Mobile DNA: an evolving field

Marlene Belfort; Luciano Marraffini; Todd Macfarlan; Jef Boeke; Keith Slotkin; Harmit Malik; Lynne Maquat

doi:10.1186/1759-8753-5-16

Mobile DNA: an evolving field

Mob DNA. 2014 Jun 5:5:16. doi: 10.1186/1759-8753-5-16. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Marlene Belfort¹, Luciano Marraffini², Todd Macfarlan³, Jef Boeke⁴, Keith Slotkin⁵, Harmit Malik⁶, Lynne Maquat⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, Biology Building, Room 126, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA.
² Laboratory of Bacteriology, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
³ Unit on Mammalian Epigenome Reprogramming, Building 6B, Room 2B211, 6 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
⁴ Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU Langone University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue MSB238, New York, NY 10016, USA.
⁵ 570 Aronoff Laboratory, Ohio State University, 318 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
⁶ Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, P.O. Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA.
⁷ University of Rochester Medical Center, School of Medicine and Dentistry, 601 Elmwood Ave, Box 712, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.

Abstract

During the Mobile Genetic Elements and Genome Evolution Keystone Symposium in March 2014, the Editors of Mobile DNA caught up with a panel of conference speakers to select key advances in the field, and hear their thoughts on where mobile DNA research is going.

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