Nozhat
nozhathassan.bsky.social
Nozhat
@nozhathassan.bsky.social
Evolutionary genetics, R2 retrotransposons | PhD candidate | Adelson lab UoA & Collins lab UC Berkeley | 🇦🇺
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Vertebrate retrotransposons are the future of gene therapy. But how do they insert their genes? 🔥🔥

Thrilled to share our new work now published with Kathy Collins, @nogaleslab.bsky.social @berkeleymcb.bsky.social where we investigate this with #cryoEM & biochemistry in 🧪 and cells! #RNAsky #TEsky
June 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Happy to be a part of this work! 🐢
Structures of vertebrate R2 retrotransposon complexes during target-primed reverse transcription and after second-strand nicking pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40540573/ #cryoem
June 23, 2025 at 6:02 AM
A big chunk of my PhD work with the Collins lab is now on bioRxiv!
Lineage-Specific Evolution, Structural Diversity, and Activity of R2 Retrotransposons in Animals https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.05.652312v1
May 14, 2025 at 3:43 AM