Wow! Our study on the effects of a slow transcription elongation rate on alternative polyadenylation was accepted for publication in Genes & Development! Congratulations to Yann and Carlo for driving this great work.
The lab would like to congratulate Frédérique Goulet (left) and Shany Gaudet (right) for winning the 1st and 4th prizes, respectively, for poster presentation on the 20th anniversary of the Journée Scientifique de la Faculté de Médecine de l’université de Sherbrooke. Great job!
New work from postdoctoral fellows Nouhou Haidara (left) and Carlo Yague-Sanz (not on picture) as well as graduate student Cédric Boulanger (right on picture) now report that the primary role of phosphorylation of serine 2 on the Carboxy-Terminal domain (CTD) of RNA polymerase II is to repress cryptic antisense transcription, and not to promote mRNA […]