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3046
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1932 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Eileen E. M. Furlong is affiliated with the European Bioinformatics Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily revolves around the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a total of 76 publications contributing to this area.

The scientist's work encompasses several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Cancer Research. Their research interests extend to specific topics such as Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, RNA Research and Splicing, Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, Plant Molecular Biology Research, Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Rebecca R. Viales, Charles Girardot, Mattia Forneris, Adam Rabinowitz, and Raquel Marco-Ferreres. Their collaboration has contributed to a range of publications across multiple venues.

Most frequent publication venues for this scientist include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Developmental Cell
  • Molecular Cell
  • Genome Research
  • Nature Reviews Methods Primers

Key recent publications cover a diverse array of topics and journals, including:

  • Chromatin accessibility profiling methods, 2021, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • The road ahead in genetics and genomics, 2020, Nature Reviews Genetics
  • The continuum of Drosophila embryonic development at single-cell resolution, 2022, Science
  • To loop or not to loop: what is the role of TADs in enhancer function and gene regulation?, 2021, Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
  • Lineage-Resolved Enhancer and Promoter Usage during a Time Course of Embryogenesis, 2020, Developmental Cell

Recognition of Eileen E. M. Furlong's contributions to science includes honors such as being named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2016 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Transcription factors: from enhancer binding to developmental control.

    François Spitz;Eileen E. M. Furlong

  • Gene expression during the life cycle of Drosophila melanogaster.

    Michelle N. Arbeitman;Eileen E. M. Furlong;Farhad Imam;Eric Johnson;Eric Johnson

  • Ultrasensitive proteome analysis using paramagnetic bead technology

    Christopher S Hughes;Sophia Foehr;David A Garfield;Eileen E Furlong

  • Tissue-specific analysis of chromatin state identifies temporal signatures of enhancer activity during embryonic development.

    Stefan Bonn;Robert P Zinzen;Charles Girardot;E Hilary Gustafson

  • Developmental enhancers and chromosome topology

    Eileen E. M. Furlong;Michael Levine

  • Enhancer loops appear stable during development and are associated with paused polymerase

    Yad Ghavi-Helm;Felix A. Klein;Tibor Pakozdi;Lucia Ciglar

  • Combinatorial binding predicts spatio-temporal cis -regulatory activity

    Robert P. Zinzen;Charles Girardot;Julien Gagneur;Martina Braun

  • A core transcriptional network for early mesoderm development in Drosophila melanogaster

    Thomas Sandmann;Charles Girardot;Marc Brehme;Waraporn Tongprasit

  • Conservation of transcription factor binding specificities across 600 million years of bilateria evolution

    Kazuhiro R Nitta;Arttu Jolma;Yimeng Yin;Ekaterina Morgunova

  • Patterns of Gene Expression During Drosophila Mesoderm Development

    Eileen E. M. Furlong;Erik C. Andersen;Brian Null;Kevin P. White

  • The cis-regulatory dynamics of embryonic development at single-cell resolution

    Darren A. Cusanovich;James P. Reddington;David A. Garfield;Riza M. Daza

  • Highly rearranged chromosomes reveal uncoupling between genome topology and gene expression

    Yad Ghavi-Helm;Aleksander Jankowski;Sascha Meiers;Rebecca R. Viales

  • A Transcription Factor Collective Defines Cardiac Cell Fate and Reflects Lineage History

    Guillaume Junion;Mikhail Spivakov;Charles Girardot;Martina Braun

  • A temporal map of transcription factor activity: mef2 directly regulates target genes at all stages of muscle development.

    Thomas Sandmann;Lars J. Jensen;Janus S. Jakobsen;Michal M. Karzynski

  • Shadow Enhancers Are Pervasive Features of Developmental Regulatory Networks

    Enrico Cannavò;Pierre Khoueiry;David A. Garfield;Paul Geeleher

  • The role of transcription in shaping the spatial organization of the genome

    Bas van Steensel;Bas van Steensel;Eileen E M Furlong

  • Advanced nursing practice: policy, education and role development

    Eileen Furlong;Rita Smith

  • The degree of enhancer or promoter activity is reflected by the levels and directionality of eRNA transcription.

    Olga Mikhaylichenko;Vladyslav Bondarenko;Dermot Harnett;Ignacio Esteban Schor

  • Dynamic Regulation by Polycomb Group Protein Complexes Controls Pattern Formation and the Cell Cycle in Drosophila

    Katarzyna Oktaba;Luis Gutiérrez;Julien Gagneur;Charles Girardot

  • The eSMART study protocol: a randomised controlled trial to evaluate electronic symptom management using the advanced symptom management system (ASyMS) remote technology for patients with cancer

    Roma Maguire;Patricia A. Fox;Lisa McCann;Christine Miaskowski

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew P. Scott
Matthew P. Scott Stanford University
Saurabh Sinha
Saurabh Sinha University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Denis Thieffry
Denis Thieffry École Normale Supérieure
Peer Bork
Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Wolfgang Huber
Wolfgang Huber European Bioinformatics Institute
Ewan Birney
Ewan Birney European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Julien Gagneur
Julien Gagneur Technical University of Munich
Kevin P. White
Kevin P. White National University of Singapore
Jan O. Korbel
Jan O. Korbel European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Jay Shendure
Jay Shendure University of Washington

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