Retrotransposon GCRs Ty1 replication Patrick Maxwell

Assistant Professor

Department of Biology

Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


Research Interests

Influence of retrotransposons on genome instability; relationship between genome instability and aging. More information on RPI page


Selected Publications

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. (more ...)

Incorporation of Y'-Ty1 cDNA destabilizes telomeres in Saccharomyces cerevisiae telomerase mutants (2008), P. H. Maxwell, M. J. Curcio. Genetics, 179, 2313-2317. (more ...)

Retrosequence formation restructures the yeast genome (2007), P. H. Maxwell and M. J. Curcio, Genes Dev., 21, 3308-3318 (more ...)

Identification of multiple transcription initiation, polyadenylation, and splice sites in the Drosophila melanogaster TART family of telomeric retrotransposons (2006), P. H. Maxwell, J. M. Belote, and R. W. Levis Nucleic Acids Res.., 34, 5498-5507. (more ...)

Ty1 mobilizes subtelomeric Y elements in telomerase-negative Saccharomyces cerevisiae survivors (2004), P. H. Maxwell, C. Coombes, A. E. Kenny, J. F. Lawler, J. D. Boeke, and M. J. Curcio, Nucleic Acids Res., 24, 9887-9898. (more ...)


Lab Members with RNA-related projects

Alison Kenny (lab tech)

Melissa Patterson (graduate student)

Emily Ross (graduate student)

David VanHoute (graduate student)