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Joanna Wysocka is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their scholarly output is strongly concentrated within subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Plant Science, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Geometry and Topology.

Their research spans several key topics, including:

  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Dental development and anomalies
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Cleft Lip and Palate Research
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Joanna Wysocka has contributed to a number of recent scientific papers published in well-established journals. Notable publications include:

  • "Roles of transposable elements in the regulation of mammalian transcription" (2022) in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • "Deciphering the multi-scale, quantitative cis-regulatory code" (2023) in Molecular Cell
  • "Transposable elements as a potent source of diverse cis-regulatory sequences in mammalian genomes" (2020) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Loss of Extreme Long-Range Enhancers in Human Neural Crest Drives a Craniofacial Disorder" (2020) in Cell stem cell
  • "Insights into the genetic architecture of the human face" (2020) in Nature Genetics

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative research efforts include:

  • Sahin Naqvi
  • Tomek Swigut
  • Peter Claes
  • Seth M. Weinberg
  • John R. Shaffer

Their work is regularly published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Cell, Nature Genetics, Cell, and Science, with multiple papers appearing in each.

Best Publications

  • A unique chromatin signature uncovers early developmental enhancers in humans

    Alvaro Rada-Iglesias;Ruchi Bajpai;Tomek Swigut;Samantha A. Brugmann

  • A long noncoding RNA maintains active chromatin to coordinate homeotic gene expression

    Kevin C. Wang;Yul W. Yang;Bo Liu;Amartya Sanyal

  • Identification of 67 Histone Marks and Histone Lysine Crotonylation as a New Type of Histone Modification

    Minjia Tan;Hao Luo;Sangkyu Lee;Fulai Jin

  • Modification of Enhancer Chromatin: What, How, and Why?

    Eliezer Calo;Joanna Wysocka

  • A PHD finger of NURF couples histone H3 lysine 4 trimethylation with chromatin remodelling

    Joanna Wysocka;Tomek Swigut;Hua Xiao;Thomas A. Milne

  • Methylation of Lysine 4 on Histone H3: Intricacy of Writing and Reading a Single Epigenetic Mark

    Alexander J. Ruthenburg;C. David Allis;Joanna Wysocka

  • Human PAD4 regulates histone arginine methylation levels via demethylimination.

    Yanming Wang;Joanna Wysocka;Joyce Sayegh;Young-Ho Lee

  • WDR5 Associates with Histone H3 Methylated at K4 and Is Essential for H3 K4 Methylation and Vertebrate Development

    Joanna Wysocka;Tomek Swigut;Thomas A. Milne;Yali Dou

  • Molecular basis for site-specific read-out of histone H3K4me3 by the BPTF PHD finger of NURF

    Haitao Li;Serge Ilin;Wooikoon Wang;Elizabeth M. Duncan

  • Ever-Changing Landscapes: Transcriptional Enhancers in Development and Evolution.

    Hannah K. Long;Sara L. Prescott;Joanna Wysocka

  • Physical Association and Coordinate Function of the H3 K4 Methyltransferase MLL1 and the H4 K16 Acetyltransferase MOF

    Yali Dou;Thomas A. Milne;Thomas A. Milne;Alan J. Tackett;Edwin R. Smith

  • Leukemia Proto-Oncoprotein MLL Forms a SET1-Like Histone Methyltransferase Complex with Menin To Regulate Hox Gene Expression

    Akihiko Yokoyama;Zhong Wang;Joanna Wysocka;Mrinmoy Sanyal

  • Intrinsic retroviral reactivation in human preimplantation embryos and pluripotent cells

    Edward J. Grow;Ryan A. Flynn;Shawn L. Chavez;Nicholas L. Bayless

  • CHD7 cooperates with PBAF to control multipotent neural crest formation

    Ruchi Bajpai;Denise A. Chen;Alvaro Rada-Iglesias;Junmei Zhang

  • Jarid2/Jumonji Coordinates Control of PRC2 Enzymatic Activity and Target Gene Occupancy in Pluripotent Cells

    Jamy C. Peng;Anton Valouev;Tomek Swigut;Junmei Zhang

  • Reorganization of Enhancer Patterns in Transition from Naive to Primed Pluripotency

    Christa Buecker;Rajini Srinivasan;Zhixiang Wu;Eliezer Calo

  • Human Sin3 deacetylase and trithorax-related Set1/Ash2 histone H3-K4 methyltransferase are tethered together selectively by the cell-proliferation factor HCF-1

    Joanna Wysocka;Michael P. Myers;Carol D. Laherty;Robert N. Eisenman

  • Chromatin remodelling factor Mll1 is essential for neurogenesis from postnatal neural stem cells

    Daniel A. Lim;Yin-Cheng Huang;Tomek Swigut;Anika L. Mirick

  • H3K27 Demethylases, at Long Last

    Tomek Swigut;Joanna Wysocka

  • The herpes simplex virus VP16-induced complex: the makings of a regulatory switch

    Joanna Wysocka;Winship Herr

Frequent Co-Authors

Winship Herr
Winship Herr University of Lausanne
Mark D. Shriver
Mark D. Shriver Pennsylvania State University
Mary L. Marazita
Mary L. Marazita University of Pittsburgh
Axel Visel
Axel Visel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
C. David Allis
C. David Allis Rockefeller University
Wolf Reik
Wolf Reik Babraham Institute
Eleanor Feingold
Eleanor Feingold University of Pittsburgh
Howard Y. Chang
Howard Y. Chang Amgen (United States)
Thomas A. Milne
Thomas A. Milne University of Oxford
Sally Temple
Sally Temple Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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