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Stephen Godin

Graduate Student
April 1, 2012 - December 31, 2015

B.S., B.S. University of Massachusetts- Amherst, 2011

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Awards: Biomedical Student Research Symposium Poster Award
             Travel Award for the FASEB Genetic Recombination and Genome Rearrangement                  Conference in Steamboat Springs, CO

Lab Publications:


Godin, S.K., Zhang, Z., Herken, B.W., Westmoreland, J.W., Lee, A.G., Mihalevic, M.J., Yu, Z., Sobol, R.W., Resnick, M.A., Bernstein, K.A. (2016) The Shu complex promotes error-free tolerance of alkylation-induced base excision repair products, Nucleic Acids Research, 44(17): 8199-8215.

Godin, S.K., Sullivan, M.R., Bernstein, K.A. (2016) Novel insights into RAD51 activity and regulation during homologous recombination and DNA replication, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, 94: 1-12.


Godin, S.K., Lee, A.G., Baird, J.M., Herken, B.W., Bernstein, K.A. (2016) Tryptophan biosynthesis is important for resistance to replicative stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Yeast, 33(5): 183-189.

Gaines, W.*, Godin, S.K.*, Kabbinavar, F.F., VanDemark, A.P., Sung, P.*, Bernstein, K.A.* (2015) Promotion of presynaptic filament assembly by the ensemble of S. cerevisiae Rad51 paralogues with Rad52, *Equal contribution, Nature Communications, 28(6): 7834.
*Interviewed for Pittsburgh's National Public Radio Affiliate WESA
*Featured on Futurity
*GEN News Highlights

Godin, S.K., Meslin, C., Kabbinavar F., Bratton-Palmer, D.S., Hornack, C., Mihalevic, M.J., Yoshida, K., Sullivan, M., Clark, N.L.*, Bernstein, K.A.* (2015) Evolutionary and functional analysis of the invariant SWIM domain in the conserved Shu2/SWS1 protein family from Saccharomyces cerevisiae to Homo sapiens, Genetics, 199(4): 1023-1033.
*Co-corresponding
*Issue Highlight for the Genetics Journal and featured on SGD

Godin, S., Wier, A., Kabbinavar, F., Bratton-Palmer, D.S., Ghodke, H., Van Houten, B., VanDemark, A.P., and Bernstein, K.A. (2013) The Shu complex interacts with Rad51 through the Rad51 paralogues Rad55-Rad57 to mediate error-free recombination. Nucleic Acids Research, 41(8): 4525-4534.




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