The Pollock laboratory at the University of Colorado School of Medicine

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Protein sequence, structure, and functional evolution; Evolutionary genomics; Adaptive coevolution and ancestral reconstruction; Evolution of mitochondrial genomes; Evolutionary theory; Testing evolutionary predictions through mutagenesis and directed evolution.

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Recent lab papers

Repetitive elements may comprise over two-thirds of the human genome, de Koning AP et al, PLoS Genet. 2011

Bayesian analysis of high-throughput quantitative measurement of protein-DNA interactions, Pollock DD, et al. PLoS One. 2011

The genome of the green anole lizard and a comparative analysis with birds and mammals, Alföldi J, et al. Nature. 2011

A multi-organ transcriptome resource for the Burmese Python (Python molurus bivittatus), Castoe TA et al, BMC Res Notes. 2011

Sequencing the genome of the Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus) as a model for studying extreme adaptations in snakes, Castoe TA, et al, Genome Biol. 2011

Discovery of highly divergent repeat landscapes in snake genomes using high-throughput sequencing, Castoe TA, et al, Genome Biol Evol. 2011

Course

The Genomics course for Spring 2012 is online

Meeting

The Meeting on Mechanisms of Protein Evolution in Denver, December 5-7, 2011 went very well. Please contact me if you are interested in the meeting next year. Look for pictures and updates soon.

Programs

Updating programs: PLEX, PCLOUDS, CodeMLAncestral, TFCoEvolve, SULDEX

Other

"I would describe...how passionately, how incandescently, how incestuously...art and science meet in an insect" Nabokov (now vindicated)

The Genome 10K project is moving forward, a project to assemble a collection of DNA sequences representing the genomes of 10,000 vertebrate species. Went to meeting in March in Santa Cruz. Working towards integrating snake genomics, integrating our work onmammalian genomics.

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Further Information

Consortium for Comparative Genomics

NLM Training Grant postdoctoral fellowships are available yearly on a competitive basis. See Computational Bioscience Program for more information.

A page containing information or links to all Pollock laboratory Programs for distribution

EGenBio at LSU is down for the duration.

CERT

As part of our NLM Training Grant, Short Term Trainee Program (STTP) fellowships are available

The wheel is turning, and you can't slow down

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