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• Gahan, JM, LW Helfrich, LA Wetzel, NV Bhanu, ZF Yuan, BA Garcia, RJ Klose and DS Booth (2024). “Chromatin profiling identifies putative dual roles for H3K27me3 in regulating transposons and cell type specific genes in choanoflagellates.” bioRxiv: 2024.2005. 2028.596151. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.28.596151
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• Schnitzler CE, Chang ES, Waletich J, Quiroga-Artigas G, Wong WY, Nguyen A-D, Barreira SN, Doonan L, Gonzalez P, Koren S, Gahan JM et al. 2023. The genome of the colonial hydroid Hydractinia reveals that their stem cells use a toolkit of evolutionarily shared genes with all animals. Genome Research. 2024. 34: 498-513 https://www.genome.org/cgi/doi/10.1101/gr.278382.123
• Gahan JM, Cartwright P, Nicotra ML, Schnitzler CE, Steinmetz PRH, Juliano CE (2023). Cnidofest 2022: hot topics in cnidarian research. EvoDevo 14: 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13227-023-00217-9
• Agarwal P*, Cadart C*, Fort L*, Gahan JM*, Greenspan L*, Juan T*, Kameneva P*, Miao Y*. 2023. Pathway to Independence: the future of developmental biology. Development 150. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.202360
• Gahan JM^*, Leclère L, Hernandez-Valladares M, Rentzsch F^* (2022). A developmental role for the chromatin-regulating CoREST complex in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis. BMC Biology 20: 184 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01385-1
• Chrysostomou E, Flici H, Gornik SG, Salinas-Saavedra M, Gahan JM, McMahon ET, Thompson K, Hanley S, Kincoyne M, Schnitzler CE et al. (2022). A cellular and molecular analysis of SoxB-driven neurogenesis in a cnidarian. eLife 11: e78793. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78793
• Tournière O, Gahan JM, Busengdal H, Bartsch N, Rentzsch F (2022). Insm1-expressing neurons and secretory cells develop from a common pool of progenitors in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. Science Advances 8: eabi7109. 10.1126/sciadv.abi7109
• Ehrlich W, Gahan JM, Rentzsch F, Kühn FJP (2022). TRPM2 causes sensitization to oxidative stress but attenuates high-temperature injury in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. Journal of Experimental Biology 225. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243717
• Gahan JM^*, Kouzel IU, Jansen KO, Burkhardt P, Rentzsch F^* (2022). Histone demethylase Lsd1 is required for the differentiation of neural cells in Nematostella vectensis. Nature Communications 13: 465.
• https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28107-z
• Gahan JM^*, Rentzsch F, Schnitzler CE (2020). The genetic basis for PRC1 complex diversity emerged early in animal evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117: 22880-22889. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005136117
• DuBuc TQ, Schnitzler CE, Chrysostomou E, McMahon ET, Febrimarsa, Gahan JM, Buggie T, Gornik SG, Hanley S, Barreira SN et al. (2020). Transcription factor AP2 controls cnidarian germ cell induction. Science 367: 757-762. 10.1126/science.aay6782
• Drinnenberg IA, Berger F, Elsasser SJ, Andersen PR, Ausio J, Bickmore WA, Blackwell AR, Erwin DH, Gahan JM, Gaut BS et al. (2019). EvoChromo: towards a synthesis of chromatin biology and evolution. Development 146. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.178962
• Gahan JM, Schnitzler CE, DuBuc TQ, Doonan LB, Kanska J, Gornik SG, Barreira S, Thompson K, Schiffer P, Baxevanis AD, Frank U (2017). Functional studies on the role of Notch signaling in Hydractinia development. Dev Biol 428: 224-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2017.06.006
• Gahan JM, Bradshaw B, Flici H, Frank U (2016). The interstitial stem cells in Hydractinia and their role in regeneration. Curr Opin Genet Dev 40: 65-73 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2016.06.006