# September 23rd Matt McCoy, Ph.D

**URL:** <https://help.c-moor.org/t/september-23rd-matt-mccoy-ph-d/87>\
**Category:** Science Talks\
**Created:** [September 30, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://help.c-moor.org/t/september-23rd-matt-mccoy-ph-d/87 "2021-09-30T01:26:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://help.c-moor.org/t/september-23rd-matt-mccoy-ph-d/87/1 "2021-09-30T01:26:27Z")

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Presented 3:20-4:00 PM. This is posted post-talk to keep a record.

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**Author:** ![mmccoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@mmccoy](https://help.c-moor.org/u/mmccoy)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://help.c-moor.org/t/september-23rd-matt-mccoy-ph-d/87/2 "2022-03-22T17:51:33Z")

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Here is a link to one of the papers I published regarding this work:

> **[Intron and gene size expansion during nervous system evolution - PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32410625/)**
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> We find that intron and gene size expansion is a feature of many genes whose expression is enriched in nervous systems. We speculate that unique attributes of neurons may subject neuronal genes to evolutionary forces favoring net size expansion. This...

Here is a link to a poster I made for it (not all analyses made it into the paper):

[McCoy\_Poster\_NHGRI\_040119.pdf](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tav-x_xXLPmLY1sJnsUR7lPtRM1IhvKR/view?usp=sharing)