Publications

* co-first author^ co-corresponding author

Selected publications

2026

Multiomics and deep learning dissect regulatory syntax in human development

Betty B Liu*, Selin Jessa*, Samuel H Kim*, Yan Ting Ng*, Soon Il Higashino, Georgi K Marinov, Derek C Chen, Benjamin E Parks, Li Li, Tri C Nguyen, Austin T Wang, Sean K Wang, Meng How Tan, Serena Y Tan, Michael Kosicki, Len A Pennacchio, Eyal Ben-David, Anca M Pasca, Anshul Kundaje^, Kyle K H Farh^, William J Greenleaf^

Selin's postdoc work using deep learning in a new fetal single-cell atlas to study the organization of transcription factor binding sites in human development, and where they're perturbed in complex traits. Highlighted in Nature Genetics.

2025

Sensitive, direct detection of non-coding off-target base editor unwinding and editing in primary cells

Tong Wang, Selin Jessa, Georgi K Marinov, Sandy Klemm, Anshul Kundaje, William J Greenleaf

bioRxiv doi link

We present a new assay, beCasKAS, to sensitively detect off-target edits from CRISPR base editors, and show how non-coding off-target genome edits can be triaged for epigenetic dysregulation in silico using deep learning.

Contributions to collaborative work

2026

Mapping the regulatory effects of common and rare non-coding variants across cellular and developmental contexts in the brain and heart

Andrew R Marderstein*, Soumya Kundu*, Evin M Padhi, Salil Deshpande, Austin Wang, Esther Robb, Ying Sun, Chang M Yun, Diego Pomales-Matos, Yilin Xie, Daniel Nachun, Selin Jessa, Anshul Kundaje^, Stephen B Montgomery^

Nature Genetics doi link commentary
2025

A unified lexicon of predictive DNA sequence motifs from ENCODE transcription factor binding and chromatin accessibility assays

Salil Deshpande, Chang Min Yun, Vivekanandan Ramalingam, Vivian Hecht, Aman Patel, Anusri Pampari, Selin Jessa, Ryan Zhao, Austin Wang, Anshul Kundaje

Technical note, Zenodo doi

See Selin's pre-2025 publications here.