Christopher Klapproth

The paper identifies multiple TR gene copies in Andrena bees that generate diverse telomeric repeats, showing TR gene duplication drives telomere sequence diversity in insects.

The paper introduces a software framework for training and evaluating machine learning models to detect functional RNA in genome-wide screens, demonstrating its use in Drosophila melanogaster.

The paper improves the annotation of lncRNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana by integrating 224 transcriptomes and identifies 3772 novel lncRNA genes with functional associations.