Karen Voelkel‐Meiman

The paper identifies a direct interaction between Zip1 and Zip3 that is essential for crossover formation and synaptonemal complex assembly during meiosis.

The paper uses proximity labeling to investigate functional relationships between meiotic recombination and SC proteins in S. cerevisiae, revealing new insights into molecular interactions and defects in crossover-defective mutants.

This study shows that synaptonemal complex proteins influence mismatch repair during meiosis, leading to increased post-meiotic segregation in mutants lacking these proteins.

The paper investigates GCN codon periodicity in yeast mRNA ramps and shows its impact on translation efficiency through experimental and computational analysis.

This study identifies distinct regions in the Zip1 protein that regulate crossover recombination and synapsis in budding yeast, showing their adjacency enables coordination between these processes.