The research of Dr. Donna Balding, MGA biology professor and director of Research & Sponsored Projects, and her colleagues at Emory University was cited in recently published articles by current researchers in the prestigious scientific journal, "Nature."
Dr. Balding’s advisor and mentor, Dr. Anna Karls, noted that their work back in the late 1990s led to recent discoveries that will have applications in genome editing beyond CRISPR. Dr. Karls went on to note that their work was “the basis for the research that led to the determination of the molecular mechanism for recombination mediated by transposases of IS110-type elements and site-specific invertase Piv.”
This work was completed by Dr. Balding and her colleagues back in 1999, when she was a graduate in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine. It is exciting to see how the work of our excellent science faculty is still impacting research today.
Congratulations, Dr. Balding!
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