UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student Meredith Corley’s paper published in Elife.

Congratulations to BCB Graduate Student Meredith Corley (Alain Laederach Lab) for her paper in Elife titled “Selecting against accidental RNA interactions.” In the manuscript she discusses a novel concept for bacterial mRNAs, specifically that they evolve sequences to avoid accidental interactions with abundant non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). This presents a novel molecular paradigm to consider when studying the structure of ncRNAs and mRNAs, as such accidental interactions can in some cases significantly reduce protein expression. You can read her paper at https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e20686.