About Us
The Cotney Lab is interested in determining how gene regulatory elements, namely enhancers, control gene expression during mammalian development. We aim to understand how new gene regulatory functions evolve, to identify mechanisms of enhancer function over large genomic distances, and globally identify variants of enhancer sequences that are associated with human disease.
News
- UConn’s Justin Cotney, Ph.D. to be Honored for Research Excellence by Society for Craniofacial Genetics & Developmental Biology 2023-09-20
- Rachel receives travel award for upcoming FPWR Symposium 2023-09-18
- Nagham receives invitation to speak at Neuroscience 2023 2023-09-11
- Postdoc Kevin Child receives ASHG Trainee Research Excellence Award 2023-09-11
- Read Rachel Gilmore’s preprint on Angelman syndrome and Prader-Willi cell lines 2023-08-30
- Rachel receives Biomedical Science Service Award in Leadership 2023-08-23
Contact
Phone: | 860-679-8579 |
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E-mail: | cotney@uchc.edu |
Address: | UConn Health Dept. of Genetics and Genome Sciences Cell and Genome Sciences Building R1158 400 Farmington Ave. Farmington, CT, 06030 |
UConn Today
Excited to announce that my lab be joining the Center for Craniofacial Innovation @ChildrensPhila @CHOP_Research directed by the fantastic @ericliaomd this July. Please stay tuned for new website, job postings, and further updates. Will be at @IADR this week, dm if interested.
13th Structural Birth Defects Meeting is going to be held in Baltimore (Univ. Maryland School of Medicine) Sept 16-18. Keynote addresses from Wendy Chung and Eric Liao. Abstracts due in June. Mark your calendars and see you Baltimore in September! https://www.sdbonline.org/meeting?ResourceID=4209
How did we lose our tail? A simple question.. but it wasn't really asked before! We discovered a plausible scenario for the genetic mechanism that led to tail loss. Amazing that such a big change may have been caused by such a small genetic event. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07095-8 @BoXia7
Iām thrilled to finally share our discovery of a pathway enabling mtDNA release from mitochondria and activation of the innate immune cGAS-STING pathway, an epic collaboration between Shadelab and @manorlaboratory! Read on for details!