Abigail (Abbe) Leavitt LaBella
Associate Editor
Abigail (Abbe) Leavitt LaBella is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her lab is housed at the North Carolina Research Center—a campus that facilitates collaboration between eight North Carolina universities, companies, and entrepreneurs. Throughout her training at American University, Duke, and Vanderbilt, Abbe has researched organisms from deep-sea clams to humans. Her current research focuses on harnessing genomic patterns to extract new and exciting biological information with a focus on fungi. She received an NIH MIRA award (2024–2029) to study how codon usage and tRNAs interact to actively regulate gene expression.
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2024 GSA Journals Research Highlights
The GSA Journals, GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, are proud to present highlights from research published in 2024. The excellent research and scholarship published over the course of the year is being viewed, downloaded, and cited, which means it’s contributing to the field and helping push knowledge forward. We invite you to browse these papers, which have been grouped…
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Can Yang joins GENETICS as Associate Editor
A new Associate Editor is joining GENETICS in the Statistical Genetics and Genomics section. We’re excited to welcome Can Yang to the editorial team.
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A novel tool for QC in long-read genomic data
Sequence composition disentangles contaminants from long-read data sets in a new paper from G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics.