An Evolutionarily Conserved piRNA-producing Locus Required for Male Mouse Fertility biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

#PLOSGenetics: The temporal landscape of recursive splicing during Pol II transcription elongation in human c ... dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

I just joined University of Massachusetts Medical School at Worcester as an Assistant Professor this June. My lab is seeking enthusiastic postdoc and students with passion and self-motivation in computational biology/bioinformatics/epigenomics: scholar.harvard.edu/zhouchan/posit…

Great work!!!@kepbod m.genome.cshlp.org/content/early/…

If you are a fan of Alu elements, Alu-transcribed RNAs, and cell-type-specific enhancers, you should not miss this one!

Our new paper about Pol III-transcribed Alu elements was officially published in Genome Research genome.cshlp.org/cgi/content/lo…

"A new study from researchers at UMass Medical School and the University of Queensland in Australia identifies a never-before-seen type of immune response in an animal already known for being unique: the koala bear". medicalxpress.com/news/2019-10-r…

Congrats to all! I heard the story from Bill at Umass and it was one of the best talks I had in 2019! I also want to give a shout-out to Tianxiong (Bear) Yu Zhiping Weng, as I realize her lab was left in many tweets. But man, the bioinformatics part is indispensable in this paper!

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Congrats!!!

Dr. Gao is explaining his cool method, C-BERST, in a crowded room in a very heavy snow day! Congrats to Dr. Gao’ successful and awesome Ph.D defense! Xin "Daniel" Gao

Great job combining dCas9 and APEX2 to enable rapid RNA-guided, subcellar proteomic profiling at specific genomic loci. Congrats to Dr. Gao’ successful and awesome Ph.D defense!

Dr. Zhang is presenting how transposons are controlled by piRNAs! Great and impressive work from his Ph.D. hard work!! Congrats, Dr. Zhang! #GenZhang Ph.D. defense.

A good guide to write in precision!

I'm very excited to share our work on Expanding the Encyclopedias of DNA elements in the Human and Mouse Genomes, which is out today in nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/8

Excited to share our review on SINE elements, their regulatory functions, and disease implications! annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/an… Xiao-Ou Zhang Zlab@UMassMed Annual Reviews

We performed a comprehensive analysis on ~9000 promoters that have open chromatin in most cell types in human and mouse. They belong to cell-essential genes and show distinct regulatory mechanisms. Kaili Fan Jill Moore Xiao-Ou Zhang Zlab@UMassMed @NAR_open doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk…

Bioconda: A sustainable and comprehensive software distribution for the life sciences biorxiv.org/content/early/…

Elimination of PCR duplicates in RNA-seq and small RNA-seq using unique molecular identifiers biorxiv.org/content/early/…