Yukiko Yamashita

Function of Junk: satellite DNA and transposons in germline
Date
Nov 2, 2022, 12:00 pm1:00 pm
Location
Thomas Laboratory, 003
Audience
Free and open to the university community and the public.

Speakers

Yukiko Yamashita
Professor
HHMI, Whitehead Institute, MIT

Details

Event Description

Eukaryotic genome contains a large amount of DNA that is considered junk, such as satellite DNA and transposons. Recent work from our laboratory started hinting at their potential functions, and I will overview these recent discoveries in the context of germline immortality---the continuation of germ cells that supported the evolution of multicellular organisms for 1.5 billion years

Sponsor
Department of Molecular Biology
Event Category
Butler Seminar Series