Research Publications

May D*, Yun S*, Gonzalez D, Park S, Chen Y, Lathrop E, Cai B, Xin T, Zhao H, Wang S, Gonzalez LE#, Cockburn K#, Grevo V#. Live imaging reveals chromatin compaction transitions and dynamic transcriptional bursting during stem cell differentiation in vivo. bioRxiv 2022 Oct 07. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.07.511316v1 

Xin T, Gallini S, Gonzalez D, Gonzalez LE, Regot S, Greco V. “Oncogenic Kras induces spatiotempotally specific tissue deformation through converting pulsatile into sustained ERK activation.” bioRxiv. 2022 Sept 17. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.14.507992v1

Wei H, Du S, Parksong J, Pasolli HA, Rogot S, Gonzalez LE, Xin T, Greco V. “Reorganizing niche architecture still preserves organ function in the hair follicle.” bioRxiv. 2022 Sept 08. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.06.506764v1

Gonzalez LE, Tang X, Lin H. “Maternal Piwi regulates primordial germ cells to ensure the fertility of female progeny.” Genetics. 2021 June 17. PMID: 34142134.

Zhu G*, Gonzalez LE*, Lin H. “Piwi in the stem cell niche regulates nurse cell number and oocyte specification.” microPublication Biology. 2020 Nov 18. PMID: 33274324.

Gonzalez LE*, Zhu G*, Lin H. “Ovarian somatic Piwi regulates nurse cell proliferation and oocyte specification in Drosophila.” microPublication Biology. 2020 Nov 18. PMID: 33274329.

Zhang J, Teramoto T, Qui C, Wine RN, Gonzalez LE, Baserga SJ, Hall TM. “Nop9 recognizes structured and single-stranded RNA elements of pre-ribosomal RNA.” RNA. 2020 Aug 26. PMID: 32371454

Gonzalez LE*, Keller K*, Chan K, Thines B. “Transcriptome Analysis Uncovers Arabidopsis F-BOX STRESS INDUCED 1 as a Regulator of Jasmonic Acid and Abscisic Acid Stress Gene Expression.” BMC Genomics. 2017 Jul 17. PMID: 28716048 *equal contribution.

Zhang J, Gonzalez LE, Hall TM. “Structural analysis reveals the flexible C-terminus of Nop15 undergoes rearrangement to recognize a pre-ribosomal RNA folding intermediate.” Nucleic Acids Research. 2017 Mar 17. PMID: 27789691

Zhang J, McCann KL, Qiu C, Gonzalez LE, Baserga SJ, Hall TM. “Nop9 is a PUF-like protein that prevents premature cleavage to correctly process pre-18S rRNA.” Nature Communications. 2016 Oct 11. PMID: 27725644

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*co-first authors

“Live Imaging of Skin Regeneration.” NIH R01, awarded to the Greco lab in 2022. $4,071,960.

“Understanding Skin Tissue Repair in Live Mammals.” NIH R01, awarded to the Greco lab in 2022. $4,086,964.

“Physiological Adaptation to Oncogenic Mutations in the Skin.” NIH R01 for the Greco lab, submitted 2022 and pending review.

“Defining and predicting cell type-specific transcription factor function in vivo.” NIH R01 for the Reinke lab, submitted 2022 and resubmitting spring 2023. 

“Predoctoral Training Program in Genetics” NIH T32 to support 14 Yale Ph.D. students per year, awarded fundable scores in 2022. $5,347,720.

“The Role of the PIWI/piRNA Pathway in Axis Determination.” NSF GRFP to support my doctoral training for three years, awarded in 2017. Approx $138,000.

Du S, Gonzalez LE, Starble R. The Node. “Leaders in the making: Women PhD students in STEM take initiative to define their leadership.” June 2021.

Writer and Fact-Checker with the Public Immunization Education and Community Effort campaign, creating materials about COVID-19 vaccinations for local at-risk populations. Spring 2021. 

Gonzalez, LE with the Graduate Writing Lab. “National Institutes of Health NRSA F30/F31: Quick Start Guide.” January 2021.

Gonzalez, LE with the Graduate Writing Lab. “Application Guide to the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.” August 2020.

Speaker with Yale’s Science in the News Presented the talk “The Emergence of Complexity” about early embryonic development and stem cell biology at five local public libraries. Spring 2018.