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Amara L. Plaza-Jennings

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiORCID 0000-0002-7203-5507Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:differential expression· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2 Organism:human· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Assay:Hi-C· 1 Assay:long-read sequencing· 1

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R-loop landscapes in the developing human brain are linked to neural differentiation and cell-type specific transcription

Elizabeth A. LaMarca, Atsushi Saito, Amara L. Plaza-Jennings, Sergio Espeso‐Gil, Allyse Hellmich, Michael B. Fernando, Behnam Javidfar, Will Liao, Molly S. Estill, Kayla G. Townsley, Anna Florio, James E. Ethridge, Catherine Do, Benjamin Tycko, Li Shen, , Schahram Akbarian

The paper maps R-loop landscapes in the developing human brain and shows their role in neural differentiation and gene expression programs.

Translational Psychiatry · Apr 13, 2026Peer-reviewedGenomics

HIV integration in the human brain is linked to microglial activation and 3D genome remodeling

Amara L. Plaza-Jennings, Aditi Valada, Callan P. O’Shea, Marina Iskhakova, Benxia Hu, Behnam Javidfar, Gabriella Ben Hutta, Tova Y. Lambert, Jacinta Murray, Bibi S. Kassim, Sandhya Chandrasekaran, Benjamin K. Chen, Susan Morgello, Hyejung Won, Schahram Akbarian

The paper examines HIV integration in the human brain using single nuclei transcriptomics, Hi-C, and IS-seq, finding 3D genomic reorganization and microglial activation linked to HIV infection.

Molecular Cell · Dec 1, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience