Marlene BelfortResearch Scientist, Wadsworth Center
Distinguished Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
School of Public Health, SUNY Albany
Research Interests
Dynamics and structure of self-splicing introns and inteins, their role in genome evolution and biotechnology. More information on Wadsworth Center page
Selected Publications
The beginning of the end: links between ancient retroelements and modern telomerases (2007), M. J. Curcio and M. Belfort, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 100, 9107-9108 (more ...)
Visualization of a group II intron in the 23S rRNA of a stable ribosome (2006), J. G. Slagter-Jaeger, G. S. Allen, D. Smith, I. A. Hahn, J. Frank, and M. Belfort, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 103, 9838-9843 (more ...)
Recruitment of host functions suggests a repair pathway for late steps in group II intron retrohoming (2005), D. Smith, J. Zhong, M. Matsuura, and A. M. Lambowitz, and M. Belfort, Genes Dev., 19, 2477-2487 (more ...)
A bacterial group II intron favors retrotransposition into plasmid targets (2003), K. Ichiyanagi, A. Beauregard, and M. Belfort, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 100, 15742-15747 (more ...)
Mobile introns: pathways and proteins (2002), M. Belfort, V. Derbyshire, M. M. Parker, B. Cousineau, and A. M. Lambowitz, In Mobile DNA II., N. Craig, R. Craigie, M. Gellert, and A. Lambowitz eds., ASM Press, 761-783 (more ...)
A trans-acting RNA as a control switch in E. coli: DsrA RNA modulates function by forming alternative structures (2000), R. Lease and M. Belfort, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 97, 9919-9924 (more ...)
Lab Members with RNA-related projects
Dorie Smith (Lab Manager)
Justin Robbins (postdoc)
Tao Huang (postdoc)
Jean DiChiara (postdoc)
Art Beauregard (graduate student)
Venkata Chalamcharla (graduate student)
Carol Lyn Piazza (senior lab tech)