Publications

Selected Publications

FOS binding sites are a hub for the evolution of activity-dependent gene regulatory programs in human neurons(bioRxiv, 2025)
Ava C. Carter*, Gabriel T. Koreman*, Jillian E. Petrocelli, Josephine E. Robb, Evan M. Bushinsky, Sara K. Trowbridge, David M. Kingsley, Christopher A. Walsh, Janet H.T. Song, Michael E. Greenberg

Human-chimpanzee tetraploid system defines mechanisms of species-specific neural gene regulation(bioRxiv, 2025)
Janet H.T. Song*, Ava C. Carter*, Evan M. Bushinsky, Samantha G. Beck, Jillian E. Petrocelli, Gabriel T. Koreman, Juliana Babu, David M. Kingsley, Michael E. Greenberg, Christopher A. Walsh

The BAF complex works with FOS to regulate human neuronal activity-dependent ASD-associated gene programs (bioRxiv, 2026)
Sara K. Trowbridge*, GiHun Choi*, Ava C. Carter*, Jillian E. Petrocelli, Josephine E. Robb, Gabriel T. Koreman, Siwei Chen, Ryan N. Doan, Christopher P. Davis, David A. Harmin, Eric C. Griffith, Konrad J. Karczewski, J. Wade Harper, Michael E. Greenberg

Spen links RNA-mediated endogenous retrovirus silencing and X chromosome inactivation (eLife, 2020)
Ava C. Carter*, Jin Xu*, Meagan Y. Nakamoto, Yuning Wei, Brian J. Zarnegar, Quanming Shi, James P. Broughton, Ryan C. Ransom, Ankit Salhotra, Surya D. Nagaraja, Rui Li, Diana R. Dou, Kathryn E. Yost, Seung-Woo Cho, Anil Mistry, Michael T. Longaker, Paul A. Khavari, Robert T. Batey, Deborah S. Wuttke, Howard Y. Chang

Mechanoresponsive stem cells acquire neural crest fate in jaw regeneration (Nature, 2018)
Ryan C. Ransom*, Ava C. Carter*, Ankit Salhotra, Tripp Leavitt, Owen Marecic, Matthew P. Murphy, Michael L. Lopez, Yuning Wei, Clement D. Marshall, Ethan Z. Shen, Ruth Ellen Jones, Amnon Sharir, Ophir D. Klein, Charles K. F. Chan, Derrick C. Wan, Howard Y. Chang, Michael T. Longaker

Challenges and recommendations for epigenomics in precision health (Nature Biotechnology, 2017)
Ava C. Carter, Howard Y. Chang, George Church, Ashley Dombkowski, Joseph R. Ecker, Elad Gil, Paul G. Giresi, Henry Greely, William J. Greenleaf, Nir Hacohen, Chuan He, David Hill, Justin Ko, Isaac Kohane, Anshul Kundaje, Megan Palmer, Michael P. Snyder, Joyce Tung, Alexander Urban, Marc Vidal, Wing Wong