Saurin successfully defends his PhD thesis!
Saurin becomes the second PhD student from the Carvunis lab to successfully defend their PhD thesis this year. His work revolved around ‘Leveraging
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Carvunis Lab at SMBE Satellite Meeting on De Novo Gene Birth
Multiple members of the Carvunis lab made it to the first ever conference on de novo gene birth with multiple posters and presentations
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Summer students publish a uPublication
Summer students use computational prediction tools, co-expression analysis and fluorescence microscopy to suggest that an unannotated translated open reading frame in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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Carvunis lab receives NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award!
It was announced on October 3rd 2023 that the Carvunis Lab is going to receive the prestigious NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award (TRA)!
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April won the Best Student talk at the CPCB retreat
April won the Best Student talk at the CPCB retreat! Congratulations!
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April’s BioZone was featured in the Pitt Med magazine
April’s science YouTube channel bioZone was featured in the summer 2023 edition of Pitt Med magazine. Check out the Pitt Med article “These
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Lord-Carvunis Lab Joint Lab Picnic
The Lord and Carvunis Labs take best advantage of a sunny day in the Burgh to celebrate a joint lab picnic!
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Jiwon won the CEBaM Catalyst Award
Jiwon won the 2023 Catalyst Award from the Pittsburgh Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine (CEBaM). The Catalyst Program provides funding to PhD
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New update of the preprint exploring the transcriptional network of noncanonical ORFs
April and Omer just updated their preprint about the transcriptional network of noncanonical ORFs.
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Farewell party for Omer
This week is the last week for Omer, the first Ph.D. from the Carvunis lab. We got together to celebrate this big milestone
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