Brittany N. Takushi

The paper identifies histone H4 as a repressor of histone gene transcription during G2 phase in germline cells, showing conserved repression across Drosophila and human cells.

This study develops Nascent CUT&Tag to measure transcription factor binding on nascent chromatin and finds that GAF recovers faster than PHO in Drosophila cells, with differences in motif length and functional associations.

This study shows aclarubicin increases RNA polymerase II elongation and alters chromatin accessibility and DNA structures in Drosophila cells.