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Steven Zimmerly is a Professor at the University of Calgary, specializing in Biophysics. He earned a B.A. in Chemistry from Goshen College in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Yale University in 1992. His research primarily focuses on group II introns, which are unique genetic elements known for their self-splicing abilities and potential evolutionary significance. Zimmerly has explored the catalytic properties of these introns, investigating how they function without protein involvement and their mobility among genomes. His work aims to characterize the structural diversity and evolutionary history of various intron types, facilitated by data analysis using public sequence databases. He has made significant contributions to understanding the behavior and features of group II introns, highlighting their relationship with retroelements and their implications in genetic diversity.
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