Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in August 2019:
NEW MODELS AND METHODS
Tim Reddy, Andrew Allen and team describe a Bayesian hierarchical model, called Bayesian Inference of Regulatory Differences, which produces more accurate predictions than existing methods when allele frequencies are low. This is of clear advantage in the search for disease-causing variants in DNA captured from patient cohorts. Read more
John Rawls and team modeled chronic intestinal damage in zebrafish larvae using the NSAID drug Glafenine. Read more
TRANSCRIPTOMICS
John Rawls was part of a team that show colonization of germ-free zebrafish and mice with microbiota leads to widespread transcriptional responses in olfactory organs as measured in bulk tissue transcriptomics and RT-qPCR. Read more
Doug Marchuk was part of a team that investigated the similarities and differences between transcriptomes of microdissected lesional neurovascular units from acute and chronic in vivo cerebral cavernous malformations in mice and cultured brain microvascular endothelial cells. Read more
REVIEWS
In this review, Charlie Gersbach and Jennifer Kwon analyze two strategies that have been proposed in recent studies that reveal the potential to make the targeted insertion of DNA sequences into a genome much easier. Read more
Lingchong You and Helena Ma review two studies that have developed synthetic platforms that program spatial localization of genetic material or signaling molecules to enable asymmetric cell division in Escherichia coli. Read more
In a review by Amy Schmid and Rylee Hackley (UPGG), the team investigates the possibility of conserving the environmental stress response across he eukaryotic and archaeal domains of life. Read more