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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.

2015-07-12 Articles we read this week

Population Genetics

  1. Balaresque P, Poulet N, Cussat-Blanc S, Gerard P, Quintana-Murci L, Heyer E, Jobling MA. Y-chromosome descent clusters and male differential reproductive success: young lineage expansions dominate Asian pastoral nomadic populations. Eur J Hum Genet. 2015 Jan 14. doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2014.285. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25585703.

Evolution

  1. Head JJ, Polly PD. Evolution of the snake body form reveals homoplasy in amniote Hox gene function. Nature. 2015 Jan 5. doi: 10.1038/nature14042. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25539083.
  2. Lewis SL, Maslin MA. Defining the anthropocene. Nature. 2015 Mar 12;519(7542):171-80. doi: 10.1038/nature14258. PubMed PMID: 25762280.

Research Career

  1. 10 things not enough kids know before going to college
  2. Powell K. The future of the postdoc. Nature. 2015 Apr 9;520(7546):144-7. doi: 10.1038/520144a. PubMed PMID: 25855437.
  3. Will declining funding stunt scientific discovery in the U.S.?
  4. Who Picks Up the Tab for Science?

Imaging

  1. Chen F, Tillberg PW, Boyden ES. Optical imaging. Expansion microscopy. Science. 2015 Jan 30;347(6221):543-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1260088. Epub 2015 Jan 15. PubMed PMID: 25592419; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4312537.

Medicine

  1. Leinenga G, Götz J. Scanning ultrasound removes amyloid-β and restores memory in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. Sci Transl Med. 2015 Mar 11;7(278):278ra33. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa2512. PubMed PMID: 25761889.
    1. New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function
  2. Kawchuk GN, Fryer J, Jaremko JL, Zeng H, Rowe L, Thompson R. Real-time visualization of joint cavitation. PLoS One. 2015 Apr 15;10(4):e0119470. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119470. eCollection 2015. PubMed PMID: 25875374; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4398549.
  3. Ganna A, Ingelsson E. 5 year mortality predictors in 498 103 UK Biobank participants: a prospective population-based study. Lancet. 2015 Jun 2. pii: S0140-6736(15)60175-1. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60175-1. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26049253.

Medicine/Prosthetics

  1. Men have hands amputated and replaced with bionic ones
  2. Lab In Berkeley Accidentally Discovers Solution To Fix Color Blindness

Chemistry

  1. This Chemistry 3D Printer Can Synthesize Molecules From Scratch

Genomics

  1. Ji X, Dadon DB, Abraham BJ, Lee TI, Jaenisch R, Bradner JE, Young RA. Chromatin proteomic profiling reveals novel proteins associated with histone-marked genomic regions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Mar 9. pii: 201502971. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25755260.
  2. Chen KH, Boettiger AN, Moffitt JR, Wang S, Zhuang X. Spatially resolved, highly multiplexed RNA profiling in single cells. Science. 2015 Apr 9. pii: aaa6090. PubMed PMID: 25858977.

General

  1. Baden T, Chagas AM, Gage G, Marzullo T, Prieto-Godino LL, Euler T. Open labware: 3-d printing your own lab equipment. PLoS Biol. 2015 Mar 20;13(3):e1002086. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002086. eCollection 2015 Mar. PubMed PMID: 25794301.

Development

  1. Campbell PD, Chao JA, Singer RH, Marlow FL. Dynamic visualization of transcription and RNA subcellular localization in zebrafish. Development. 2015 Mar 10. pii: dev.118968. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25758462.
  2. Green JB, Sharpe J. Positional information and reaction-diffusion: two big ideas in developmental biology combine. Development. 2015 Apr 1;142(7):1203-1211. Review. PubMed PMID: 25804733.
  3. Wu F, Kaczynski TJ, Sethuramanujam S, Li R, Jain V, Slaughter M, Mu X. Two transcription factors, Pou4f2 and Isl1, are sufficient to specify the retinal ganglion cell fate. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Mar 16. pii: 201421535. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25775587.
  4. Nern A, Pfeiffer BD, Rubin GM. Optimized tools for multicolor stochastic labeling reveal diverse stereotyped cell arrangements in the fly visual system.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 May 11. pii: 201506763. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25964354.

Neuroscience

  1. Lichtman JW, Pfister H, Shavit N. The big data challenges of connectomics. Nat Neurosci. 2014 Nov;17(11):1448-54. doi: 10.1038/nn.3837. Epub 2014 Oct 28. Review. PubMed PMID: 25349911.
  2. Hayworth KJ, Xu CS, Lu Z, Knott GW, Fetter RD, Tapia JC, Lichtman JW, Hess HF.
    Ultrastructurally smooth thick partitioning and volume stitching for large-scale connectomics. Nat Methods. 2015 Apr;12(4):319-22. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3292. Epub 2015 Feb 16. PubMed PMID: 25686390; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4382383.
  3. Madabhushi R, Gao F, Pfenning AR, Pan L, Yamakawa S, Seo J, Rueda R, Phan TX, Yamakawa H, Pao PC, Stott RT, Gjoneska E, Nott A, Cho S, Kellis M, Tsai LH. Activity-Induced DNA Breaks Govern the Expression of Neuronal Early-Response Genes. Cell. 2015 Jun 18;161(7):1592-605. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.05.032. Epub 2015 Jun 4. PubMed PMID: 26052046.

Genetics/Genome Editing

  1. Yin L, Maddison LA, Li M, Kara N, LaFave MC, Varshney GK, Burgess SM, Patton JG, Chen W. Multiplex Conditional Mutagenesis Using Transgenic Expression of Cas9 and sgRNAs. Genetics. 2015 Apr 8. pii: genetics.115.176917. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25855067.
  2. Gonzales AP, Yeh JR. Cas9-based genome editing in zebrafish. Methods Enzymol. 2014;546:377-413. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-801185-0.00018-0. PubMed PMID: 25398350.
  3. Shah AN, Davey CF, Whitebirch AC, Miller AC, Moens CB. Rapid reverse genetic screening using CRISPR in zebrafish. Nat Methods. 2015 Jun;12(6):535-40. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3360. Epub 2015 Apr 13. PubMed PMID: 25867848.
  4. Dow LE, Fisher J, O’Rourke KP, Muley A, Kastenhuber ER, Livshits G, Tschaharganeh DF, Socci ND, Lowe SW. Inducible in vivo genome editing with CRISPR-Cas9. Nat Biotechnol. 2015 Apr;33(4):390-4. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3155. Epub 2015 Feb 18. PubMed PMID: 25690852; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4390466.

A random afternoon in the lab…

2015 The Thirteenth Annual USA Biology Olympiad National Finals

Prahatha Venkatraman and Yuk Fai Leung led a Development and Disease Research Lab section in the 13th USA Biology Olympiad Finals at Purdue University and shared our lab research on eye drug discovery using the zebrafish model. The students also learned essential basic skills for zebrafish research.

 

 

 

 

 

Leung Lab @ ARVO 2015

Prahatha Venkatraman and Yuk Fai Leung attended the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) in Denver, CO, from 5/3 5/7.

ARVO 2015

ARVO 2015

Prahatha presented a poster entitled “Understanding the contribution of photoreceptors to the visual motor response”.

Prahatha and Fai

Prahatha presenting her poster to colleagues, including Dr. Stephan Neuhauss on the left.

Lue Xiang, a former visiting scholar in the laboratory, also attended the meeting and presented a poster entitled “Charaterization of a retinitis pigmentosa gene slc7a14 in zebrafish by expression analysis and targeted deletion with CRISPR-Cas”.

Lue

Leung Lab @ 2015 Purdue Spring Fest

Lilly Hall of Science; 2015 Purdue Spring Fest

Prahatha Venkatraman showing the way to measure fish vision to a future scientist.

Martian Tian explaining how to use zebrafish for eye disease research to the Lafayette community.

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Leung Lab attended the 130th Annual Academy Meeting for the Indiana Academy of Science

On 3/21, several lab members attended the 130th Annual Academy Meeting for the Indiana Academy of Science. The participants were: Meng She, Zain Abedali, Martin Tian, Ryan Wyer, Sylvia Bonilla, Prahatha Venkatraman and Yuk Fai Leung. Meng, Zain and Martin presented a poster of their undergraduate research work under the supervision of graduate students Sylvia and Prahatha. Here are a few pictures of the event.

Leung Lab and Dr. Chris Sahley at the IAS Annual Meeting.

Leung Lab the selfie style!

Martin Tian

Martin presenting his work.

Zain Abedali

Zain presenting his work.

Meng She

Meng presenting her poster.

Undergraduate students: Meng, Zain, Ryan Wyer, and Martin

Meng, Sylvia Bonilla (their research mentor), and Martin.

Zain, Prahatha Venkatraman (their research mentor), Ryan.