Anoja G. Perera

The paper identifies pre-hematopoietic stem cells and their niche using spatial transcriptomics in the AGM region, revealing spatial signaling patterns and cellular interactions that support HSC development.

This study optimizes CRISPR-Cas13d for RNA targeting in zebrafish by improving gRNA design, nuclear targeting, and computational prediction, reducing collateral effects.

This paper presents a SNP-based crossover map for Drosophila mauritiana, showing reduced centromere suppression of crossing over compared to D. melanogaster.

The paper shows that amputation position affects tissue proliferation during regeneration by activating position-specific cell states that modulate ECM remodeling.

This study identifies two distinct multicellular niches in fetal liver and adult bone marrow that support hematopoietic stem cells with different cycling states and lineage biases.

This study generates single-cell transcriptomic atlases of the mouse vomeronasal organ, revealing new cell types, lineage relationships, and molecular mechanisms of receptor specification.

The paper identifies Fzd1 as a master regulator of the critical period for olfactory imprinting, showing its role in closing the period to lock in permanent odor memory circuits.

The paper identifies dynamic stem cell microenvironments in planarians that support regeneration by associating with diverse cell types.

The paper shows how a transposon insertion can trigger germline gene silencing via piRNA biogenesis and how a second insertion can reverse this silencing by altering the same process.

Single-cell profiling of zebrafish lateral line neuromasts resolves support cell subtypes and lineages, and fgf3 mutant data show Fgf and Notch restrain Wnt-driven proliferation in parallel.

The paper presents a low-cost method to assemble the Drosophila melanogaster reference genome using long-read sequencing and optical mapping, revealing structural variants and demonstrating cost-effective genome assembly.