A Commemorative Issue in Honor of Professor Denise P. Barlow: Genomic Imprinting, Epigenetics and Transcriptional Control
A special issue of Epigenomes (ISSN 2075-4655).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2018) | Viewed by 11069
Special Issue Editors
Interests: RNA; genetics; epigenetics; transcription; DNA methylation; genomic imprinting; RNA-Seq; lncRNAs; single-cell; cortex development
Interests: embryology; developmental biology; genetics; epigenetics; endometriosis
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Dear Colleagues,
The open access journal Epigenomes is now accepting submissions for this Special Issue on genomic imprinting, epigenetics and transcriptional control, which is a commemorative issue in honor of Professor Dr. Denise P. Barlow. This Special Issue is Guest Edited by Dr. Florian M. Pauler from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria, and Dr. Quanah J. Hudson, a freelance writer based in Austria.
Denise Barlow was known to many as “a pioneer of genomic imprinting” (Wutz A, EMBO Reports, 2017) and therefore, appropriately, this Special Issue focuses on this epigenetic mechanism, which restricts the expression of a small set of genes to one of the two parental alleles in diploid cells. Her vision was to use genomic imprinting as an “epigenetic discovery model” (Barlow DP, Annu Rev Genet 2011) and following this approach she made major contributions to understanding many aspects of epigenetic transcriptional control. Therefore, we believe it is in her scientific spirit to widen the scope of this issue to “all the weird and wonderful things that can't be explained by genetics.” (Barlow D, RNA Biology Feb, 2015). Denise Barlow loved all aspects of rigorously conducted science, including “negative results” that resolve important questions in a field. Therefore, we encourage submission of review, research and/or methods manuscripts on the following topics:
- genomic imprinting;
- long non-coding RNA;
- epigenetics;
- transcriptional control
- histone modifications
- RNA biology
- allelic expression
Dr. Florian M. Pauler
Dr. Quanah J. Hudson
Guest Editors
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