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

>Katie (MCB) and Melise (NSB) join the lab!
>Chris (OEB graduate student) joins the lab!
>Trisha received a NSF DDIG for her astrocyte work
>Trisha received a travel grant  from AAPA
>NSF funding from Biological Anthropology to study enhancer evolution in the brain!
>Jason's paper is published in GBE:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5848805/

Babbitt Lab @ UMass Amherst
https://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/about/directories/faculty/courtney-c-babbitt