Aaron identified the vast translatome of yeast through large-scale integration of ribosome-profiling data, and show that these translated elements are mostly evolutionarily transient. [...]

May 11, 2023 Omer defends his PhD thesis entitled “Understanding cellular innovation and complexity with a network perspective”. Congratulations Dr. Acar!! [...]

May 3, 2023 The Carvunis Lab is excited to co-host a gene evolution workshop for instructors and educators, with a special focus on [...]

April 28, 2023 Check out this article in ASBMB Today Magazine, showcasing the recent publication in Journal of Biological Chemistry from the Carvunis [...]

April 24, 2023 Nelson received the 2023 Pitt Sustainability Award, which “recognize Pitt faculty, staff, students, and groups who are making an extraordinary [...]

The Carvunis Lab is honored to have been awarded the prestigious Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) research grant! This grant promotes international collaboration [...]

Nelson has been selected as a Presidential Member for the Genetics Society of America. Congratulations Nelson! Read more here [...]

New preprint from April and Omer looking at the transcription of noncanonical ORFs. Check out the preprint here [...]

New preprint from Aaron about how the protein products of translated noncanonical ORFs in yeast can very rarely be detected using shotgun mass [...]