| The Makova Lab at Penn State

Saswat Kumar Mohanty

Ph.D. student

Interests

Primate genomics and bioinformatics

Education

M.S. in Biological Sciences,

IISER Kolkata, India

Biography

Saswat is interested in understanding the evolution of non-B-DNA structures in primates. Currently, he is working mainly on a specific type of non-B-DNA structure called the G-quadruplex or G4, for example, developing bioinformatic tools to analyze genome-wide distribution of these structures.

Publications

SK Mohanty, F Chiaromonte, KD Makova. Evolutionary Dynamics of G-Quadruplexes in Human and Other Great Ape Telomere-to-Telomere Genomes. BIORXIV, 2024.

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D Yoo, A Rhie, P Hebbar, F Antonacci, GA Logsdon, SJ Solar, D Antipov, BD Pickett, Y Safonova, F Montinaro, Y Luo, J Malukiewicz, JM Storer, J Lin, AN Sequeira, RJ Mangan, G Hickey, GM Anez, P Balachandran, A Bankevich, CR Beck, A Biddanda, M Borchers, GG Bouffard, E Brannan, SY Brooks, L Carbone, L Carrel, AP Chan, J Crawford, M Diekhans, E Engelbrecht, C Feschotte, G Formenti, GH Garcia, L de Gennaro, D Gilbert, RE Green, A Guarracino, I Gupta, D Haddad, J Han, RS Harris, GA Hartley, WT Harvey, M Hiller, K Hoekzema, ML Houck, H Jeong, K Kamali, M Kellis, B Kille, C Lee, Y Lee, W Lees, AP Lewis, Q Li, M Loftus, YHE Loh, H Loucks, J Ma, Y Mao, JFI Martinez, P Masterson, RC McCoy, B McGrath, S McKinney, BS Meyer, KH Miga, SK Mohanty, KM Munson, K Pal, M Pennell, PA Pevzner, D Porubsky, T Potapova, FR Ringeling, JL Rocha, OA Ryder, S Sacco, S Saha, T Sasaki, MC Schatz, NJ Schork, C Shanks, L Smeds, DR Son, C Steiner, AP Sweeten, MG Tassia, F Thibaud-Nissen, E Torres-González, M Trivedi, W Wei, J Wertz, M Yang, P Zhang, S Zhang, Y Zhang, Z Zhang, SA Zhao, Y Zhu, ED Jarvis, JL Gerton, I Rivas-González, B Paten, ZA Szpiech, CD Huber, TL Lenz, MK Konkel, SV Yi, S Canzar, CT Watson, PH Sudmant, E Molloy, E Garrison, CB Lowe, M Ventura, RJ O’Neill, S Koren, KD Makova, AM Phillippy, EE Eichler. Complete sequencing of ape genomes. BIORXIV, 2024.

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