Dr. Carvunis receives The Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award
Dr. Carvnuis has been awarded the 2022 Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award for her innovative work on novel gene emergence. The award release describing
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Dr. Carvunis and lab receive NSF CAREER award
Dr. Carvunis and lab receive the National Science Foundation CAREER award to study how the widespread translation of evolutionary novel sequences impacts physiology
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New preprint on sulfur metabolism in yeast
New preprint from Dr. Branden Van Oss et al. challenges current models of sulfur metabolism in yeast, with the discovery of another enzyme
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Tracing the evolution of a mammalian microprotein
Jiwon and Aaron have discovered SPAAR, a microprotein thought to be exclusively in placental mammals, actually exists in marsuplials and monotremes like the
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Carvunis Lab heads to local pumpkin patch to celebrate the fall season!
Check out more pictures from our fun lab outing full of pumpkins, apple picking, and a corn maze!
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Dr. Carvunis and Dr. Wacholder speak to Science Careers
Dr. Carvunis and Dr. Wacholder share their experiences of the importance of early-career performance reviews in a recent article in Science Careers.
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Happy end of summer semester!
The Carvunis Lab enjoys some fun outdoors to celebrate the end of the summer semester!
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New preprint investigating the evolutionarily transient translatome
New preprint from Aaron Wacholder that identified ~19,000 noncanonical translated elements through integration of multiple ribo-sequencing datasets. Read more here
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Carvunis lab meets in person!
The Carvunis lab met for lab meeting in person for the first time in over a year! Great science presented by Jiwon followed
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New preprint on a collaboration towards a reference translatome using Ribo-seq
New preprint released discussing the challenges of ORF detection and annotation using ribo-sequencing. Read more here
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