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Theodore J. Perkins

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
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Strategies for cellular decision‐making

TJ Perkins, PS Swain - Molecular systems biology, 2009 - embopress.org
Stochasticity pervades life at the cellular level. Cells receive stochastic signals, perform
detection and transduction with stochastic biochemistry, and grow and die in stochastic …

[PDF][PDF] Lyapunov design for safe reinforcement learning

TJ Perkins, AG Barto - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2002 - jmlr.org
… Theodore Perkins was also supported by a graduate fellowship from the University of …
TJ Perkins and AG Barto. Heuristic search in infinite state spaces guided by Lyapunov …

[HTML][HTML] Reverse engineering the gap gene network of Drosophila melanogaster

TJ Perkins, J Jaeger, J Reinitz… - PLoS computational …, 2006 - journals.plos.org
A fundamental problem in functional genomics is to determine the structure and dynamics of
genetic networks based on expression data. We describe a new strategy for solving this …

[PDF][PDF] Transcriptional dominance of Pax7 in adult myogenesis is due to high-affinity recognition of homeodomain motifs

…, JJ Carvajal, CEM Kockx, WFJ van IJcken, TJ Perkins… - Developmental cell, 2012 - cell.com
Pax3 and Pax7 regulate stem cell function in skeletal myogenesis. However, molecular insight
into their distinct roles has remained elusive. Using gene expression data combined with …

[HTML][HTML] A general model of codon bias due to GC mutational bias

GA Palidwor, TJ Perkins, X Xia - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background In spite of extensive research on the effect of mutation and selection on codon
usage, a general model of codon usage bias due to mutational bias has been lacking. …

Spatial weed distribution and economic thresholds for weed control

PK Thornton, RH Fawcett, JB Dent, TJ Perkins - Crop Protection, 1990 - Elsevier
Declining real cereal prices, increased input costs and increased awareness of the environment
are likely to necessitate making spraying decisions on the basis of economic thresholds. …

[PDF][PDF] Systematic discovery of Rab GTPases with synaptic functions in Drosophila

…, EJ Jin, C Kuey, A Lopez, SQ Mehta, TJ Perkins… - Current Biology, 2011 - cell.com
Background Neurons require highly specialized intracellular membrane trafficking, especially
at synapses. Rab GTPases are considered master regulators of membrane trafficking in all …

UTX inhibition as selective epigenetic therapy against TAL1-driven T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

…, J Hébert, JF Couture, TJ Perkins… - Genes & …, 2016 - genesdev.cshlp.org
T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is a heterogeneous group of hematological
tumors composed of distinct subtypes that vary in their genetic abnormalities, gene expression …

[PDF][PDF] Absolute quantification of transcription factors reveals principles of gene regulation in erythropoiesis

…, HM Espinoza, JR Hughes, ND Price, TJ Perkins… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Dynamic cellular processes such as differentiation are driven by changes in the abundances
of transcription factors (TFs). However, despite years of studies, our knowledge about the …

Control of glioblastoma tumorigenesis by feed-forward cytokine signaling

…, SV Puram, AM Scott, IAJ Lorimer, TJ Perkins… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
EGFRvIII-STAT3 signaling is important in glioblastoma pathogenesis. Here, we identified the
cytokine receptor OSMR as a direct target gene of the transcription factor STAT3 in mouse …