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Megan Rothstein

Cornell UniversityORCID 0000-0002-5165-9505Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:mouse· 4 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 3 Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:spatial domain detection· 2 Organism:zebrafish· 2 Assay:ATAC-seq· 1 Assay:ChIP-seq· 1 Organism:Drosophila· 1

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Bezia LemmaiD· 2 shared Celeste M. NelsoniD· 2 shared Katharine GoodwiniD· 2 shared Marcos Simões-CostaiD· 2 shared Ricardo MallarinoiD· 2 shared Aaron H. GriffingiD· 1 shared Alison Pehl· 1 shared Ana Paula AzambujáiD· 1 shared

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2022-2026 · peak 2/yr

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Patterns of Mitochondrial ATP Predict Tissue Folding

Bezia Lemma, Megan Rothstein, Pengfei Zhang, Bridget Waas, Marcus D. Kilwein, Safiya Topiwala, Sherry X. Zhang, Anvitha Sudhakar, Katharine Goodwin, Elizabeth R. Gavis, Ricardo Mallarino, Andrej Košmrlj, Celeste M. Nelson

The paper shows mitochondrial ATP patterns predict tissue folding during embryonic development by analyzing mitochondrial distribution and energy dynamics in epithelial cells.

Science Advances · Apr 22, 2026Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology

Spatial patterning of the epigenome during vertebrate gastrulation

Ana Paula Azambujá, Megan Rothstein, Tatiane Yumi Nakamura Kanno, Marcos Simões-Costa

The paper shows that the epigenome is spatially patterned during vertebrate gastrulation, using chromatin gradients to infer cell positions in avian embryos.

Nature Communications · Dec 15, 2025Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology

Sociosexual behavior requires both activating and repressive roles of Tfap2e/AP-2ε in vomeronasal sensory neurons

Jennifer M. Lin, Tyler A Mitchell, Megan Rothstein, Alison Pehl, Ed Zandro M. Taroc, Raghu Ram Katreddi, Katherine E Parra, Damian G. Zuloaga, Marcos Simões-Costa, Paolo Emanuele Forni

The paper shows that AP-2ε reprograms vomeronasal sensory neurons and their behaviors by controlling gene expression, bypassing cellular plasticity restrictions.

eLife · Sep 16, 2022Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology

A vascular origin for pulmonary smooth muscle in the avian lung

Aaron H. Griffing, Katharine Goodwin, Michael A. Palmer, Chan Jin Park, Megan Rothstein, Benjamin J. Brack, Jorge A. Moreno, Bezia Lemma, Wei Wang, Ricardo Mallarino, Celeste M. Nelson

The paper identifies vascular smooth muscle as the developmental source of pulmonary smooth muscle in birds and shows PITX2 regulates this transition.

bioRxiv · Jul 13, 2022 · PreprintDevelopmental Biology