Research Area: Function
How do different types of structural variations (SVs) affect biological function at the genetic, transcriptomic, cellular, and organismal levels?
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We helped Atilla lab to analyze transcriptomics data to investigate the role of lipid pathways in necroptosis. This paper is recently published in RSC Chemical Biology and they wrote a really nice blog post. Read
Date: August 11, 2023
If you follow our work, you may have remembered that we have published a paper on the curious evolution of genetic variation in the growth hormone receptor. Briefly, we have found that a deletion of
Date: January 27, 2023
Izzy Starr (they/them/their) led this project along with our collaborators Ani Sinha, and Kristina Seiffert to investigate the relationship between recent evolution and immune-mediated trends in human skin. Our major finding is that there are
Date: January 4, 2022
Our paper on adaptive evolution of a very common, exonic deletion polymorphism is now published in Science Advances. https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.abi4476 Our press office did an excellent job as usual – The press release is here: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2021/09/030.html
Date: September 24, 2021
We have now compiled the most comprehensive gene expression atlas for different salivary gland types in humans. Here is the link for the paper now published in Cell Reports. Here is the news release from
Date: November 19, 2020