Kamil Cygan
School: Brown University
Degree: Ph.D., Computational Biology and Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry
Advisor: William Fairbrother
Expected defense/completion date: 2017/2018
Research: The rapid evolution of gene processing signals in fish in response to climate change. Specifically, the analysis and mapping of relationships between climate fluctuations and evolution of an apparent ancient class of structured introns enriched with long stretches of complementary AC-GT dinucleotide repeats.
RI NSF EPSCoR is supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under EPSCoR Cooperative Agreements #OIA-2433276 and in part by the RI Commerce Corporation via the Science and Technology Advisory Committee [STAC]. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation, the RI Commerce Corporation, STAC, our partners or our collaborators.