Alice Pierce

The paper examines how intron architecture in Arabidopsis thaliana relates to chromatin features, finding that first intron position and intron number correlate with specific histone marks and gene expression patterns.

This study analyzes the diversification of PDS5 proteins across eukaryotes, revealing distinct evolutionary trajectories and specialized cohesin regulatory mechanisms in different lineages.

The paper investigates convergent evolution of histone reader domains fused to MSH6 across eukaryotes, showing evidence of natural selection and links to genome size and mutation rate heterogeneity.

The paper shows H3K4me1 recruits DNA repair proteins to reduce mutations in functionally constrained regions of plant genomes.