Emry O. Brannan

The paper presents chromosome-scale genomes for two walnut species and identifies gene presence/absence differences linked to fungal defense mechanisms between tolerant and susceptible populations.

The paper presents haplotype-resolved genomes of six ape species with high accuracy and provides comparative analyses to study evolutionary diversity and gene family evolution.

This study demonstrates that CRISPR-Cas13d efficiently knocks down specific mRNAs in zebrafish, medaka, killifish, and mouse embryos, leading to significant transcript level reduction and embryonic phenotypes.