2026
Nat. Neurosci.

Transcriptomic and phenotypic convergence of neurodevelopmental disorder risk genes in vitro and in vivo.

Fernandez Garcia, M., Retallick-Townsley, K., Pruitt, A., Davidson, E.A., Balafkan, N., ..., Meng, R., ..., Huckins, L.M., Hoffman, E.J., & Brennand, K.

Nature Neuroscience, 1–16

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2025
PNAS

Machine Learning Models Based on Histological Images from Healthy Donors Identify ImageQTLs and Predict Chronological Age.

Meng, R., Zhu, W.Z., Cameron, J.F.C., Ni, P., Zhou, X., Ulammandakh, T., Gerstein, M.

PNAS, 112(46), e2423469122 first

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Nature

The human and non-human primate developmental GTEx projects.

Coorens, T.H., Guillaumet-Adkins, A., Kovner, R., ..., & the dGTEx Consortium [incl. Meng, R.]

Nature, 637(8046), 557–564

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2024
Science

Single-cell genomics and regulatory networks for 388 human brains.

Emani, P.S.*, Liu, J.J.*, Clarke, D.*, Jensen, M.*, Warrell, J.*, Gupta, C.*, Meng, R.*, Lee, C.Y.*, Xu, S.*, Dursun, C.*, Lou, S.*, ..., & Gerstein, M.

Science, 384(6698), eadi5199 co-first

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Nat. Comm.

Structural basis of Acinetobacter type IV pili targeting by an RNA virus.

Meng, R.*, Xing, Z.*, Chang, J.Y.*, Yu, Z., Thongchol, J., Xiao, W., ..., & Zhang, J.

Nature Communications, 15(1), 2746 co-first

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Bio-protocol

Host Receptor Pili for Cryo-EM Single-Particle Reconstruction.

Meng, R.

Bio-protocol, 14(20), e5094 first

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PLoS ONE

Deep learning analysis of fMRI data for predicting Alzheimer's disease: A focus on convolutional neural networks and model interpretability.

Zhou, X., Kedia, S., Meng, R., & Gerstein, M.

PLOS ONE, 19(12), e0312848

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2023
Cell

The EN-TEx resource of multi-tissue personal epigenomes & variant-impact models.

Rozowsky, J., Gao, J., Borsari, B., Yang, Y.T., Galeev, T., Gursoy, G., ..., Meng, R., ..., & Gerstein, M.

Cell, 186(7), 1493–1511

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2022
PLoS Biology

Structural dynamics of receptor recognition and pH-induced dissociation of full-length Clostridioides difficile Toxin B.

Jiang, M., Shin, J., Simeon, R., Chang, J.Y., Meng, R., Wang, Y., ..., & Zhang, J.

PLoS Biology, 20(3), e3001589

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2019
Nat. Comm.

Structural basis for the adsorption of a single-stranded RNA bacteriophage.

Meng, R., Jiang, M., Cui, Z., Chang, J.Y., Yang, K., Jakana, J., ..., & Zhang, J.

Nature Communications, 10(1), 3130 first

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PLoS Biology

Selection and characterization of ultrahigh potency designed ankyrin repeat protein inhibitors of C. difficile toxin B.

Simeon, R., Jiang, M., Chamoun-Emanuelli, A.M., Yu, H., Zhang, Y., Meng, R., ..., & Chen, Z.

PLoS Biology, 17(6), e3000311

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2017
NAR

Structural insights into species-specific features of the ribosome from the human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Yang, K., Chang, J.Y., Cui, Z., Li, X., Meng, R., Duan, L., ..., & Zhang, J.

Nucleic Acids Research, 45(18), 10884–10894

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In Prep.

Integrative Analysis of Extracellular RNA Profiles.

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