Margaret S. Saha

The paper isolates and characterizes EPIPs, a novel phage satellite class in Mycolicibacterium aichiense, which induce prophage excision through unique gene content and structural features.

This study examines the survival and spread of engineered Mycobacterium smegmatis and its phage in soil microcosms, finding limited spread and plasmid instability.

The paper identifies differential gene expression between two types of Dbx1-derived neurons in the preBötzinger complex, linking specific genes to their functional roles in respiratory rhythm generation.

The paper describes a crowdsourcing initiative, CACAO, where undergraduates contribute gene function annotations to the Gene Ontology, enhancing coverage and enabling community-driven curation.

The paper introduces a modular genetic system that controls gene expression response time by adjusting protein degradation rates using tags with varying protease affinities.

This study quantifies how the genetic insulator RiboJ increases expression of downstream genes, showing twofold to tenfold increases in protein abundance and twofold increases in transcript abundance depending on promoter strength.