Department of Genetics and Evolution
Dr. Robert Maeda is a biologist in the Department of Genetics and Evolution at the University of Geneva. His research focuses on understanding the role of the Drosophila male accessory gland in fertility and the regulation of gene expression in the Drosophila bithorax complex.
Histone chaperone ASF1 cooperates with the Brahma chromatin-remodelling machinery.
Genes & development Oct, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12381660
The ABC of the BX-C: the bithorax complex explained.
Development (Cambridge, England) Apr, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16556913
Probing long-distance regulatory interactions in the Drosophila melanogaster bithorax complex using Dam identification.
Nature genetics Aug, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16823379
An optimized transgenesis system for Drosophila using germ-line-specific phiC31 integrases.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Feb, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17360644
Making connections: boundaries and insulators in Drosophila.
Current opinion in genetics & development Oct, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17904351
Boundary swapping in the Drosophila Bithorax complex.
Development (Cambridge, England) Dec, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18987027
The bithorax complex of Drosophila an exceptional Hox cluster.
Current topics in developmental biology , 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19651300
Cis-regulation in the Drosophila Bithorax Complex.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology , 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20795320
Initiator elements function to determine the activity state of BX-C enhancers.
PLoS genetics , 2010 | Pubmed ID: 21203501
Gene expression in time and space: additive vs hierarchical organization of cis-regulatory regions.
Current opinion in genetics & development Apr, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21349696
abd-A regulation by the iab-8 noncoding RNA.
PLoS genetics , 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22654672
A novel function for the Hox gene Abd-B in the male accessory gland regulates the long-term female post-mating response in Drosophila.
PLoS genetics Mar, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23555301
Hox gene regulation in the central nervous system of Drosophila.
Frontiers in cellular neuroscience , 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24795565
DamID as an approach to studying long-distance chromatin interactions.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) , 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25151170
The open for business model of the bithorax complex in Drosophila.
Chromosoma Sep, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26067031
Following the intracellular localization of the iab-8ncRNA of the bithorax complex using the MS2-MCP-GFP system.
Mechanisms of development Nov, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26277563
The Female Post-Mating Response Requires Genes Expressed in the Secondary Cells of the Male Accessory Gland in Drosophila melanogaster.
Genetics Mar, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26746709
The lncRNA male-specific abdominal plays a critical role in Drosophila accessory gland development and male fertility.
PLoS genetics 07, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30011265
Using a phiC31 "Disintegrase" to make new attP sites in the Drosophila genome at locations showing chromosomal position effects.
PloS one , 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30296303
Rab-mediated trafficking in the secondary cells of Drosophila male accessory glands and its role in fecundity.
Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark) 02, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30426623