Publications

• Dias Mirandela, M., Zoch, A., Leismann, J.Webb, S., Berrens RV, et al. Two-factor authentication underpins the precision of the piRNA pathway. Nature 634, 979–985. 2024.

• Deaville, L.A., Berrens, R.V., 2024. Technology to the rescue: how to uncover the role of transposable elements in preimplantation development. Biochemical Society Transactions, BST20231262. https://doi.org/10.1042/BST20231262

• Zoch, A., Konieczny, G., Auchynnikava, T., Stallmeyer, B., Rotte, N., Heep, M., Berrens, R.V., et al., 2024. C19ORF84 connects piRNA and DNA methylation machineries to defend the mammalian germ line. Molecular Cell 84 (6), 1021-1035. e11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2024.01.014

• Berrens, R. V.#, et al., 2022. Locus-specific expression of transposable elements in single cells with CELLO-seq. Nature Biotechnology, 40(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-01093-z

• Zoch, A., Auchynnikava, T.*, Berrens, R.V* et al., 2020. SPOCD1 is an essential executor of piRNA-directed de novo DNA methylation. Nature 584, 635–639. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020- 2557

• Schöpp, T., Zoch, A., Berrens, R.V.,et al., 2020. TEX15 is an essential executor of MIWI2-directed transposon DNA methylation and silencing. Nature Communications 11, 3739. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17372-5

• Vasiliauskaitė, L., Berrens, R.V., et al., 2018. Defective germline reprogramming rewires the spermatogonial transcriptome. Nat Struct Mol Biol 25, 394–404. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-018-0058-0

• Sarker, G., Berrens, R., von Arx, J. et al. Transgenerational transmission of hedonic behaviors and metabolic phenotypes induced by maternal overnutrition. Transl Psychiatry 8, 195 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-018-0243-2

• Olova, N., Krueger, F., Andrews, S., Oxley, D., Berrens, RV., Branco, MR., Reik, W. 2018. Comparison of whole-genome bisulfite sequencing library preparation strategies identifies sources of biases affecting DNA methylation data. Genome Biology 19 (1), 33. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1408-2

• Vasiliauskaitė, L., Vitsios, D., Berrens, R.V., Carrieri, C., Reik, W., Enright, A.J., O’Carroll, D., 2017. A MILI-independent piRNA biogenesis pathway empowers partial germline reprogramming. Nat Struct Mol Biol 24, 604–606. https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.3413

• Berrens, R.V.#, et al., 2017. An endosiRNA-Based Repression Mechanism Counteracts Transposon Activation during Global DNA Demethylation in Embryonic Stem Cells. Cell Stem Cell 21, 694-703.e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2017.10.004

• von Meyenn, F., Berrens, R.V et al., 2016. Comparative Principles of DNA Methylation Reprogramming during Human and Mouse In Vitro Primordial Germ Cell Specification. Developmental Cell 39, 104–115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2016.09.015

• Eckersley-Maslin, M.A., Svensson, V., Krueger, C., Stubbs, T.M., Giehr, P., Krueger, F., Miragaia, R.J., Kyriakopoulos, C., Berrens, R.V. et al., 2016. MERVL/Zscan4 Network Activation Results in Transient Genome-wide DNA Demethylation of mESCs. Cell Reports 17, 179–192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2016.08.087

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