Elisa Israel

The paper investigates epigenetic regulation in the Colorado potato beetle, which lacks DNMT3, revealing that CpG methylation and H3K36me3 correlate with gene expression despite the absence of DNMT3.

The paper identifies multiple TR gene copies in Andrena bees that generate diverse telomeric repeats, showing TR gene duplication drives telomere sequence diversity in insects.

The paper identifies MBD2/3 isoforms in holometabolous insects and finds that the long isoform, capable of methyl-CpG binding, is lost in multiple orders.