Jennifer C. Love

The paper uses the SunTag system to study mRNA translation regulation in Drosophila, showing leaky repression of maternal hb mRNA and demonstrating its use as a reporter for ribosome pausing and ER-localized translation.

The paper shows spatially regulated mRNA decay sharpens the even-skipped expression pattern in Drosophila embryos by improving stripe definition and affecting segmentation.

The paper estimates mRNA half-lives in Drosophila embryos using RNA-seq time series and Gaussian process regression, showing correlations between mRNA stability and P-body association.