Michelle Franc Ragsac

The paper investigates how butterflies expand their color vision by adding a second R7 photoreceptor and how the brain accommodates this change through developmental mechanisms.

This paper develops a multimodal framework to prioritize causal genes in childhood-onset asthma by integrating GWAS, bulk eQTL, and single-cell eQTL data, revealing key immune and metabolic genes and improving risk prediction across cohorts.

This paper introduces EGRET, a framework that models both cis and trans-eQTLs to improve gene expression prediction and disease gene discovery, finding it outperforms existing methods in identifying disease-critical genes.

The paper identifies notochord enhancers in Ciona robusta and shows that Zic and ETS sites, along with other factors, regulate enhancer activity through conserved grammar.