Publications

Morgante, V., Jiménez, J. C., Ponce, C., Urrutia, C., Vera, F., Farías, C., Camps de la Maza, R., Caro, V., Muñoz, M., & Pollak, B. (2025). Viroscope™: a universal solution for plant virus and viroid diagnostics using HTS and cloud-based analysis. Frontiers in microbiology, 16, 1609663. Article

Navarrete A, Pollak B. Context-dependent antisense transcription from a neighboring gene interferes with the expression of mNeonGreen as a functional in vivo fluorescent reporter in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. (2024). Plant J. Article

Valenzuela SL, Norambuena T, Morgante V, García F, Jiménez JC, Núñez C, Fuentes I, Pollak B. (2022) Viroscope: Plant viral diagnosis from high-throughput sequencing data using biologically-informed genome assembly coverage. Front Microbiol.Article

Legüe M, Caneo M, Aguila B, Pollak B, Calixto A. (2022). Interspecies effectors of a transgenerational memory of bacterial infection in Caenorhabditis elegans. iScience.Article

Pollak, B.¥, Matute, T., Nuñez, I., Cerda, A., Lopez, C., Vargas, V., Kan, A., Bielinski, V., von Dassow, P., Dupont, C. L., & Federici, F¥. (2020). Universal Loop assembly (uLoop): open, efficient, and cross-kingdom DNA fabrication. Synthetic Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/synbio/ysaa001Article

Pollak, B.¥, Matute, T., Nuňez, I., Cerda, A., Lopez, C., Vargas, V., Kan, A., Bielinski, V., von Dassow, P., Dupont, C. & Federici, F.¥ (2019). Universal Loop assembly (uLoop): open, efficient, and species-agnostic DNA fabrication. bioRxiv 744854; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/744854 Preprint at bioRxiv

Pollak, B., Cerda, A., Delmans, M., Álamos, S., Moyano, T., West, A., Gutiérrez, R. A., Patron, N. J., Federici, F. & Haseloff, J. (2019). Loop assembly: a simple and open system for recursive fabrication of DNA circuits. New Phytologist. 222, 628–640. (Cover). Article

Palominos, M. F., Verdugo, L., Gabaldon, C., Pollak, B., Ortíz-Severín, J., Varas, M. A., Chávez, F.P & Calixto A. (2017). Transgenerational Diapause as an Avoidance Strategy against Bacterial Pathogens in Caenorhabditis elegans. mBio, 8(5), e01234–17–18. Article

Bowman, J. L., Kohchi, T., Yamato, K. T., Jenkins, J., Shu, S., Ishizaki, K., Yamaoka, S., Nishihama, R., Nakamura, Y., Berger, F., Adam, C., Aki, S. S., Althoff, F., Araki, T., Arteaga-Vazquez, M. A., Balasubrmanian, S., Barry, K., Bauer, D., Boehm, C. R., Briginshaw, L., Caballero-Perez, J., Catarino, B., Chen, F., Chiyoda, S., Chovatia, M., Davies, K. M., Delmans, M., Demura, T., Dierschke, T., Dolan, L., Dorantes-Acosta, A. E., Eklund, D. M., Florent, S. N., Flores-Sandoval, E., Fujiyama, A., Fukuzawa, H., Galik, B., Grimanelli, D., Grimwood, J., Grossniklaus, U., Hamada, T., Haseloff, J., Hetherington, A. J., Higo, A., Hirakawa, Y., Hundley, H. N., Ikeda, Y., Inoue, K., Inoue, S.-I., Ishida, S., Jia, Q., Kakita, M., Kanazawa, T., Kawai, Y., Kawashima, T., Kennedy, M., Kinose, K., Kinoshita, T., Kohara, Y., Koide, E., Komatsu, K., Kopischke, S., Kubo, M., Kyozuka, J., Lagercrantz, U., Lin, S.-S., Lindquist, E., Lipzen, A. M., Lu, C.-W., De Luna, E., Martienssen, R. A., Minamino, N., Mizutani, M., Mizutani, M., Mochizuki, N., Monte, I., Mosher, R., Nagasaki, H., Nakagami, H., Naramoto, S., Nishitani, K., Ohtani, M., Okamoto, T., Okumura, M., Phillips, J., Pollak, B., Reinders, A., Rövekamp, M., Sano, R., Sawa, S., Schmid, M. W., Shirakawa, M., Solano, R., Spunde, A., Suetsugu, N., Sugano, S., Sugiyama, A., Sun, R., Suzuki, Y., Takenaka, M., Takezawa, D., Tomogane, H., Tsuzuki, M., Ueda, T., Umeda, M., Ward, J. M., Watanabe, Y., Yazaki, K., Yokoyama, R., Yoshitake, Y., Yotsui, I., Zachgo, S. & Schmutz, J. (2017). Insights into Land Plant Evolution Garnered from the Marchantia polymorpha Genome. Cell, 171(2), 287–304. e15. Article

Boehm, C. R.*, Pollak, B.*, Purswani, N., Patron, N., & Haseloff, J. (2017). Synthetic Botany. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 9(7). (Cover). Article

Delmans, M.*, Pollak, B.*, & Haseloff, J. (2017). MarpoDB: An Open Registry for Marchantia Polymorpha Genetic Parts. Plant and Cell Physiology, 58(1), e5. Article

Federici, F., Rudge, T. J., Pollak, B., Haseloff, J., & Gutiérrez, R. A. (2013). Synthetic Biology: opportunities for Chilean bioindustry and education. Biological Research, 46(4), 383–393. Article

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¥ denotes co-corresponding authorship