Elaine Youngman

Education

• B.S. Biology, Pepperdine University, 1999
• Ph.D., Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2007
• Postdoctoral: University of Massachusetts Medical School, 2007-2012

Companies

• Founding Director, COVID-19 Surveillance Testing Lab Villanova University (2020)
• Assistant Professor Villanova University (2014)
• Visiting Assistant Professor Villanova University (2013 — 2014)
• Postdoctoral Fellow UMass Medical School (2007 — 2012)
• Research Technician The Johns Hopkins Hospital (1999 — 2000)

Publications

• Youngman EM and Claycomb JC. From early Lessons to new frontiers: The worm as a treasure trove of small RNA biology. Front Genet. 2014 Nov 27;5:416.
• Gu W, Lee HC, Chaves D, Youngman EM, Pazour GJ, Conte D Jr, Mello CC. CapSeq and CIP-TAP Identify Pol II Start Sites and Reveal Capped Small RNAs as C. elegans piRNA Precursors. Cell. 2012 Dec 21;151(7):1488-500.
• Lee HC, Gu W, Shirayama M, Youngman EM, Conte D Jr, Mello CC. C. elegans piRNAs mediate the genome-wide surveillance of germline transcripts. Cell. 2012 Jul 6;150(1):78-87.
• Vasale JJ, Gu W, Thivierge C, Batista PJ, Claycomb JM, Youngman EM, Duchaine TF, Mello CC, Conte D Jr. Sequential rounds of RNA-dependent RNA transcription drive endogenous small-RNA biogenesis in the ERGO-1/Argonaute pathway. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2010 Feb 23;107(8):3582-7.