2019 - Present (ETH Zürich)
* indicates co-first authorship and # indicates corresponding authorship
PREPRINTS
Dystonia-associated Torsins sustain CLCC1 function to promote membrane fusion of the nuclear envelope for NPC biogenesis. Maslennikova, D., Baird, H., Loffreda, A., Ramachandran, K., Kumar, A., uit de Bos, J., Ashiono, C., Frischer-Ordu, K., Luithle, N., Uliana, F., Dey, G., Vanni, S., Jagannathan, M.# and Kutay, U.#. 2025.
Nuclear mechanostability emerges from satellite DNA condensation into chromocenters. Brändle, F.*, Frühbauer, B.*, Ceppi, I., van Heesch, T., Sommer, A., Rivetti, F., Lee, S.S., Morelli, C., Arosio, P., Sintsova, A., Cejka, P., Vreede, J., and Jagannathan, M.#. 2025.
A conserved mechanism of membrane fusion in nuclear pore complex assembly. Fischer, J.S.*, Wojtynek, M.*, Kumar, A.*, Baird, H., Radilova, K., Maslennikova, D., Ramachandran, K., Becker, A.N., Agote-Aran, A., Loffreda, A., Kralt, A., Jagannathan, M., Dey, G., Kutay, U., Vanni, S.#, and Weis, K#. 2025.
Volume buffering in multi-component phase separation. De Monchaux-Irons, L.*, Han, N.*, Frühbauer, B.*, Jiang, J., Allain, F., Jagannathan, M.#, Emmanouilidis, L.#, Michaels, T.C.T.#. 2025.
Meiotic pairing through barcode-like satellite DNA repeats. Skrutl, L., Ropp, C.J., Sintsova, A. and Jagannathan, M.#. 2026.
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Patterns of crossover distribution in Drosophila mauritiana necessitate a re-thinking of the centromere effect on crossing over. Hawley, R.S., Price, A., Li.H, Jagannathan, M., Staber, C., Hughes, S.E.#, Williams, S., Perera, A., Egidy, R.R., Lawlor, A., Miller, D.E. and Blumenstiel, J.P#. 2025. Genetics
Multi-tissue characterization of the constitutive heterochromatin proteome in Drosophila identifies a link between satellite DNA organization and transposon repression. Chavan, A.*, Skrutl, L.*, Uliana, F., Pfister, M., Tirian, L., Baptista, D., Handler, D., Burke, D., Brändle, F., Sintsova, A., Beltrao, P., Brennecke, J. and Jagannathan, M#. 2025. PLoS Biology
A nuclear architecture screen in Drosophila identifies Stonewall as a link between chromatin position at the nuclear periphery and germline stem cell fate. Chavan, A.*, Harke, J.*, Nguyen, S.C., Isenhart, R., Kotb, N.M., Sintsova, A., Ulukaya, G., Uliana, F., Ashiono, C., Kutay, U., Pegoraro, G., Rangan, P., Joyce, E.F.# and Jagannathan, M.#. 2024. Genes & Development.
Genome organization regulates nuclear pore complex formation and promotes differentiation during Drosophila oogenesis. Kotb, N.M., Ulukaya, G., Chavan, A., Proskauer, L., Joyce, E.F., Hasson, D., Jagannathan, M. and Rangan, P#. 2024. Genes & Development.
Principles and functions of pericentromeric satellite DNA clustering into chromocenters. Brändle, F.*, Frühbauer, B.* and Jagannathan, M.#. 2022. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology.
Defective satellite DNA clustering into chromocenters underlies hybrid incompatibility in Drosophila. Jagannathan, M.# and Yamashita, Y.M.#. 2021. Molecular Biology and Evolution.
2013 - 2019 (HHMI/University of Michigan)
The modular mechanism of chromocenter formation in Drosophila. Jagannathan, M.*,#, Cummings, R.* and Yamashita, Y.M.#. 2019. eLife.
Evolution repeats itself in building a species barrier. Jagannathan, M.# and Yamashita, Y.M.#. 2018. Developmental Cell.
A conserved function for pericentromeric satellite DNA. Jagannathan, M., Cummings, R. and Yamashita, Y.M.#. 2018. eLife.
Comparative analysis of satellite DNA in the Drosophila melanogaster species complex. Jagannathan, M.*, Warsinger-Pepe, N.*, Watase, G.J.* and Yamashita, Y.M.#. 2017. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics.
Function of junk: pericentromeric satellite DNA in chromosome maintenance. Jagannathan, M. and Yamashita, Y.M.#. 2017. Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology.