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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AuthorAnne-Ruxandra Carvunis
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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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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