Doctoral Student I am a researcher in the Schmitz Lab investigating cis-regulatory elements in maize. Education Education: B.S. Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology UCLA 2021-2025 Research Research Areas: Molecular Genetics Research Interests: My research interests are: cis-regulatory biology, chromatin biology, spatial transcriptomics, and plant gene-editing. Labs (please indicate whose lab you are a member of): Bob Schmitz Selected Publications Selected Publications: Boone, B.A., Mendoza, C., Behrendt, N.J., Jacobsen, S.E. (2024). Crystalline domains and intrinsically disordered regions can work in parallel to induce accumulation of MBD6 at chromocenters in Arabidopsis thaliana. Epigenomes, 8:33. Picard, C.L., Ichino, L., Boone, B.A., Buckley, T., Yun, J., Abuhanna, K.D., Zhang, Y., Behrendt, N.J., Soe, S.M.L., Luo, C., Jacobsen, S.E. An antagonistic epigenetic mechanism regulating gene expression in pollen revealed through single-nucleus multiomics. Nature Communications (In Press/Under Revision).
