Read interviews, first-person essays, profiles, and other features about
people in a wide variety of fields, along with information on journals
& institutions in the topic of Epigenetics. All of the author comments
below are also listed in the site-wide
Author Commentaries listings
(available by month/year or alphabetically).
August
2009
Randy Jirtle; One of the key papers in our Special
Topics Research Front Map on Epigenetic Gene Regulation is
"Transposable elements: targets for early nutritional effects
on epigenetic gene regulation" (Waterland, R.A. and Jirtle,
R.L., Mol. Cell. Biol. 23[15]: 5293-300, August 2003).
This paper was coauthored Dr. Randy Jirtle and Dr. Robert
Waterland, who was a postdoctoral fellow Dr. Jirtle's at the
time. In this interview, ScienceWatch.com talks with
Dr. Jirtle about this paper and its influence on the field of
epigenetics. View
Article
May
2009
Fred Berger; One of the core papers in the
Arabidopsis
thalliana DNA Methylation Research Front Map, which is
a part of our Special Topic on Epigenetics, is "Maintenance of
DNA methylation during the Arabidopsis life cycle is essential
for parental imprinting," (Jullien PE, et al., Plant
Cell 18[6]: 1360-72, June 2006). In this interview,
ScienceWatch.com talks with two of the paper's
authors, Dr. Frederic Berger and Dr. Pauline Jullien, about the
paper and its significance for the research community. View
Article
April
2009
Gail Prins; The June 2006 Cancer Research
paper, "Developmental exposure to estradiol and bisphenol A
increases susceptibility to prostate carcinogenesis and
epigenetically regulates phosphodiesterase type 4 variant 4"
(Ho SM, Tang WY, de Frausto JB, Prins GS, 66[11]: 5624-32) is a
key paper in the Research Front Map on
Epigenetic Gene
Regulation, part of our Special Topic on epigenetics. In
this interview, ScienceWatch.com talks with one of the
authors, Dr. Gail Prins, about the paper and the impact it has
had on the field. View
Article
March
2009
Michael Skinner; According to our Special Topics
analysis on Epigenetics research over the past decade, the
paper "Epigenetic transgenerational actions of endocrine
disruptors and male fertility" (Anway MD, et al.,
Science 308[5727]: 1466-9, 3 June 2005) is a key paper in
the Research Front Map on
Epigenetic Gene
Regulation. The paper, written by Dr. Michael Skinner and
his team of research fellows at Washington State University,
has 234 cites to its credit. In this interview,
ScienceWatch.com talks to Dr. Skinner about the paper
and its impact on the field. View
Article
