Congratulations to @maxhaase.bsky.social on his recent publication from his time in the Boeke Lab at NYU, where he used methods from the Y1000+ consortium! š„³ We are very proud to have had him as an undergraduate student in our lab. med.nyu.edu/research/boe...
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NYU Langoneās Boeke Lab comprises faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and research staff who synthesize an engineered yeast genome.
Our paper is now out in Nature:
āAncient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeresā
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A short thread on how retrotransposons helped give rise to yeast point centromeres.
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Evolutionarily related āproto-pointā centromeres providing resolution to the evolutionary origins of point centromeres are identified in yeast, and comparison shows they evolved in an ancestor with re...
