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Baptiste Rafanel

Institute of Molecular BiotechnologyORCID 0009-0000-4367-0504Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:Drosophila· 3 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Assay:ChIP-seq· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Identification of cis-regulatory modules responding to positional cues regulating the patterned expression of the Drosophila follicle cell fate determinants mid and mirr.

Scott De Vito, Kelvin Ip, Baptiste Rafanel, Mariana Fregoso Lomas, Laura A. Nilson

The paper identifies cis-regulatory modules from the mid and mirr loci that respond to positional cues and drive patterned expression in Drosophila follicle cells.

bioRxiv · Oct 26, 2026 · PreprintDevelopmental Biology

Direct cell-to-cell transmission of retrotransposons

Maya Voichek, Andreas Bernhard, Lea Lauterjung, Maria Novatchkova, Dominik Handler, Paul Möseneder, Liudmila Protsenko, Baptiste Rafanel, Svetlana Iu. Iarovenko, Peter Duchek, Kirsten-André Senti, Julius Brennecke

The paper identifies a noncanonical retrotransposon transmission mechanism in Drosophila that bypasses the need for viral envelope proteins.

Cell · Sep 1, 2026Peer-reviewedGenetics

Antisense transposon insertions into host genes trigger piRNA mediated immunity

Baptiste Rafanel, Liudmila Protsenko, Dominik Handler, Julius Brennecke, Kirsten-André Senti

The paper shows that antisense transposon insertions into host genes trigger piRNA-mediated immunity in Drosophila by generating chimeric transcripts that initiate silencing.

bioRxiv · Jul 28, 2025 · PreprintGenetics