Darius Balciunas

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Darius Balciunas

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Biology

      • Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

BIOL 3396

Scientific Writing for Biology: The Art of Communicating

Undergraduate

BIOL 4341

Genome Editing

Undergraduate

BIOL 4391

Accelerated Research in Biology

Undergraduate

SCTC 1001

CST First-Year Seminar

Undergraduate

SCTC 1001

CST First Year Seminar

Undergraduate

BIOL 5466

Contemporary Biology

Graduate

BIOL 5466

Genome Editing

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Kalvaitytė, M., Gabrilavičiūtė, S., & Balciunas, D. (2024). Rapid generation of single-insertion transgenics by Tol2 transposition in zebrafish. Dev Dyn, 253(11), 1056-1065. United States. 10.1002/dvdy.719

  • Bakūnaitė, E., Gečaitė, E., Lazutka, J., & Balciunas, D. (2024). Highly efficient tamoxifen-inducible Cre recombination in embryonic, larval and adult zebrafish. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. doi: 10.1101/2024.03.21.586128.

  • Zinski, J., Chung, H., Joshi, P., Warrick, F., Berg, B.D., Glova, G., McGrail, M., Balciunas, D., Friedberg, I., & Mullins, M. (2024). EpicTope: narrating protein sequence features to identify non-disruptive epitope tagging sites. 10.1101/2024.03.03.583232

  • Kalvaitytė, M., Gabrilavičiūtė, S., & Balciunas, D. (2023). Rapid generation of single-insertion transgenics by Tol2 transposition in zebrafish. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. doi: 10.1101/2023.10.11.561928.

  • Jiang, Z., El-Brolosy, M.A., Serobyan, V., Welker, J.M., Retzer, N., Dooley, C.M., Jakutis, G., Juan, T., Fukuda, N., Maischein, H., Balciunas, D., & Stainier, D.Y. (2022). Parental mutations influence wild-type offspring via transcriptional adaptation. Sci Adv, 8(47), eabj2029. United States. 10.1126/sciadv.abj2029

  • Kalvaitytė, M. & Balciunas, D. (2022). Conditional mutagenesis strategies in zebrafish. Trends Genet, 38(8), 856-868. England. 10.1016/j.tig.2022.04.007

  • Cunningham, C.M., Bellipanni, G., Habas, R., & Balciunas, D. (2020). Deletion of morpholino binding sites (DeMOBS) to assess specificity of morphant phenotypes. Sci Rep, 10(1), 15366. England. 10.1038/s41598-020-71708-1

  • Ichino, N., Serres, M.R., Urban, R.M., Urban, M.D., Treichel, A.J., Schaefbauer, K.J., Tallant, L.E., Varshney, G.K., Skuster, K.J., McNulty, M.S., Daby, C.L., Wang, Y., Liao, H., El-Rass, S., Ding, Y., Liu, W., Anderson, J.L., Wishman, M.D., Sabharwal, A., Schimmenti, L.A., Sivasubbu, S., Balciunas, D., Hammerschmidt, M., Farber, S.A., Wen, X., Xu, X., McGrail, M., Essner, J.J., Burgess, S.M., Clark, K.J., & Ekker, S.C. (2020). Building the vertebrate codex using the gene breaking protein trap library. Elife, 9. England. 10.7554/eLife.54572

  • Wierson, W.A., Welker, J.M., Almeida, M.P., Mann, C.M., Webster, D.A., Torrie, M.E., Weiss, T.J., Kambakam, S., Vollbrecht, M.K., Lan, M., McKeighan, K.C., Levey, J., Ming, Z., Wehmeier, A., Mikelson, C.S., Haltom, J.A., Kwan, K.M., Chien, C., Balciunas, D., Ekker, S.C., Clark, K.J., Webber, B.R., Moriarity, B.S., Solin, S.L., Carlson, D.F., Dobbs, D.L., McGrail, M., & Essner, J. (2020). Efficient targeted integration directed by short homology in zebrafish and mammalian cells. Elife, 9. England. 10.7554/eLife.53968

  • Cunningham, C.M., Bellipanni, G., Habas, R., & Balciunas, D. (2020). Deletion of MOrpholino Binding Sites (DeMOBS) to Assess Specificity of Morphant Phenotypes. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. doi: 10.1101/2020.01.12.903211.