Mobile DNA

Join Mobile DNA for the second annual Transposon Day (#transposonday2019), held June 16th to commemorate the birthday of Barbara McClintock. Visit our web page for a TE quiz, a podcast with Dr Haig Kazazian and TE resources such as lab directories, curated article collections, and more.

The Editors of Mobile DNA and Retrovirology extend an invitation to submit original research articles related to endogenous retroviruses to their new collection: Endogenous Retroviruses in Evolution and Disease.

Open for submissions: May 24, 2019

Submit an article to Mobile DNA for the series.

The Editors-in-Chief of Mobile DNA welcome authors to send any pre-submission inquiries they might have to the Editorial Email address, which can be found here by clicking on "Contact Us" (upper left side of page). We ask that you please include “Pre-submission inquiry” in the subject line of your email and that you include the title and abstract of your proposed submission within the message. Our Editors will do their best to respond to you in a timely manner.

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

Transposon-encoded CRISPR-Cas systems direct RNA-guided DNA integration [Nature. 2019] PubMed

Giant Transposons in Eukaryotes: Is Bigger Better? [Genome Biol Evol. 2019] PubMed

SIRT7 mediates L1 elements transcriptional repression and their association with the nuclear lamina [Nucleic Acids Res. 2019] PubMed

Trapping a somatic endogenous retrovirus into a germline piRNA cluster immunizes the germline against further invasion [Genome Biol. 2019] PubMed

LINE-1 Evasion of Epigenetic Repression in Humans [Genome Biol. 2019] PubMed​​​​​​​

View all editors' picks​​​​​​​

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

In spring of 2019, we welcomed our new Associate Editors: 
Irina Arkhipova, University of Chicago
Orsolya Barabas, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Adam Ewing, Mater Research Institute-University of Queensland
Clément Gilbert, Université de Poitiers
Molly G Hammell, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Damon R Lisch, Purdue University
Joe Peters, Cornell University

Updated monthly, check out the newest published research on transposable elements in the TE Digest on Alexander Suh of Uppsala University's Genomicrocosm page here. 

Transposable elements labs directory
Job vacancies
Transposons Worldwide SLACK Page (Managed by Rebecca Berrens)
Mobile DNA Tools Collection
TE digest (Managed by Alexander Suh)

Mobile Genetic Elements Conference - August 29-31, 2019 - Woods Hole, MA (USA)

3rd International Workshop on Human Endogenous Retroviruses & Diseases - November 5-6, 2019 - Lyon, France​​​​​​​