Keith Maggert

Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Vice-Chair, Genetics GIDP
Associate Professor, Cancer Biology GIDP
Associate Professor, Genetics GIDP
Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Department: 
MCB

My laboratory studies how gene silencing stabilizes the genome and epigenome. 

Publications

2023

Kindelay, S. M., and K. A. Maggert, "Under the magnifying glass: The ups and downs of rDNA copy number.", Semin Cell Dev Biol, vol. 136, pp. 38-48, 2023 Feb 28. PMID: 35595601

2022

Bughio, F. J., and K. A. Maggert, "Live analysis of position-effect variegation in reveals different modes of action for HP1a and Su(var)3-9.", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 119, issue 25, pp. e2118796119, 2022 Jun 21. PMCID: PMC9231485 PMID: 35704756

2020

Valori, V., K. Tus, C. Laukaitis, D. T. Harris, L. LeBeau, and K. A. Maggert, "Human copy number is unstable in metastatic breast cancers.", Epigenetics, vol. 15, issue 1-2, pp. 85-106, 2020 Jan-Feb. PMCID: PMC6961696 PMID: 31352858

2019

Maggert, K. A., "Stress: An evolutionary mutagen.", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 116, issue 36, pp. 17616-17618, 2019 Sep 03. PMCID: PMC6731684 PMID: 31434787
Bughio, F., and K. A. Maggert, "The peculiar genetics of the ribosomal DNA blurs the boundaries of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.", Chromosome Res, vol. 27, issue 1-2, pp. 19-30, 2019 Mar. PMCID: PMC6393165 PMID: 30511202
Bughio, F., G. R. Huckell, and K. A. Maggert, "Monitoring of switches in heterochromatin-induced silencing shows incomplete establishment and developmental instabilities.", Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 116, issue 40, pp. 20043-20053, 2019 Oct 01. PMCID: PMC6778184 PMID: 31527269

2015

Deans, C., and K. A. Maggert, "What do you mean, "epigenetic"?", Genetics, vol. 199, issue 4, pp. 887-96, 2015 Apr. PMCID: PMC4391566 PMID: 25855649
Aldrich, J. C., and K. A. Maggert, "Transgenerational inheritance of diet-induced genome rearrangements in Drosophila.", PLoS Genet, vol. 11, issue 4, pp. e1005148, 2015 Apr. PMCID: PMC4401788 PMID: 25885886

2014

Aldrich, J. C., and K. A. Maggert, "Simple quantitative PCR approach to reveal naturally occurring and mutation-induced repetitive sequence variation on the Drosophila Y chromosome.", PLoS One, vol. 9, issue 10, pp. e109906, 2014. PMCID: PMC4186871 PMID: 25285439

2012

Maggert, K. A., "Genetics: polymorphisms, epigenetics, and something in between.", Genet Res Int, vol. 2012, pp. 867951, 2012. PMCID: PMC3335516 PMID: 22567405

2011

Paredes, S., A. T. Branco, D. L. Hartl, K. A. Maggert, and B. Lemos, "Ribosomal DNA deletions modulate genome-wide gene expression: "rDNA-sensitive" genes and natural variation.", PLoS Genet, vol. 7, issue 4, pp. e1001376, 2011 Apr. PMCID: PMC3080856 PMID: 21533076