New work on CR1 retrotransposons by my lab friends Alex and Chandler! Happy to have helped out along the way
A big chunk of my PhD work with the Collins lab is now on bioRxiv!
Happy to be a part of this work! 🐢
After a long time finding reviewers, my paper on the evolution of R2 retrotransposons is out! This project was in collaboration with my amazing co-authors Bri and Anthony from the Collins lab. 🐢🐦⬛
Big thanks to my team, especially my supervisor Dave Adelson! #TEsky
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Vertebrate retrotransposons are the future of gene therapy. But how do they insert their genes? 🔥🔥
Thrilled to share our new work now published with Kathy Collins, @nogaleslab.bsky.social @berkeleymcb.bsky.social where we investigate this with #cryoEM & biochemistry in 🧪 and cells! #RNAsky #TEsky
Background Retrotransposons play outsized roles in the evolution of gene regulation, genome function, and disease pathogenesis, and more recently they have sparked interest as instruments for new gene...
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Akanksha Thawani, PhD
Ancient persistence and newfound diversity of CR1-group retrotransposons across chordates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.13.699120v1
Lineage-Specific Evolution, Structural Diversity, and Activity of R2 Retrotransposons in Animals https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.05.652312v1
bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology
bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology
Structures of vertebrate R2 retrotransposon complexes during target-primed reverse transcription and after second-strand nicking pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40540573/ #cryoEM
