Students can discover and “adopt” proto-genes
Carvunis Lab’s NSF-funded Adopt a Proto-Gene initiative aims to get young researchers interested in proto-genes, improve evolutionary literacy and encourage STEM careers. Read
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In a collaborative paper the lab discovers a new enzyme!
New collaborative research article by Branden, Saurin and Nelson et al. explores the mysterious growth of yeast cells lacking the MET15 gene in
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April’s bioZone becomes an award winning YouTube channel!!!
April’s bioZone YouTube channel received an award for their commitment to outreach from the CMU-Pitt Computational Biology Program. Congratulations and well deserved April!!
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De novo genes and Yeasts
New review article by the Carvunis lab members on why the Yeasts are particularly well suited to address fundamental questions about de novo
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New collaborative paper about translatome and annotation
A new paper about a community-led effort that produces a standardized catalog of 7,264 human Ribo-seq ORFs.
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Anne is promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure today! Congratulations!!!
Anne is promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Congratulations!!!
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New collaborative paper about RNA processing
June 4, 2022 A new paper investigating the role of the RING finger protein RNF219 in post-transcriptional regulations. Read more here!
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New paper on information flow in genetic networks
June 2, 2022 A new paper from Omer Acar on identifying long-range interactions in genetic networks using elastic network models. Read more here!
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2022 CEBaM retreat
We had a wonderful retreat with our colleagues in the Pittsburgh Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine (CEBaM)
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Undergraduate Summer Research Position
Funded by an NSF Career Award, the Carvunis lab is offering a paid 10 week-long summer position running from May 31st, 2022 to
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