Mobile DNA

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Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Henry Levin, highlights a review by fellow Editor-in-Chief Haig Kazazian and Editorial Board member John Moran summarizing 30 years of research into transposable elements and their implications for human health and disease.

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Highlights from recent literature on mobile elements, selected by the Editors-in-Chief.

Transposons As Tools for Functional Genomics in Vertebrate Models. [Trends Genet. 2017] PubMed

How type II CRISPR-Cas establish immunity through Cas1-Cas2-mediated spacer integration. [Nature. 2017] PubMed

The TREX1 Dinosaur Bites the Brain through the LINE. [Cell Stem Cell. 2017] PubMed

Making a virtue of necessity: the pleiotropic role of human endogenous retroviruses in cancer. [Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2017] PubMed

Retrotransposons Mimic Germ Plasm Determinants to Promote Transgenerational Inheritance. [Curr Biol. 2017] PubMed

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Editors-in-Chief

Marlene Belfort, University at Albany
Cédric Feschotte, Cornell University
Haig Kazazian, Johns Hopkins University
Henry Levin, NIH

Aims and scope

Mobile DNA is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles providing novel insights into DNA rearrangements in all organisms, ranging from transposition and other types of recombination mechanisms to patterns and processes of mobile element and host genome evolution. In addition, the journal will consider articles on the utility of mobile genetic elements in biotechnological methods and protocols.

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Keystone Symposia Conference 2018

Keystone Symposia will be holding its second conference on “Mobile Genetic Elements and Genome Plasticity” next February 11-15, 2018 at the Eldorado Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Transposable elements are potent sources of genetic variation that also regulate the expression of large gene networks and are increasingly recognized to play a role in diseases such as cancer and neurodegeneration. Abstracts submitted by the November 14, 2017 abstract deadline will be considered for short talks on the conference program in both plenary sessions and workshops.

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Our Editors-in-Chief maintain an average time from submission to a first decision of 21 days.

Forthcoming meetings

EMBO | EMBL Symposium: The Mobile Genome: Genetic and Physiological Impacts of Transposable Elements - Oct 11-14, 2017 - Heidelberg, Germany

Transposition and Genome Engineering - Nov 2017

Mobile Genetic Elements and Genome Plasticity - Feb 11-15, 2018 - Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Mobile DNA

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Viral communities of the human gut: metagenomic analysis of composition and dynamics

Evolutionary history of the mariner element galluhop in avian genomes

Targeted identification of TE insertions in a Drosophila genome through hemi-specific PCR

Discovery of rare, diagnostic AluYb8/9 elements in diverse human populations

Dynamic silencing of somatic L1 retrotransposon insertions reflects the developmental and cellular contexts of their genomic integration

Non-long terminal repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposons: mechanisms, recent developments, and unanswered questions

Biotechnological applications of mobile group II introns and their reverse transcriptases: gene targeting, RNA-seq, and non-coding RNA analysis

Mobilizing diversity: transposable element insertions in genetic variation and disease

The expanding universe of transposon technologies for gene and cell engineering

Transposable element detection from whole genome sequence data

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