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Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Duncan T. Odom is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, their work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Immunology, Genetics, Cancer Research, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The main topics covered by their research publications include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, RNA Research and Splicing, Reproductive Biology and Fertility, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, DNA Repair Mechanisms, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, and Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Duncan T. Odom include:

  • Clustered CTCF binding is an evolutionary mechanism to maintain topologically associating domains, 2020, Genome Biology
  • LINE retrotransposons characterize mammalian tissue-specific and evolutionarily dynamic regulatory regions, 2021, Genome Biology
  • The cycling and aging mouse female reproductive tract at single-cell resolution, 2024, Cell
  • Pervasive lesion segregation shapes cancer genome evolution, 2020, Nature
  • A high-content RNAi screen reveals multiple roles for long noncoding RNAs in cell division, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Duncan T. Odom include:

  • Paul Flicek
  • Sarah J. Aitken
  • Jasper Panten
  • Martin S. Taylor
  • Marie-Luise Koch

The scientist's work has been published extensively in several venues, with the most common publications appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Genome Biology
  • Nature
  • Developmental Cell

Duncan T. Odom has been recognized as a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Transcriptional Regulatory Networks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Tong Ihn Lee;Nicola J. Rinaldi;François Robert;Duncan T. Odom

  • Control of developmental regulators by Polycomb in human embryonic stem cells.

    Tong Ihn Lee;Richard G. Jenner;Laurie A. Boyer;Matthew G. Guenther

  • Recognition and reaction of metallointercalators with DNA.

    Kathryn E. Erkkila;Duncan T. Odom;Jacqueline K. Barton

  • Control of Pancreas and Liver Gene Expression by HNF Transcription Factors

    Duncan T. Odom;Nora Zizlsperger;D. Benjamin Gordon;George W. Bell

  • The Evolutionary Landscape of Alternative Splicing in Vertebrate Species

    Nuno L. Barbosa-Morais;Nuno L. Barbosa-Morais;Manuel Irimia;Qun Pan;Hui Y. Xiong

  • Genome-wide analysis of cAMP-response element binding protein occupancy, phosphorylation, and target gene activation in human tissues

    Xinmin Zhang;Duncan T. Odom;Seung Hoi Koo;Michael D. Conkright

  • NOTCH1 directly regulates c-MYC and activates a feed-forward-loop transcriptional network promoting leukemic cell growth

    Teresa Palomero;Wei Keat Lim;Duncan T. Odom;Maria Luisa Sulis

  • Five-vertebrate ChIP-seq reveals the evolutionary dynamics of transcription factor binding

    Dominic Schmidt;Michael D. Wilson;Benoit Ballester;Petra C. Schwalie

  • Insights into hominid evolution from the gorilla genome sequence

    Aylwyn Scally;Julien Y. Dutheil;LaDeana W. Hillier;Gregory E. Jordan

  • Enhancer Evolution across 20 Mammalian Species

    Diego Villar;Camille Berthelot;Sarah Aldridge;Tim F. Rayner

  • Comparative Hi-C Reveals that CTCF Underlies Evolution of Chromosomal Domain Architecture

    Matteo Vietri Rudan;Christopher Barrington;Stephen Henderson;Christina Ernst

  • ChIP-seq: Using high-throughput sequencing to discover protein-DNA interactions

    Dominic Schmidt;Michael D. Wilson;Christiana Spyrou;Gordon D. Brown

  • Waves of Retrotransposon Expansion Remodel Genome Organization and CTCF Binding in Multiple Mammalian Lineages.

    Dominic Schmidt;Petra C. Schwalie;Michael D. Wilson;Benoit Ballester

  • Tissue-specific transcriptional regulation has diverged significantly between human and mouse.

    Duncan T Odom;Robin D Dowell;Elizabeth S Jacobsen;William Gordon

  • Aberrant methylation of tRNAs links cellular stress to neuro‐developmental disorders

    Sandra Blanco;Sabine Dietmann;Joana V Flores;Shobbir Hussain

  • NSun2-Mediated Cytosine-5 Methylation of Vault Noncoding RNA Determines Its Processing into Regulatory Small RNAs

    Shobbir Hussain;Abdulrahim A. Sajini;Sandra Blanco;Sabine Dietmann

  • A CTCF-independent role for cohesin in tissue-specific transcription

    Dominic Schmidt;Petra C. Schwalie;Caryn S. Ross-Innes;Antoni Hurtado

  • CTCF and cohesin: linking gene regulatory elements with their targets.

    Matthias Merkenschlager;Duncan T. Odom

  • Integrative detection and analysis of structural variation in cancer genomes

    Jesse R. Dixon;Jie Xu;Vishnu Dileep;Ye Zhan

  • Gibbon genome and the fast karyotype evolution of small apes

    Lucia Carbone;R. Alan Harris;Sante Gnerre;Krishna R. Veeramah;Krishna R. Veeramah

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Flicek
Paul Flicek The Jackson Laboratory
John C. Marioni
John C. Marioni European Bioinformatics Institute
Michael D. Wilson
Michael D. Wilson University of Toronto
Thomas M. Keane
Thomas M. Keane European Bioinformatics Institute
Merlin Crossley
Merlin Crossley University of New South Wales
Jacqueline K. Barton
Jacqueline K. Barton California Institute of Technology
Fengtang Yang
Fengtang Yang Wellcome Sanger Institute
Benedict Paten
Benedict Paten University of California, Santa Cruz
Alvis Brazma
Alvis Brazma European Bioinformatics Institute

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