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Casey M. Bergman is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions also in Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The detailed scope of their work covers Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Insect Science, Ecology, and Genetics as subfields.

Their scientific inquiries focus on several main topics including Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Fungal and Yeast Genetics Research, Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics, Plant Virus Research Studies, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, and Insect Resistance and Genetics.

Several recent publications highlight their active research involvement. These include:

  • Evolution of Ty1 copy number control in yeast by horizontal transfer and recombination, 2020, PLoS Genetics
  • Haplotype-resolved genome assembly enables gene discovery in the red palm weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Transposable element profiles reveal cell line identity and loss of heterozygosity in Drosophila cell culture, 2021, Genetics
  • Local assembly of long reads enables phylogenomics of transposable elements in a polyploid cell line, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila virilis results in clusters of mitotic recombination and loss-of-heterozygosity but leaves meiotic recombination unaltered, 2020, Mobile DNA

Bergman frequently collaborates with a core group of scientists, including Guilherme Borges Dias, Shunhua Han, Preston J. Basting, David Garfinkel, and Jingxuan Chen. These collaborations have contributed to advancing their research output and breadth.

Their scholarly works are published in a range of venues, with notable frequent publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Genetics, Mobile DNA, G3 Genes Genomes Genetics, and Microbiology Resource Announcements. These publications indicate a consistent presence in journals focused on genetics, genomics, and molecular biology.

Best Publications

  • Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.

    Andrew G. Clark;Michael B. Eisen;Michael B. Eisen;Douglas R. Smith;Casey M. Bergman

  • The Drosophila melanogaster Genetic Reference Panel

    Trudy F. C. Mackay;Stephen J. Richards;Eric A. Stone;Antonio Barbadilla

  • Population genomics of domestic and wild yeasts

    Gianni Liti;David M. Carter;Alan M. Moses;Alan M. Moses;Jonas Warringer

  • Evidence for stabilizing selection in a eukaryotic enhancer element

    Michael Z. Ludwig;Casey Bergman;Nipam H. Patel;Martin Kreitman

  • The transposable elements of the Drosophila melanogaster euchromatin: a genomics perspective

    Joshua S Kaminker;Casey M Bergman;Brent Kronmiller;Brent Kronmiller;Joseph Carlson

  • Gene expression divergence recapitulates the developmental hourglass model

    Alex T. Kalinka;Karolina M. Varga;Karolina M. Varga;Dave T. Gerrard;Stephan Preibisch

  • Combined Evidence Annotation of Transposable Elements in Genome Sequences

    Hadi Quesneville;Casey M Bergman;Olivier Andrieu;Delphine Autard

  • LINNAEUS: A species name identification system for biomedical literature

    Martin Gerner;Goran Nenadic;Casey M Bergman

  • ORegAnno: an open-access community-driven resource for regulatory annotation.

    Obi L. Griffith;Stephen B. Montgomery;Bridget Bernier;Bryan Chu

  • Discovering and detecting transposable elements in genome sequences

    Casey M. Bergman;Hadi Quesneville

  • Functional Evolution of a cis-Regulatory Module

    Michael Z Ludwig;Arnar Palsson;Elena Alekseeva;Casey M Bergman

  • Drosophila DNase I footprint database: a systematic genome annotation of transcription factor binding sites in the fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster

    Casey M. Bergman;Joseph W. Carlson;Susan E. Celniker

  • Recurrent insertion and duplication generate networks of transposable element sequences in the Drosophila melanogaster genome.

    Casey M Bergman;Casey M Bergman;Hadi Quesneville;Dominique Anxolabéhère;Michael Ashburner

  • Population Genomics of the Wolbachia Endosymbiont in Drosophila melanogaster

    Mark F. Richardson;Lucy A. Weinert;John J. Welch;Raquel S. Linheiro

  • REDfly v3.0: toward a comprehensive database of transcriptional regulatory elements in Drosophila

    Steven M. Gallo;Dave T. Gerrard;David Miner;Michael Simich

  • Principles of Genome Evolution in the Drosophila melanogaster Species Group

    José M Ranz;Damien Maurin;Yuk S Chan;Marcin von Grotthuss

  • Analysis of conserved noncoding DNA in Drosophila reveals similar constraints in intergenic and intronic sequences.

    Casey M. Bergman;Martin Kreitman

  • Drosophila innate immunity: regional and functional specialization of prophenoloxidases

    Jan P. Dudzic;Shu Kondo;Ryu Ueda;Casey M. Bergman

  • Assessing the impact of comparative genomic sequence data on the functional annotation of the Drosophila genome

    Casey M. Bergman;Barret D Pfeiffer;Diego E. Rincon-Limas;Diego E. Rincon-Limas;Roger A. Hoskins

  • Population genomics of domestic and wild yeasts

    David M. Carter;Gianni Liti;Alan M. Moses;Leopold Parts

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan E. Celniker
Susan E. Celniker Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Goran Nenadic
Goran Nenadic University of Manchester
Michael Ashburner
Michael Ashburner University of Cambridge
Gerald M. Rubin
Gerald M. Rubin Howard Hughes Medical Institute
R. Scott Hawley
R. Scott Hawley Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Martin Kreitman
Martin Kreitman University of Chicago
Stephen B. Montgomery
Stephen B. Montgomery Stanford University
Michael B. Eisen
Michael B. Eisen University of California, Berkeley
Stephen G. Oliver
Stephen G. Oliver University of Cambridge
Steven J.M. Jones
Steven J.M. Jones University of British Columbia

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