Faculty

Professional Experience

Senior Investigator, Nuclear Organization and Gene Expression Section, Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, NIDDK, NIH, 2014-Present

Investigator, Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology NIDDK, NIH, 2006-2014

Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Victor G. Corces, Johns Hopkins University, NIDDK, NIH, 2003-2006

Ph.D., Laboratory of Pamela A. Silver, Harvard Medical School, 1997-2002

• DahongChen, Elissa PLei. (2019) Function and regulation of chromatin insulators in dynamic genome organization. Curr Opin Cell Biol.Volume 58, June 2019, Pages 61-68
• Indira Bag, Ryan K. Dale, Cameron Palmer, Elissa P. Lei. (2019) The zinc-finger protein CLAMP promotes gypsy chromatin insulator function in Drosophila. J Cell Sci.132:jcs226092 doi:10.1242/jcs.226092
• Dahong Chen, Margarita Brovkina, Leah H. Matzat, and Elissa P. Lei. (2019) Shep RNA-Binding Capacity Is Required for Antagonism of gypsy Chromatin Insulator Activity. G3.9(3): 749–754 doi: 10.1534/g3.118.200923
• Ezequiel Nazer, Ryan K. Dale, Cameron Palmer, and Elissa P. Lei. (2018) Argonaute2 attenuates active transcription by limiting RNA Polymerase II elongation in Drosophila melanogaster. Sci Rep.8(1):15685. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-34115-1
• Nazer E, Dale RK, Chinen M, Radmanesh B, Lei EP (2018) Argonaute2 and LaminB modulate gene expression by controlling chromatin topology. PLoS Genet.14(3):e1007276. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007276

• Postbac IRTA