User profiles for Monika Perez

Monika W. Perez

Bioinformatician, Boston Children's Hosptial
Verified email at childrens.harvard.edu
Cited by 58

[PDF][PDF] An oncogenic enhancer encodes selective selenium dependency in AML

…, Y Jiang, X Shi, M Li, ND Obholzer, T Hu, MW Perez… - Cell stem cell, 2022 - cell.com
Deregulation of transcription is a hallmark of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) that drives
oncogenic expression programs and presents opportunities for therapeutic targeting. By …

A distinct core regulatory module enforces oncogene expression in KMT2A-rearranged leukemia

T Harada, Y Heshmati, J Kalfon, MW Perez… - Genes & …, 2022 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Acute myeloid leukemia with KMT2A (MLL) rearrangements is characterized by specific
patterns of gene expression and enhancer architecture, implying unique core transcriptional …

Transcriptional plasticity drives leukemia immune escape

K Eagle, T Harada, J Kalfon, MW Perez, Y Heshmati… - Blood Cancer …, 2022 - AACR
Our findings point to an adaptive transcriptional mechanism of AML evolution after allogeneic
transplantation whereby combinatorial fluctuations of TF expression under immune …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid-kinetics degron benchmarking reveals off-target activities and mixed agonism-antagonism of MYB inhibitors

T Harada, MW Perez, J Kalfon, FD Braes, R Batley… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Attenuating aberrant transcriptional circuits holds great promise for the treatment of
numerous diseases, including cancer. However, development of transcriptional inhibitors is …

[HTML][HTML] Leukemia core transcriptional circuitry is a sparsely interconnected hierarchy stabilized by incoherent feed-forward loops

T Harada, J Kalfon, MW Perez, K Eagle, FD Braes… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lineage-defining transcription factors form densely interconnected circuits in chromatin
occupancy assays, but the functional significance of these networks remains underexplored. We …

Contrast sensitivity, visual acuity and the effect of behavioural state on optokinetic gain in fiddler crabs

M Perez, ZM Bagheri, C Brown… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
Most animals rely on visual information for a variety of everyday tasks. The information available
to a visual system depends in part on its spatial resolving power and contrast sensitivity. …

Defining the transcriptional control of pediatric AML highlights RARA as a superenhancer-regulated druggable dependency

MW Perez, O Sias-Garcia, A Daramola, H Wei… - Blood …, 2021 - ashpublications.org
Somatic mutations are rare in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (pAML), indicating that
alternate strategies are needed to identify targetable dependencies. We performed the first …

[HTML][HTML] Rara is a druggable super-enhancer regulated dependency in pediatric AML

AS Daramola, M Perez, OS Sias-Garcia, MS Terrell… - Blood, 2019 - Elsevier
Introduction: New approaches to find and then drug pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML)-specific
targets are clearly needed to help the nearly 35% of patients who still die from the …

Designing Oligonucleotide-Based FISH Probe Sets with PaintSHOP

MW Perez, CK Camplisson, BJ Beliveau - Fluorescence In Situ …, 2024 - Springer
Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) enables the visualization of the position and abundance
of nucleic acid molecules in fixed cell and tissue samples. Many FISH-based methods …

Eviction Behaviour in the Kalahari Meerkats

M Perez - 2022 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Evictions are common in a substantial number of social species, yet they have seldom been
studied in detail, and we know relatively little about the causes and consequences of eviction…