Joan Curcio
Research Scientist, Wadsworth Center
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Biomedical Sciences
School of Public Health, SUNY Albany
Research Interests
Eukaryotic host cell control of retrotransposon RNA translation and localization, retromobility and retrogenome formation.
More information on
Wadsworth Center page
Selected Publications
5' to 3' mRNA decay factors colocalize with Ty1 Gag and human APOBEC3G and promote Ty1 retrotransposition (2010),
J. A. Dutko, A. E. Kenny, E. R. Gamache, and M. J. Curcio.
J. Virology, 84, 5052-5066.
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Nuclear expression of a group II intron is consistent with spliceosomal intron ancestry (2010),
V. R. Chalamcharla, M. J. Curcio, M. Belfort
Genes Dev.,
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Rrm3 protects the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome from instability at nascent sites of retrotransposition (2009),
R. Stamenova, P. H. Maxwell, A. E. Kenny, M. J. Curcio.
Genetics, 182, 711-723.
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Incorporation of Y'-Ty1 cDNA destabilizes telomeres in Saccharomyces cerevisiae telomerase mutants (2008),
P. H. Maxwell, M. J. Curcio.
Genetics, 179, 2313-2317.
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Retrosequence formation restructures the yeast genome (2007),
P. H. Maxwell and M. J. Curcio,
Genes Dev., 21, 3308-3318
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Lab Members with RNA-related projects
Sheila Lutz (postdoc)
Ryan Palumbo (graduate student)
Eric Gamache (staff scientist)