Carvunis lab receives HFSP grant!
The Carvunis Lab is honored to have been awarded the prestigious Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) research grant! This grant promotes international collaboration
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Nelson selected as a GSA Presidential Member
Nelson has been selected as a Presidential Member for the Genetics Society of America. Congratulations Nelson! Read more here
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New preprint exploring the transcriptional network of noncanonical ORFs
New preprint from April and Omer looking at the transcription of noncanonical ORFs. Check out the preprint here
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New preprint on the rarity of finding noncanonical ORFs in mass spectrometry
New preprint from Aaron about how the protein products of translated noncanonical ORFs in yeast can very rarely be detected using shotgun mass
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New perspective piece from the lab published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
New perspective piece describing the work of An et al. which show that acquiring the ability to leave the nucleus is a major
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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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