Elizabeth H. Bayne

Fission yeast Caprin protein is required for efficient heterochromatin establishment

The paper identifies Cpn1, a fission yeast ortholog of human Caprin1, as a factor that facilitates heterochromatin establishment by regulating non-coding transcripts and interacting with stress granules.

The fission yeast SUMO-targeted Ubiquitin Ligase Slx8 functionally associates with clustered centromeres and the silent mating type region at the nuclear periphery

Separable roles for RNAi in regulation of transposable elements and viability in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces japonicus

The paper investigates RNAi's role in transposable element suppression and viability in S. japonicus, finding RNAi is essential and involved in both post-transcriptional silencing and heterochromatin assembly.