Patrick MaxwellAssistant 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)