Joan Curcio
Research Scientist, Wadsworth Center
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
School of Public Health, SUNY Albany
Research Interests
Yeast retrogenomics and the relationship of retrotransposons with their hosts.
More information on
Wadsworth Center page
Selected Publications
Retrosequence formation restructures the yeast genome (2007),
P. H. Maxwell and M. J. Curcio,
Genes Dev., 21, 3308-3318
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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
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Inhibition of a yeast LTR-retrotransposon by human APOBEC3 cytidine deaminases (2005),
J. A. Dutko, A. Schafer, A. E. Kenny, B. R. Cullen, and M.J. Curcio,
Curr. Biol., 15, 661-666
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Ty1 mobilizes subtelomeric Y elements in telomerase-negative Saccharomyces cerevisiae survivors (2004),
P. H. Maxwell, C. Coombes, A. E. Kenny, J. L. Lawler, J. D. Boeke, and M. J. Curcio,
Mol. Cell. Biol., 24, 9887-9898
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Activation of an LTR-retrotransposon in response to telomere erosion (2003),
D. T. Scholes, A. E. Kenny, E. R. Gamache, Z. Mou, and M. J. Curcio,
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 100, 15736-15741
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Lab Members with RNA-related projects
Patrick Maxwell (postdoc)
James Dutko (graduate student)
Radi Stamenova (graduate student)
Alison Kenny