Barbara Meyer
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology |
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Education
1971 |
A.B. |
Stanford University, Stanford, California (Biology) |
1975 |
M.S. |
University of California, Berkeley, California (Molecular Biology) |
1979 |
Ph.D. |
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology) |
1979-82 |
Post-Doc |
M.R.C. Lab of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England (Developmental Genetics) |
Academic Positions
1982-1989 |
Assistant Professor, M.I.T., Biology Department |
1989-1990 |
Associate Professor with Tenure, M.I.T., Biology Department |
1990-present |
Professor, U.C. Berkeley, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology |
1993-1995 |
Professor and Head of the MCB Administrative Services Unit (Barker & Koshland Halls) |
1995-1998 |
Professor and Head of Genetics Division, U.C. Berkeley, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology |
1997-present |
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
1997-present |
Adjunct Professor, U.C.S.F. School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics |
2004-2010 |
Director of the Molecular and Cell Biology Graduate Program, U.C. Berkeley |
2013-present |
Faculty Affiliate for the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) |
Honors and Awards
1967-1971 |
Academic Honors at Stanford University |
1979-1982 |
Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship |
1982 |
Usher Fellowship |
1985-1987 |
Merck Career Development Award |
1985-1987 |
Whitehead Career Development Award |
1989-1990 |
National Science Foundation Woman's Faculty Award |
1995 |
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
1995-2005 |
N.I.H. MERIT Award |
2000 |
The Harvey Society Lecture |
2000 |
Member, U. S. National Academy of Sciences |
2000 |
Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology |
2001 |
Holiday Lectures for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
2004 |
Profile for American Society for Cell Biology |
2008 |
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences |
2010 |
Genetics Society of America Medal |
2010 |
Li Ka Shing Foundation Women in Science Distinguished Lectures in China |
2013-2018 |
Miller Institute Senior Fellow |
2014 |
Fellow, American Philosophical Society |
Advisory Boards
1993-1995 |
Board of Directors, Genetics Society of America |
1998-2001 |
Chair, Scientific Advisory Board for the Belgian genomics company Devgen |
1998-present |
Advisory Board for the Cold Spring Harbor Graduate Ph.D. Program |
2000-present |
Scientific Advisory Committee for the Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowships |
2000-present |
Advisor to the Faculty of 1000, an online research service from BioMed Central that reviews current journal articles of high interest |
2001-2011 |
Scientific Advisory Board for the Max Planck Institut für Moleculare Genetik in Berlin |
2002-present |
Scientific Advisory Committee of the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute |
2003, 2007 |
Member, National Academy of Sciences Committee to select the recipient of the 2004 & 2008 NAS Awards in Molecular Biology |
2005-2010 |
Program Director, National Institutes of Health T32 GM007127, “Postgraduate Training Program in Genetics” at U.C. Berkeley |
2005-07, 10-11 |
Member of the National Academy of Sciences Class Membership Committee |
2006-2009 |
Council, American Society for Cell Biology |
2008 |
Visiting committee to evaluate the Harvard University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology for the Board of Overseers |
2010 |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences committee to select the recipient of the Amory Prize for research in male reproduction |
2012-2015 |
Chair, Genetics Section (26) for the National Academy of Sciences |
2012-2015 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science Committee on Nominations |
2013-2017 |
Scientific Advisory Board for Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL), University of Vienna |
Federal Government Advisory Boards
1993-1997 |
Member, N. I. H. National Advisory Research Resources Council (NCRR) |
1996-1999 |
Member, Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) of the University of Chicago Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory |
1999 |
Member, National Science Foundation Advisory Committee on the Arabidopsis Genome Project |
1999-2007 |
Member, Scientific and Technology Panel for the University of California to evaluate the National Laboratories for the D.O.E. (LBNL, LLNL, LANL) |
1998-2007 |
Member, University of California President’s Council on the National Laboratories (LBNL, LLNL, LANL) |
2000 |
ad hoc member of the N.I.H. National Advisory Council for NIGMS |
2002-2005 |
Member, National Research Council Committee on Monitoring the Changing Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Personnel |
Editorial Boards
1990-present |
Editorial Board for Current Opinion in Genetics & Development |
1994 |
Co-editor: Pattern Formation issue of Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, v4 |
1997 |
Co-editor of C. elegans II, published by Cold Spring Harbor Press |
1992-1999 |
Editorial Board for Developmental Genetics |
1995-1999 |
Editorial Board for Developmental Biology |
2000-2007 |
Highlight Panel for Nature Reviews Genetics |
2000-present |
Editorial Board for Genetics |
2001-2007 |
Editorial Board for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
2005 |
Co-editor: Gene Expression issue of Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, v15 |
2005-present |
Editorial Board for Wormbook, an electronic publication of C. elegans |
2009-2013 |
Editorial Board for Epigenetics and Chromatin |
Scientific Meetings Organized
1988, 1990 |
Co-organizer East Coast C. elegans Meetings at Harvard University |
June 1992 |
Co-organizer West Coast C. elegans Meeting at the University of California, Berkeley |
June 1993 |
Co-organizer International C. elegans Meeting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison |
June 1994 |
Co-Chair FASEB meeting on Developmental Biology at University of California, Santa Cruz |
Feb. 1995 |
Co-Chair Keystone Meeting on Sex Determination and Dosage Compensation |
May 1997 |
Chair of the International C. elegans Meeting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison |
June 1998 |
Co-organizer of the annual meeting of the Society of Developmental Biology |
July 1998 |
Co-Chair FASEB meeting on Transcriptional Regulation in Snowmass, CO |
June 1999 |
Co-organizer International C. elegans Meeting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison |
June 1999 |
Co-Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Developmental Biology |
2003 |
International Program Advisory Committee for the International Congress of Genetics, Melbourne |
2004 |
Program Committee for the American Society for Cell Biology Meeting in Washington, DC |
2006, 2008, 2010 |
Program Committee for International Genetics Society of America Meeting |
Professional Societies
Genetics Society of America
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Society of Developmental Biology
American Society for Cell Biology
Biophysical Society of America
Current Grants
National Institutes of Health Grant R01 GM30702, "Analysis of Nematode Sex Determination,” 1982-present
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Funding, 1997-present
Publications
Berk, A.J., Meyer, B.J., and Clayton, D.A. (1973). Mitochondrial-Specific Thymidine Kinase. Archives of Biochem. and Biophys. 154: 563-565.
Meyer, B.J., Kleid, D.G., and Ptashne, M. (1975). l Repressor Turns Off Transcription of its Own Gene. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 72: 4785-4789.
Ptashne, M., Backman, K., Humayun, M.Z. Jeffrey, A., Maurer, R., Meyer, B.J., and Sauer, R.T. (1976). Autoregulation and Function of a Repressor in Bacteriophage Lambda. Science 194: 156-161.
Johnson, A., Meyer, B.J., and Ptashne, M. (1978). Mechanism of Action of Cro Protein of Bacteriophage l. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 75: 1783-1787.
Sauer, R.T., Pabo, C.D., Meyer, B.J., Backman, K.C., and Ptashne, M. (1979). Regulatory Functions of the l Repressor Reside in the Amino-Terminal Domain. Nature 279: 396-400.
Johnson, A.J., Meyer, B.J., and Ptashne, M. (1979). Interactions Between DNA-Bound Repressors Govern Regulation by the Phage l. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76: 5061-5065.
Ptashne, M., Jeffrey, A., Johnson, A.D., Maurer, R., Meyer, B.J., Pabo, C.O., Roberts, T.M., and Sauer, R.T. (1980). How the l Repressor and Cro Work. Cell 19: 1-11.
Maurer, R., Meyer, B.J., and Ptashne, M. (1980). Gene Regulation at the Right Operator of Bacteriophage l. I. OR3 and Autogenous Negative Control by Repressor. J. Mol. Biol. 139: 147-161.
Meyer, B.J., Maurer, R., and Ptashne, M. (1980). Gene Regulation at the Right Operator (OR) of Bacteriophage l. II. OR1, OR2, and OR3: Their Roles in Mediating the Effects of Repressor and Cro. J. Mol. Biol. 139: 163-194.
Meyer, B.J. and Ptashne, M. (1980). Gene Regulation at the Right Operator (OR) of Bacteriophage l. III. l Repressor Directly Activates Gene Transcription. J. Mol. Biol. 139: 195-205.
Furth, M.M., Dove, W.F. and Meyer, B.J. (1982). Specificity Determinants for Bacteriophage l DNA Replication: III. Activation of Replication in lric Mutants by Transcription Outside ori. J. Mol. Biol. 154: 65-83.
Meyer, B.J. and Casson, L.P. (1986). Caenorhabditis elegans Compensates for the Difference in X Chromosome Dosage between the Sexes by Regulating Transcript Levels. Cell 47: 871-881.
Villeneuve, A.M. and Meyer, B.J. (1987). sdc-1: A Link between Sex Determination and Dosage Compensation in C. elegans. Cell 48: 25-37.
DeLong, L., Casson, L.P., and Meyer, B.J. (1987). Assessment of X Chromosome Dosage Compensation in Caenorhabditis elegans by Phenotypic Analysis of lin-14. Genetics 117: 657-670.
Miller, L., Plenefisch, J., Casson L.P. and Meyer, B.J. (1988). xol-1: A Gene that Controls the Male Modes of Sex Determination and X Chromosome Dosage Compensation in C. elegans. Cell 55: 167-183.
Plenefisch, J., DeLong, L., and Meyer, B.J. (1989). Genes that Implement the Hermaphrodite Mode of Dosage Compensation in C. elegans. Genetics 121: 57-76.
Nusbaum, C. and Meyer, B.J. (1989). The C. elegans Gene sdc-2 Controls Sex Determination and Dosage Compensation in XX animals. Genetics 122: 579-593.
Villeneuve, A. and Meyer, B.J. (1990). The Role of sdc-1 in the Sex Determination and Dosage Compensation Decisions of C. elegans. Genetics 124: 91-114.
Nonet, M.L. and Meyer, B.J. (1991). A Zinc Finger Protein Regulates Early Aspects of C. elegans Sex Determination and Dosage Compensation. Nature 351: 65-68.
Klein, R.D. and Meyer, B.J. (1993). Independent Domains of the sdc-3 Protein Control Sex Determination and Dosage Compensation in C. elegans. Cell 72: 349-364.
DeLong, L., Plenefisch, J.D., Klein, R.D. and Meyer, B.J. (1993). Feedback Control of Sex Determination by Dosage Compensation Revealed through C. elegans sdc-3 Mutations. Genetics 133: 875-896.
Nonet, M.L., Grundahl, K., Meyer, B.J. and Rand, J.B. (1993). Synaptic Function Is Impaired but Not Eliminated in C. elegans Mutants Lacking Synaptogagmin. Cell 73: 1291-1305.
Hsu, D.R. and Meyer, B.J. (1994). The dpy-30 Gene Encodes an Essential Component of the C. elegans Dosage Compensation Machinery. Genetics 137: 999-1018.
Chuang, P.-T., Albertson, D. and Meyer, B.J. (1994). DPY-27: A Chromosome Condensation Homolog that Regulates C. elegans Dosage Compensation through Association with the X Chromosome. Cell 79: 459-474.
Akerib, C. C. and Meyer, B.J. (1994). Identification of X Chromosome Regions in C. elegans that Contain Sex-Determination Signal Elements. Genetics 138: 1105-1125.
Rhind, N. Miller, L. M., Kopczynski, J.B. and Meyer, B.J. (1995). xol-1 Acts as an Early Switch in the C. elegans Male/Hermaphrodite Decision. Cell 80: 71-82.
Hsu, D.R., Chuang, P.-T. and Meyer, B.J. (1995). DPY-30, a Nuclear Protein Essential Early in Embryogenesis for C. elegans Dosage Compensation. Development 121: 3323-3334.
Chuang, P.-T., Lieb, J. and Meyer, B.J. (1996). Sex-Specific Assembly of a Dosage Compensation Complex on the Nematode X Chromosome. Science 274: 1736-1739.
Lieb, J., Capowski, E. E., Meneely, P. and Meyer, B.J. (1996). DPY-26, a Link Between Dosage Compensation and Meiotic Chromosome Segregation in the Nematode. Science 274: 1732-1736.
Davis, T.L. and Meyer, B.J. (1997). SDC-3 Coordinates the Assembly of a Dosage Compensation Complex on the Nematode X Chromosome. Development 124: 1019-1031 Nicoll, M.S., Akerib, C.C. and Meyer, B.J. (1997). X-Chromosome Counting Mechanisms that Determine Nematode Sex. Nature 388: 200-204.
Nonet, M.L., Staunton, J.E., Kilgard, M., Jorgensen, E., Hartweig, E., Horvitz, H.R. and Meyer, B. J. (1997). Caenorhabditis elegans rab-3 Mutants Synapses Exhibit Impaired Functionan Are Partially Depleted of Vesicles. J. Neuroscience 17: 8061-8073.
Lieb, J.D., Albrecht, M., Chuang, P.-T. and Meyer, B.J. (1998). MIX-1: An Essential Component of the C. elegans Mitotic Machinery Executes X-Chromosome Dosage Compensation. Cell 92: 265-277.
Carmi, I., Kopczynski, J.B. and Meyer, B.J. (1998). The Nuclear Hormone Receptor SEX-1 Is an X-Chromosome Signal that Determines nematode sex. Nature 396: 168-173.
Dawes, H. E., Berlin, S., Lapidus, D.M., Nusbaum, C., Davis, T.L. and Meyer, B.J. (1999). Dosage Compensation Proteins Targeted to X Chromosomes by a Determinant of Hermaphrodite Fate. Science 284: 1800-18
Carmi, I. and Meyer, B.J. (1999). The Primary Sex Determination Signal of C. elegans. Genetics 152: 999-1015.
Lieb, J. D., Oritz de Solorzano, C., Rodriguez, E. G., Jones, A., Angelo, M. Lockett, S. and Meyer, B.J. (2000). The C. elegans Dosage Compensation Machinery is Recruited to X-Chromosome DNA Attached to an Autosome. Genetics 156: 1603-1621
Howe, M, McDonald, K., Albertson, D., Meyer, B.J. (2001). HIM-10 Is Required for Kinetochore Structure and Function on C. elegans Holocentric Chromosomes. J. Cell Biology 153: 1227-1238.
Hagstrom, K., Holmes, V., Cozzarelli, N., and Meyer, B.J. (2002). C. elegans Condensin Promotes Mitotic Chromosome Architecture, Centromere Organization, and Sister Chromatid Segregation during Mitosis and Meiosis. Genes & Dev. 16: 729-742.
Chu, D.S., Dawes, H.E., Lieb, J.D., Chan, R.C., Kuo, A.F., and Meyer, B.J. (2002). A Molecular Link between Gene-Specific and Chromosome-Wide Transcriptional Repression. Genes & Dev. 16: 796-805.
Thompson, H.M., Skop, A.R., Euteneuer, U., Meyer, B.J., McNiven, M.A. (2002). The Large GTPase Dynamin Associates with the Spindle Midzone and Is Required for Cytokinesis. Curr. Biol. 12: 2111-2117
Luz, J.G., Hassig, C.A., Pickle, C., Godzik, A., Meyer, B.J., Wilson, I.A. (2003). XOL-1, Primary Determinant of Sexual Fate in C. elegans Is a GHMP Kinase Family Member and a Structural Prototype for a New Class of Developmental Regulators. Genes & Dev. 17: 977-990.
Chan, R.C., Chan, A., Jeon, M., Wu, T.F., Pasqualone, D., Rougvie, A.E., Meyer, B.J. (2003). Chromosome Cohesion Is Regulated by a Clock Gene Paralogue TIM-1. Nature 423: 1002-1009.
Yonker, S.A. and Meyer, B.J. (2003). Recruitment of C. elegans Dosage Compensation Proteins for Gene-Specific Versus Chromosome-Wide Repression. Development 130: 6519-6532.
Csankovszki, G., McDonel, P. and Meyer, B.J. (2004). Recruitment and Spreading of the C. elegans Dosage Compensation Complex along X Chromosomes. Science 303: 1182-1185.
Skop, A.R., Liu, H., Yates, J., Meyer, B.J., and Heald, R. (2004). Dissection of the Mammalian Midbody Proteome Reveals Conserved Cytokinesis Mechanisms. Science 305: 61-66.
Chan, R.C., Severson, A.F., Meyer, B.J. (2004). Condensin Restructures Chromosomes in Preparation for Meiotic Divisions. J. Cell Biol. 167, 613-625.
Powell, J.R., Jow, M.M., and Meyer, B.J. (2005). The T-Box Transcription Factor SEA-1 Is an Autosomal Element of the X:A Signal that Determines C. elegans Sex. Dev. Cell 3: 339-349.
Chu, D.S., Liu, H., Nix, P., Wu, T.F., Ralston, E.F., Yates, J.R., and Meyer, B.J. (2006). Sperm Chromatin Proteomics Identifies Evolutionarily Conserved Fertility Factors. Nature 443: 101-105.
McDonel, P., Jans, J., Peterson, B. K., and Meyer, B.J. (2006). Clustered DNA Motifs Mark X Chromosomes for Repression by a Dosage Compensation Complex. Nature 444: 614-618.
Gladden, J.M. and Meyer, B.J. (2007). A ONECUT Homeodomain Protein Communicates X Chromosome Dose to Specify C. elegans Sexual Fate by Repressing a Sex Switch Gene. Genetics 177: 1621-1637.
Gladden, J.M., Farboud, B., and Meyer, B.J. (2007). Revisiting the X:A Signal that Specifies C. elegans Sexual Fate. Genetics 177: 1637-1654.
Tsai, C.J., Mets, D.G., Albrecht, M.R., Nix, P., Chan, A., and Meyer, B.J. (2008). Meiotic Crossover Number and Distribution Are Regulated by a Dosage Compensation Protein that Resembles a Condensin Subunit. Genes & Dev. 22: 194-211.
Reiner, D.J., Ailion, M., Thomas, J. H. and Meyer, B.J. (2008). C. elegans Anaplastic LymphomaKinase Ortholog SCD-2 Controls Dauer Formation by Modulating TGF-b Signaling. Current Biology 18: 1101-1109.
Csankovszki, G., Collette, K., Spahl, K., Carey, J., Snyder, M., Petty, E., Liu, H., McLeod, I., Thompson, J., Sarkesik, A., Yates, J., Meyer, B.J., and Hagstrom, K. (2009). Three Distinct Condensin Complexes Control C. elegans Chromosome Dynamics. Current Biology 19: 9-19.
Jans, J. Gladden, J.M., Ralston, E.J., Pickle, C.S., Michel, A H., Pferdehirt, R.R., Eisen, M. B., Meyer, B.J. (2009). A condensin-like Dosage Compensation Complex Acts at a Distance to Control Expression throughout the Genome. Genes & Dev. 23: 602-618
Severson, A.F., Ling, L., van Zulan, V., and Meyer, B. J (2009). The Axial Element Protein HTP-3 Promotes Cohesin Loading and Meiotic Axis Assembly in C. elegans to Implement the Meiotic Program of Chromosome Segregation. Genes & Dev. 23: 1763-1778.
Mets, D.G. and Meyer, B.J. (2009). Condensins Regulate DNA Break Distribution and thus Crossover Frequency by Controlling Chromosome Structure. Cell 139: 73-86.
Youds, J.L., Mets, D.G., Mcllwraith, M.J., Martin, J.S., Ward, J.D., O’Neil, N.J., Rose, A.M., West, S.C., Meyer, B.J., Boulton, S.J. (2010). RTEL-1 Enforces Meiotic Crossover Interference and Homeostasis. Science 32.
Pferdehirt, R.R., Kruesi, W.S., Meyer, B.J. (2011). An MLL/COMPASS Subunit Functions in the C. elegans Dosage Compensation Complex to Target X Chromosomes for Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression. Genes & Dev. 25: 499-515.
Wood, A.J., Lo, T.-W., Zeitler, B., Pickle, C.S., Ralston, E.J., Lee, A.H., Amora, R., Miller, J.C., Leung, E., Meng, X., Zhang, L., Rebar, E.J., Gregory, P.D., Urnov, F.D., and Meyer, B.J. (2011). Targeted Genome Editing Across Species Using ZFNs and TALENs. Science 33: 307.
Farboud, B., Nix, P., Jow, M.M., Gladden, J.M., Meyer, B.J. (2013). Molecular Antagonism between X-Chromosome an Autosome Signals Determines Nematode Sex. Genes Dev. 27: 1159-1178.
Kruesi, W.S., Core, L.J., Waters, C.T., Lis, J.T, and Meyer, B.J. (2013). Condensin Controls Recruitment of RNA Polymerase II to Achieve Nematode X-Chromosome Dosage Compensation. eLife 2: e00808, DO:10.7554/eLife.00808.
Lo, T.-W., Pickle, C.S., Lin, S., Ralston, E.J., Gurling, M., Schartner, C.M., Bian, Q., Doudna, J.A., and Meyer, B.J. (2013). Precise and Heritable Genome Editing in Evolutionarily Diverse Nematodes Using TALENs and CRISPR/Cas9 to Engineer Insertions and Deletions. Genetics 195(2): 331-348. Epub Aug. 9, 2013.
Pferdehirt, R.R, and Meyer, B.J. (2013). SUMOylation Is Essential for SEX-Specific Assembly and Function of the C. elegans Dosage Compensation Complex on X Chromosomes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110(40): E3810-E3819. Epub Sept. 16, 2013.
Libuda, D.E., Uzawa, S., Meyer, B.J., and Villeneuve, A.M. (2013). Meiotic Chromosome Structures Constrain and Respond to Designation of Crossover Sites. Nature 502: 703-706. Epub, Oct. 9, 2013 doi: 10.1038/nature12577
Maxwell, C.S., Kruesi, W.S., Core, L.J., Kurhanewicz, N., Waters, C.T., Lewarch, C.L., Antoshechkin, I., Lis, J.T., Meyer, B.J., Baugh, L.R. (2014). Pol II Docking and Pausing at Growth and Stress Genes in C. elegans. Cell Rep. S2211-1247(14)00009-6. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.. Epub, Jan 28, 2014.
Schvarzstein M., Pattabiraman D., Libuda D.E., Ramadugu A., Tam A., Martinez-Perez E., Roelens B., Zawadzki K.A., Yokoo R., Rosu S., Severson A.F., Meyer B.J., Nabeshima K., Villeneuve A.M. (2014). DNA helicase HIM-6/BLM both promotes MutSg-endent crossovers and antagonizes MutSgindependent interhomolog associations during Caenorhabditis elegans meiosis.
Genetics. 2014 198: 193-207. doi: 10.1534/genetics.114.161513. Epub 2014 Jul 21.
Severson, A.F. and Meyer, B.J. (2014). Divergent Kleisin Subunits of Cohesin Specify Mechanisms to Tether and Release Meiotic Chromosomes. eLife doi: 10.7554/eLife.03467.
Reviews
Humayun, Z., Meyer, B., Sauer, R., and Ptashne, M. (1976). Transcriptional and Translational (?)
Control of l Repressor. In: Molecular Mechanisms in Control of Gene Expression, (Eds) D.P. Nierlich, W.J. Rutter, and C.F. Fox, Academic Press, San Francisco.
Meyer, B.J. (1988). Primary Events in C. elegans Sex Determination and Dosage Compensation. Trends in Genetics 4: 337-342.
Villeneuve, A.M. and Meyer, B.J. (1990). The Regulatory Hierarchy Controlling Sex Determination and Dosage Compensation in C. elegans. Advances in Genetics 27: 117-188.
Hsu, D.R. and Meyer, B.J. (1993). X Chromosome Dosage Compensation and Its Relationship to Sex Determination in C. elegans. Seminars in Developmental Biology 4: 93-106.
Cline, T.W. and Meyer, B.J. (1996). Vive La Différence: Males vs. Females in Flies vs. Worms. Ann. Rev. Genet. 30: 637-701.
Meyer, B.J. (1997). Sex Determination and X Chromosome Dosage Compensation. In: C. elegans II, edited by D. Riddle, T. Blumenthal, B. Meyer, J. Priess, Cold Spring Harbor Press, Cold Spring Harbor, pp 209-240.
Riddle, D.L., Blumenthal, T., Meyer, B.J. and Priess, J. (1997). Introduction to C. elegans. In: C. elegans II, edited by D. Riddle, T. Blumenthal, B. Meyer, J. Priess, Cold Spring Harbor Press, Cold Spring Harbor, pp 1-22.
Meyer, B.J. (2000). Sex in the Worm: Counting and Compensating X Chromosome Dose. Trends in Genetics 16: 247-253.
Meyer, B.J. (2001). Sex and Death of a Worm: Assessing and Repressing X Chromosomes. Harvey Lectures 95: 85-105.
Hagstrom, K.A., Meyer, B.J. (2003). Condensin and Cohesin: More than Chromosome Compactor and Glue. Nat. Rev. Genet. 4: 520-534
Meyer, B.J., McDonel, P., Csankovszki, G., and Ralston, E. (2004). Sex and X-Chromosome-Wide Repression in C. elegans. Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 69: 71-79.
Meyer, B.J. (2005). X-Chromosome dosage compensation. In WormBook, editors: The C. elegans Research Community. http://www.wormbook.org
Wood, A.J., Severson, A.F., Meyer, B.J. (2010). Condensin and Cohesin Complexity: the Expanding Repertoire of Functions. Nat. Rev. Genet. 11: 391-404.
Meyer, B.J. (2010). Targeting X Chromosomes for Repression. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev., 20: 179-189.