Publications
Selected Publications
An advanced head-to-tail mouse embryo model with hypoxia-mediated neural patterning. bioRxiv (2025)
Integrated molecular-phenotypic profiling reveals metabolic control of morphological variation in a stem-cell-based embryo model. Cell Stem Cell 32 (5), pp. 759 - 777 (2025)
mTOR activity paces human blastocyst stage developmental progression. Cell 187 (23), pp. 6566 - 6583 (2024)
Embryos burn fat in standby. Trends in Cell Biology 34 (9), pp. 700 - 702 (2024)
TET activity safeguards pluripotency throughout embryonic dormancy. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 31 (10), pp. 1625 - 1639 (2024)
Dormancy, Quiescence, and Diapause: Savings Accounts for Life. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 40, pp. 25 - 49 (2024)
FOXO1-mediated lipid metabolism maintains mammalian embryos in dormancy. Nature Cell Biology 26 (2), pp. 181 - 193 (2024)
The double-edged sword of bivalency. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 25 (1), Article 6 (2024)
Combinatorial microRNA activity is essential for the transition of pluripotent cells from proliferation into dormancy. Genome Research 34 (4), p. 589 - 589 (2024)
On time: developmental timing within and across species. Development 150 (14), dev201045 (2023)
Hypoxia induces an early primitive streak signature, enhancing spontaneous elongation and lineage representation in gastruloids. Development 149 (20), dev200679 (2022)
Molecular Regulation of Paused Pluripotency in Early Mammalian Embryos and Stem Cells. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 9, 708318 (2021)
Chd1 protects genome integrity at promoters to sustain hypertranscription in embryonic stem cells. Nature Communications 12 (1), 4859 (2021)
The Transcriptionally Permissive Chromatin State of Embryonic Stem Cells Is Acutely Tuned to Translational Output. Cell Stem Cell 22 (3), pp. 369 - 383 (2018)
Inhibition of mTOR induces a paused pluripotent state.
Nature 2016 Dec 1;540(7631):119-123
Suv39h-Dependent H3K9me3 Marks Intact Retrotransposons and Silences LINE Elements in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells.
Molecular Cell 2014 Jul 17;55(2):277-90
A transcription factor–based mechanism for mouse heterochromatin formation.
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 2012 Oct;19(10):1023-30