Undergraduate (Math/EEB/Physics major)
Ph. 520 626 1727
Office: BSW122
I am investigating evidence for “backup” stop codons in eukaryotes. Their presence would imply low levels of selection against readthrough translation products in Saccharomyces. These low levels of selection are a sufficient condition for preadaptation, and would facilitate a role for the [PSI+] prion in evolvability (Masel 2006).