She started her postdoc at Johns Hopkins and followed Jef Boeke, the geneticist leading the synthetic
yeast chromosome project, when he moved his lab to NYU.
Not exact matches
Researchers have already constructed functioning viral and bacterial genomes, and the
yeast genome
project, known as Sc2.0, aims to have all 16
chromosomes — roughly 10 million base pairs — assembled by the end of next year.
Mitchell was the lead author of one of seven papers published in March announcing the
project's latest milestone: the completion of another five of
yeast's 16
chromosomes.