Jennifer Fung, PhD

Title(s)Professor, Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences
SchoolSchool of Medicine
Address600 16th Street, #N412B
San Francisco CA 94158
Phone415-514-4311
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    University of California, San FranciscoPh.D.1996 Graduate Division (Biophysics)

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    Quantitative Analysis of Meiotic Chromosome Motion and Pairing
    NIH R01GM137126Apr 3, 2020 - Mar 31, 2024
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Modeling and Analysis of Meiotic Homolog Pairing
    NIH R01GM116895Jun 8, 2016 - Mar 31, 2020
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Upgrading the OMX microscope for extended live imaging and fast live 3-D structur
    NIH S10OD010673May 15, 2012 - May 14, 2013
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Kinetics of Chromosome Synapsis During Meiosis
    NIH R01GM097213Mar 15, 2011 - Feb 29, 2016
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. A High-Throughput Method for Quantifying Drosophila Fecundity. Toxics. 2024 Sep 09; 12(9). Gomez A, Gonzalez S, Oke A, Luo J, Duong JB, Esquerra RM, Zimmerman T, Capponi S, Fung JC, Nystul TG. PMID: 39330586; PMCID: PMC11436201.
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    2. Rapid identification of reproductive toxicants among environmental chemicals using an in vivo evaluation of gametogenesis in budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Reprod Toxicol. 2024 09; 128:108630. Kumar R, Oke A, Rockmill B, de Cruz M, Verduzco R, Shodhan A, Woodruff-Madeira X, Abrahamsson DP, Varshavsky J, Lam J, Robinson JF, Allard P, Woodruff TJ, Fung JC. PMID: 38906490.
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    3. Modeling homologous chromosome recognition via nonspecific interactions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 May 14; 121(20):e2317373121. Marshall WF, Fung JC. PMID: 38722810; PMCID: PMC11098084.
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    4. Screening and characterization of 133 physiologically-relevant environmental chemicals for reproductive toxicity. Reprod Toxicol. 2024 06; 126:108602. Ulaganathan G, Jiang H, Canio N, Oke A, Armstrong SS, Abrahamsson D, Varshavsky JR, Lam J, Cooper C, Robinson JF, Fung JC, Woodruff TJ, Allard P. PMID: 38723698; PMCID: PMC11155672.
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    5. A high-throughput method for quantifying Drosophila fecundity. bioRxiv. 2024 Mar 30. Gomez A, Gonzalez S, Oke A, Luo J, Duong JB, Esquerra RM, Zimmerman T, Capponi S, Fung JC, Nystul TG. PMID: 38585877; PMCID: PMC10996622.
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    6. Screening and characterization of 133 physiologically-relevant environmental chemicals for reproductive toxicity. bioRxiv. 2024 Mar 27. Ulaganathan G, Jiang H, Canio N, Oke A, Armstrong SS, Abrahamsson D, Varshavsky JR, Lam J, Cooper C, Robinson JF, Fung JC, Woodruff TJ, Allard P. PMID: 38585844; PMCID: PMC10996516.
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    7. An Unsupervised Learning Approach to Resolve Phenotype to Genotype Mapping in Budding Yeasts Vacuoles. Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2023. 2023 Sep 5; 14234:247-258. Pastore PV, Alfano AP, Oke OA, Capponi CS, Eltanan ED, Woodruff-Madeira WX, Nguyen NA, Fung FJ, Bianco BS. .
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    8. Efficient unsupervised learning of biological images with compressed deep features. Image and Vision Computing. 2023 Sep 1; 137:104764. Pastore PV, Ciranni CM, Bianco BS, Fung FJ, Murino MV, Odone OF. .
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    9. Homologous chromosome recognition via nonspecific interactions. bioRxiv. 2023 Jun 28. Marshall WF, Fung JC. PMID: 37333079; PMCID: PMC10274854.
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    10. Kinetic analysis of synaptonemal complex dynamics during meiosis of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals biphasic growth and abortive disassembly. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2023; 11:1098468. Pollard MG, Rockmill B, Oke A, Anderson CM, Fung JC. PMID: 36814598; PMCID: PMC9939684.
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    11. Modeling cell biological features of meiotic chromosome pairing to study interlock resolution. PLoS Comput Biol. 2022 06; 18(6):e1010252. Navarro EJ, Marshall WF, Fung JC. PMID: 35696428; PMCID: PMC9232156.
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    12. A Role for Synaptonemal Complex in Meiotic Mismatch Repair. Genetics. 2021 Dec 15; iyab230-. Voelkel-Meiman VK, Oke OA, Feil FA, Shames SA, Fung FJ, MacQueen MA. .
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    13. Steroid hormones regulate genome-wide epigenetic programming and gene transcription in human endometrial cells with marked aberrancies in endometriosis. PLoS Genet. 2020 06; 16(6):e1008601. Houshdaran S, Oke AB, Fung JC, Vo KC, Nezhat C, Giudice LC. PMID: 32555663; PMCID: PMC7299312.
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    14. Network Rewiring of Homologous Recombination Enzymes during Mitotic Proliferation and Meiosis. Mol Cell. 2019 08 22; 75(4):859-874.e4. Wild P, Susperregui A, Piazza I, Dörig C, Oke A, Arter M, Yamaguchi M, Hilditch AT, Vuina K, Chan KC, Gromova T, Haber JE, Fung JC, Picotti P, Matos J. PMID: 31351878; PMCID: PMC6715774.
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    15. Modeling meiotic chromosome pairing: a tug of war between telomere forces and a pairing-based Brownian ratchet leads to increased pairing fidelity. Phys Biol. 2019 05 07; 16(4):046005. Marshall WF, Fung JC. PMID: 30943453; PMCID: PMC6581521.
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    16. Regulated Crossing-Over Requires Inactivation of Yen1/GEN1 Resolvase during Meiotic Prophase I. Dev Cell. 2018 06 18; 45(6):785-800.e6. Arter M, Hurtado-Nieves V, Oke A, Zhuge T, Wettstein R, Fung JC, Blanco MG, Matos J. PMID: 29920281; PMCID: PMC6043783.
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    17. Kinetochores: Importance of Being Fashionably Late. Cell Syst. 2017 06 28; 4(6):585-586. Fung JC. PMID: 28662384.
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    18. In Vivo Imaging of Budding Yeast Meiosis. Methods Mol Biol. 2017; 1471:175-186. Pollard MG, Fung JC. PMID: 28349396.
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    19. Modeling meiotic chromosome pairing: nuclear envelope attachment, telomere-led active random motion, and anomalous diffusion. Phys Biol. 2016 Apr 05; 13(2):026003. Marshall WF, Fung JC. PMID: 27046097; PMCID: PMC5120002.
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    20. DAZL and CPEB1 regulate mRNA translation synergistically during oocyte maturation. Development. 2016 Apr 1; 143(7):e1.2-e1.2. Sousa Martins SJ, Liu LX, Oke OA, Arora AR, Franciosi FF, Viville VS, Laird LD, Fung FJ, Conti CM. .
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    21. DAZL and CPEB1 regulate mRNA translation synergistically during oocyte maturation. J Cell Sci. 2016 Mar 15; 129(6):1271-82. Sousa Martins JP, Liu X, Oke A, Arora R, Franciosi F, Viville S, Laird DJ, Fung JC, Conti M. PMID: 26826184; PMCID: PMC4813292.
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    22. Modeling meiotic chromosome pairing: nuclear envelope attachment, telomere-led active random motion, and anomalous diffusion. Journal of Physical Biology. 2016. Marshall WM, Fung JC .
    23. The kinetochore prevents centromere-proximal crossover recombination during meiosis. Elife. 2015 Dec 14; 4. Vincenten N, Kuhl LM, Lam I, Oke A, Kerr AR, Hochwagen A, Fung J, Keeney S, Vader G, Marston AL. PMID: 26653857; PMCID: PMC4749563.
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    24. Reduced Crossover Interference and Increased ZMM-Independent Recombination in the Absence of Tel1/ATM. PLoS Genet. 2015 Aug; 11(8):e1005478. Anderson CM, Oke A, Yam P, Zhuge T, Fung JC. PMID: 26305689; PMCID: PMC4549261.
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    25. Follicle dynamics and global organization in the intact mouse ovary. Dev Biol. 2015 Jul 01; 403(1):69-79. Faire M, Skillern A, Arora R, Nguyen DH, Wang J, Chamberlain C, German MS, Fung JC, Laird DJ. PMID: 25889274; PMCID: PMC4469539.
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    26. Controlling meiotic recombinational repair - specifying the roles of ZMMs, Sgs1 and Mus81/Mms4 in crossover formation. PLoS Genet. 2014 Oct; 10(10):e1004690. Oke A, Anderson CM, Yam P, Fung JC. PMID: 25329811; PMCID: PMC4199502.
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    27. Down-regulation of Rad51 activity during meiosis in yeast prevents competition with Dmc1 for repair of double-strand breaks. PLoS Genet. 2014 Jan; 10(1):e1004005. Liu Y, Gaines WA, Callender T, Busygina V, Oke A, Sung P, Fung JC, Hollingsworth NM. PMID: 24465215; PMCID: PMC3900393.
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    28. High throughput sequencing reveals alterations in the recombination signatures with diminishing Spo11 activity. PLoS Genet. 2013 Oct; 9(10):e1003932. Rockmill B, Lefrançois P, Voelkel-Meiman K, Oke A, Roeder GS, Fung JC. PMID: 24204324; PMCID: PMC3814317.
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    29. High-resolution restoration of 3D structures from widefield images with extreme low signal-to-noise-ratio. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Oct 22; 110(43):17344-9. Arigovindan M, Fung JC, Elnatan D, Mennella V, Chan YH, Pollard M, Branlund E, Sedat JW, Agard DA. PMID: 24106307; PMCID: PMC3808589.
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    30. Mitochondrial network size scaling in budding yeast. Science. 2012 Nov 09; 338(6108):822-4. Rafelski SM, Viana MP, Zhang Y, Chan YH, Thorn KS, Yam P, Fung JC, Li H, Costa Lda F, Marshall WF. PMID: 23139336; PMCID: PMC3602416.
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    31. ReCombine: a suite of programs for detection and analysis of meiotic recombination in whole-genome datasets. PLoS One. 2011; 6(10):e25509. Anderson CM, Chen SY, Dimon MT, Oke A, DeRisi JL, Fung JC. PMID: 22046241; PMCID: PMC3201961.
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    32. Mapping of crossover sites using DNA microarrays. Methods Mol Biol. 2011; 745:117-34. Chen SY, Fung JC. PMID: 21660692.
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    33. Global analysis of the meiotic crossover landscape. Dev Cell. 2008 Sep; 15(3):401-415. Chen SY, Tsubouchi T, Rockmill B, Sandler JS, Richards DR, Vader G, Hochwagen A, Roeder GS, Fung JC. PMID: 18691940; PMCID: PMC2628562.
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    34. Imposition of crossover interference through the nonrandom distribution of synapsis initiation complexes. Cell. 2004 Mar 19; 116(6):795-802. Fung JC, Rockmill B, Odell M, Roeder GS. PMID: 15035982.
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    35. The Sgs1 helicase regulates chromosome synapsis and meiotic crossing over. Curr Biol. 2003 Nov 11; 13(22):1954-62. Rockmill B, Fung JC, Branda SS, Roeder GS. PMID: 14614820.
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    36. Homologous DNA Interactions in Interphase: Spatial Organization of Interphase Nucleus. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. 2001 Apr 19. Fung FJ, Sedat SJ, Marshall MW. .
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    37. Homologous chromosome pairing in Drosophila melanogaster proceeds through multiple independent initiations. J Cell Biol. 1998 Apr 06; 141(1):5-20. Fung JC, Marshall WF, Dernburg A, Agard DA, Sedat JW. PMID: 9531544; PMCID: PMC2132734.
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    38. New Insights Into the Three-Dimensional Structure of the Nucleus and Chromosomes. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 1997 Aug 1; 3(S2):213-214. Sedat SJ, Marshall MW, Dernburg DA, Fung FJ, Agard AD. .
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    39. Microstructural Analysis of a Cubic Bicontinuous Morphology in a Neat SIS Triblock Copolymer. Macromolecules. 1997 Jun 1; 30(13):3938-3941. Laurer LJ, Hajduk HD, Fung FJ, Sedat SJ, Smith SS, Gruner GS, Agard AD, Spontak SR. .
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    40. Deconstructing the nucleus: global architecture from local interactions. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 1997 Apr; 7(2):259-63. Marshall WF, Fung JC, Sedat JW. PMID: 9115425.
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    41. From Micelles to Randomly Connected, Bilayered Membranes in Dilute Block Copolymer Blends. Langmuir. 1997 Apr 1; 13(8):2177-2180. Laurer LJ, Fung FJ, Sedat SJ, Smith SS, Samseth SJ, Mortensen MK, Agard AD, Spontak SR. .
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    42. Phase Behavior of Complex Diblock Copolymer Blends: A Transmission Electron Microscopy Study. . 1997 Jan 1; 239-241:179-184. Fung FJ, Kane KL, Smith SS, Sedat SJ, Agard AD, Spontak SR. .
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    43. Direct measurement of chromatin diffusion and constraint in living cells using a gfp-lac repressor fusion protein. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 1996 Aug 11; 54:740-741. Marshall MW, Straight SA, Murray MA, Fung FJ, Marko MJ, Agard AD, Sedat SJ. .
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    44. Perturbation of nuclear architecture by long-distance chromosome interactions. Cell. 1996 May 31; 85(5):745-59. Dernburg AF, Broman KW, Fung JC, Marshall WF, Philips J, Agard DA, Sedat JW. PMID: 8646782.
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    45. Toward fully automated high-resolution electron tomography. Journal of Structural Biology. 1996; 116(1):181-9. Fung JC, Liu W, de Ruijter WJ, Chen H, Abbey CK, Sedat JW, Agard DA .
    46. Phase Behavior of Ordered Diblock Copolymer Blends:  Effect of Compositional Heterogeneity. Macromolecules. 1996 Jan 1; 29(13):4494-4507. Spontak SR, Fung FJ, Braunfeld BM, Sedat SJ, Agard AD, Kane KL, Smith SS, Satkowski SM, Ashraf AA, Hajduk HD, Gruner GS. .
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    47. Architecture-Induced Phase Immiscibility in a Diblock/Multiblock Copolymer Blend. Macromolecules. 1996 Jan 1; 29(8):2850-2856. Spontak SR, Fung FJ, Braunfeld BM, Sedat SJ, Agard AD, Ashraf AA, Smith SS. .
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    48. Three-dimensional structural characterization of centrosomes from early Drosophila embryos. J Cell Biol. 1995 Sep; 130(5):1149-59. Moritz M, Braunfeld MB, Fung JC, Sedat JW, Alberts BM, Agard DA. PMID: 7657699; PMCID: PMC2120545.
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    49. Automated electron tomography: from data collection to image processing. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 1995 Aug 13; 53:26-27. Liu LW, Fung FJ, de Ruijter dW, Chen CH, Sedat SJ, Agard AD. .
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    50. Automatic/interactive bead alignment in electron tomographic image processing. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 1994 Jan 1; 52:932-933. Liu LW, Fung FJ, Abbey AC, Sedat SJ, Agard AD. .
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    51. Three-Dimensional reconstruction of the synaptonemal complex from high-pressure frozen maize meiocytes using IVEM Tomography. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 1994 Jan 1; 52:14-15. Fung FJ, Agard AD, Sedat SJ. .
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    52. Three-Dimensional reconstruction of the synaptonemal complex from pachytene maize meiocytes using Electron Microscopy tomography. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 1993 Aug 1; 51:182-183. Fung FJ, Scalettar SB, Agard AD, Sedat SJ. .
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