Nanog, Pou5f1 and SoxB1 activate zygotic gene expression during the maternal-to-zygotic transition. Lee MT, Bonneau AR, Takacs CM, Bazzini AA, Divito KR, Fleming ES, Giraldez AJ. Department of Genetics, Yale University Schoo (l) of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA (2). After fertilization, maternal factors direct development and trigger zygotic genome activation (ZGA) at the […]
CONTINUE READINGA global change in RNA polymerase II pausing during the Drosophila midblastula transition Kai Chen1, Jeff Johnston1, Wanqing Shao1, Samuel Meier1, Cynthia Staber1, Julia Zeitlinger1,2* 1Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, United States; 2Department of Pathology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, United States Massive zygotic transcription begins in many organisms during the […]
CONTINUE READINGOm Singh Rathore, a student in our laboratory, has been accepted in the ProRegeM Ph.D. program (http://193.136.227.174/proregem//). The ProRegeM Ph.D. program results from a partnership between CBME/IBB (University of Algarve) and CEDOC (New University of Lisbon), and it aims to “educate and inspire a new generation of scientists with a strong knowledge in fundamental biology so that […]
CONTINUE READINGPaulo Navarro-Costa, a post-doc in our group, won a prize for best poster at the 2013 edition of the Florence-Utah International Symposium on Genetics of Male Infertility. This joint meeting, organized by the Universities of Florence and Utah, took place in Florence (Italy) and gathered around 150 participants from over 30 countries. It is considered one […]
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