Nelson Lau, PhD
Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Other Positions
- Director of Genome Institute, Dean’s Office, Boston University
- Graduate Faculty (Primary Mentor of Grad Students), Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD
- State University of New York at Albany, BS
Publications
- Published on 10/25/2024
Dayama G, Gupta S, Connizzo BK, Labadorf AT, Myers RH, Lau NC. Transposable element small and long RNAs in aging brains and implications in Huntington's and Parkinson's disease. bioRxiv. 2024 Oct 25. PMID: 39484439.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/9/2024
Azad MF, Tong T, Lau NC. Transposable Element (TE) insertion predictions from RNAseq inputs and TE impact on RNA splicing and gene expression in Drosophila brain transcriptomes. Mob DNA. 2024 Oct 09; 15(1):20. PMID: 39385293.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/12/2024
Alizada A, Martins A, Mouniée N, Rodriguez Suarez JV, Bertin B, Gueguen N, Mirouse V, Maupetit-Mehouas S, Rivera AJ, Lau NC, Hannon GJ, Nicholson BC, Brasset E. The transcription factor Traffic jam orchestrates the somatic piRNA pathway in Drosophila ovaries. bioRxiv. 2024 Sep 12. PMID: 39314383.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/16/2024
Rivera A, Lee JR, Gupta S, Yang L, Goel RK, Zaia J, Lau NC. Traffic Jam activates the Flamenco piRNA cluster locus and the Piwi pathway to ensure transposon silencing and Drosophila fertility. bioRxiv. 2024 Aug 16. PMID: 39211177.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/6/2024
Gupta S, Sharma R, Williams AE, Sanchez-Vargas I, Rose NH, Zhang C, Crosbie-Villaseca A, Zhu Z, Dayama G, Gloria-Soria A, Brackney DE, Manning J, Wheeler SS, Caranci A, Reyes T, Sylla M, Badolo A, Akorli J, Aribodor OB, Ayala D, Liu WL, Chen CH, Vasquez C, Acosta CG, Ponlawat A, Magalhaes T, Carter B, Wesson D, Surin D, Younger MA, Costa-da-Silva AL, DeGennaro M, Bergman A, Lambrechts L, McBride CS, Olson KE, Calvo E, Lau NC. Global genomics of Aedes aegypti unveils widespread and novel infectious viruses capable of triggering a small RNA response. bioRxiv. 2024 Jun 06. PMID: 38895463.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/30/2024
Lau NC, Macias VM. Transposon and Transgene Tribulations in Mosquitoes: A Perspective of piRNA Proportions. DNA (Basel). 2024 Jun; 4(2):104-128. PMID: 39076684.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/10/2024
Yabaji SM, Zhernovkov V, Araveti PB, Lata S, Rukhlenko OS, Abdullatif SA, Alekseev Y, Ma Q, Dayama G, Lau NC, Bishai WR, Crossland NA, Campbell JD, Kholodenko BN, Gimelbrant AA, Kobzik L, Kramnik I. Myc Dysregulation in Activated Macrophages Initiates Iron-Mediated Lipid Peroxidation that Fuels Type I Interferon and Compromises TB Resistance. bioRxiv. 2024 Mar 10. PMID: 38496444.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/7/2024
Ma Q, Srivastav SP, Gamez S, Dayama G, Feitosa-Suntheimer F, Patterson EI, Johnson RM, Matson EM, Gold AS, Brackney DE, Connor JH, Colpitts TM, Hughes GL, Rasgon JL, Nolan T, Akbari OS, Lau NC. Corrigendum: A mosquito small RNA genomics resource reveals dynamic evolution and host responses to viruses and transposons. Genome Res. 2024 Feb 07; 34(1):160. PMID: 38326031.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/28/2022
Henderson C, Brustolin M, Hegde S, Dayama G, Lau N, Hughes GL, Bergey C, Rasgon JL. Transcriptomic and small RNA response to Mayaro virus infection in Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2022 Jun; 16(6):e0010507. PMID: 35763539.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/23/2022
Feitosa-Suntheimer F, Zhu Z, Mameli E, Dayama G, Gold AS, Broos-Caldwell A, Troupin A, Rippee-Brooks M, Corley RB, Lau NC, Colpitts TM, Londoño-Renteria B. Dengue Virus-2 Infection Affects Fecundity and Elicits Specific Transcriptional Changes in the Ovaries of Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes. Front Microbiol. 2022; 13:886787. PMID: 35814655.
Read at: PubMed
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