Seiji Takayama

This study shows that transposases can act as transcriptional regulators and evolved into transcription factors through loss of catalytic activity.

This paper evaluates Evo 2's ability to predict variant effects in plant genes using Arabidopsis thaliana data, showing it can identify functionally impactful variants.

The paper identifies a toxin-antidote system in Arabidopsis thaliana where a pistil peptide inhibits pollen tube growth and a pollen protein counteracts this effect, contributing to reproductive barriers.

The paper improves structure prediction for cysteine-rich proteins in Brassicaceae and analyzes eSRK-SP11 binding modes across haplotypes.