Posts Tagged ‘smFISH’

The Impact of Space and Time on the Functional Output of the Genome

Marcello Nollmann, Isma Bennabi, Markus Götz, and Thomas Gregor (2021). Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol.: a040378. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a040378.

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Diverse spatial expression patterns emerge from unified kinetics of transcriptional bursting

Benjamin Zoller, Shawn C. Little, and Thomas Gregor. Cell 175(3), 835–847 (2018). (more…)

Single mRNA Molecule Detection in Drosophila

Shawn C Little and Thomas Gregor. In: Gaspar I. (eds) RNA Detection. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1649. Humana Press, New York, NY (2018) (more…)

Maternal origins of developmental reproducibility

Mariela D. Petkova, Shawn C. Little, Feng Liu, and Thomas Gregor. Current Biology 24 (11): 1283–1288 (2014).
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Precise developmental gene expression arises from globally stochastic transcriptional activity

Shawn C. Little, Mikhail Tikhonov and Thomas Gregor, Cell 154, 789–800 (2013).
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Researchers Develop Improved Method to Visualize Biologic Molecules

PLoS Press Release for our first paper on mRNA quantification in whole embryos.

“How are biologic molecules arranged inside the embryo so that embryonic development occurs reliably every time? Princeton researchers, led by Thomas Gregor, an assistant professor of physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, and Shawn Little, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor Eric Wieschaus in the Department of Molecular Biology, have developed a new method to better understand how an embryo’s basic molecular makeup helps ensure that the embryo’s development occurs reliably every time. The results of this research into the fruit fly Drosophila introduce a method for making precise measurements of biologic units (so-called mRNA molecules) that play a key role in development. The findings are published in the March 1st issue of  in the online, open access journal PLoS Biology.”

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The formation of the Bicoid morphogen gradient requires protein movement from anteriorly localized mRNA.

Shawn Little, Gašper Tkačik, Thomas Kneeland, Eric Wieschaus and Thomas Gregor, PLoS Biology 9(3): e1000596 (2011).
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