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RNA-dependent chromatin organization during development. BioRxiv, August 17, 2026. doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.14.744931
Alipour, A.*, Lokesh N.R.*, Pownall, M.E.
Synaptic activity controls local exposure of an ‘eat-me’ signal via ANO3-ITPR1 signaling. BioRxiv, June 30, 2026. doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.26.734915
Shroff, K., O'Brien, M.C., Smith, T.J., Fang, J., Yu, K.S., Lombroso, S.I., Feng, S., Chen, C., Mohl, G.A., Rose, I.V., Lokesh N.R., Pownall, M.E., Jan, L.Y., Kampann, M.

In situ Proteomics Unveils Specialized Domains for Extrasynaptic Signaling on Neuronal Cilia. Science Advances, June 3, 2026. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aed5548
Chang CH, Trinh VN, Novak SW, Lokesh NR, Montecinos CK, Boassa D, Pownall ME, Kalocsay M, Nachury MV
- BioRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.10.675452

Microscopy methods for the in vivo study of nanoscale nuclear organization. Biochemical Society Transactions, February 3, 2025. doi: 10.1042/BST20240629.
Lokesh NR and Pownall ME.

Chromatin expansion microscopy reveals nanoscale organization of transcription and chromatin. Science, July 5, 2023. doi: 10.1126/science.ade5308.
Pownall ME, Miao L, Vejnar CE, M’Saad O, Sherrard A, Frederick MA, Benitez MDJ, Boswell CW, Zaret KS, Bewersdorf J, Giraldez AJ.
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The landscape of pioneer factor activity reveals the mechanisms of chromatin reprogramming and genome activation. Molecular Cell, Feb 18, 2022. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2022.01.024.
Miao L*, Tang Y*, Bonneau AR, Chan SH, Kojima ML, Pownall ME, Vejnar CE, Gao F, Krishnaswamy S, Hendry CE, Giraldez AJ. (* co-first authors)

Xenopus Embryos Show a Compensatory Response Following Perturbation of the Notch Signaling Pathway. Developmental Biology. (2020) doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2019.12.016.
Solini GE*, Pownall ME*, Hillenbrand MJ, Tocheny CE, Halleran AD, Bianchi CH, Huyck RE, Paudel S, Saha MS. (* co-first authors)

Histological observation of teratogenic phenotypes induced in frog embryo assays. Teratogenicity Testing. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1797, Humana Press, New York, NY (2018). doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7883-0_16.
Pownall ME, Saha MS.
Transcriptome of Xenopus andrei, an octoploid frog, during embryonic development. Data in Brief. (2018). doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.05.017.
Pownall ME, Cutler RR, and Saha MS.