Dr Sophie Shen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
+61 7 344 33566

| Featured projects | Duration | 
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| Building tools to predict how the genome controls cells | |
| Harnessing control of stem cell decisions and functions | 
Book Chapter
                  Wu, Zhixuan, Shen, Sophie, Sun, Yuliangzi, Werner, Tessa, Bradford, Stephen T. and Palpant, Nathan J.  (2022). Analysing genetic programs of cell differentiation to study cardiac cell diversification. Advanced technologies in cardiovascular bioengineering. (pp. 125-167) edited by Jianyi Zhang and Vahid Serpooshan. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-86140-7_8
                
              Journal Articles
                  Shen, Sophie, Werner, Tessa, Chiu, Han Sheng, Chen, Xiaoli, Nguyen, Quan and Palpant, Nathan J. (2025). A pluripotent stem cell atlas of multilineage differentiation. Scientific Data, 12 (1) 1238, 1238. doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-05549-w
                
              
                  Shen, Sophie, Werner, Tessa, Lukowski, Samuel W., Andersen, Stacey, Sun, Yuliangzi, Shim, Woo Jun, Mizikovsky, Dalia, Kobayashi, Sakurako, Outhwaite, Jennifer, Chiu, Han Sheng, Chen, Xiaoli, Chapman, Gavin, Martin, Ella M. M. A., Xia, Di, Pham, Duy, Su, Zezhuo, Kim, Daniel, Yang, Pengyi, Tan, Men Chee, Sinniah, Enakshi, Zhao, Qiongyi, Negi, Sumedha, Redd, Meredith A., Powell, Joseph E., Dunwoodie, Sally L., Tam, Patrick P. L., Bodén, Mikael, Ho, Joshua W. K., Nguyen, Quan and Palpant, Nathan J. (2025). Atlas of multilineage stem cell differentiation reveals TMEM88 as a developmental regulator of blood pressure. Nature Communications, 16 (1) 1356, 1-19. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-56533-2
                
              
                  Zhao, Qiongyi, Shim, Woo Jun, Sun, Yuliangzi, Sinniah, Enakshi, Shen, Sophie, Boden, Mikael and Palpant, Nathan J. (2025). TRIAGE: an R package for regulatory gene analysis. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 26 (1) bbaf004, 1-13. doi: 10.1093/bib/bbaf004
                
              
                  Wu, Zhixuan, Shen, Sophie, Mizikovsky, Dalia, Cao, Yuanzhao, Naval-Sanchez, Marina, Tan, Siew Zhuan, Alvarez, Yanina D., Sun, Yuliangzi, Chen, Xiaoli, Zhao, Qiongyi, Kim, Daniel, Yang, Pengyi, Hill, Timothy A., Jones, Alun, Fairlie, David P., Pébay, Alice, Hewitt, Alex W., Tam, Patrick P.L., White, Melanie D., Nefzger, Christian M. and Palpant, Nathan J. (2024). Wnt dose escalation during the exit from pluripotency identifies tranilast as a regulator of cardiac mesoderm. Developmental Cell, 59 (6), 705-722.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2024.01.019
                
              
                  Friedman, Clayton E., Cheetham, Seth W., Negi, Sumedha, Mills, Richard J., Ogawa, Masahito, Redd, Meredith A., Chiu, Han Sheng, Shen, Sophie, Sun, Yuliangzi, Mizikovsky, Dalia, Bouveret, Romaric, Chen, Xiaoli, Voges, Holly K., Paterson, Scott, De Angelis, Jessica E., Andersen, Stacey B., Cao, Yuanzhao, Wu, Yang, Jafrani, Yohaann M.A., Yoon, Sohye, Faulkner, Geoffrey J., Smith, Kelly A., Porrello, Enzo, Harvey, Richard P., Hogan, Benjamin M., Nguyen, Quan, Zeng, Jian, Kikuchi, Kazu, Hudson, James E. and Palpant, Nathan J. (2023). HOPX-associated molecular programs control cardiomyocyte cell states underpinning cardiac structure and function. Developmental Cell, 59 (1), 91-107.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2023.11.012
                
              
                  Sun, Yuliangzi, Shim, Woo Jun, Shen, Sophie, Sinniah, Enakshi, Pham, Duy, Su, Zezhuo, Mizikovsky, Dalia, White, Melanie D., Ho, Joshua W. K., Nguyen, Quan, Bodén, Mikael and Palpant, Nathan J (2023). Inferring cell diversity in single cell data using consortium-scale epigenetic data as a biological anchor for cell identity. Nucleic Acids Research, 51 (11), e62-e62. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad307
                
              
                  Plaisance, Isabelle, Chouvardas, Panagiotis, Sun, Yuliangzi, Nemir, Mohamed, Aghagolzadeh, Parisa, Aminfar, Farhang, Shen, Sophie, Shim, Woo Jun, Rochais, Francesca, Johnson, Rory, Palpant, Nathan and Pedrazzini, Thierry (2023). A transposable element into the human long noncoding RNA CARMEN is a switch for cardiac precursor cell specification. Cardiovascular Research, 119 (6), 1361-1376. doi: 10.1093/cvr/cvac191
                
              
                  Sinniah, Enakshi, Wu, Zhixuan, Shen, Sophie, Naval-Sanchez, Marina, Chen, Xiaoli, Lim, Junxian, Helfer, Abbigail, Iyer, Abishek, Tng, Jiahui, Lucke, Andrew J., Reid, Robert C., Redd, Meredith A., Nefzger, Christian M., Fairlie, David P. and Palpant, Nathan J. (2022). Temporal perturbation of histone deacetylase activity reveals a requirement for HDAC1–3 in mesendoderm cell differentiation. Cell Reports, 39 (7) 110818, 1-21. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110818
                
              
                  Shen, Sophie, Sun, Yuliangzi, Matsumoto, Maika, Shim, Woo Jun, Sinniah, Enakshi, Wilson, Sean B., Werner, Tessa, Wu, Zhixuan, Bradford, Stephen T., Hudson, James, Little, Melissa H., Powell, Joseph, Nguyen, Quan and Palpant, Nathan J. (2021). Integrating single-cell genomics pipelines to discover mechanisms of stem cell differentiation. Trends in Molecular Medicine, 27 (12), 1135-1158. doi: 10.1016/j.molmed.2021.09.006
                
              
                  Shim, Woo Jun, Sinniah, Enakshi, Xu, Jun, Vitrinel, Burcu, Alexanian, Michael, Andreoletti, Gaia, Shen, Sophie, Sun, Yuliangzi, Balderson, Brad, Boix, Carles, Peng, Guangdun, Jing, Naihe, Wang, Yuliang, Kellis, Manolis, Tam, Patrick P L, Smith, Aaron, Piper, Michael, Christiaen, Lionel, Nguyen, Quan, Bodén, Mikael and Palpant, Nathan J. (2020). Conserved epigenetic regulatory logic infers genes governing cell identity. Cell Systems, 11 (6), 625-639.e13. doi: 10.1016/j.cels.2020.11.001
                
              Conference Papers
                  Cao, Y., Redd, M., Outhwaite, J., Shim, W., Fang, C., Negi, S., Shen, S., Mizikovsky, D., Chiu, H., Tan, C., Thomas, U., Dragicevic, E., Sng, J., Short, K. and Palpant, N. (2024). Preclinical models of Glycaemic variability recapitulate Clinical Cardiovascular outcomes in Diabetes. 72nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, Perth, WA Australia, 1-4 August 2024. Chatswood, NSW Australia: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2024.06.332
                
              
                  Plaisance, Isabelle, Chouvardas, Panagiotis, Sun, Yuliangzi, Nemir, Mohamed, Aghagolzadeh, Parisa, Aminfar, Farhang, Shen, Sophie, Shim, Woo Jun, Rochais, Francesca, Johnson, Rory and Pedrazzini, Thierry (2022). Alternative splicing of a transposable element into the human long noncoding RNA CARMEN is a switch for cardiac precursor cell specification. XXIV World Congress of the International Society for Heart Research, Berlin, Germany, 12–15 June 2022. London, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2022.08.344
                
              Thesis
                  Shen, Sophie (2024). Multilineage differentiation from pluripotency reveals genetic regulators of cardiovascular physiology. PhD Thesis, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/06171ca
                
              Patent
                  Palpant, Nathan, Anderson, Stacey, Werner, Tessa, Lukowski, Samuel and Shen, Sophie (2022). Methods and compositions for multiplexing cell analysis. PCT/AU2022/051476.