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In antigenic variation in Lyme disease the vlsE surface protein gene is repeatedly changed by recombination with 15 adjacent pseudogenes. We tried to stimulate this in culture by cutting with Cas9. Mais non! Breaks cause loss of the immunity plasmid. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The 52nd Rosenstiel Award goes to two excepetional women: Erin Schuman and Christine Holt for their discoveries of the mechanisms of local protein translation that enables a neuron to get from the eye to the brain. brandeis.edu/now/2022/octob…

So suddenly I find myself looking for a new postdoc to work on double-strand break repair in yeast: mutations arising during gene editing and other types of DNA repair. Applicants should send a CV and cover letter to Jim Haber ([email protected]).
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The Department of Biology at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (Boston) seeks an instructor for the course BIOL 128, Human Genetics, in the Fall 2022 semester.

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Looking for a postdoc to study DNA repair in mitochondria. Unexplored territory. Please retweet. jobs.ascb.org/job/postdoc-in…

Still looking for a postdoc to work on how mitochondria repair their DNA damage and carry out recombination without using the genes that are needed for repairing/recombining chromosomes in the nucleus. Please retweet!

Yay! The first of my scientific offspring - Michael Lichten - elected to the US National Academy of Sciences!

Postdoc opportunity. James Haber lab. Brandeis University.
Supported by a new NSF EAGER grant, to study DNA repair in budding yeast mitochondria. Surprisingly little is known.
Send CV to Jim Haber: [email protected]
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New review on detecting intermediates of DNA repair
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6 (serious nonfatal)/6,000,000 v Risk of COVID?

injury while riding in your car: 0.5/1,000,000 per 10-mile trip

Another great work from Malkova lab. Kudos to Anna and team.
Tracking break-induced replication shows that it stalls at roadblocks disq.us/t/3ubbk1e

Happier New Year

I am excited to announce today that eLife - the journal is transitioning to a new model based on author-driven publishing (preprints) and public post-publication peer review and curation elifesciences.org/articles/64910…

Congratulations to Kevin Li for completing his PhD as a Physics student hanging out in a genetics/molecular biology lab! His paper in PNAS appeared this week, just in time for his defense.
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We've hit the big time!