Nathan Schaefer, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Neurology
School of Medicine

Publications (12)

Top publication keywords:
DNA, AncientHominidaePluripotent Stem CellsUrsidaeSoftwareBiological EvolutionHybridization, GeneticAsiaGenomeGenomicsGenetic SpeciationGene LibraryNeanderthalsExtinction, BiologicalSequence Analysis, DNA

• Mapping cis- and trans-regulatory target genes of human-specific deletions.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024 Fair T, Pavlovic BJ, Swope D, Castillo OE, Schaefer NK, Pollen AA
• INTERSPECIES ORGANOIDS REVEAL HUMAN-SPECIFIC MOLECULAR FEATURES OF DOPAMINERGIC NEURON DEVELOPMENT AND VULNERABILITY.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024 Nolbrant S, Wallace JL, Ding J, Zhu T, Sevetson JL, Kajtez J, Baldacci IA, Corrigan EK, Hoglin K, McMullen R, Schmitz MT, Breevoort A, Swope D, Wu F, Pavlovic BJ, Salama SR, Kirkeby A, Huang H, …
• Comparative landscape of genetic dependencies in human and chimpanzee stem cells.
  Cell 2023 She R, Fair T, Schaefer NK, Saunders RA, Pavlovic BJ, Weissman JS, Pollen AA
• Comparative landscape of genetic dependencies in human and chimpanzee stem cells.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 She R, Fair T, Schaefer NK, Saunders RA, Pavlovic BJ, Weissman JS, Pollen AA
• Rethinking nomenclature for interspecies cell fusions.
  Nature reviews. Genetics 2022 Pavlovic BJ, Fox D, Schaefer NK, Pollen AA

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• An ancestral recombination graph of human, Neanderthal, and Denisovan genomes.
  Science advances 2021 Schaefer NK, Shapiro B, Green RE
• Reintroduction of the archaic variant of NOVA1 in cortical organoids alters neurodevelopment.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2021 Trujillo CA, Rice ES, Schaefer NK, Chaim IA, Wheeler EC, Madrigal AA, Buchanan J, Preissl S, Wang A, Negraes PD, Szeto RA, Herai RH, Huseynov A, Ferraz MSA, Borges FS, Kihara AH, Byrne A, Marin M, …
• A novel NGS library preparation method to characterize native termini of fragmented DNA.
  Nucleic acids research 2020 Harkins KM, Schaefer NK, Troll CJ, Rao V, Kapp J, Naughton C, Shapiro B, Green RE
• New middle chapter in the story of human evolution.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2019 Schaefer NK, Shapiro B
• Natural selection shaped the rise and fall of passenger pigeon genomic diversity.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2017 Murray GGR, Soares AER, Novak BJ, Schaefer NK, Cahill JA, Baker AJ, Demboski JR, Doll A, Da Fonseca RR, Fulton TL, Gilbert MTP, Heintzman PD, Letts B, McIntosh G, O'Connell BL, Peck M, Pipes ML, Rice …
• AD-LIBS: inferring ancestry across hybrid genomes using low-coverage sequence data.
  BMC bioinformatics 2017 Schaefer NK, Shapiro B, Green RE
• Detecting hybridization using ancient DNA.
  Molecular ecology 2016 Schaefer NK, Shapiro B, Green RE