Junaid Akhtar

Employment

• Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz Postdoctoral Scientist
  2019 - Present

Education

• European Molecular Biology Laboratory PhD
  2007 - 2011
• Jawaharlal Nehru University School of Life Sciences
  2004 - 2006

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (8)

• Inhibition of histone deacetylation rescues phenotype in a mouse model of Birk-Barel intellectual disability syndrome.
  Nature communications 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13918-4
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• ON selectivity in the Drosophila visual system is a multisynaptic process involving both glutamatergic and GABAergic inhibition.
  eLife 2019 DOI: 10.7554/elife.49373
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• TAF-ChIP: an ultra-low input approach for genome-wide chromatin immunoprecipitation assay.
  Life science alliance 2019 DOI: 10.26508/lsa.201900318
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• Promoter-proximal pausing mediated by the exon junction complex regulates splicing.
  Nature communications 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08381-0
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• m6A modulates neuronal functions and sex determination in Drosophila.
  Nature 2016 DOI: 10.1038/nature20568
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• Conservation of transcription factor binding specificities across 600 million years of bilateria evolution.
  eLife 2015 DOI: 10.7554/elife.04837
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• The exon junction complex controls transposable element activity by ensuring faithful splicing of the piwi transcript.
  Genes & development 2014 DOI: 10.1101/gad.245829.114
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• Analysis of variation at transcription factor binding sites in Drosophila and humans.
  Genome biology 2012 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-9-r49
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