Selected Publications

Smith, Z. D.; Hetzel, S.; Meissner, A.: DNA methylation in mammalian development and disease. Nature Reviews Genetics 26 (1), pp. 7 - 30 (2025)

Batki, J.; Hetzel, S.; Schifferl, D.; Bolondi, A.; Walther, M.; Wittler, L.; Grosswendt, S.; Herrmann, B. G.; Meissner, A.: Extraembryonic gut endoderm cells undergo programmed cell death during development. Nature Cell Biology 26 (6), pp. 868 - 877 (2024)

Landshammer, A.; Bolondi, A.; Kretzmer, H.; Much, C.; Buschow, R.; Rose, A.; Wu, H.-J.; Mackowiak, S. D.; Braendl, B.; Gießelmann, P. et al.; Tornisiello, R.; Mohan Parsi, K.; Huey, J.; Mielke, T.; Meierhofer, D.; Maehr, R.; Hnisz, D.; Michor, F.; Rinn, J. L.; Meissner, A.: T-REX17 is a transiently expressed non-coding RNA essential for human endoderm formation. eLife 12, Article e83077 (2023)

Sampath Kumar, A.; Tian, L.; Bolondi, A.; Aragonés Hernández, A.; Stickels, R.; Kretzmer, H.; Murray, E.; Wittler, L.; Walther, M.; Barakat, G. et al.; Haut, L.; Elkabetz, Y.; Macosko, E. Z.; Guignard, L.; Chen, F.; Meissner, A.: Spatiotemporal transcriptomic maps of whole mouse embryos at the onset of organogenesis. Nature Genetics 55 (7), pp. 1176 - 1185 (2023)

Weigert, R.; Hetzel, S.; Bailly, N.; Haggerty, C.; Ilik, I. A.; Kwong Yung, P. Y.; Navarro, C.; Bolondi, A.; Sampath Kumar, A.; Anania, C. et al.; Brändl, B.; Meierhofer, D.; Lupiáñez, D. G.; Müller, F.-J.; Aktas, T.; Elsässer, S. J.; Kretzmer, H.; Smith, Z. D.; Meissner, A.: Dynamic antagonism between key repressive pathways maintains the placental epigenome. Nature Cell Biology 25 (4), pp. 579 - 591 (2023)