Brian Akins
MD/PhD Student
Short Bio
Brian earned his BA in Biophysics and Biochemistry and his MS in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating summa cum laude in May 2021. At Penn, he researched the molecular mechanisms of meiotic drive in mouse centromeres, using techniques that included microinjection of mouse oocytes and computational analysis of rapid protein evolution. He is now an MD/PhD student at Thomas Jefferson University, expected graduation date of May 2030.
Publications
2023
- Akins, RB, Ostberg, K, Cherlin, T, Tsiouplis, NJ, Loher, P, Rigoutsos, I. The Typical tRNA Co-Expresses Multiple 5' tRNA Halves Whose Sequences and Abundances Depend on Isodecoder and Isoacceptor and Change with Tissue Type, Cell Type, and Disease. Noncoding RNA. 2023;9 (6):. doi: 10.3390/ncrna9060069. PubMed PMID:37987365 PubMed Central PMC10660753.
2021
- Kumon, T, Ma, J, Akins, RB, Stefanik, D, Nordgren, E, Kim, J, Levine, M, Lampson, MA. Parallel pathways for recruiting effector proteins determine centromere drive and suppression. Cell. 2021 September 16;184(19):4904-4918.e11. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.07.037. PubMed PMID:34433012.