Lab focus and News

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We are motivated by questions aimed at understanding how cis-regulatory element evolution impacts organismal phenotypes, how developmental mechanisms evolve, and how comparative evolutionary genomics can inform our understanding of the genotype to phenotype map. Specifically, we use comparative high-throughput sequencing and functional genomics to understanding how differences in transcription and regulation lead to differences in phenotypes.

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News from the lab
>Here's the press release for the eLife paper: https://www.umass.edu/news/article/umass-amherst-biologists-lead-broadest-ever-study-primate-brains-see-how-gene
>Katie Rickelton leads a new eLife paper
>Trisha's astrocyte paper is published in GBE
>Becca joins the lab!
>Katie gets a travel award and presents at SMBE
>Mélise gets a travel award and presents at International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS)
>Mélise receives a Center for Research on Families Dissertation Award
>The lab has a new NSF grant to study astrocyte evolution

Babbitt Lab @ UMass Amherst
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