Pouya Dini, PhD, spent several years at the Gluck Center as a visiting scholar and now serves as a faculty member at University of California, Davis. One of the projects that he worked on while with the Gluck Center was recently published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).

Dini and his team identified genes whose transcription is biased to either the paternal or maternal chromosome in the equine placenta. Overall, this study contributes to a better understanding of regulatory processes in placental function, evolution and disease, using horses as a model for eutherian mammals’ placenta.

The full paper can be accessed here: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/16/e2006474118#ref-16