Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis: The role of Polycomb-mediated epigenetic regulation in embryonic stem cell differentiation
Thornton SR, Butty VL, Levine SS, and Boyer LA (2014). Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 regulates lineage fidelity during embryonic stem cell differentiation. PLoS ONE 9 (10), e110498.
Mazzoni EO, Mahony S, Peljto M, Patel T, Thornton SR, McCuine S, Reeder C, Boyer LA, Young RA, Gifford DK, and Wichterle H (2013). Saltatory remodeling of Hox chromatin in response to rostrocaudal patterning signals. Nat. Neurosci. 16, 1191–1198.
Surface LE*, Thornton SR*, and Boyer LA (2010). Polycomb group proteins set the stage for early lineage commitment. Cell Stem Cell 7, 288–298.
Penn State University
Thesis: Generation of a Drosophila melanogaster CG10440 knockout line