Email sanfilip@sloankettering.edu Dissertation Landscape, biogenesis and function of 3’ UTR isoforms in Drosophila (2017) Mentor Eric C. Lai, PhD Start Year 2009 End Year 2017 Education Keyon College Fellowships Geoffrey Beene Graduate Student Fellowship (2010-2011) Publications Sanfilippo P, Wen J, Lai EC. (2017) Landscape and evolution of tissue-specific alternative polyadenylation across Drosophila species. Genome Biol. 18, 229. PMCID: PMC5707805 Lin CJ, Wen J, Bejarano F, Hu F, Bortolamiol-Becet D, Kan L, Sanfilippo P, Kondo S, Lai EC. (2017) Characterization of a TUTase/RNase complex required for Drosophila gametogenesis. RNA. 23, 284-296. PMCID: PMC5311484 [Available on 2018-03-01] Sanfilippo P, Miura P, Lai EC. (2017) Genome-wide profiling of the 3’ ends of polyadenylated RNAs. Methods 126, 86-94. PMCID: PMC5583017 [Available on 2018-08-15] Sanfilippo P, Smibert P, Duan H, Lai EC. (2016) Neural specificity of the RNA-binding protein Elav is achieved by post-transcriptional repression in non-neural tissues. Development 143, 4474-4485. PMCID: PMC5201049 [Available on 2017-12-01] Sanfilippo P, Smibert P, Duan H, Lai EC. (2017) Neural specificity of the RNA-binding protein Elav is achieved by post-transcriptional repression in non-neural tissues. Development 144, 1578. PMCID: PMC5201049 Shenker S, Miura P, Sanfilippo P, Lai EC. (2015) IsoSCM: improved and alternative 3’ UTR annotation using multiple change-point inference. RNA, 21, 14-27. PMCID: PMC4274634. Garaulet DL, Castellanos MC, Bejarano F, Sanfilippo P, Tyler DM, Allan DW, Sánchez-Herrero E, Lai EC. (2014) Homeotic function of Drosophila Bithorax-complex miRNAs mediates fertility by restricting multiple Hox genes and TALE cofactors in the CNS. Dev Cell, 29, 635-48. PMCID: PMC4111139. Miura P, Sanfilippo P, Shenker S, Lai EC. (2014) Alternative polyadenylation in the nervous system: to what lengths will 3” UTR extensions take us? Bioessays. 36, 766-77. PMCID: PMC4503322. Westholm JO, Miura P, Olson S, Shenker S, Joseph B, Sanfilippo P, Celniker SE, Graveley BR, Lai EC. (2014) Genome-wide Analysis of Drosophila Circular RNAs Reveals Their Structural and Sequence Properties and Age-Dependent Neural Accumulation. Cell Rep., 9, 1966-80. PMCID: PMC4279448. Hayes ET, Wilks JC, Sanfilippo P, Yohannes E, Tate DP, Jones BD, Radmacher MD, BonDurant SS, Slonczewski JL. (2006) Oxygen limitation modulates pH regulation of catabolism and hydrogenases, multidrug transporters, and envelope composition in Escherichia coli K-12. BMC Microbiol., 6, 89. PMCID: PMC1626474. View a full listing of Piero Sanfilippo’s journal articles.