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January 9, 2018July 20, 2022Heidi Kayser

What makes each species unique? In the Carvunis lab, we study the molecular mechanisms of change and innovation in evolution. This involves thinking [...]

Paper from Aaron and Jiwon on human unannotated microproteins has been published in Nature Communications

January 23, 2026January 23, 2026Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis

Research by lab members Aaron and Jiwon that assesses mass spectrometry-based identifications of human proteins from proteomics and peptidomics datasets has been published [...]

New paper on the role of tandem repeats and stop codon mutations in a human de novo ORF

January 14, 2026January 14, 2026Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis

A new paper is out in Genome Biology and Evolution by lab members Lin and Jiwon. This study reconstructs the evolution of orf143, [...]