
Dustin Hancks, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School Medical School
Department Immunology
Graduate Programs Genetics, Development and Disease, Immunology
Research Interest
- (pox)viruses
- electron transport chain
- genetic conflicts
- genome evolution
- host-pathogen interactions
- mitochondria
Publications
Featured Publications
- Mitochondria and Viral Infection: Advances and Emerging Battlefronts.
- Sorouri M, Chang T, Hancks DC, mBio 2022 Jan e0209621
- Evolutionary profile for (host and viral) MLKL indicates its activities as a battlefront for extensive counteradaptation.
- Palmer S, Chappidi S, Pinkham C, Hancks DC, Mol Biol Evol 2021 Aug
- Signatures of host-pathogen evolutionary conflict reveal MISTR-A conserved MItochondrial STress Response network.
- Sorouri M, Chang T, Jesudhasan P, Pinkham C, Elde NC, Hancks DC, PLoS Biol 2020 12 18 12 e3001045
- Multigenic truncation of the semaphorin-plexin pathway by a germline chromothriptic rearrangement associated with Moebius syndrome.
- Nazaryan-Petersen L, Oliveira IR, Mehrjouy MM, Mendez JMM, Bak M, Bugge M, Kalscheuer VM, Bache I, Hancks DC, Tommerup N, Hum Mutat 2019 08 40 8 1057-1062
- A Role for Retrotransposons in Chromothripsis.
- Hancks DC Methods Mol. Biol. 2018 1769 169-181
- Germline Chromothripsis Driven by L1-Mediated Retrotransposition and Alu/Alu Homologous Recombination.
- Nazaryan-Petersen L, Bertelsen B, Bak M, Jønson L, Tommerup N, Hancks DC, Tümer Z Hum. Mutat. 2016 Apr 37 4 385-95
- Roles for retrotransposon insertions in human disease.
- Hancks DC, Kazazian HH Mob DNA 2016 7 9
- Overlapping Patterns of Rapid Evolution in the Nucleic Acid Sensors cGAS and OAS1 Suggest a Common Mechanism of Pathogen Antagonism and Escape.
- Hancks DC, Hartley MK, Hagan C, Clark NL, Elde NC PLoS Genet. 2015 May 11 5 e1005203