/ Publications

Selected papers.

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  1. 2025
    Leveraging chicken embryos for studying human enhancers
    RM Williams
    Developmental Biology 524, 123-131·Article
  2. 2024
    Chromatin remodeller Chd7 is developmentally regulated in the neural crest by tissue-specific transcription factors
    RM Williams, G Taylor, ITC Ling, I Candido-Ferreira, DM Fountain, ...
    PLoS biology 22 (10), e3002786·Article
  3. 2022
  4. 2021
    Characterising open chromatin in chick embryos identifies cis-regulatory elements important for paraxial mesoderm formation and axis extension
    GF Mok, L Folkes, SA Weldon, E Maniou, V Martinez-Heredia, ...
    Nature communications 12 (1), 1157·Article
  5. 2021
    Ex ovo electroporation of early chicken embryos
    RM Williams, T Sauka-Spengler
    STAR protocols 2 (2)·Article
  6. 2021
  7. 2021
  8. 2021
    Segregation of neural crest specific lineage trajectories from a heterogeneous neural plate border territory only emerges at neurulation
    RM Williams, M Lukoseviciute, T Sauka-Spengler, ME Bronner
    bioRxiv, 2021.08. 08.455573·Preprint
  9. 2020
    Macrophages directly contribute collagen to scar formation during zebrafish heart regeneration and mouse heart repair
    FC Simões, TJ Cahill, A Kenyon, D Gavriouchkina, JM Vieira, X Sun, ...
    Nature communications 11 (1), 600·Article
  10. 2020
    Loss of extreme long-range enhancers in human neural crest drives a craniofacial disorder
    HK Long, M Osterwalder, IC Welsh, K Hansen, JOJ Davies, YE Liu, ...
    Cell Stem Cell 27 (5), 765-783. e14·Article
  11. 2020
    Insights into olfactory ensheathing cell development from a laser‐microdissection and transcriptome‐profiling approach
    SN Perera, RM Williams, R Lyne, O Stubbs, DP Buehler, ...
    Glia 68 (12), 2550-2584·Article
  12. 2020
    Tissue-specific In vivo biotin chromatin immunoprecipitation with sequencing in zebrafish and chicken
    M Lukoseviciute, ITC Ling, U Senanayake, I Candido-Ferreira, G Taylor, ...
    STAR protocols 1 (2)·Article
  13. 2020
    Characterising open chromatin identifies novel cis-regulatory elements important for paraxial mesoderm formation and axis extension
    GF Mok, L Folkes, S Weldon, E Maniou, V Martinez-Heredia, A Godden, ...
    BioRxiv, 2020.01. 20.912337·Preprint
  14. 2019
    Reconstruction of the global neural crest gene regulatory network in vivo
    RM Williams, I Candido-Ferreira, E Repapi, D Gavriouchkina, ...
    Developmental cell 51 (2), 255-276. e7·Article
  15. 2019
    A genome-wide assessment of the ancestral neural crest gene regulatory network
    D Hockman, V Chong-Morrison, SA Green, D Gavriouchkina, ...
    Nature communications 10 (1), 4689·Article
  16. 2018
    From pioneer to repressor: bimodal foxd3 activity dynamically remodels neural crest regulatory landscape in vivo
    M Lukoseviciute, D Gavriouchkina, RM Williams, T Hochgreb-Hagele, ...
    Developmental cell 47 (5), 608-628. e6·Article
  17. 2018
    Genome and epigenome engineering CRISPR toolkit for in vivo modulation of cis-regulatory interactions and gene expression in the chicken embryo
    RM Williams, U Senanayake, M Artibani, G Taylor, D Wells, AA Ahmed, ...
    Development 145 (4), dev160333·Article
  18. 2017
    BRG1-SWI/SNF-dependent regulation of the Wt1 transcriptional landscape mediates epicardial activity during heart development and disease
    JM Vieira, S Howard, C Villa del Campo, S Bollini, KN Dubé, M Masters, ...
    Nature communications 8 (1), 16034·Article
  19. 2017
    A functional approach to understanding the role of NCKX5 in Xenopus pigmentation
    RM Williams, RJ Winkfein, RS Ginger, MR Green, PP Schnetkamp, ...
    PloS one 12 (7), e0180465·Article
  20. 2017
    From pioneer to repressor: Bimodal foxd3 activity dynamically remodels neural crest regulatory landscape in vivo
    D Gavriouchkina, RM Williams, M Lukoseviciute, T Hochgreb-Hägele, ...
    bioRxiv, 213611·Preprint
  21. 2017
    Genome and epigenome engineering CRISPR toolkit for probing in vivo cis-regulatory interactions in the chicken embryo
    RM Williams, U Senanayake, M Artibani, G Taylor, D Wells, AA Ahmed, ...
    bioRxiv, 135525·Preprint
  22. 2016
    Genetic dissection of the α-globin super-enhancer in vivo
    D Hay, JR Hughes, C Babbs, JOJ Davies, BJ Graham, LLP Hanssen, ...
    Nature genetics 48 (8), 895-903·Article
  23. 2016
    Active DNA demethylation at enhancers during the vertebrate phylotypic period
    O Bogdanović, AH Smits, E de la Calle Mustienes, JJ Tena, E Ford, ...
    Nature genetics 48 (4), 417-426·Article
  24. 2016
    Premalignant SOX2 overexpression in the fallopian tubes of ovarian cancer patients: Discovery and validation studies
    K Hellner, F Miranda, DF Chedom, S Herrero-Gonzalez, DM Hayden, ...
    EBioMedicine 10, 137-149·Article
  25. 2016
    Active DNA demethylation at enhancers during the vertebrate phylotypic period
    O Bogdanovic, AH Smits, E de la Calle Mustienes, JJ Tena, E Ford, ...
    Nature genetics 48 (4), 417-430·Article
  26. 2011