User:Anthony Salvagno/Notebook/Research/2009/02/19

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Paper Reading Day
Koch gave me two papers about bidirectional promoters in yeast, believing they may confirm our beliefs about the nature of Pol II and our unzipping of it. I am deeply passionate about this research for several reasons. First I get to pioneer a field, and second I believe that there are a ton of questions that can be solved with even the smallest amount of experiments performed. Most importantly, I can write a kick-ass paper about it all too!
 * 1) /Bidirectional promoters generate pervasive transcription in yeast, Zhenyu Xu
 * 2) /Widespread bidirectional promoters are the major source of cryptic transcripts in yeast, Helen Neil


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