Delaney Farris

The paper identifies evolutionary gains in bivalent chromatin domains in mammalian spermatogenesis and links their ancestral chromatin states to distinct somatic gene functions.

The paper shows that humanized Traf6 promoter sequences in mice affect immune responses but not fertility, revealing distinct roles for germ and immune cells in gene regulatory evolution.

This study shows that DOT1L is essential for transcription of pericentromeric repeats and maintains genome stability by bridging transcription and heterochromatin formation.

This study identifies a novel SIR2 allele in yeast that causes heritable intermediate silencing of gene loci, distinct from complete silencing or expression.