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  • 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Amanda G. Fisher is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a primary focus on molecular biology and genetics. The scientist's work addresses a range of subfields including plant science, endocrine and autonomic systems, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their research topics prominently feature genomics and chromatin dynamics, epigenetics and DNA methylation, CRISPR and genetic engineering, genetic syndromes and imprinting, bioluminescence and chemiluminescence research, RNA research and splicing, and genetics related to neurodevelopmental disorders.

Key recent publications include:

  • Chromatin jets define the properties of cohesin-driven in vivo loop extrusion, 2022, Molecular Cell
  • The order and logic of CD4 versus CD8 lineage choice and differentiation in mouse thymus, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Neuronal genes deregulated in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome respond to removal and re-expression of cohesin, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Identifying proteins bound to native mitotic ESC chromosomes reveals chromatin repressors are important for compaction, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Cohesin couples transcriptional bursting probabilities of inducible enhancers and promoters, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators include Matthias Merkenschlager, Andrew Dimond, Alessandro Sardini, Karen Brown, and Chad Whilding.

The main publication venues for their work are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Research Square, Communications Biology, and Scientific Reports.

Amanda G. Fisher was awarded Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Chromatin signatures of pluripotent cell lines

    Véronique Azuara;Pascale Perry;Stephan Sauer;Mikhail Spivakov

  • Cohesins Functionally Associate with CTCF on Mammalian Chromosome Arms

    Vania Parelho;Suzana Hadjur;Mikhail Spivakov;Marion Leleu

  • Association of Transcriptionally Silent Genes with Ikaros Complexes at Centromeric Heterochromatin

    Karen E Brown;Simon S Guest;Stephen T Smale;Kyungmin Hahm

  • T cell receptor signaling controls Foxp3 expression via PI3K, Akt, and mTOR

    Stephan Sauer;Ludovica Bruno;Arnulf Hertweck;David Finlay

  • Subnuclear compartmentalization of immunoglobulin loci during lymphocyte development.

    Steven T. Kosak;Jane A. Skok;Kay L. Medina;Roy Riblet

  • Ring1-mediated ubiquitination of H2A restrains poised RNA polymerase II at bivalent genes in mouse ES cells

    Julie K. Stock;Sara Giadrossi;Miguel Casanova;Emily Brookes

  • A role for Dicer in immune regulation.

    Bradley S Cobb;Arnulf Hertweck;James P Smith;Eric D. O'Connor

  • T cell lineage choice and differentiation in the absence of the RNase III enzyme Dicer.

    Bradley S Cobb;Tatyana Nesterova;Elizabeth A. Thompson;Arnulf Hertweck

  • Cohesins form chromosomal cis-interactions at the developmentally regulated IFNG locus

    Suzana Hadjur;Luke M. Williams;Natalie K. Ryan;Bradley S. Cobb

  • Epigenetic programming and reprogramming during development

    Irene Cantone;Amanda G Fisher

  • Epigenetic signatures of stem-cell identity.

    Mikhail Spivakov;Amanda G. Fisher

  • Dynamic Repositioning of Genes in the Nucleus of Lymphocytes Preparing for Cell Division

    Karen E Brown;Jonathan Baxter;Daniel Graf;Matthias Merkenschlager

  • A molecular clone of HTLV-III with biological activity.

    Amanda G. Fisher;Enrico Collalti;Lee Ratner;Robert C. Gallo

  • Short RNAs Are Transcribed from Repressed Polycomb Target Genes and Interact with Polycomb Repressive Complex-2

    Aditi Kanhere;Keijo Viiri;Carla C. Araújo;Jane Rasaiyaah

  • Biologically diverse molecular variants within a single HIV-1 isolate.

    Amanda G. Fisher;Barbara Ensoli;David Looney;Andrea Rose

  • Cohesin-based chromatin interactions enable regulated gene expression within preexisting architectural compartments

    Vlad C. Seitan;Andre J. Faure;Ye Zhan;Rachel Patton McCord

  • Neural induction promotes large-scale chromatin reorganisation of the Mash1 locus

    Ruth R. E. Williams;Véronique Azuara;Pascale Perry;Stephan Sauer

  • Jarid2 is a PRC2 component in embryonic stem cells required for multi-lineage differentiation and recruitment of PRC1 and RNA Polymerase II to developmental regulators

    David Landeira;Stephan P A Sauer;Raymond Poot;Maria Dvorkina

  • Helios, a T cell-restricted Ikaros family member that quantitatively associates with Ikaros at centromeric heterochromatin.

    Kyungmin Hahm;Bradley S. Cobb;Aaron S. McCarty;Karen E. Brown

  • Targeting of Ikaros to pericentromeric heterochromatin by direct DNA binding

    Bradley S. Cobb;Susana Morales-Alcelay;Gary Kleiger;Karen E. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Merkenschlager
Matthias Merkenschlager Imperial College London
Thomas L. Carroll
Thomas L. Carroll Rockefeller University
Boris Lenhard
Boris Lenhard Imperial College London
Stephen T. Smale
Stephen T. Smale University of California, Los Angeles
Neil Brockdorff
Neil Brockdorff University of Oxford
Flossie Wong-Staal
Flossie Wong-Staal University of California, San Diego
Robert C. Gallo
Robert C. Gallo University of South Florida
Tatyana B. Nesterova
Tatyana B. Nesterova University of Oxford
Brian Hendrich
Brian Hendrich University of Cambridge
Paul Flicek
Paul Flicek The Jackson Laboratory

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