Colette Picard, Ph.D.

Year of Graduation: 

2019

Advisors/Lab: 

Prof. Mary Gehring

Current Position: 

Postdoc, UCLA, Jacobsen Lab

Doctoral Thesis Title: Dynamics of DNA methylation and genomic imprinting in Arabidopsis

Publications while at MIT:

1.Identification and Comparison of Imprinted Genes Across Plant Species.

Picard CL, Gehring M.Methods Mol Biol. 2020;2093:173-201. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0179-2_13.PMID: 32088897

 

2. Proximal methylation features associated with nonrandom changes in gene body methylation.

Picard CL, Gehring M.Genome Biol. 2017 Apr 26;18(1):73. doi: 10.1186/s13059-017-1206-2.PMID: 28446217 Free PMC article.

 

3. Conserved imprinting associated with unique epigenetic signatures in the Arabidopsis genus.

Klosinska M, Picard CL, Gehring M.Nat Plants. 2016 Sep 19;2:16145. doi: 10.1038/nplants.2016.145.PMID: 27643534 Free PMC article.

 

4. Correction: Natural epigenetic polymorphisms lead to intraspecific variation in Arabidopsis gene imprinting.

Pignatta D, Erdmann RM, Scheer E, Picard CL, Bell GW, Gehring M.Elife. 2015 May 18;4:e08658. doi: 10.7554/eLife.08658.PMID: 25985306 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

 

5. Natural epigenetic polymorphisms lead to intraspecific variation in Arabidopsis gene imprinting.

Pignatta D, Erdmann RM, Scheer E, Picard CL, Bell GW, Gehring M.Elife. 2014 Jul 3;3:e03198. doi: 10.7554/eLife.03198.PMID: 24994762 Free PMC article.