Aleksandr Kotov

This study identifies miR-219 as a regulator of neural crest development in Xenopus by showing its role in neural border specification and gene expression modulation.

This study identifies miR-196a as a regulator of neural crest development in Xenopus embryos by repressing immature neural ectoderm programs and promoting neural crest and neuron differentiation.

This paper updates a single-cell transcriptomic atlas of Xenopus embryos, improving gene mapping, read counts, and cell type nomenclature while uncovering new transcription features in germ cells.

scEvoNet predicts cell state evolution by analyzing scRNA-seq data to identify genes involved in evolutionary divergence or co-option across species or cancer datasets.

The paper maps the molecular timeline and regulatory networks driving neural crest emergence in Xenopus tropicalis using single-cell transcriptomics and machine learning.