Babbit Lab for Evolutionary Genomics
Lab focus and News
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.
News from the lab
- Rithvik wins the Henry Little award in BMB!
- Chiruza wins the UMass 21st century leadership award!
- Katie won an Outstanding Student Presentation at the 2025 AABA meeting in Baltimore!
- 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
Babbitt Lab @ UMass Amherst
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