Claudia Racioppi

The paper investigates the evolution of CTCF's role in chromatin organization across species, finding that vertebrate CTCF enables loop extrusion but requires additional factors for full genome architecture.

This study identifies GATA4/5/6 as conserved regulators of cardiac versus pharyngeal mesoderm fate by analyzing single-cell gene expression in zebrafish and Ciona.

The paper investigates how chromatin accessibility dynamics in cardiopharyngeal progenitors guide fate choices between heart and pharyngeal muscle by analyzing combinatorial regulatory elements in Ciona.

The paper identifies a conserved regulatory program driving lateral plate mesoderm emergence across chordates using zebrafish and comparative analysis.

The paper identifies a cis-regulatory change in the Ebf gene that causes reduced expression in motor neurons of immotile tunicate larvae, contributing to the loss of swimming ability.

The paper identifies an FGF-driven feed-forward circuit that regulates the spatial and temporal differentiation of cardiopharyngeal mesoderm into heart and pharyngeal muscle precursors.