Brian Black, PhD

Brian Black
Professor & Director
Cardiovascular Research Institute
Research Interests
Gene regulatory networks in cardiovascular development and regeneration
+1 415 502-7628
Faculty Type
Core CVRI Faculty

Research Summary:
Tissues and organs form during mammalian embryonic development through the integration of numerous signaling and transcriptional pathways. Our major goal is to define pathways controlling organ formation to understand normal development, the molecular basis for congenital defects, and potential mechanisms for organ regeneration and repair. We use a combination of gene knockouts, transgenic reporter assays, biochemical, computational, and genomic approaches to investigate basic developmental mechanisms. We primarily use the mouse as a model system, but several current projects also use cultured cells or zebrafish as models to understand developmental gene regulation. Current work in the lab is focused primarily on cell autonomous mechanisms underlying gene regulation, tissue specification, organ formation and metabolic control during cardiovascular, craniofacial, and neural crest development.

Publications

Abstract 11332: Integration of Protein Interactome Networks with Congenital Heart Disease Variants Reveals Candidate Disease Genes.

Circulation

Barbara Gonzalez Teran, Maureen Pittman, Reuben Thomas, Franco Felix, Desmond Richmond-Buccola, Krishna Choudhary, Elisabetta Moroni, Colombo Giorgio, Arun Padmanabhan, Mauro Costa, Yu Huang, Michael Alexanian, Clara Lee, Bonie Cole, Kaitlen Samse-Knapp, Michael McGregor, Casey Gifford, Ruth Huttenhain, Bruce Gelb, Bruce Conklin, Brian L Black, Benoit Bruneau, Nevan Krogan, Katherine Pollard, Deepak Srivastava

Loss-of-function variants in myocardin cause congenital megabladder in humans and mice.

The Journal of clinical investigation

Houweling AC, Beaman GM, Postma AV, Gainous TB, Lichtenbelt KD, Brancati F, Lopes FM, van der Made I, Polstra AM, Robinson ML, Wright KD, Ellingford JM, Jackson AR, Overwater E, Genesio R, Romano S, Camerota L, D'Angelo E, Meijers-Heijboer EJ, Christoffels VM, McHugh KM, Black BL, Newman WG, Woolf AS, Creemers EE

Noncoding deletions reveal a gene that is critical for intestinal function.

Nature

Oz-Levi D, Olender T, Bar-Joseph I, Zhu Y, Marek-Yagel D, Barozzi I, Osterwalder M, Alkelai A, Ruzzo EK, Han Y, Vos ESM, Reznik-Wolf H, Hartman C, Shamir R, Weiss B, Shapiro R, Pode-Shakked B, Tatarskyy P, Milgrom R, Schvimer M, Barshack I, Imai DM, Coleman-Derr D, Dickel DE, Nord AS, Afzal V, van Bueren KL, Barnes RM, Black BL, Mayhew CN, Kuhar MF, Pitstick A, Tekman M, Stanescu HC, Wells JM, Kleta R, de Laat W, Goldstein DB, Pras E, Visel A, Lancet D, Anikster Y, Pennacchio LA

Chromatin stretch enhancer states drive cell-specific gene regulation and harbor human disease risk variants.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Parker SC, Stitzel ML, Taylor DL, Orozco JM, Erdos MR, Akiyama JA, van Bueren KL, Chines PS, Narisu N, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Black BL, Visel A, Pennacchio LA, Collins FS, National Institutes of Health Intramural Sequencing Center Comparative Sequencing Program Authors, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program Authors

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