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Doctoral Thesis Title: DNA methylation in early mammalian development Publications while at MIT: 1. DNA methylation dynamics of the human preimplantation embryo. Smith ZD, Chan MM, Humm KC, Karnik R, Mekhoubad S, Regev A, Eggan K, Meissner A.Nature. 2014 Jul 31;511(7511):611-5. doi: 10.1038/nature13581. Epub 2014 Jul 23.PMID: 25079558 Free PMC article. 2. Correction: Evolutionary principles of modular gene regulation in yeasts.…

Friedman Lab Website The Friedman Lab studies how microbial communities form, function, and evolve. We focus on relating the genomes of individual microbes to the properties of the multispecies communities they form, and the evolution of individuals within such complex communiites. To do so, we combine theoretical modeling and simulations, observations of natural communities, and…