CV

Here are relevant highlights from my curriculum vitae. For complete CV, please feel free to email me at mpm289@cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Molecular, and Cell Biology. Cornell University - (Expected 2019)

B.Sc. in Biology, Summa cum laude. Bridgewater State University - 2013

Awards and honors

CALS Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, Cornell University

Presidential Life Sciences Fellow, Cornell University

Dr. William Wall Memorial Award in Biological Sciences, Bridgewater State University

Presentations

Population, Quantitative, and Evolutionary Genetics Conference, Madison WI 2018. McGurk MP, Barbash DA. Double insertion of transposable elements provides a substrate for the evolution of satellite DNA.

2017 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Meeting, Austin TX 2017. McGurk MP, Barbash DA. Continuous generation of tandem transposable elements in Drosophila populations provides a substrate for the evolution of satellite DNA

The Allied Genetics Conference, Orlando FL 2016. McGurk MP, Barbash DA. Transposable element tandems are a potential source of new satellites.

Mobile Genetic Elements, Woodshole MA 2015. McGurk MP, Barbash DA. ConTExt: A Method for Analyzing Repeat Composition in Next Generation Sequencing Data

The Annual Drosophila Genetics Conference, Chicago IL 2015. McGurk MP, Barbash DA. ConTExt: A Strategy for Studying the Structure and Population Dynamics of Transposable Element and Repeat Content