A cool collaboration with Houra Merrikh led by Oyku Sensoy. Oyku identified a moonlighting function of asparaginyl tRNA synthetase in preventing replication-restart from RNA:DNA hybrids in B. subtilis.

New Print Alert! A fun collab with Kathy Meek at MSU. Led by talented bioinformatician Giovanni Pascarella we demonstrate that Ku70/80 binds intronic antisense Alu elements to inhibit cryptic splice sites. For details see the thread below! 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Super excited to share our most recent pre-print, lead by K99 fellow @heyzajr.bsky.social, who will be starting his own lab at Wayne State University in February! The question is how are DNA breaks held together during HR?? 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Here is a fun little teaser! What DNA repair factor does this to mitotic chromosomes? Pre-print should be up any time now! Exciting work by @heyzajr.bsky.social!