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
Go huskies! A team of great champions! #UConn #uchc
Gave my public defense talk- ready for the next talk, this time as Dr. Em!!
Thanks to @justincotney for all the support and mentorship. Anyone looking to do a PhD, can't do better than his lab.
#thedefenserests
Our #preprint on gene regulatory trajectories with @Raquel_Rouco is out!
We find that different enhancer repertoires act transiently and subsequently to sustain cognate gene expression over time.
And more on E-P interactions and digit formation!
1/X https://www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.03.22.585864v1
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.