Genetics and Biochemistry News

G&B publish articles – Fall 2025

The Witt Dillon lab published “The MUC19 gene: An evolutionary history of recurrent introgression and natural selection” in Science.

Trudy Mackay and Robert Anholt published “Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Metabolic Aging: A Drosophila Perspective” in Biomolecules.

Tara Doucet-O’Hare’s lab published two textbook chapters for the book “Transposable Elements in Human Health and Disease” that is being published by Springer Nature. The titles of the chapters published are “The Role of Transposable Elements in Development” written by Doucet-O’Hare and John R. McCoy and “The Role of Transposable Elements in Therapeutics,” written by Doucet-O’Hare and Kathryn Howe.

“A Quest to Root Chestnut Cuttings” was published by Haiying Laing in the Chestnut magazine, a publication of the American Chestnut Foundation.

Graduate student Ashley Kirby, along with assistant professor Miriam Konkel, published “Structural and transduction patterns of human-specific polymorphic SVA insertions” in Mobile DNA.

Jennifer Mason and her lab published “Overexpression of NEK8 inhibits homologous recombination” in DNA Repair.



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