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

BIOL 5466

Contemporary Biology

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Kalvaitytė-Repečkė, M., Gabrilavičiūtė, S., Kvederavičiūtė, K., Burg, L., Bakūnaitė, E., Poss, K.D., & Balciunas, D. (2026). Epicardial Tcf21 facilitates cardiomyocyte dedifferentiation and heart regeneration in zebrafish. Dev Biol, 530, 199-209. United States. 10.1016/j.ydbio.2025.12.004

  • 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. openRxiv. 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. openRxiv. 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