Na Xu


Education:
2000 B.S. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2006 Ph.D. Harvard University
2007- Postdoctoral Fellow Univ. of California Santa Barbara

Research Interests:
MicroRNA and epigenetic control in cellular fate determination.

Publications:
  • Xu N, Tsai CL, Lee JT. Transient Homologous Chromosome Pairing Marks the Onset of X Inactivation. Science, 2006 Feb 24; 311(5764):1149-52.
  • Cohen DE, Davidow LS, Erwin JA, Xu N, Warshawsky D, Lee JT. The DXPas34 repeat regulates random and imprinted X inactivation. Dev Cell. 2007 Jan; 12(1):57-71.
  • Donohoe ME, Zhang LF, Xu N, Shi Y, Lee JT. Identification of a Ctcf cofactor, Yy1, for the X chromosome binary switch. Mol Cell. 2007 Jan 12; 25(1):43-56.
  • Anguera MC, Sun BK, Xu N, Lee JT. X-chromosome kiss and tell: how the Xs go their separate ways. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 2006 71:429-37.

E-mail: nxu at lifesci.ucsb.edu

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