FY2018 Annual Report

Genomics and Regulatory Systems Unit
Professor Nicholas M. Luscombe

Abstract

1. Staff

  • Nicholas M. Luscombe, Professor (Adjunct)
  • Charles Plessy, Staff Scientist
  • Jai A. Denton, Researcher
  • Zhe Chen, Researcher
  • Andrew W. Liu, Senior Technician
  • Aki Masunaga, Technician
  • Yongkai Tan, Technician
  • Aleksandra Bliznina, Graduate Student
  • Yuka Ozaki, Research Unit Administrator

2. Collaborations

3. Activities and Findings

4. Publications

4.1 Journals

  1. Anna R. Poetsch, Simon J. Boulton & Nicholas M. Luscombe. Genomic landscape of oxidative DNAdamage and repair reveals regioselectiveprotection from mutagenesis. Genome Biology, doi:10.1186/s13059-018-1582-2 (2018)
  2. Cai Li, Boris Lenhard and Nicholas M. Luscombe. Integrated analysis sheds light on evolutionary trajectories of young transcription start sites in the human genome. Genome Research, doi:10.1101/gr.231449.117 (2018)
  3. Denton, Jai; Reynolds, Christopher. Limping Along and Lagging Behind: The Law and Emerging Gene Technologies.Synthetic symbiosis and the intervention dilemma. Life. [2018] JCULawRw (In Press)
  4. Tsukasa Kouno, Jonathan Moody, Andrew Tae-Jun Kwon, Youtaro Shibayama, Sachi Kato, Yi Huang, Michael Böttcher, Efthymios Motakis, Mickaël Mendez, Jessica Severin, Joachim Luginbühl, Imad Abugessaisa, Akira Hasegawa, Satoshi Takizawa, Takahiro Arakawa, Masaaki Furuno, Naveen Ramalingam, Jay West, Harukazu Suzuki, Takeya Kasukawa, Timo Lassmann, Chung-Chau Hon, Erik Arner, Piero Carninci, Charles Plessy, Jay W Shin. C1 CAGE detects transcription start sites and enhancer activity at single-cell resolution. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-08126-5 (2019)
  5. Jai A. Denton and Chaitanya S. Gokhale. Promoting synthetic symbiosis under environmental disturbances. mSystems.doi: 10.1101/395426 (2018)
  6. Denton, JA & Gokhale, CS. Synthetic symbiosis and the intervention dilemma. Life. doi: 10.3390/life9010015 (2019)
     

     

4.2 Books and other one-time publications

Nothing to report

4.3 Oral and Poster Presentations

Denton, JA, & Reed FA (2018) Transcriptomic response of the Drosophila melanogaster Minutes. SMBE2018. July 8-12 Yokohama, Japan.
 

5. Intellectual Property Rights and Other Specific Achievements

Nothing to report

6. Meetings and Events

6.1 Seminar

  • Date: Novemebr 9, 2018
  • Venue: OIST Campus Lab3
  • Speaker: Professor Boris Lenhard (Imperial Collage London)
  • Date: Novemebr 9, 2018
  • Venue: OIST Campus Lab3
  • Speaker: Associate Professor Carsten Daub (Karolinska Institutet)

7. Other

Nothing to report.