Kira's paper is out! By comparing testis transcriptomes of opossum and mouse, we found hundreds of genes selected for high expression during spermatogenesis in the placental mammal lineage, potentially important for understanding human fertility.
In Developmental Cell (PMC link coming soon)
It's Yongyan's last day - we'll miss you!
Farewell lunch for summer undergraduates Riya and Peyton + Amgen scholars symposium. Peyton presented an excellent talk and poster on evolution of bivalency. We're very proud!
Some pre-July 4th relaxation at the lab retreat
Goodbye Caiyun! Good luck in St. Louis - we will miss you!
Caiyun Liao's paper on human-specific epigenomic states in spermatogenesis is out in Computational & Structural Biology Journal! See it here.
Ben Walters' article on the regulation of KDM6A in spermatogenesis and implications for epigenetic inheritance is online today in Biology of Reproduction. Read it here. Congrats Ben!
Aushaq Malla's second paper is out today showing that DOT1L selectively drives production of major satellite repeat transcripts, thus indirectly sustaining heterochromatin via its function as a transcriptional activator. See the exciting story here.
Aushaq Malla's beautiful story showing that the histone methyltransferase DOT1L is necessary for histone-to-protamine replacement during spermatogenesis is out in Development. See it here. Don't forget to see the complementary work from the Wang and Cocquet labs, out at the same time, here and here.
