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Christa Lanz

Max Planck Institute for Biology

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Organism:Arabidopsis· 6 Approach:statistical model· 6 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 5 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 5 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 3 Research Focus:differential expression· 3 Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Research Focus:genome assembly· 2

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Pangenomic context reveals the extent of intraspecific plant NLR evolution

Luisa C. Teasdale, Kevin Murray, Max Collenberg, Adrián Contreras‐Garrido, Theresa Schlegel, Leon van Ess, Justina Jüttner, Christa Lanz, Oliver Deusch, Joffrey Fitz, Regina Mencia, Rosanne van Velthoven, Hajk‐Georg Drost, Detlef Weigel, Gautam S. Shirsekar

The paper analyzes NLR gene diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana using pangenomic methods to show that multiple mutational processes contribute to NLR variation without a single metric capturing all diversity.

Cell Host & Microbe · Aug 1, 2025Peer-reviewedPlant Biology

The spliceosomal component GAMETOPHYTIC FACTOR 1 (GFA1) regulates a key photoperiodic switch

Sebastian Tiedemann, Lieven Sterck, Hanna Becker, Nicola Nielsen, Cordula Blohm, Daniel Blum, Christa Lanz, Kathrin Maedler, Detlef Weigel, Yves Van de Peer, Rita Groß‐Hardt

This study identifies GFA1 as a key photoperiodic switch regulating long-day flowering by affecting pre-mRNA splicing and photoreceptor signaling.

bioRxiv · Nov 1, 2024 · PreprintDevelopmental Biology

Towards an unbiased characterization of genetic polymorphism

Anna A. Igolkina, Sebastian Vorbrugg, Fernando A. Rabanal, Haijun Liu, Haim Ashkenazy, Aleksandra E. Kornienko, Joffrey Fitz, Max Collenberg, Christian Kubica, Almudena Molla Morales, Benjamin Jaegle, Travis Wrightsman, Vitaly Voloshin, Alexander D. Bezlepsky, Víctor Llaca, , Magnus Nordborg

The paper analyzes whole-genome polymorphism data from 27 Arabidopsis thaliana genomes to highlight challenges and insights in unbiased genetic variation characterization.

bioRxiv · May 30, 2024 · PreprintGenomics

Diploid genome assembly of the Malbec grapevine cultivar enables haplotype-aware analysis of transcriptomic differences underlying clonal phenotypic variation

Luciano Calderón, Pablo Carbonell‐Bejerano, Claudio Muñoz, Laura Bree, Cristóbal Sola, Daniel Bergamín, Walter Daniel Tulle, Sebastián Gómez‐Talquenca, Christa Lanz, Carolina Royo, Javier Ibáñez, José Miguel Martínez-Zapater, Detlef Weigel, Diego Lijavetzky

The paper presents a diploid genome assembly for Malbec grapevine, enabling haplotype-aware transcriptomic analysis to uncover molecular bases of clonal phenotypic variation.

Horticulture Research · Mar 13, 2024Peer-reviewedGenomics

Atlas of telomeric repeat diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana

Yueqi Tao, Wenfei Xian, Fernando A. Rabanal, Andrea Movilli, Christa Lanz, Gautam S. Shirsekar, Detlef Weigel

The paper characterizes telomeric repeat diversity in 49 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions, revealing repeat unit types, evolutionary processes, and haplotype patterns.

bioRxiv · Dec 18, 2023 · PreprintGenomics

Pushing the limits of HiFi assemblies reveals centromere diversity between two Arabidopsis thaliana genomes

Fernando A. Rabanal, Maike Gräff, Christa Lanz, Katrin Fritschi, Víctor Llaca, Michelle G. Lang, Pablo Carbonell‐Bejerano, Ian R. Henderson, Detlef Weigel

The paper compares HiFi and CLR long-read assemblies in Arabidopsis thaliana to assess centromere and rDNA cluster reconstruction, finding HiFi reduces gaps and enables gapless centromere assembly.

Nucleic Acids Research · Nov 10, 2022Peer-reviewedGenomics

High contiguity Arabidopsis thaliana genome assembly with a single nanopore flow cell

Todd P. Michael, Florian Jupe, Felix Bemm, S. Timothy Motley, Justin P. Sandoval, Christa Lanz, Olivier Loudet, Detlef Weigel, Joseph R. Ecker

This paper presents a high-quality, contiguous genome assembly of Arabidopsis thaliana using a single Nanopore flow cell and consumer hardware, demonstrating cost-effectiveness and scalability.

Nature Communications · Feb 1, 2018Peer-reviewedGenomics

Establishment and stability of the latent HIV-1 DNA reservoir

Johanna Brodin, Fabio Zanini, Lina Thebo, Christa Lanz, Goran Bratt, Richard Neher, Jan Albert

The paper analyzes HIV-1 DNA reservoirs during suppressive ART and finds that most viral DNA sequences are similar to pre-treatment RNA sequences, suggesting ART halts viral turnover rather than persistent replication.

bioRxiv · May 23, 2016Microbiology