I study how regulatory DNA controls transcription in plants: where transcription starts, how much of it happens, and how those decisions change during development and in response to the environment. My work combines genome-wide assays of transcription initiation and chromatin, plant genetics, and computational models of regulatory sequence, and I write and maintain open-source software for the genomics community.
Using csRNA-seq during Arabidopsis germination, I showed that plant enhancers can be transcribed into enhancer RNAs, as in animals (Nature Communications, 2024). I also wrote and maintain universalmotif, a toolkit for sequence motif analysis that has been downloaded more than 150,000 times since 2018.
I am a postdoctoral scientist in Tatsuya Nobori’s group at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich. I did my PhD with Julia Qüesta at CRAG in Barcelona and my MSc with Barbara Moffatt at the University of Waterloo.
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