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Jordan M. Welker

Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU Langone Health
Verified email at nyulangone.org
Cited by 493

The tripartite motif coiled-coil is an elongated antiparallel hairpin dimer

…, V Chandrasekaran, JM Welker… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Tripartite motif (TRIM) proteins make up a large family of coiled-coil-containing RING E3 ligases
that function in many cellular processes, particularly innate antiviral response pathways. …

Efficient targeted integration directed by short homology in zebrafish and mammalian cells

WA Wierson, JM Welker, MP Almeida, CM Mann… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Efficient precision genome engineering requires high frequency and specificity of integration
at the genomic target site. Here, we describe a set of resources to streamline reporter gene …

Expanding the CRISPR toolbox with ErCas12a in zebrafish and human cells

…, Z WareJoncas, C Mann, JM Welker… - The CRISPR …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
CRISPR and CRISPR-Cas effector proteins enable the targeting of DNA double-strand breaks
to defined loci based on a variable length RNA guide specific to each effector. The guide …

Transcriptional adaptation in Caenorhabditis elegans

V Serobyan, Z Kontarakis, MA El-Brolosy, JM Welker… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Transcriptional adaptation is a recently described phenomenon by which a mutation in one
gene leads to the transcriptional modulation of related genes, termed adapting genes. At the …

Cre/lox regulated conditional rescue and inactivation with zebrafish UFlip alleles generated by CRISPR-Cas9 targeted integration

F Liu, S Kambakam, MP Almeida, Z Ming, JM Welker… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
The ability to regulate gene activity spatially and temporally is essential to investigate cell-type-specific
gene function during development and in postembryonic processes and disease …

Parental mutations influence wild-type offspring via transcriptional adaptation

Z Jiang, MA El-Brolosy, V Serobyan, JM Welker… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (TEI) is mostly discussed in the context of
physiological or environmental factors. Here, we show intergenerational and transgenerational …

GeneWeld: efficient targeted integration directed by short homology in zebrafish

JM Welker, WA Wierson, MP Almeida, CM Mann… - Bio …, 2021 - bio-protocol.org
Efficient precision genome engineering requires high frequency and specificity of integration
at the genomic target site. Multiple design strategies for zebrafish gene targeting have …

[HTML][HTML] Endogenous zebrafish proneural Cre drivers generated by CRISPR/Cas9 short homology directed targeted integration

MP Almeida, JM Welker, S Siddiqui, J Luiken… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
We previously reported efficient precision targeted integration of reporter DNA in zebrafish
and human cells using CRISPR/Cas9 and short regions of homology. Here, we apply this …

[HTML][HTML] Partial sequence identity in a 25-nucleotide long element is sufficient for transcriptional adaptation in the Caenorhabditis elegans act-5/act-3 model

JM Welker, V Serobyan, E Zaker Esfahani… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Genetic robustness can be achieved via several mechanisms including transcriptional
adaptation (TA), a sequence similarity-driven process whereby mutant mRNA degradation …

The Gene Sculpt Suite: a set of tools for genome editing

CM Mann, G Martínez-Gálvez, JM Welker… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The discovery and development of DNA-editing nucleases (Zinc Finger Nucleases, TALENs,
CRISPR/Cas systems) has given scientists the ability to precisely engineer or edit genomes …