Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Tri-I community)
Friday, January 13, 2023
Yukiko Yamashita, Ph.D.
Professor,
Department of Biology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Susan Lindquist Chair for Women in Science,
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Investigator,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Unexpected Mechanisms of Germline Immortality
Recommended Readings:
Empirical Articles
Li, D., Gandhi, D., Kumon, T., & Yamashita, Y. M. (2022). Ribosomal DNA Instability as a Potential Cause of Karyotype Evolution. Molecular biology and evolution, 39(11), msac221.
Watase, G. J., Nelson, J. O., & Yamashita, Y. M. (2022). Nonrandom sister chromatid segregation mediates rDNA copy number maintenance in Drosophila. Science advances, 8(30), eabo4443.
Jagannathan, M., & Yamashita, Y. M. (2021). Defective Satellite DNA Clustering into Chromocenters Underlies Hybrid Incompatibility in Drosophila. Molecular biology and evolution, 38(11), 4977–4986.
Jensen, L., Venkei, Z. G., Watase, G. J., Bisai, B., Pletcher, S., Lee, C. Y., & Yamashita, Y. M. (2021). me31B regulates stem cell homeostasis by preventing excess dedifferentiation in the Drosophila male germline. Journal of cell science, 134(14), jcs258757.
Chen, C., & Yamashita, Y. M. (2020). Alstrom syndrome gene is a stem-cell-specific regulator of centriole duplication in the Drosophila testis. eLife, 9, e59368.
