University of New Orleans
Atallah, Joel

Atallah, Joel

Associate ProfessorDevelopmental biology, genomics, Drosophila genetics

Biography

Courses I teach:

Developmental Biology (BIOS 4413/5413)
Human Genomics (BIOS 4453/5453)
Genomics and Bioinformatics (BIOS 4454/5454)

Selected Publications (see my google scholar profile for a full list):

Chenevert, M., Miller, B., Karkoutli, A., Rusnak, A., Lott, S., & Atallah, J. (2022). The early embryonic transcriptome of a Hawaiian Drosophila picture-wing fly shows evidence of altered gene expression and novel gene evolution. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 338:277-291.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.23129

Lebien, J., McCollam, G., and Atallah, J. (2020). An in silico model of neoplastic evolution. Bioinformatics 36(14):4144-4153.

Atallah., J., and Lott, S.E. (2018). Evolution of maternal and zygotic mRNA complements in the early Drosophila embryo. PLoS Genetics 14(12):e1007838.  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007838

Research Interests

Developmental biology; Drosophila genetics; genomics; bioinformatics.

Education

Ph.D., University of Toronto