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University of Kansas: Lawrence, KS, US

2008-08-01 to present | Associate Professor (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
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Justin Blumenstiel

Stowers Institute for Medical Research: Kansas City, MO, US

2005-07 to 2008-08 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Hawley Laboratory)
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Justin Blumenstiel

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, MA, US

1997-09 to 1999-05 | Technician (Center for Cancer Research)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Harvard University: Cambridge, MA, US

1999-09 to 2005-05 | Ph.D. (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology)
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Justin Blumenstiel

Brown University: Providence, RI, US

1992-09 to 1996-05 | Sc.B. (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
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Justin Blumenstiel

Funding (3)

Evolutionary dynamics of collateral gene silencing by piRNA

2014-08-01 to 2017-07-31 | Grant
National Science Foundation - Directorate for Biological Sciences (Arlington, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: 1413532
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MRI: Acquisition of Computing Equipment for Supporting Data-Intensive Bioinformatics Research at the University of Kansas

2013-09-01 to 2017-08-31 | Grant
National Science Foundation - Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (Arlington, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: 1337899
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The Epigenetics of RNA Based Silencing and Transposon Control in Drosophila virilis

2010-09-01 to 2014-08-31 | Grant
National Science Foundation - Directorate for Biological Sciences (Arlington, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: 1022165
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Works (30)

Nested likelihood-ratio testing of the nonsynonymous:synonymous ratio suggests greater adaptation in the piRNA machinery of Drosophila melanogaster compared with Drosophila ananassae and Drosophila willistoni, two species with higher repeat content

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
2025-02-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Justin P Blumenstiel; Sarah B Kingan; Daniel Garrigan; Tom Hill; Jeffrey Vedanayagam; A Kern
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Diversification and recurrent adaptation of the synaptonemal complex in Drosophila

PLOS Genetics
2025-01-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Rana Zakerzade; Colin Meiklejohn; Ching-Ho Chang; Kamalakar Chatla; Ananya Krishnapura; Samuel P. Appiah; Jacki Zhang; Robert L. Unckless; Justin P. Blumenstiel; Doris Bachtrog et al.
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Paramutation-like Epigenetic Conversion by piRNA at the Telomere of <i>Drosophila virilis</i>

Biology
2022-10 | Journal article | Author
Contributors: Ana P. Dorador; Martina Dalikova; Stefan Cerbin; Chris M. Stillman; Molly G. Zych; R. Scott Hawley; Danny E. Miller; David Ray; Sergei Y. Funikov; Michael B. Evgen’ev et al.
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

Aging in the Drosophila ovary: contrasting changes in the expression of the piRNA machinery and mitochondria but no global release of transposable elements

BMC Genomics
2019-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Alexandra A. Erwin; Justin P. Blumenstiel
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Invasion of the P elements: Tolerance is not futile

PLOS Biology
2018-10-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Colin D. Meiklejohn; Justin P. Blumenstiel
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Horizontal transfer can drive a greater transposable element load in larger populations.

Journal of Heredity
2017 | Journal article
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Justin Blumenstiel

Holding it together: Rapid evolution and positive selection in the synaptonemal complex of Drosophila

BMC Evolutionary Biology
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84969508838

Contributors: Hemmer, L.W.; Blumenstiel, J.P.
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What drives positive selection in the Drosophila piRNA machinery? The genomic autoimmunity hypothesis

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85007442809

Contributors: Blumenstiel, J.P.; Erwin, A.A.; Hemmer, L.W.
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Whole-genome analysis of individual meiotic events in Drosophila melanogaster reveals that noncrossover gene conversions are insensitive to interference and the centromere effect

Genetics
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84979953886

Contributors: Miller, D.E.; Smith, C.B.; Kazemi, N.Y.; Cockrell, A.J.; Arvanitakis, A.V.; Blumenstiel, J.P.; Jaspersen, S.L.; Hawley, R.S.
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piRNAs Are Associated with Diverse Transgenerational Effects on Gene and Transposon Expression in a Hybrid Dysgenic Syndrome of D. virilis

PLoS Genetics
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84940755526

Contributors: Erwin, A.A.; Galdos, M.A.; Wickersheim, M.L.; Harrison, C.C.; Marr, K.D.; Colicchio, J.M.; Blumenstiel, J.P.
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Population Genetics of Transposable Elements

Academic Press
2015 | Encyclopedia entry
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Justin Blumenstiel

An age-of-allele test of neutrality for transposable element insertions

Genetics
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84901342865

Contributors: Blumenstiel, J.P.; Chen, X.; He, M.; Bergman, C.M.
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Corolla is a novel protein that contributes to the architecture of the synaptonemal complex of Drosophila

Genetics
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84907965097

Contributors: Collins, K.A.; Unruh, J.R.; Slaughter, B.D.; Yu, Z.; Lake, C.M.; Nielsen, R.J.; Box, K.S.; Miller, D.E.; Blumenstiel, J.P.; Perera, A.G. et al.
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Whole genome sequencing in Drosophila virilis identifies Polyphemus, a recently activated Tc1-like transposon with a possible role in hybrid dysgenesis

Mobile DNA
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84895919535

Contributors: Blumenstiel, J.P.
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Terminator oligo blocking efficiently eliminates rRNA from Drosophila small RNA sequencing libraries

BioTechniques
2013 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84887576165

Contributors: Wickersheim, M.L.; Blumenstiel, J.P.
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A whole-chromosome analysis of meiotic recombination in drosophila melanogaster

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84866487894

Contributors: Miller, D.E.; Takeo, S.; Nandanan, K.; Paulson, A.; Gogol, M.M.; Noll, A.C.; Perera, A.G.; Walton, K.N.; Gilliland, W.D.; Li, H. et al.
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Identification of transposable elements of the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) genome

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops, BIBMW 2012
2012 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84875597464

Contributors: Fernando, A.; Huan, J.; Blumenstiel, J.P.; Lin, J.; Chen, X.-W.; Luo, B.
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Evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements in a small RNA world

Trends in Genetics
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-78650630076

Contributors: Blumenstiel, J.P.
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Molecular evolution under increasing transposable element burden in Drosophila: A speed limit on the evolutionary arms race

BMC Evolutionary Biology
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-80052826076

Contributors: Castillo, D.M.; Mell, J.; Box, K.S.; Blumenstiel, J.P.
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Telomeres: A new means to an end

Current Biology
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-79251487041

Contributors: Blumenstiel, J.
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Identification of EMS-induced mutations in Drosophila melanogaster by whole-genome sequencing

Genetics
2009 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-67849099231

Contributors: Blumenstiel, J.P.; Noll, A.C.; Griffiths, J.A.; Perera, A.G.; Walton, K.N.; Gilliland, W.D.; Hawley, R.S.; Staehling-Hampton, K.
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Components of the RNAi machinery that mediate long-distance chromosomal associations are dispensable for meiotic and early somatic homolog pairing in Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics
2008 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-59449110396

Contributors: Blumenstiel, J.P.; Fu, R.; Theurkauf, W.E.; Hawley, R.S.
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Sperm competition can drive a male-biased mutation rate

Journal of Theoretical Biology
2007 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-35748956457

Contributors: Blumenstiel, J.P.
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The formation of the central element of the synaptonemal complex may occur by multiple mechanisms: The roles of the N- and C-terminal domains of the Drosophila C(3)G protein in mediating synapsis and recombination

Genetics
2007 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-37249086577

Contributors: Jeffress, J.K.; Page, S.L.; Royer, S.M.; Belden, E.D.; Blumenstiel, J.P.; Anderson, L.K.; Hawley, R.S.
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Evidence for maternally transmitted small interfering RNA in the repression of transposition in Drosophila virilis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2005 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-27644490641

Contributors: Blumenstiel, J.P.; Hartl, D.L.
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Different regulatory mechanisms underlie similar transposable element profiles in pufferfish and fruitflies

Molecular Biology and Evolution
2004 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-8444229706

Contributors: Neafsey, D.E.; Blumenstiel, J.P.; Hartl, D.L.
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Genome complexity reduction for SNP genotyping analysis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2002 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-0037022677

Contributors: Jordan, B.; Charest, A.; Dowd, J.F.; Blumenstiel, J.P.; Yeh, R.-F.; Osman, A.; Housman, D.E.; Landers, J.E.
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Patterns of insertion and deletion in contrasting chromatin domains

Molecular Biology and Evolution
2002 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-0036900274

Contributors: Blumenstiel, J.P.; Hartl, D.L.; Lozovsky, E.R.
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Erratum: A Rap guanine nucleotide exchange factor enriched highly in the basal ganglia (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (1998) 95:22 (13278-13283))

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
1999 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-0033524446

Contributors: Kawasaki, H.; Springett, G.M.; Toki, S.; Canales, J.J.; Harlan, P.; Blumenstiel, J.P.; Chen, E.J.; Bany, I.A.; Mochizuki, N.; Ashbacher, A. et al.
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A Rap guanine nucleotide exchange factor enriched highly in the basal ganglia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
1998 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-13144282666

Contributors: Kawasaki, H.; Springett, G.M.; Toki, S.; Canales, J.J.; Harlan, P.; Blumenstiel, J.P.; Chen, E.J.; Bany, I.A.; Mochizuki, N.; Ashbacher, A. et al.
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Peer review (4 reviews for 4 publications/grants)

Review activity for Communications biology. (1)
Review activity for Journal of molecular evolution. (1)
Review activity for PLOS genetics. (1)
Review activity for Wellcome open research. (1)