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Julia Zeitlinger is affiliated with the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a substantial body of work in Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Genetics, Cell Biology, and Oncology.

The main topics that define their research include:

  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Cancer-related gene regulation

Zeitlinger has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • "Base-resolution models of transcription-factor binding reveal soft motif syntax," 2021, Nature Genetics
  • "Short tandem repeats bind transcription factors to tune eukaryotic gene expression," 2023, Science
  • "Seven myths of how transcription factors read the cis-regulatory code," 2020, Current Opinion in Systems Biology
  • "Chromatin accessibility in the Drosophila embryo is determined by transcription factor pioneering and enhancer activation," 2023, Developmental Cell
  • "TATA and paused promoters active in differentiated tissues have distinct expression characteristics," 2021, Molecular Systems Biology

The researcher frequently collaborates with peers, including Anshul Kundaje, Melanie Weilert, Avanti Shrikumar, Amr M. Alexandari, and Connor A. Horton.

Publications by Zeitlinger have appeared mostly in high-profile journals and repositories such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Stem Cell Reports
  • Nature Genetics
  • Science

Best Publications

  • Transcriptional Regulatory Networks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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

  • Polycomb complexes repress developmental regulators in murine embryonic stem cells

    Laurie A. Boyer;Kathrin Plath;Kathrin Plath;Julia Zeitlinger;Tobias Brambrink

  • Transcriptional regulatory code of a eukaryotic genome

    Christopher T. Harbison;D. Benjamin Gordon;Tong Ihn Lee;Nicola J. Rinaldi

  • Genome-wide map of nucleosome acetylation and methylation in yeast.

    Dmitry K. Pokholok;Christopher T. Harbison;Stuart Levine;Megan Cole

  • RNA polymerase is poised for activation across the genome

    Ginger W Muse;Daniel A Gilchrist;Sergei Nechaev;Ruchir Shah

  • RNA polymerase stalling at developmental control genes in the Drosophila melanogaster embryo.

    Julia Zeitlinger;Alexander Stark;Manolis Kellis;Joung Woo Hong

  • Serial Regulation of Transcriptional Regulators in the Yeast Cell Cycle

    Itamar Simon;John Barnett;Nancy Hannett;Christopher T Harbison

  • Base-resolution models of transcription-factor binding reveal soft motif syntax.

    Žiga Avsec;Žiga Avsec;Melanie Weilert;Avanti Shrikumar;Sabrina Krueger

  • Whole-genome ChIP–chip analysis of Dorsal, Twist, and Snail suggests integration of diverse patterning processes in the Drosophila embryo

    Julia Zeitlinger;Robert P. Zinzen;Alexander Stark;Manolis Kellis

  • Activated signal transduction kinases frequently occupy target genes

    Dmitry K. Pokholok;Julia Zeitlinger;Nancy M. Hannett;David B. Reynolds

  • Program-specific distribution of a transcription factor dependent on partner transcription factor and MAPK signaling.

    Julia Zeitlinger;Itamar Simon;Christopher T. Harbison;Nancy M. Hannett

  • ChIP-nexus enables improved detection of in vivo transcription factor binding footprints

    Qiye He;Jeff Johnston;Julia Zeitlinger

  • Paused RNA polymerase II inhibits new transcriptional initiation

    Wanqing Shao;Julia Zeitlinger;Julia Zeitlinger

  • Suppression of m6A reader Ythdf2 promotes hematopoietic stem cell expansion

    Zhenrui Li;Pengxu Qian;Pengxu Qian;Wanqing Shao;Hailing Shi

  • Thorax closure in Drosophila: involvement of Fos and the JNK pathway

    Julia Zeitlinger;Dirk Bohmann

  • Promoter elements associated with RNA Pol II stalling in the Drosophila embryo.

    David A. Hendrix;Joung-Woo Hong;Julia Zeitlinger;Daniel S. Rokhsar;Daniel S. Rokhsar

  • Paused Pol II Coordinates Tissue Morphogenesis in the Drosophila Embryo

    Mounia Lagha;Jacques P. Bothma;Emilia Esposito;Samuel Ng

  • Zelda overcomes the high intrinsic nucleosome barrier at enhancers during Drosophila zygotic genome activation

    Yujia Sun;Chung Yi Nien;Kai Chen;Hsiao Yun Liu

  • Jun in Drosophila development: redundant and nonredundant functions and regulation by two MAPK signal transduction pathways.

    L Kockel;J Zeitlinger;L M Staszewski;M Mlodzik

  • Defective dorsal closure and loss of epidermal decapentaplegic expression in Drosophila fos mutants

    Julia Zeitlinger;Lutz Kockel;Fiorenzo A. Peverali;David B. Jackson

Frequent Co-Authors

Robb Krumlauf
Robb Krumlauf Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Linheng Li
Linheng Li Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Alexander Stark
Alexander Stark Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
R. Scott Hawley
R. Scott Hawley Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Julien Gagneur
Julien Gagneur Technical University of Munich
Anshul Kundaje
Anshul Kundaje Stanford University
Michael S. Levine
Michael S. Levine Princeton University

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