Publications

2023

Ferguson CA, Firulli BA, Zoia M, Osterwalder M*, Firulli AB*. Identification and characterization of Hand2 upstream genomic enhancers active in developing stomach and limbs. Developmental Dynamics. 2023 Aug 8. *Co-last author. PMID: 37551791 https://doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.646

Schindler M, Osterwalder M, Harabula I, Wittler L, Tzika AC, Dechmann DKN, Vingron M, Visel A, Haas S, Real FM. Induction of kidney-related gene programs through co-option of SALL1 in mole ovotestes. Development. 2023; 150(17):dev201562. PMID: 37519269 https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.201562

Losa M, Barozzi I, Osterwalder M, Hermosilla-Aguayo V, Morabito A, Chacón BH, Zarrineh P, Girdziusaite A, Benazet JD, Zhu J, Mackem S, Capellini TD, Dickel D, Bobola N, Zuniga A, Visel A, Zeller R, Selleri L. A spatio-temporally constrained gene regulatory network directed by PBX1/2 acquires limb patterning specificity via HAND2. Nature Communications, 2023;14(1):3993. PMID: 37414772 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39443-z

George RM, Firulli BA, Podicheti R, Rusch DB, Mannion BJ, Pennacchio LA, Osterwalder M, Firulli AB. Single cell evaluation of endocardial HAND2 gene regulatory networks reveals critical HAND2 dependent pathways impacting cardiac morphogenesis. Development. 2023;150(3):dev201341. PMID: 36620995 https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.201341

2022

Marques IJ,  Ernst A,  Arora P, Vianin A, Hetke T,  Sanz-Morejón A, Naumann U, Odriozola A, Langa X,  Andrés-Delgado L,  Zuber B,  Torroja C,  Osterwalder M, Simões F, Englert C,  Mercader N. Wt1 transcription factor impairs cardiomyocyte specification and drives a phenotypic switch from myocardium to epicardium. Development. 2022; 149(6):dev200375. PMID: 35312773. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.200375

​Osterwalder M*, Tran S*, Hunter RD, Meky EM, Von Maydell K, Harrington AN, Godoy J, Novak CS, Plajzer-Frick I, Zhu Y, Akiyama JA, Afzal V, Kvon EZ, Pennacchio LA, Dickel DE, Visel A. Characterization of mammalian in vivo enhancers using mouse transgenesis and CRISPR genome editing. Methods in Molecular Biology. 2022; 2403:147-186. PMID: 34913122. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1847-9_11

2021

Vincentz JW, Firulli BA, Toolan KP, Osterwalder M, Pennacchio LA, Firulli AB. HAND transcription factors cooperatively specify the aorta and pulmonary trunk. Dev Biol. 2021; 476:1-10. PMID: 33757801. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2021.03.011

Kult S, Olender T, Osterwalder M, Markman S, Leshkowitz D, Krief S, Blecher-Gonen R, Ben-Moshe S, Farack L, Keren-Shaul H, Salame TM, Capellini TD, Itzkovitz S, Amit I, Visel A, Zelzer E. Bi-fated tendon-to-bone attachment cells are regulated by shared enhancers and KLF transcription factors. Elife. 2021; Jan 15;10. PMID: 33448926. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.55361

2020

Long HK, Osterwalder M, Welsh IC, Hansen K, Davies JOJ, Liu YE, Koska M, Adams AT, Aho R, Arora N, Ikeda K, Williams RM, Sauka-Spengler T, Porteus MH, Mohun T, Dickel DE, Swigut T, Hughes JR, Higgs DR, Visel A, Selleri L, Wysocka J. Loss of Extreme Long-Range Enhancers in Human Neural Crest Drives a Craniofacial Disorder. Cell Stem Cell. 2020; 27:765-783.e14. PMID: 32991838. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2020.09.001

M Real F, Haas SA, Franchini P, Xiong P, Simakov O, Kuhl H, Schöpflin R, Heller D, Moeinzadeh MH, Heinrich V, Krannich T, Bressin A, Hartmann MF, Wudy SA, Dechmann DKN, Hurtado A, Barrionuevo FJ, Schindler M, Harabula I, Osterwalder M, Hiller M, Wittler L, Visel A, Timmermann B, Meyer A, Vingron M, Jiménez R, Mundlos S, Lupiáñez DG. The mole genome reveals regulatory rearrangements associated with adaptive intersexuality. Science. 2020; 370:208-214. PMID: 33033216. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz2582

De Vries M, Carpinelli M, Rutland E, Hatzipantelis A, Partridge D, Auden A, Anderson PJ, De Groef B, Wu H, Osterwalder M, Visel A, Jane SM, Dworkin S. Interrogating the Grainyhead-like 2 (Grhl2) genomic locus identifies an enhancer element that regulates palatogenesis in mouse. Dev Biol. 2020; 459:194-203. PMID: 31782997. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2019.11.015

2019

Hashimoto H, Wang Z, Garry GA, Malladi VS, Botten GA, Ye W, Zhou H, Osterwalder M, Dickel DE, Visel A, Liu N, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN. Cardiac Reprogramming Factors Synergistically Activate Genome-wide Cardiogenic Stage-Specific Enhancers. Cell Stem Cell. 2019; 25:69-86.e5. PMID: 31080136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2019.03.022

Oz-Levi D, Olender T, Bar-Joseph I, Zhu Y, Marek-Yagel D, Barozzi I, Osterwalder M, Alkelai A, Ruzzo EK, Han Y, Vos ESM, Reznik-Wolf H, Hartman C, Shamir R, Weiss B, Shapiro R, Pode-Shakked B, Tatarskyy P, Milgrom R, Schvimer M, Barshack I, Imai DM, Coleman-Derr D, Dickel DE, Nord AS, Afzal V, van Bueren KL, Barnes RM, Black BL, Mayhew CN, Kuhar MF, Pitstick A, Tekman M, Stanescu HC, Wells JM, Kleta R, de Laat W, Goldstein DB, Pras E, Visel A, Lancet D, Anikster Y, Pennacchio LA. Noncoding deletions reveal a gene that is critical for intestinal function. Nature. 2019; 571:107-111. PMID: 31217582. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1312-2

2018

Osterwalder M, Barozzi I, Tissières V, Fukuda-Yuzawa Y, Mannion BJ, Afzal SY, Lee EA, Zhu Y, Plajzer-Frick I, Pickle CS, Kato M, Garvin TH, Pham QT, Harrington AN, Akiyama JA, Afzal V, Lopez-Rios J, Dickel DE, Visel A, Pennacchio LA. Enhancer redundancy provides phenotypic robustness in mammalian development. Nature. 2018; 554:239-243. PMID: 29420474. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25461

Dickel DE, Ypsilanti AR, Pla R, Zhu Y, Barozzi I, Mannion BJ, Khin YS, Fukuda-Yuzawa Y, Plajzer-Frick I, Pickle CS, Lee EA, Harrington AN, Pham QT, Garvin TH, Kato M, Osterwalder M, Akiyama JA, Afzal V, Rubenstein JLR, Pennacchio LA, Visel A. Ultraconserved Enhancers Are Required for Normal Development. Cell. 2018; 172:491-499.e15. PMID: 29358049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.12.017

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