August, 2024

Tenu: "PNRI prioritizes fostering a friendly, academia-focused environment while providing the equipment and mentorship that allows interns to leave this summer feeling more confident."

https://pnri.org/the-next-generation-of-brilliant-scientists-summer-undergraduate-research-interns-at-pnri/

July, 2024

Rick: "The idea that the genome is a stable set of instructions that has passed down with high fidelity from generation to generation is really a fallacy. Imagine that you have your instruction booklet for putting together an IKEA bookshelf and along comes this copy-paste virus parasite and starts putting random sentences throughout it. That’s going to destroy your ability to use the information to make your bookshelf. This is happening in our genome all the time."

https://pnri.org/rick-mclaughlin-dark-side-of-genome/

May, 2024

Thanks to everyone who made the Hackathon such a great experience, especially Dr. Claudia Carvalho for organizing it. I learned so much from the event. I’m also excited to share that our team, the "Turkish Climbers," with Cliff Lun and me, and led by Dr. Anna Lindstrand, won first place!

https://pnri.org/pnris-inaugural-rare-disease-hackathon-uniting-experts-to-solve-genetic-mysteries/

Janurary, 2024

Our paper on LINE-1s in single haploid genomes is finally out on the EMBO journal!

https://doi.org/10.1038/s44318-023-00007-y

December, 2022

Our R21 proposal "Reverse transcriptase-mediated expansion of the host innate immune system" was funded by NIAID.

June, 2020

Our paper "Retrocopying expands the functional repertoire of APOBEC3 antiviral proteins in primates" is out on eLife.

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.58436