Valerie Tornini

Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology And Physiology, University of California Los Angeles

Assistant Professor, Institute for Society And Genetics, University of California Los Angeles

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Interests

chromatin regulation, neurodevelopment, evolution, bioethics, cell identity, zebrafish, genetics, micropeptides

Publications

  1. Tornini VA. Grand roles for microproteins.. Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2025.
  2. Tornini VA, Fernandez RW, Goldman OV, Suarez J. DEI infrastructures required for the best science and medicine.. Lancet (London, England), 2024.
  3. Youlten SE, Miao L, Hoppe C, Boswell CW, Musaev D, Abdelmessih M, Krishnaswamy S, Tornini VA, Giraldez AJ. Novel cell states arise in embryonic cells devoid of key reprogramming factors.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2024.
  4. Tornini VA. Small protein plays with big networks.. Trends in genetics : TIG, 2023.
  5. Tornini VA, Miao L, Lee HJ, Gerson T, Dube SE, Schmidt V, Kroll F, Tang Y, Du K, Kuchroo M, Vejnar CE, Bazzini AA, Krishnaswamy S, Rihel J, Giraldez AJ. linc-mipep and linc-wrb encode micropeptides that regulate chromatin accessibility in vertebrate-specific neural cells.. eLife, 2023.
  6. Tornini VA, Peregalli Politi S, Bruce L, Latham SR. Maximizing biomedical research impacts through bioethical considerations.. Disease models & mechanisms, 2023.
  7. Strayer EC, Tornini VA, Giraldez AJ. Giving translation a hand.. Developmental cell, 2021.
  8. De Simone A, Evanitsky MN, Hayden L, Cox BD, Wang J, Tornini VA, Ou J, Chao A, Poss KD, Di Talia S. Control of osteoblast regeneration by a train of Erk activity waves.. Nature, 2021.
  9. Han Y, Chen A, Umansky KB, Oonk KA, Choi WY, Dickson AL, Ou J, Cigliola V, Yifa O, Cao J, Tornini VA, Cox BD, Tzahor E, Poss KD. Vitamin D Stimulates Cardiomyocyte Proliferation and Controls Organ Size and Regeneration in Zebrafish.. Developmental cell, 2019.
  10. Cox BD, De Simone A, Tornini VA, Singh SP, Di Talia S, Poss KD. In Toto Imaging of Dynamic Osteoblast Behaviors in Regenerating Skeletal Bone.. Current biology : CB, 2018.
  11. Tornini VA, Thompson JD, Allen RL, Poss KD. Live fate-mapping of joint-associated fibroblasts visualizes expansion of cell contributions during zebrafish fin regeneration.. Development (Cambridge, England), 2017.
  12. Tornini VA, Puliafito A, Slota LA, Thompson JD, Nachtrab G, Kaushik AL, Kapsimali M, Primo L, Di Talia S, Poss KD. Live Monitoring of Blastemal Cell Contributions during Appendage Regeneration.. Current biology : CB, 2016.
  13. Kang J, Hu J, Karra R, Dickson AL, Tornini VA, Nachtrab G, Gemberling M, Goldman JA, Black BL, Poss KD. Modulation of tissue repair by regeneration enhancer elements.. Nature, 2016.
  14. Foglia MJ, Cao J, Tornini VA, Poss KD. Multicolor mapping of the cardiomyocyte proliferation dynamics that construct the atrium.. Development (Cambridge, England), 2016.
  15. Tornini VA, Poss KD. Keeping at arm's length during regeneration.. Developmental cell, 2014.
  16. Nachtrab G, Kikuchi K, Tornini VA, Poss KD. Transcriptional components of anteroposterior positional information during zebrafish fin regeneration.. Development (Cambridge, England), 2013.
  17. Fereshteh M, Ito T, Kovacs JJ, Zhao C, Kwon HY, Tornini V, Konuma T, Chen M, Lefkowitz RJ, Reya T. β-Arrestin2 mediates the initiation and progression of myeloid leukemia.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012.