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Overview

Licia Selleri is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a total of 49 publications in these areas. Within these fields, Selleri has contributed notably to molecular biology, genetics, cancer research, oncology, and immunology.

Their work encompasses several main scientific topics, including developmental biology and gene regulation, genomics and chromatin dynamics, cleft lip and palate research, craniofacial disorders and treatments, dental development and anomalies, microRNA in disease regulation, and immunotherapy and immune responses.

Licia Selleri has published research in various academic venues. The most frequent publication platforms include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The FASEB Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • Cell stem cell
  • Development

Their notable recent papers include:

  • "Loss of Extreme Long-Range Enhancers in Human Neural Crest Drives a Craniofacial Disorder" (2020, Cell stem cell)
  • "A Specialized Niche in the Pancreatic Microenvironment Promotes Endocrine Differentiation" (2020, Developmental Cell)
  • "FaceBase 3: analytical tools and FAIR resources for craniofacial and dental research" (2020, Development)
  • "Shaping faces: genetic and epigenetic control of craniofacial morphogenesis" (2023, Nature Reviews Genetics)
  • "Ubiquitous overexpression of CXCL12 confers radiation protection and enhances mobilization of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells" (2020, Stem Cells)

Selleri has frequently collaborated with several researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include Axel Visel, Marco Osterwalder, Karissa Hansen, Maurizio Risolino, and Joanna Wysocka.

Best Publications

  • A comparative encyclopedia of DNA elements in the mouse genome

    Feng Yue;Feng Yue;Yong Cheng;Alessandra Breschi;Jeff Vierstra

  • Hox cofactors in vertebrate development.

    Cecilia B. Moens;Licia Selleri

  • A trithorax-like gene is interrupted by chromosome 11q23 translocations in acute leukaemias.

    Malek Djabali;Licia Selleri;Pauline Parry;Mark Bower

  • Type 2 autoimmune hepatitis and hepatitis C virus infection.

    M. Lenzi;G. Ballardini;M. Fusconi;F. Cassani

  • Enhancer Divergence and cis-Regulatory Evolution in the Human and Chimp Neural Crest

    Sara L. Prescott;Rajini Srinivasan;Maria Carolina Marchetto;Irina Grishina

  • Requirement for Pbx1 in skeletal patterning and programming chondrocyte proliferation and differentiation

    Licia Selleri;Michael J. Depew;Yakop Jacobs;Sumit K. Chanda

  • Mouse regulatory DNA landscapes reveal global principles of cis-regulatory evolution

    Jeff Vierstra;Eric Rynes;Richard Sandstrom;Miaohua Zhang

  • Interleukin-10 Expression in Macrophages during Phagocytosis of Apoptotic Cells Is Mediated by Homeodomain Proteins Pbx1 and Prep-1

    Elaine Y. Chung;Jianguo Liu;Yoichiro Homma;Yunhua Zhang

  • Development and function of the mammalian spleen.

    Andrea Brendolan;Maria Manuela Rosado;Rita Carsetti;Licia Selleri

  • Pbx1 inactivation disrupts pancreas development and in Ipf1-deficient mice promotes diabetes mellitus.

    Seung K. Kim;Licia Selleri;Licia Selleri;Joon S. Lee;Andrew Y. Zhang

  • The Hox cofactor and proto-oncogene Pbx1 is required for maintenance of definitive hematopoiesis in the fetal liver.

    Jorge F. DiMartino;Licia Selleri;Licia Selleri;Licia Selleri;David Traver;David Traver;David Traver;Meri T. Firpo;Meri T. Firpo;Meri T. Firpo

  • Pbx1 is essential for adrenal development and urogenital differentiation

    Catherine A. Schnabel;Licia Selleri;Michael L. Cleary

  • Pbx1/Pbx2 requirement for distal limb patterning is mediated by the hierarchical control of Hox gene spatial distribution and Shh expression.

    Terence D. Capellini;Terence D. Capellini;Giuseppina Di Giacomo;Valentina Salsi;Andrea Brendolan

  • Ribosomal protein SA haploinsufficiency in humans with isolated congenital asplenia.

    Alexandre Bolze;Alexandre Bolze;Nizar Mahlaoui;Minji Byun;Bridget Turner

  • A Conserved Pbx-Wnt-p63-Irf6 Regulatory Module Controls Face Morphogenesis by Promoting Epithelial Apoptosis

    Elisabetta Ferretti;Bingsi Li;Rediet Zewdu;Victoria Wells

  • Human herpesvirus-6 in human lymphomas : identification of specific sequences in Hodgkin's lymphomas by polymerase chain reaction

    Giuseppe Torelli;Roberto Marasca;Mario Luppi;Licia Selleri

  • Pbx/Meis Deficiencies Demonstrate Multigenetic Origins of Congenital Heart Disease

    Kryn Stankunas;Ching Shang;Karen Y. Twu;Shih Chu Kao

  • A Pbx1-dependent genetic and transcriptional network regulates spleen ontogeny

    Andrea Brendolan;Elisabetta Ferretti;Valentina Salsi;Kelvin Moses

  • Expression of Pbx1b during mammalian organogenesis

    Catherine A Schnabel;Licia Selleri;Yakop Jacobs;Roger Warnke

  • Abnormalities of caudal pharyngeal pouch development in Pbx1 knockout mice mimic loss of Hox3 paralogs.

    Nancy R. Manley;Licia Selleri;Andrea Brendolan;Julie Gordon

Frequent Co-Authors

Glen A. Evans
Glen A. Evans The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Giuseppe Torelli
Giuseppe Torelli University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Elisabetta Ferretti
Elisabetta Ferretti Sapienza University of Rome
Michael L. Cleary
Michael L. Cleary Stanford University
Axel Visel
Axel Visel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Capucine Picard
Capucine Picard Université Paris Cité
Sergio Ferrari
Sergio Ferrari University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Marco Giovannini
Marco Giovannini University of California, Los Angeles
James H. Eubanks
James H. Eubanks University Health Network

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