Christopher Wood

The paper investigates how pericentromeric repeat copy number affects chromosome segregation and gene expression in fission yeast by analyzing natural variation and engineered strains.

The paper compares aging markers between surface and cavefish populations of Astyanax mexicanus, finding that cavefish show less pronounced aging signatures and suggest metabolic shifts, particularly mitochondrial function, contribute to their extended longevity.

The paper identifies how environmental changes trigger the differentiation of skin cell progenitors into Nm ionocytes in zebrafish, showing their response to specific ion levels and hair cell activity.

The paper investigates how shared retinoic acid response elements regulate nascent transcription of Hoxb genes in mouse neural tube development using smFISH.