Ph.D. in 1991 in Biochemistry with William McClude
Establishment of enhancer identity in the early Drosophila embryo
Mir M, Reimer A, Haines JE, Li XY, Stadler MR et al. (2017). Dense Bicoid hubs accentuate binding along the morphogen gradient.
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Li XY, Harrison MM, Villalta JE, Kaplan T, Eisen MB (2014). Establishment of regions of genomic activity during the Drosophila maternal to zygotic transition.
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Paris M, Kaplan T, Li XY, Villalta JE, Lott SE et al. (2013). Extensive divergence of transcription factor binding in Drosophila embryos with highly conserved gene expression.
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Harrison MM, Li XY, Kaplan T, Botchan MR, Eisen MB (2011). Zelda binding in the early Drosophila melanogaster embryo marks regions subsequently activated at the maternal-to-zygotic transition.
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Li XY, Thomas S, Sabo PJ, Eisen MB, Stamatoyannopoulos JA et al. (2011). The role of chromatin accessibility in directing the widespread, overlapping patterns of Drosophila transcription factor binding.
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Kaplan T, Li XY, Sabo PJ, Thomas S, Stamatoyannopoulos JA et al. (2011). Quantitative models of the mechanisms that control genome-wide patterns of transcription factor binding during early Drosophila development.
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Bradley RK, Li XY, Trapnell C, Davidson S, Pachter L et al. (2010). Binding site turnover produces pervasive quantitative changes in transcription factor binding between closely related Drosophila species.
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MacArthur S, Li XY, Li J, Brown JB, Chu HC et al. (2009). Developmental roles of 21 Drosophila transcription factors are determined by quantitative differences in binding to an overlapping set of thousands of genomic regions.
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Li XY, MacArthur S, Bourgon R, Nix DA, Pollard DA et al. (2008). Transcription factors bind thousands of active and inactive regions in the Drosophila blastoderm.
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Misulovin Z, Schwartz YB, Li XY, Kahn TG, Gause M et al. (2007). Association of cohesin and Nipped-B with transcriptionally active regions of the Drosophila melanogaster genome.
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Moses AM, Pollard DA, Nix DA, Iyer VN, Li XY et al. (2006). Large-scale turnover of functional transcription factor binding sites in Drosophila.
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