Selected Publications
Undergraduate student co-authors underlined.
Beckwith S, Cottee M, Hannon-Hatfield JA, Newman A, Walker E, Romero J, Stoye J, Taylor I, Garfinkel D. Probing the molecular determinants of Ty1 retrotransposon restriction specificity in yeast. PLOS Genetics. 2025. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011898.
Beckwith S, Nomberg E, Newman A, Taylor J, Guerrero-Ferreira R, Garfinkel D. An interchangeable prion-like domain is required for Ty1 retrotransposition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2023. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2303358120.
Commentary: Lesage P, Maxwell P. A prion-like domain in Gag capsid protein drives retrotransposon particle assembly and mobility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2023. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2311419120.
Cottee M#, Beckwith S#, Letham S, Kim S, Young G, Stoye J, Garfinkel D, Taylor A. Structure of a Ty1 Restriction Factor Reveals the Molecular Basis of Transposition Copy Number Control. Nature Communications. 2021. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25849-0.
Beckwith S, Schwartz E, Garcia-Nieto P, King A, Gowans G, Wong K, Yao W, Eckley T, Paraschuk A, Peltan E, Lee L, Morrison A. The INO80 Chromatin Remodeler Sustains Metabolic Stability by Promoting TOR Signaling and Regulating Histone Acetylation. PLOS Genetics. 2018. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1007216.
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For a full list of publications, see:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Beckwith%2C+Sean+L%5BAuthor%5D&sort=pubdate