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Felix Horns

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow of the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation, Caltech
Verified email at caltech.edu
Cited by 1478

Fly Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult fruit fly

…, Y Guo, DE Harris, Y Heifetz, SL Holtz, F Horns… - Science, 2022 - science.org
For more than 100 years, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has been one of the most
studied model organisms. Here, we present a single-cell atlas of the adult fly, Tabula …

[PDF][PDF] Memory B cell activation, broad anti-influenza antibodies, and bystander activation revealed by single-cell transcriptomics

F Horns, CL Dekker, SR Quake - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Antibody memory protects humans from many diseases. Protective antibody memory responses
require activation of transcriptional programs, cell proliferation, and production of antigen…

[PDF][PDF] Lineage tracing reveals the phylodynamics, plasticity, and paths of tumor evolution

…, W Wu, JM Replogle, JL Page, JJ Quinn, F Horns… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Tumor evolution is driven by the progressive acquisition of genetic and epigenetic alterations
that enable uncontrolled growth and expansion to neighboring and distal tissues. The …

Lineage tracing of human B cells reveals the in vivo landscape of human antibody class switching

F Horns, C Vollmers, D Croote, SF Mackey, GE Swan… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.16578.001 Antibody class switching is a feature of the adaptive immune system
which enables diversification of the effector properties of antibodies. Even though class …

Germline-encoded amino acid–binding motifs drive immunodominant public antibody responses

…, LGA McKay, C Bi, Keerti, Y Leng, E Fujimura, F Horns… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Despite the vast diversity of the antibody repertoire, infected individuals often mount antibody
responses to precisely the same epitopes within antigens. The immunological mechanisms …

[PDF][PDF] Classifying Drosophila olfactory projection neuron subtypes by single-cell RNA sequencing

H Li, F Horns, B Wu, Q Xie, J Li, T Li, DJ Luginbuhl… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The definition of neuronal type and how it relates to the transcriptome are open questions.
Drosophila olfactory projection neurons (PNs) are among the best-characterized neuronal …

[PDF][PDF] Engineering RNA export for measurement and manipulation of living cells

F Horns, JA Martinez, C Fan, M Haque, JM Linton… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
A system for programmable export of RNA molecules from living cells would enable both
non-destructive monitoring of cell dynamics and engineering of cells capable of delivering …

Single-cell transcriptomes of developing and adult olfactory receptor neurons in Drosophila

CN McLaughlin, M Brbić, Q Xie, T Li, F Horns… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Recognition of environmental cues is essential for the survival of all organisms. Transcriptional
changes occur to enable the generation and function of the neural circuits underlying …

Signatures of selection in the human antibody repertoire: Selective sweeps, competing subclones, and neutral drift

F Horns, C Vollmers, CL Dekker… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Antibodies are created and refined by somatic evolution in B cell populations, which endows
the human immune system with the ability to recognize and eliminate diverse pathogens. …

Patterns of repeat-induced point mutation in transposable elements of basidiomycete fungi

F Horns, E Petit, R Yockteng… - Genome biology and …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous genomic parasites that have prompted the
evolution of genome defense systems that restrict their activity. Repeat-induced point mutation (…