* Pollard Lab Undergraduate ** Pollard Lab Graduate

**Wienecke, A., *Barry, M. L., & Pollard, D. A. (2023). Natural variation in codon bias and mRNA folding strength interact synergistically to modify protein expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics, 224(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyad113 

Chou, H. T., Valencia, F. E., Alexander, J., Bell, A. D., Deb, D., Pollard, D. A., & Paaby, A. B. (2021). Diversification of small RNA pathways underlies germline RNAi incompetence in wild C. elegans strains. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.21.457212 

Lee, S. R., Pollard, D. A., Galati, D. F., Kelly, M. L., *Miller, B., Mong, C., Morris, M. N., Roberts-Nygren, K., Kapler, G. M., Zinkgraf, M. S., Dang, H. Q., Branham, E., Sasser, J., Tessier, E., Yoshiyama, C., Matsumoto, M., & *Turman, G. (2021). Disruption of a ∼23–24 nucleotide small RNA pathway elevates DNA damage responses in Tetrahymena thermophila. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 32(15), 1335–1346. https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.e20-10-0631 

Pollard, D. A., Pollard, T. D., & Pollard, K. S. (2019). Empowering statistical methods for cellular and molecular biologists. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 30(12), 1359–1368. https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E15-02-0076

Kuo, S., Egertson, J., Merrihew, G., MacCoss, M., Pollard, D., & Rifkin, S. A. (2019). A simple mass-action model predicts protein timecourses from mRNA trajectories during a dynamic response in two strains of S. cerevisiae. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/805846 

Turman G*, Pollard DA (2019). NucJuke: A tool for re-ranking gRNAs based on chromatin accessibility for CRISPR-Cas9 Experiments in yeast. http://nucjuke.biol.wwu.edu 

Pollard DA, Asamoto C*, Rahnamoun H*, Abendroth A*, Lee SR, Rifkin SA (2016). Natural Genetic Variation Modifies Gene Expression Dynamics at the Protein Level During Pheromone Response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. BioRxiv.org. https://doi.org/10.1101/090480 

Pollard DA, Rockman MV (2013). Resistance to Germline RNAi in a Caenorhabditis elegans Wild Isolate Exhibits Complexity and Non-Additivity. G3, g3.113.005785. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.113.005785 

Pollard DA (2012). “Design and Construction of Recombinant Inbred Lines” in Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) : Methods and Protocols. Rifkin SA (Ed). Springer 1:871.

Li XY, MacArthur S, Bourgon R, Nix D, Pollard DA, Iyer VN, Hechmer A, Simirenko L, Stapleton M, Luengo Hendriks CL, Chu HC, Ogawa N, Inwood W, Sementchenko V, Beaton A, Weiszmann R, Celniker SE, Knowles DW, Gingeras T, Speed TP, Eisen MB, Biggin MD (2008). Transcription factors bind thousands of active and inactive regions in the Drosophila blastoderm. PLoS Biol. 2008 Feb;6(2):e27. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060190 

Clark AG, Eisen MB, Smith DR, Bergman CM, Oliver B, Markow TA, Kaufman TC, Kellis M, Gelbart W, Iyer VN, Pollard DA, Sackton TB, Larracuente AM, Singh ND, Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium (2007). Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny. Nature, 2007. 450(7167):203-18. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06341 

Pollard DA, Iyer VN, Moses AM, Eisen MB (2006). Widespread Discordance of Gene Trees with Species Tree in Drosophila: Evidence for Incomplete Lineage Sorting. PLoS Genetics, 2006. 2:10. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0020173 

Moses AM, Pollard DA, Nix DA, Iyer VN, Li X, Biggin MD, Eisen MB (2006). Large-scale turnover of functional transcription factor binding sites in Drosophila. PLoS Comp Biol, 2006. 2:10. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020130 

Pollard DA, Moses AM, Iyer VN, Eisen MB (2006). Detecting the Limits of Regulatory Element Conservation and Divergence Estimation Using Pairwise and Multiple Alignments. BMC Bioinformatics, 2006. 7:376. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-7-376

Thuet-Davenport, Tanner, “Mapping Genetic Variants Associated with Dynamic Protein Abundance in Haploid Yeast” (2021). WWU Graduate School Collection. 1007. https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/1007

Wienecke, Anastacia, “Codon bias and mRNA folding stability: Two natural controls of protein expression dynamics” (2020). WWU Graduate School Collection. 978. https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/978Wienecke, Anastacia, “Codon bias and mRNA folding stability: Two natural controls of protein expression dynamics” (2020). WWU Graduate School Collection. 978. https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/978

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