Graduate Student Email: emily.yaklich@uga.edu Lab Website: https://emilyyaklich.com/ Lab: Burke Lab | Miller Plant Sciences Research Research Areas: Genomics & Bioinformatics Molecular Genetics Selected Publications Selected Publications: Staritzbichler R, Yaklich E, Sarti E, Ristic N, Hildebrand PW, Forrest LR, AlignMe: an update of the web server for alignment of membrane protein sequences. 2022. Nucleic Acids Research. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac391 Staritzbichler R, Sarti E, Yaklich E, Aleksandrova A, Stamm M, Khafizov K, Forrest LR. Refining pairwise sequence alignments of membrane proteins by the incorporation of anchors. 2021. PLoS ONE 16(4): e0239881. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239881. Education Education: Admission to the University of Georgia Graduate School through the Integrated Plant Sciences Program Doctoral Program, Fall 2022. Postbaccalaureate Fellowship in the National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health, 2019-2022. Research: Relationship between structural symmetry and function in membrane proteins. B.S. Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, 2019. B.S. research: Characterization of a Hemerythrin gene in UV-B photomorphogenesis of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings.