hochedlinger K. A comparison of genetically matched cell lines reveals the equivalence of human iPSCs and ESCs. Nat Biotechnol. 2015 Nov;33(11):1173-1181.
  2. Firth AL, Menon T, Parker GS, Qualls SJ, Lewis BM, Ke E, Dargitz CT, Wright R, Khanna A, Gage FH, Verma IM. Functional Gene Correction for Cystic Fibrosis in Lung Epithelial Cells Generated from Patient iPSCs. Cell Rep. 2015 Aug 19. pii: S2211-1247(15)00852-9. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.07.062. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26299960.

Regeneration

  1. Ueki Y, Wilken MS, Cox KE, Chipman L, Jorstad N, Sternhagen K, Simic M, Ullom K, Nakafuku M, Reh TA. Transgenic expression of the proneural transcription factor Ascl1 in Müller glia stimulates retinal regeneration in young mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Oct 19. pii: 201510595. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26483457.

Retina/Photoreceptor

  1. Taylor SM, Alvarez-Delfin K, Saade CJ, Thomas JL, Thummel R, Fadool JM, Hitchcock PF. The bHLH Transcription Factor NeuroD Governs  Photoreceptor Genesis and Regeneration Through Delta-Notch Signaling. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2015 Nov 1;56(12):7496-7515.
  2. Hernández-Bejarano M, Gestri G, Spawls L, Nieto-López F, Picker A, Tada M, Brand M, Bovolenta P, Wilson SW, Cavodeassi F. Opposing Shh and Fgf signals initiate nasotemporal patterning of the retina. Development. 2015 Oct 1. pii: dev.125120. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26428010.
  3. Tsujimura T, Masuda R, Ashino R, Kawamura S. Spatially differentiated
    expression of quadruplicated green-sensitive RH2 opsin genes in zebrafish is determined by proximal regulatory regions and gene order to the locus control region. BMC Genet. 2015 Nov 4;16(1):130.
  4. Boije H, Rulands S, Dudczig S, Simons BD, Harris WA. The Independent
    Probabilistic Firing of Transcription Factors: A Paradigm for Clonal Variability in the Zebrafish Retina. Dev Cell. 2015 Sep 2. pii: S1534-5807(15)00525-0.
  5. Chow RW, Almeida AD, Randlett O, Norden C, Harris WA. Inhibitory neuron migration and IPL formation in the developing zebrafish retina. Development. 2015 Jun 26. pii: dev.122473. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26116662.
  6. Ogawa Y, Shiraki T, Kojima D, Fukada Y. Homeobox transcription factor Six7 governs expression of green opsin genes in zebrafish. Proc Biol Sci. 2015 Aug 7;282(1812). pii: 20150659. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0659. PubMed PMID: 26180064.

Eye disease

  1. Zhao L, Chen XJ, Zhu J, Xi YB, Yang X, Hu LD, Ouyang H, Patel SH, Jin X, Lin D, Wu F, Flagg K, Cai H, Li G, Cao G, Lin Y, Chen D, Wen C, Chung C, Wang Y, Qiu A, Yeh E, Wang W, Hu X, Grob S, Abagyan R, Su Z, Tjondro HC, Zhao XJ, Luo H, Hou R, Perry JJ, Gao W, Kozak I, Granet D, Li Y, Sun X, Wang J, Zhang L, Liu Y, Yan YB, Zhang K. Lanosterol reverses protein aggregation in cataracts. Nature. 2015 Jul 30;523(7562):607-11. doi: 10.1038/nature14650. Epub 2015 Jul 22. Erratum in:  Nature. 2015 Oct 22;526(7574):595. PubMed PMID: 26200341.
  2. Makley LN, McMenimen KA, DeVree BT, Goldman JW, McGlasson BN, Rajagopal P, Dunyak BM, McQuade TJ, Thompson AD, Sunahara R, Klevit RE, Andley UP, Gestwicki JE. Pharmacological chaperone for α-crystallin partially restores transparency in cataract models. Science. 2015 Nov 6;350(6261):674-7. doi: 10.1126/science.aac9145. PubMed PMID: 26542570.
  3. Commentary: Quinlan RA. DRUG DISCOVERY. A new dawn for cataracts. Science. 2015 Nov 6;350(6261):636-7. doi: 10.1126/science.aad6303. PubMed PMID: 26542559.

Zebrafish

  1. Xu C, Volkery S, Siekmann AF. Intubation-based anesthesia for long-term time-lapse imaging of adult zebrafish. Nat Protoc. 2015 Dec;10(12):2064-2073.
  2. Pauli A, Montague TG, Lennox KA, Behlke MA, Schier AF. Antisense Oligonucleotide-Mediated Transcript Knockdown in Zebrafish. PLoS One. 2015 Oct 5;10(10):e0139504. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139504. eCollection 2015. PubMed PMID: 26436892; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4593562.

Research Career

  1. Jackson ST. Going where the science matters. Science. 2015 Oct
    30;350(6260):594. doi: 10.1126/science.350.6260.594. PubMed PMID: 26516284.

Medicine

  1. Henao-Restrepo AM, Longini IM, Egger M, Dean NE, Edmunds WJ, Camacho A, Carroll MW, Doumbia M, Draguez B, Duraffour S, Enwere G, Grais R, Gunther S, Hossmann S, Kondé MK, Kone S, Kuisma E, Levine MM, Mandal S, Norheim G, Riveros X, Soumah A, Trelle S, Vicari AS, Watson CH, Kéïta S, Kieny MP, Røttingen JA. Efficacy and effectiveness of an rVSV-vectored vaccine expressing Ebola surface glycoprotein: interim results from the Guinea ring vaccination cluster-randomised trial. Lancet. 2015 Aug 29;386(9996):857-66. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)61117-5. Epub 2015 Aug 3. PubMed PMID: 26248676.