The Landweber Lab

Welcome to our lab webpages. Please see the links on the left.

     Our lab studies the origin and evolution of genes, genomes and genetic codes, with particular focus on protists, including the scrambled genome of Oxytricha trifallax.

Read a news story about our recent Science paper on A Functional Role for Transposases in a Large Eukaryotic Genome.

or a news story about our recent Nature article on RNA-mediated epigenetic programming of a genome-rearrangement pathway.

or watch a clip about it on TV !

Read a profile on our lab at The Scientist.

Publications: all articles on PubMed

Laura Landweber, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (lfl@princeton.edu)
Guyot Hall room 223 (office), 323 (lab)
Princeton, NJ 08544-1003
Office telephone : 609-258-1947

Last updated: 1/23/08 by LFL

Banner photos by Bruce J. Russell, ©BioMEDIA ASSOCIATES